I thought I would pass this on.
From seeing the way several work, I know that too few make much use of this is feature. Let me suggest a few ways.
Not everyone has the luxury of two screens, but if you do, try this:
Decide which one is best suited to have the File Browser filling, and open it fully to fit the screen.
If you have several volumes, then open the Folders tab fairly fully, and drag the vertical divider just wide enough to see the names fully at the second level.
Depending on whether the Preview or the metadata/keywords are most important, drag these to convenient sizes.
Then decide on the ideal size of Thumbnails, and select your main Image Capture folder. (Workspaces remembers this - so use this to make similar workspaces but for different locations.)
Select a picture and make it fill the screen, and now close all the palettes you do not need, and open just the Layers and Channels palette.
Drag the Channels palette apart, and align it below Layers, click and drag the tab until just a horizontal line highlights, as opposed to a square, and let go. Now these two palettes work as one. Open them to fill the vertical screen height.
Now drag History to the left of this and to the bottom of the screen and minimise this palette. Now you have the History palette capable of operating in a similar fashion to when docked in the Palette Well. Keep minimised until you need it - you will love this, I promise you. It will open to the extent of your History states, as you work.
Go to Window/Workspaces/Save Workspace... and name this something like "2-Screen Selecting".
Now go to say the folder for retouched images, and resave the Workspace and name this something like " 2-Screen Browse Finished".
Now you can jump between these two folders without the trouble of going through your disc hierarchy.
Now create a working environment where the image you are working on fills the second screen and the secondary screen holds fully open palettes like the new Histograms, and Swatches, Layers, Channels and Paths - and Save this as say: '2-Screen Working"...
Obviously this swapping of workspace environments is equally applicable and of probably greater importance to those confined to a single screen.
I hope this inspires a few of you to experiment with this powerful feature.
Bye for now,
Rod Rod Wynne-Powell
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