Common basic settings for Photoshop CS6

While some general settings for Photoshop are typically tuning preferences, others are features and toolbox tools, let's adjust preference settings. There are general, interface, file processing, cursors, transparency and gamut, units, and rulers above. Guides, grids and slices, plug-ins, text, 3D these settings. Looks like a lot of it, you can go to the preferences to see, you set the effect of the difference. The following is a few basic settings to learn about worry-free.

1, the preferences of the performance settings history record and scratch disk

In the previous version of the Photoshop application, in the history of the state can only save the first 20 steps, and we are here to teach the key history changes, click "Edit"-"preferences"-"performance", this value default is 20. I set it to a maximum of 1000, and setting a hundreds of here is OK, depending on your personal circumstances. Next is in the "Performance" window memory usage, here also can not modify parameters, but there are special circumstances can be modified, are based on personal circumstances.

Memory usage:

There is a scratch disk at the bottom of the performance, and the arrow buttons are used to change the scratch disk order of Photoshop. For best performance, the finished product should be set up as a quick drive on the content fast drive or on the fast external interface, not as a boot drive. However, you can use any drive that has enough free space. The changes will take effect the next time that you drive Photoshop.

2. Set the drawing cursor

Our mouse cursor on the computer desktop likes to set a very personalized mouse cursor, and here Photoshop CS6 can also pass the preferences of the cursor settings, the cursor on the drawing above can be set in a favorite cursor. I like to use the "normal brush tip" cursor and display the cross line. You might want to try the other cursors, and you can try each one individually.

3, open the file in your own way

If you're not very fond of Photoshop the default is to arrange open files as tab pages, and you like to float individual files freely in a window. If you like this, you can cancel the "Open Document as Tab" and "Enable floating document window docking" items in the interface settings. Here you can also choose a different color theme. This is a new feature of Photoshop CS6. If you are not accustomed to the default dark gray, you can change back to the familiar CS5 style of light gray.

4, File modification Save as default folder

Choose where to save the file. Photoshop allows you to set the default storage to the original folder or the last saved folder when you save the file as. In the file processing setting, you can check or cancel save to original folder.

5. Record Operation history

In order to go back to one of the previous steps in a large project, I'll turn on the history feature in the general settings. I chose to save the history as a text file and select "Verbose" so that Photoshop can record all of the actions I have done as much as possible. The first time you select a text file, you need to select the location and name of the file to save.

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