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Hi, it looks like you are coming from an old version, select the Zoom tool, and, in the Option bar on top, uncheck Scrubby zoom, this way, you can marquee the area that you want to zoom into.
How do I turn off zoom tool. When use magnifying glas and want to enlarge only the area I am selecting... it zooms way up to 3000%. Help.
Is there any way to change save as to saving as jpg or psd, etc... insted of having to save as copy.
Thank you.
By @NTC Ann
Ann, I am sorry to be a pain, but the dpi doesn't make any difference. We are only interested in the size in pixels. I'm a Windows user so don't know how you take a screen shot on a Mac. On Windows we usually press the Print Screen key, that copies the screen to the clipboard.
My main screen is 2560 x 1440 pixels. The active part of your upload is 303 x 360 pixels and way to burred to have the first clue what we are looking at.
We also need to see the Entire workspace with layers panel visible. Something like this
Try and describe your issue again, with as much detail as you can. If English is not your first language, use your own language and we'll use the translate function. The more you tell us, the better the chance of a useful answer for you.
OK, we can see what's going on now. You have three separate instances of Photoshop open.
The Layers and Character panels on the right, belong to one of the two Photoshops that are hidden behind the front most. We know this because we can see those panels in front most Photoshop.
What's more, the rear most instance has focus. We know this because that one has the Red/Orange/Green icons active in the top left corner. So the Photoshop that is waiting for input is hidden behind the other two in front of it.
Save your work and close each Photoshop instance.
Open just one instance of Photoshop, and maximize it (I imaging that means clicking the green icon top left corner.
Set one of the default Workspaces, and then reset it. That will tidy things up.
i.e. Window > Workspace > Esentials (default), followed by Window > Workspace > Reset Essentials.
Now you can arrange your panels manually, and save as a custom workspace.
I also suggest you follow Jeff's advice and go Window > Arrange > Consolidate All to Tabs
Make these changes to Preferences
Seew if that gets you close to where you want to be. Ask if we can help any more.
I am now struggling to understand your issue. You need to maximise the Photoshop window so it fills the screen, and then arrange the panels, and save as a custom workspace. If you only have one screen, then the default function key shortcuts might be useful as they let you quickly toggle the most used panels on and off.
Something like this might work. The panels (Yellow highlight) are taking up a lot of screen space, but they can all be toggled on and off with function keys. The Narrow strip (cyan highlight) are minimized minor panels. You click to expand (like the Character panel below) and click again to minimize. This keeps them out of the way when not in use, but makes them much faster to access than using the Window menu. The toolbar (green highlight) is double row with most of the tools I use in their own space so you don't need to use the fly-outs to access them. It takes up very little extra space, and is a significant time saver.
When you have everything arranged, save it as a custom workspace, and check the Shortcuts, Toolbars and Menus which will save them with the workspace.
I actually use three screens so use the Function keys to trigger simple Actions that set and reset my workspaces. This is super useful as we tend to move panels about for working convenience and screen shots, and it is amazing to be able to make everything tidy again by pressing a single key.
This is 5680 pixels wide (I only use 16:10 monitors) and having all those panels always available is a huge boon to your workflow.
I hope we are getting close to having you sorted out, as this thread has been a bit of chore. 😞
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