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It is worth mentioning that every time I open an image for the first time, there is a default interface. The same tools windows (colors, layers, etc.) are always open. I just want Hue/Saturation to be one of them.
By @Bob24326889y4sy
That is understood.
The Properties panel is contextually dependent on the active element, in the case of the Hue/Saturation adjustment layer, the layer needs to first exist and then be selected/active for the properties to be editable.
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The default workspace is Essentials, but regardless of which workspace is selected, the Properties panel will always be context sensitive, and react to what function is currently selected.
Custom Workspaces have incredly useful added value in that you can save keyboard shortcuts, custom toolbars and menus, so you can expand keyboards shortcuts and toolbar layouts according to what you are doing.
It's super easy top drag panels around, which is something the regular posters do many times a day asrranging panels for forum answer screenshots. This would be annoying when you want to tidy things up, so what I do is have simple Actions that select and reset my three most used workspaces, and triger them with unmodified Function keys. So no matter how messed up my screen gets, I press F5 and it is instantly back to normal.
So you could have a custom workspace that places the Layers and Properties panels into convenient positions, and reset at will. You could create an Action that does the above and adds a Hue/Saturation layer, but it hardly seems worth it. The default shortcuts for image adjustments are shown below (this is my Essentials workspace)
However, we work nondestructively when we can, so when I have my default workspace selected, those shortcuts switch to add Adjustment Layers instead. Does that make sense? It makes things flexible and powerful, and most of what I use a lot is triggered by a single button (either function keys or the G-keys on the gaming keyboards I use for content creation.
If I am missing the point, let us know why you want to have things laid out as you describe, and we'll try and give you a workaround
Sorry, I'm not trying to be difficult. I only use PS for this one very-specific thing so I'm not very familiar with the lingo.
"you would need to select an existing hue/saturation adjustment layer, or add a new one"
I guess that you mean every time that I open any image.
The images are opened from within Acrobat as I am editing one or two pages in a long list of PDFs. So those images have never existed before and they have no previous context.
(I realize now that I've been saying that I'm editing documents but, of course, I'm editing images. Given my usage, you can see why I made that mistake. Sorry).
By @Bob24326889y4sy
Yes, for every opened image.
You will need to either automate a Hue/Saturation command (destructive) or a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer (non-destructive and editable via the parameters in the Adjustments panel):
https://helpx.adobe.com/au/photoshop/using/adjustment-fill-layers.html
To help automate, you can insert either the Hue/Saturation command or the addition of the Hue/Saturation adjustment layer into an Action:
https://helpx.adobe.com/au/photoshop/using/creating-actions.html
Once you have an Action, you can then automate via to the "Open" document event via the Script Events Manager:
https://prepression.blogspot.com/2021/10/photoshop-script-events-manager.html
It is worth mentioning that every time I open an image for the first time, there is a default interface. The same tools windows (colors, layers, etc.) are always open. I just want Hue/Saturation to be one of them.
By @Bob24326889y4sy
That is understood.
The Properties panel is contextually dependent on the active element, in the case of the Hue/Saturation adjustment layer, the layer needs to first exist and then be selected/active for the properties to be editable.
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