SETTING UP THE STATUS BAR

Every image window in Photoshop comes equipped with a status bar. Many people tend to associate status with wealth, so we think there’s a good reason to accept the free wealth of information that the status bar offers:

®    On the far left of the bar is a box that displays an active image’s current zoom level (such as 33.33%).  The title bars of the document also show the zoom level.

If we installed a Photoshop to network computer and we active the workgroup features, using which file sharing and other perks we can apply, we see the icon for the Workgroup Service pop-up menu just to the fight of the zoom-info box.

®    To the right of the zoom level is the display area for file and image information which, by default, shows the document profile.

To display other types of information, click the arrow which is right side to the status bar, choose Show, and select one of the options from the menu that appears.

 

 

Adobe Drive:

If we are Version Cue users, we can select this option, which enables us to connect to Version Cue servers. If we connect through the Adobe Drive, we can open and save Version Cue files. Adobe has decided to discontinue Version Cue, so the now the Adobe Drive feature is unknown.

Document Sizes:

            It shows the document size in two numbers. The first number (left one) shows the size of the file we were to combine all the layers into one and save it to our hard disk in the native Photoshop file format. The second number (right one) shows the size of the file including layers, channels and other components.

Document Profile:

            When we select this option the status bar displays the name of the color profile that the image uses, as well as the number of bits per channel.

Document Dimensions:

            Suppose we select this option then the status bar shows us the size of the image by using the default measurement increment we have set in Photoshop’s Preferences. It shows the physical dimension of the file which is currently open as well as selected to edit.

Measurement Scale:

            It displays the scale of the document. For example, 1 pixel=1.000pixels.

Scratch Sizes:

            The scratch space is the virtual memory set aside on our hard disk to simulate RAM and make editing large files easily. By selecting this option we can see two measurements for active image. The left one is the amount of real memory and virtual memory that all open images are using. The right one is the total amount of RAM available for working image.

Efficiency:

            It helps us gauge whether we really have enough RAM to perform a task. It shows the percentage of time Photoshop spends actually working on an operation, compared to the time it must spend reading or writing image information to or from our hard disk. The value dips below 100 percent most of the time, we need to allocate more memory to Photoshop.

Timing:

            This number shows us how long it took you to complete our most recent incredible feat.

Current Tool:

            This option shows us the name of the tool currently in use.

32-Bit Exposure:

            This option is for adjusting the preview image for viewing 32-bit High Dynamic Range (HDR) images. The slider control is available only if we have an HDR image open.

SETTING DISPLAY SETTINGS WITH THE WINDOW MENU

The window menu looks like the following figure.

It controls the display of panels and some other elements of the Photoshop workspace.


 

®    The top two elements on the Window menu enable us to control the display arrangement of our open documents and manage our workspace.

o   On the Window➪Arrange submenu, we can tell Photoshop to cascade (stack) or tile (butt edge to edge) all open documents. Our images must be floating in their windows to enable this option (Window➪Float All in Windows). Example shown in following figure.

o   Photoshop also sports what’s referred to as an application frame. Open documents are tabbed together neatly, one stacked behind the other. If you yearn for the old days and want your images to float within the application, choose Float in Window (for the currently selected image only) and Float All in Windows (for all your images) commands in the Arrange submenu.

If we make all images in Photoshop as “Float All in Windows” then we can see all images with separate window and we can move it as we want like following figure.

  Then suppose we click on “Windows➪Cascade” so it arranges all image like following figure.

 

It arranges the image windows based on they are opened (first opened image goes at back and last opened image comes in front).

The following table shows us the lowdown about the other options on the Window➪Arrange➪Submenu.

Table	The Window➪Arrange Submenu
Menu command	What It Does
Consolidate All to Tabs	Takes your open floating documents and tabs them together under the Options bar.
Match Zoom	Takes your open documents and matches the magnification percentage of your active document.
Match Location	Takes your open documents and matches the location of your active document. For example, if you’re viewing the lower-left corner of your active document and choose Match Location, all your open documents display from the lower-left corner.
Match Rotation	Takes your open documents and matches the canvas rotation of your active document.
Match All	Employs all Match commands simultaneously.
New Window	Opens another view of the same image, allowing you to work on a close-up part of the image while viewing results on the entire image.
Minimize (Mac only)	Hides the image while placing the image’s thumbnail on the Dock. Click the thumbnail to restore the image in Photoshop.
Bring All to Front (Mac only)	If you have multiple applications launched, thus multiple document windows open, this command brings all Photoshop documents to the front, ahead of any document windows from other open applications.