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GazC01
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July 7, 2025
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Constant visibility of minimised document windows in Photoshop please.

  • July 7, 2025
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Hi

I've recently moved from Windows to Mac and because of this I’ve also moved from Photoshop CS4 (it did everything I needed it too for a very long time) to Photoshop 2025. In CS4, when minimising document windows within Photoshop, they would be constantly visible as tabs at the bottom of the work space, making it really easy to click on any that you would need to work on / switch between / see what you have open at a glance. But now, in the 2025 version, they just disappear. To see them, I have to 'right click' the PS icon in the dock, click 'show all windows' and select the document window I want to re-instate it OR click on 'window' and scroll down to it there... and then repeat for both if I want to re-instate multiple. So, several clicks for each method as opposed to the one click and visibility of files of CS4.

So, my suggestion for an improvement would be to go back to the CS4 way of showing minimised document windows.

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Stephen Marsh
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Community Expert
July 7, 2025
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Hi

I've recently moved from Windows to Mac and because of this I’ve also moved from Photoshop CS4 (it did everything I needed it too for a very long time) to Photoshop 2025. In CS4, when minimising document windows within Photoshop, they would be constantly visible as tabs at the bottom of the work space, making it really easy to click on any that you would need to work on / switch between / see what you have open at a glance. But now, in the 2025 version, they just disappear. To see them, I have to 'right click' the PS icon in the dock, click 'show all windows' and select the document window I want to re-instate it OR click on 'window' and scroll down to it there... and then repeat for both if I want to re-instate multiple. So, several clicks for each method as opposed to the one click and visibility of files of CS4.

So, my suggestion for an improvement would be to go back to the CS4 way of showing minimised document windows.


By @GazC01


What you note as a CS4 vs 2025 difference actually sounds like OS differences.

 

It also sounds like you were previously using floating windows and not tabbed windows. Have you looked at tabbed windows on the Mac version of Photoshop?

 

Perhaps the following extension is worth taking a look at:

 

https://exchange.adobe.com/apps/cc/9a125a3a?pluginId=9a125a3a