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CROrlando
CROrlando
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November 15, 2016
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Set default unit for new document

  • November 15, 2016
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I just updated to Photoshop CC2017 0.0, and it seems I can't dictate the default unit of measure for new documents - it's always pixels.  I use solely inches.  In the new Illustrator CC 2017 0.0, if you make a new document and choose inches, the next new document will be inches.  Change it to millimeters and all subsequent new documents will be millimeters.  With Photoshop mine has always been set to inches.  I create so many new Photoshop files every day all day at my job, and now, every time, I have to use the mouse to select the drop down menu to choose inches, then highlight the width so I can set that then tab to the height, then I have to either use the mouse again to highlight the dpi, or tab 5 times through orientation and artboard to get to dpi.  Also, it should tab from width to height to dpi, and not have units, orientation and artboard in between.  If I type 30 then 50, I should know I have a portrait.  If I wanted landscape I would just type 50 then 30.

I know it sounds trivial, but this used to be super quick and all key commands.  No one else in my department wants to upgrade now because of this one feature.  lol

I looked through preferences and researched online but haven't found this particular problem with the most current version.  I did save a preset with inches but I have to also select that tab with the mouse and every piece I work on is different so it won't save me any time.

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    Barb Binder
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    Barb BinderCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    November 15, 2016

    Do you have Recent selected on the tab bar at the top? As long as I leave mine on Recent, it returns to inches for each new document, and as I tab from W to H and enter values, the orientation follows automatically. You do have to tab a lot to get to PPI, though.

    ~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training
    CROrlando
    CROrlandoAuthor
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    November 15, 2016

    Thank you, you helped me figure it out.

    I had copied some vector in Illustrator earlier and it was still in my clipboard.  Thus when I was in Photoshop, it defaulted to pixels because I had something in my clipboard.  So I quit Illustrator, and sure enough, new documents in Photoshop went back to inches.  I'm not sure why a piece of vector floating in my clipboard should dictate that I would only want pixels in Photoshop, particularly if it was something that I copied to paste back in Illustrator only, or that I copied yesterday or last week.

    I guess this has always been the case, it just came up so many times this morning when I was using the new version, and now tabbing through units, orientation and artboards, it kinda threw me.

    Thanks for your help.   = )

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