Panels resizing themselves at vertical divider

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May 19, 2022
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I have opened panels docked in vertical strips (for example, Navigator, Color, Swatches, and History in one vertical strip), and I drag the dividers between them to get the sizing I want. But often Photoshop will resize them, even if I lock the workspace. It's extremely annoying because I have to waste time to drag those dividers again to get the panel sizing I want. This has been happening for a while--maybe a year or so, and with multiple versions of Photoshop (I try to keep it updated to the latest version).

Windows

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Jeff Arola

Community Expert

When you get all your panels and such set just right save the positions by going to Window>Workspace>New Workspace, so you can easily reset the panel positions whenever they get out of wack.

Locking the workspace only prevents panels from being moved, not from resizing.

LunatiqueRobAuthor

Known Participant

That unfortunately doesn't work. The workspaces will only put the panels in the correct spots, but not resize them to the original sizes when I first created the workspace.

Bojan Živković11378569

Community Expert

Have you tried reseting preferences what is general advice for all things weird in Photoshop Preferences in Photoshop (adobe.com)

I am testing on Win latest Ps version and everything works just fine.

jane-e

Community Expert

@LunatiqueRob

Can you show a before and after image of your panels so we can see what you are seeing?

Jane

LunatiqueRobAuthor

Known Participant

Here are screenshots showing before, and after. Before, you can see I had the color picker sized to be roughly a perfect square. Then later, Photoshop just automatically resized it to be a longer rectangle. This time, it was only the color picker, but usually the Navigator, Swatches, and History panels would also get resized too.

LunatiqueRobAuthor

Known Participant

I'll mention another problem I have here (which I started another thread for), because they might be related. You can see in these screenshots how the brush presets panel opened up behind the image. Another screenshot also shows the same problem in full-screen mode, and we can't see the brush presets panel at all, even though it's activated.

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