Help with Photoshop Preferences, please.

[wesleymarsh]

For many years I relied on Michael Reichmann's and Jeff Schewe's detailed explanations of Photoshop Preferences for photography. Today, I don't know where to go for the CC version. It's a piece meal mess. Adobe continues to do a terrible job explaining them. My brain is about to explode. Does anyone know of a reliable source, where Photoshop's Preferences for photographers are explained in detail? Thank you.

[digitaldog]

You might try:

[wesleymarsh]

Thank you, Andrew, but each of those links send you right back to ADOBE Help. I've read the Adobe pages 2-3 times, and I still scratch my head. I'm not the only photographer on the internet complaining about this, so I know I'm not alone. Why does this crap have to be so complicated?

[digitaldog]

Ask about the specifics, I’ll try to get you the answer.

[wesleymarsh]

Ask about the specifics, I’ll try to get you the answer.

Wow. That is very kind of you, and generous. Thank you. I did consider writing you privately, but came here first to see if there is a resource I may have overlooked. I seriously miss those conversation videos between Reichmann and Schewe. They tackled each Preference, and spoke in a language that photographers could understand. Listeners were able to visualize actual usage, and then make a determination from there. I'm new to CC, and I don't recognize the program I have been using since the early 90's. There is so much junk invading my photos, I struggle to see the forest for the trees. Apparently, some of the clutter can't be shut off in Preferences. You've got to find those controls elsewhere. Julianne Kost offers a Top 10 video on YouTube, and it's helpful, but there are way more than 10 checks in today's Photoshop. I purchased a current tutorial from Chris Orwig, and he only covered 3-4 Preferences. I couldn't believe it. What a waste of money. I must have looked at 40+ videos on YouTube. Incredibly time consuming and frustrating. Not until I found Keith Knittel's channel did I learn what the Application Frame was called, and how to get rid of that insanity. If I need more help, I'll write you. Thanks again.

[wesleymarsh]

OK, I've learned the hard way. Under Tools, "Use Shift Key for Tool Switch" absolutely needs to be turned on. I do a lot of compositing, and I'm in the habit of hitting the E Key to get the simple Erasure tool, often to confirm I'm not on the Clone Tool. If you don't have this box checked in Preferences, and you forget that you already hit the E key once, it's going to toggle, and then wait to see what happens to your work. LOL. Thank goodness my History States are at 50. It took me a minute to see where I was screwing up, and going back in history made it an easy fix. I now know the box MUST be checked.