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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Digital Image Processing => Topic started by: Jeremy Roussak on April 15, 2018, 02:04:11 pm

Title: PS CC Mac
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on April 15, 2018, 02:04:11 pm
Photoshop on the Mac seems to have acquired the habit of leaving a workspace window open even after the last file being worked on has been closed. The window is all grey, with just palettes at one side. It doesn't respond to command-W but does go away if the little red "close" button is clicked

Is there a way of preventing this behaviour, so that when I close the last image PS has nothing open on screen and functions like a nice, well-behaved Mac application?

Jeremy
Title: Re: PS CC Mac
Post by: digitaldog on April 15, 2018, 03:32:52 pm
Not seeing anything like this on my end (latest Mac OS). Go into General preferences, Performance and futz around with GPU settings; may help.
Title: Re: PS CC Mac
Post by: Schewe on April 15, 2018, 05:06:05 pm
Is there a way of preventing this behaviour, so that when I close the last image PS has nothing open on screen and functions like a nice, well-behaved Mac application?

In PS CC in the Window menu is an option to have the Application Frame checked...uncheck that and you'll do back to normal pre'CC floating doc windows.
Title: Re: PS CC Mac
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on April 15, 2018, 06:01:34 pm
In PS CC in the Window menu is an option to have the Application Frame checked...uncheck that and you'll do back to normal pre'CC floating doc windows.

Thanks, Jeff. And there was I looking in the Preferences.

Live and learn.

Jeremy
Title: Re: PS CC Mac
Post by: Schewe on April 16, 2018, 01:40:08 am
Live and learn.

Yep...I have a love hate with the Applications Frame. I tend to use it when using a laptop with a single display but hate it at the studio when using multiple displays. Since you are newish to CC, there will be a number of new behaviors and functionality to get used to...have fun with that :~)
Title: Re: PS CC Mac
Post by: Garnick on April 16, 2018, 08:02:24 am
Yep...I have a love hate with the Applications Frame. I tend to use it when using a laptop with a single display but hate it at the studio when using multiple displays. Since you are newish to CC, there will be a number of new behaviors and functionality to get used to...have fun with that :~)

Hi Jeff,

I agree totally with your assessment of the App Frame.  I'm still using PS CS6, but when I first upgraded I could not work with the App Frame.  I often have half a dozen or more image files open simultaneously, and I hate tabs with a passion.  I figured there must be some way to turn the App Frame off, but at that point I had no idea what to look for, so I checked the prefs and nothing there.  I then perused the menus and found what seemed to be what I was looking for in the "Window" Menu.  Checked it and have never looked back.  I have a very clean, medium gray desktop and that's what I want to see behind my images.  Interestingly, I also have the Affinity Photo App. as a backup, and cannot work with that either.  The App Frame can be turned off there as well, under "Window-Separated Mode" but the floating image in an oversized window makes absolutely no sense to me.  And of course it also opens additional images in tabs.  The only place I use tabs in in my browsers. 

OK, there's my rant for the day.

Gary   
Title: Re: PS CC Mac
Post by: smahn on April 16, 2018, 01:48:30 pm
I often work with multiple PS documents open at once. Tabbed or un-tabbed, it can be a hassle finding the obscured ones I want when I want them.

Found a nifty little $10 extension that's pretty helpful:

http://creativedo.co/doco

Can use it to see your files, also merge them, pass layers from one to another, etc. Helps make sense of the many open docs mess.

Just a satisfied customer sharing what's working for me.
Title: Re: PS CC Mac
Post by: kirkt on April 16, 2018, 02:51:30 pm
You can also use the keyboard shortcuts:

CTRL+Tab to step through the documents

and

CTRL+SHIFT+Tab to step in the reverse direction.

It works in both Application Frame mode (tabbed docs) and floating window mode.

kirk
Title: Re: PS CC Mac
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on April 17, 2018, 03:30:54 am
I often work with multiple PS documents open at once. Tabbed or un-tabbed, it can be a hassle finding the obscured ones I want when I want them.

Found a nifty little $10 extension that's pretty helpful:

http://creativedo.co/doco

Can use it to see your files, also merge them, pass layers from one to another, etc. Helps make sense of the many open docs mess.

Just a satisfied customer sharing what's working for me.

Thanks for that link. The extension seems to do a number of things I've wondered about, particularly forming a layer in one document from the contents of another document.

Jeremy