Using Palettes in Photoshop

By David Leggett

About the Author

David Leggett founded Tutorial9 in 2008, and is constantly looking for new ways to serve the web community both online and offline. It is his goal to make Tutorial9 the best source for design/web tutorials and resources.

In Photoshop, palettes are used to help modify and monitor your documents. An understanding of how to use, organize, and adjust palettes is essential in learning how to use Photoshop.

The Palettes

In order to show you how big of a role palettes play in Photoshop, simply Press Tab in Photoshop to hide all palettes. Palettes include everything from the toolbox, to the option bar, to the layers and colors windows.

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to:

• Arrange palettes



• Resize, show and hide palettes



• Close, Open, and Reset palettes



• Use options inside of palettes

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