Run new window in second desktop in Windows 10

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September 14, 2020
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Hello everybody, I have a question that, I suppose, won't be easy to answer.

I recently discovered that Windows 10 lets us create a second desktop (win+tab, new desktop) in which we can throw our windows as if it were a second monitor more or less.

I record my drawings and paintings to post them online but I've always hated the fact that I had to record every time I zoom in to draw a detail, which becomes nauseating when the video is sped up.

What I tried to do (let's just ignore the fact that I haven't found a solution to recording just the second desktop yet) is to arrange a new window for the project I'm working on and transfer that floating window in the new desktop, so that I'll be drawing and zooming in desktop 1 and the window in desktop 2 will be full screen but won't show the zooming actions.

The problem is that whenever I move the floating window, the entire Photoshop is transfered to the other desktop, so I can't separate software and window as you would with a physical second monitor by dragging the window outside monitor 1 into monitor 2.

Does anyone have any idea on how to achieve this or am I just trying to achieve the impossible?

Also, if you have any idea on how to record only what's on desktop 2, that would really be appreciated, too.

Thanks!

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JJMack

Community Expert

There is only one copy of Photoshop running you can use if from both desktop. If you want a second view your document. You can open a second image window for you document and move to your second display. It still a single document with two views. If you make a change n one window and its committed the change will be reflected] is the second vies. Only one window can has system focus and be actively used.

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Daniele98A4Author

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That's the problem I've been talking in this topic. If I arrange a new window for the project I'm working on, I can't send just that window to a second desktop, and by second desktop I don't mean a second physical display but the win+tab > new desktop function in windows 10. If I try to send the new window for the project to a second desktop, the whole software goes to that desktop, so I can't divide the main project on one desktop and the new window on the second one. Furthermore, as I was saying, if I use the new window for the project, it will show the brush stroke only after I've done it, not while I'm doing it

Semaphoric

Community Expert

I don't know if this will help, but try using Window > Arrange > New Window for Open File.

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Daniele98A4Author

Participant

What do you mean with "for open file"? If I go to window>arrange> i have "new window for (name of the file I'm working on)", which I can't transfer to a second desktop and even if I did, it would show the stroke after I've finished, it wouldn't show the process of making that stroke.

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Daniele98A4Author

Participant

I've realized that arranging a new window isn't going to be helpful at all because it shows the stroke after it's done and not while it's being done... I think it may prove to be completely impossible to record the entire canvas without showing the zooming after all...

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