How to recover the default settings for Photoshop

Restore Photoshop gives us a lot of free space, we can set various tools of the options panel, you can drag and drop, separate, the combination of various panels. In addition, we can set up the entire Photoshop environment. But with a lot of change, Photoshop gets messy. At this point, we often want to restore the Photoshop default settings, what to do? You can't reinstall Photoshop!

1. Recovery Tools Options Panel Settings

When we use the various tools in the toolbox, we often set the parameters on the tool options panel according to our actual needs. When we need to restore the default settings for the Tools Options panel, click the Black triangle button in the upper right corner of the Tools Options Panel to open a panel menu. Select the "Reset Tool" option to restore the options panel settings for the current tool, or select the Reset all tools option to restore the options panel settings for all tool.

2. Restore the location of the control Panel

Photoshop's control Panel is free to move, detach, and assemble. Over time, the interface will be very messy, to restore the position of the control Panel. The method is simple: by clicking the preferances command on the File menu and selecting the General item, a dialog box pops up. Click the Reset Palette locations to Default button in the dialog box. At this point you will find that all of Photoshop's panels (including the toolbox) will revert to the default location.

3. Restore environment settings

When using Photoshop, some friends like to set up their own Photoshop environment. In some cases, we need to restore the Photoshop default environment settings.

PHOTOSHOP5.5 's environment parameter settings are saved in an Adobe Photoshop 5.5 prefs.psp file. To recover the default settings for Photoshop, simply delete the file. The next time you start, Photoshop will set the system environment with the default parameters and revert to the state of the first startup after installation. When you exit Photoshop, it also creates a new Adobe Photoshop 5.5 prefs.psp file to save the current settings.

The Adobe Photoshop 5.5 prefs.psp file is saved in the Adobe\photoshop 5.5\adobe Photoshop 5.5 Settings directory.

The Photoshop5.0 environment parameter settings file is "Adobe Photoshop 5 PREFS.PSP", and the path is adobe\photoshop 5.5\adobe Photoshop 5.0 settings\.