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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Digital Image Processing => Topic started by: Jeremy Roussak on April 15, 2018, 02:04:11 pm
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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
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Not seeing anything like this on my end (latest Mac OS). Go into General preferences, Performance and futz around with GPU settings; may help.
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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.
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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
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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 :~)
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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
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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.
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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
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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