“Palettes”

When we first open PSP, the only visible “Palettes” are “Organizer” and “Study”, but there are a lot more.

To create a “Palette”, click the “Palettes” icon in the Standard toolbar, or click the “View” button in the menu bar and select the “Palette” option from the drop-down menu.
In both cases click the “Palette” that you want to see. If you wish to hide a palette, repeat these actions, or click the “X” icon in the title bar of the “Palette”.

Each open “Palette” can be moved by clicking and dragging the title bar of the palette. The same goes for the various toolbars. Click on the top of the box or on the right side of the toolbar, and drag it to the desired position.

The only bars that you can not move are the title bar and menu bar.
Everything else can me moved to the place where you want them to be.
If you have made a mess of it and you wish to set the default format of “PSP” , click “File” in the menu bar, select “Preferences” from the drop-down menu, and click “Restore Preferences”.
In the dialog that appears, select “Restore workspace to Default Configuration”.

 

Each feature in the title bar of the “Palette” has a “Close” button, which allows you to close the “Palette”. The “Maximize / Minimize” button allows you to maximize or minimize the “Palette”.When the “Palette Auto-hide” button is clicked, the “Palette” is automatically folded when not in use.

If it is a docked “Palette”, that is to say, a “Palette”, which is located at the edge of the application, then this “Palette” is folded on the edge.

 

If it is a floating “Palette”,that is to say, a “Palette” is not located on the edge, it will automatically be folded if we use it.
In both cases, the Pallete automatically expands when we move the pointer.

 

“Tools”

I will not talk about all the “Tools” but ony the ones we are going to use in the course.

When we click the arrow pointing downwards next to the tool icon (1), there will be a pop-up menu with several options (2) like “Selection”, “Freehand selection” and “Magic Wand”.
The icon that represents the option you last used will be displayed in the tool bar.
If you have chosen a tool, then use all options in the options toolbar.
For example, in the “Selection” tool, the options “Selection Type”, “Mode” and “Feather” (3) are found.

 

If your screen is not big enough to see all the “Tools”, click on the double arrow (4) at bottom of the tool bar.
When you click it, the rest of the “Tools” are shown.

 

Move your mouse pointer over a tool, then its name and its keyboard shortcut are displayed.

Who would not know what a hot key is?. A hot key is the key that you click on your keyboard to quickly switch to a tool.

You can see in the above picture, that the shortcut for the “Selection” tool appears by pressing “S” on your keyboard (5).

If there is no hot key assigned to a tool, then there is no keyboard shortcut.

 

The same hotkeys or keyboard shortcuts are also displayed in the pop-up menus from the menu bar.

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