Written by Steve Patterson. In this tutorial, we'll learn all about the updated Start screen, or Start workspace as it's officially known, in Photoshop CC 2017.
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The Start screen was actually introduced back in Photoshop CC 2015, but in CC 2017, Adobe has streamlined it a bit and made a few important changes, all of which we'll look at here. The biggest change, though, isn't really with the Start screen itself but with the New Document dialog box which has been completely redesigned in Photoshop CC 2017. We'll look briefly at it here as we make our way through the Start screen's features, but I'll also cover it in much more detail in its own separate tutorial. To follow along, you'll need to be using Photoshop CC (Creative Cloud) and you'll want to make sure that your copy of Photoshop CC is. Let's get started! Photoshop's 'Start Here' Point Photoshop's Start screen gets its name from what it does; it gives us a place to start. Before we can do any work in Photoshop, we first need something to work on, and that's where the Start screen comes in.
We can use the Start screen to create a brand new Photoshop document, or we can use it to open an existing image. The Start screen appears each time we launch Photoshop on its own, meaning we haven't yet selected a document or image to work on, and it appears whenever we close out of a document and have no other documents open on the screen.
Normally, the Start screen displays a list of your recently-opened files so you can quickly re-open one and continue working. But if this is the first time you've launched Photoshop, or you've cleared your Recent Files history (we'll see how to do that later), the Start screen will appear in its default state, with some brief tips and instructions in the center of the screen on how to get started. The Start screen in Photoshop CC 2017. The Menu Options Along the left of the Start screen is the main menu. We'll cover each menu option (all 4 of them) as we go along, but for now, notice that RECENT FILES is selected by default at the top. If I had any recently-opened files (which I will shortly), they would appear in the center of the screen where the instructions are currently displayed.
Below RECENT FILES is CC FILES, a brand new addition to the Start screen in Photoshop CC 2017. The 'CC' stands for Creative Cloud, and this option lets us open any Photoshop PSD files that we've stored not on our local computer but in the cloud—the online storage that Adobe gives us as part of our Creative Cloud subscription. Below that, we find two simple buttons. Button lets us create a brand new Photoshop document, while the Open.
Button lets us open an existing document or image. They may not look like much, but these two buttons are the Start screen's features you'll use the most. We'll learn how they work in a moment. The Start screen's main menu options. The Tiles The other main feature of the Start screen is the row of tiles along the bottom. The tiles are dynamic, meaning that their content changes from time to time. The only tile that doesn't change is the first one on the left, which lets us search for images using the service.
The other tiles offer either tutorials or downloadable content. Clicking a tile will open your web browser and take you to Adobe's website where you'll find more information about the topic. Choosing a document type from the menu. This displays a collection of preset document sizes that we can choose from based on the type of document we selected. Since I chose Photo, I'm seeing presets for common photo sizes, like Landscape 2x3, Landscape 4x6, and Landscape 5x7. Below the presets is a collection of templates (new in Photoshop CC 2017) which we can download from Adobe Stock. The templates allow us to add our images to pre-made layouts and effects.
You'll see different templates depending on which document type you've selected. Using templates is a whole other topic, so we'll skip them for now and focus just on the presets. Only a few presets are displayed initially. To view even more presets, click the View All Presets button. The PRESET DETAILS column shows the settings that will be used. If you're happy with the settings, click the Create button in the bottom right corner. If none of the presets are what you need, just replace any of the preset values with your own custom values.
For example, let's say that instead of a landscape 8x10 document, what I really need to create is an 11x14 document. Photoshop doesn't include an 11x14 preset, but that's not a problem. All I need to do is change the Width value from 10 inches to 14 inches and the Height value from 8 inches to 11 inches. Then, to create the document, I'll click the Create button.
Clicking the Thumbnail View icon. Changing The Maximum Number Of Recent Files Even though my Recent Files list only contains two images at the moment, it doesn't take long for the list to get cluttered with recently-opened files. We can control the maximum number of images that will be displayed using the File Handling options in Photoshop's Preferences. On a Windows PC, go up to the Edit menu at the top of the screen, choose Preferences, then choose File Handing. On a Mac, go up to the Photoshop CC menu, choose Preferences, then choose File Handing.
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Going to Edit (Win) / Photoshop CC (Mac) Preferences File Handing. This opens the Preferences dialog box set to the File Handling category.
Look for the option that says Recent File List Contains down at the bottom. The default value is 20, meaning Photoshop will display the last 20 files you've opened.
If you need to keep track of even more than 20 files, enter in a higher value, to a maximum of 100. Or, enter a lower value to display fewer recent files. If you don't want to see any recent files at all on your Start screen, set the value to 0. You'll need to quit and restart Photoshop for any changes to appear on the Start screen.
The 'Recent File List Contains' option in the File Handling preferences. Opening CC (Creative Cloud) Files Along with opening files that are stored locally on your computer, the Start screen in Photoshop CC 2017 also lets us open files which are stored online in the Creative Cloud. Every Creative Cloud subscription includes a certain amount of online storage space (the cloud), and saving our work to the cloud makes it easy to access it from any computer we need. The only thing to keep in mind is that the Start screen will only display files that were uploaded to the cloud as PSD files, which is Photoshop's native file format.
JPEG images or any other file type will not appear. To view your PSD files that are stored in the Creative Cloud, switch from RECENT FILES to CC FILES. Use the 'Show 'START' Workspace When No Documents Are Open option' to enable or disable the Start screen. Of course, you may be wondering, 'But how would I create a new document, or open an image, or access my recently-opened files, if I've turned off the Start screen?' While there's no doubt that the Start screen serves as a great starting point, especially for beginner Photoshop users, the truth is that there really isn't much here that we can't do without using the Start screen. So if the Start screen begins to feel like unnecessary clutter and you decide to turn it off, in the next tutorial, we'll look quickly at how to create new Photoshop documents and open images without using the Start screen.
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