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Getting Rid of Tabs

May 4, 2009 by Corey Barker Tip of the Day 2 Comments

Photoshop CS4 defaults to opening multiple documents as tabs in a single window. To open your images in separate windows as in prior versions, press Command-K (PC: Ctrl-K) to open your Preferences, click Interface from the list on the left, turn off both the Open Documents as Tabs and Enable Floating Document Window Docking checkboxes, and click OK. You’ll still be able to combine two documents into a tabbed window by pressing the Control key (PC: Right-click) after you start dragging the title of one document and dropping it onto another.

Posted by Corey Barker

Corey is the newest education and curriculum developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. He is a graduate of the Ringling School of Art & Design in Sarasota, Fl, with a degree in Illustration. Over the years, Corey has worked as a graphic artist in a variety of disciplines such as illustration, commercial design, large format printing, motion graphics, web design and photography. His expertise in Photoshop and Illustrator have earned him numerous awards in illustration, graphic design and photography. Using Photoshop since Version 2, his expertise and creativity have evolved exponentially with every new version, which makes Corey an invaluable addition to the NAPP team.

2 comments on “Getting Rid of Tabs”

  1. Thank you for that tip!
    I see no appreciable purpose for that new tab feature and it makes working with multiple documents very confusing, not to mention if you don’t pay attention, you lose all the work you just finished on one document when closing another document without saving the one you don’t need to save.
    It’s an awful feature.

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