You may be sharing Photoshop with a number of other users. You might, for example, work on a communal computer at college, or have to share a computer with your family. You don't want to have to set up the interface from scratch every time you use the software, and Photoshop helpfully enables you to save your customised workspace with a unique name. Your colleagues can also customise and save their own layouts, and access them in seconds.

Photoshop remembers the exact positions in which you placed specific palettes and returns them to those locations, and also remembers how the palettes were grouped.

To save your customised interface go to window > workspace > save workspace. label the saved workspace so that you can access it easily. other users can set up their own workspace preferences too, and you can access each user's settings from the workspace menu.

You can resize individual or grouped palettes by dragging the bottom of the palette tab to make it any size you like. this will help you to make optimum use of your workspace. use the layers palette menu option to increase the size of your palette's thumbnails, so that you can more easily identify them. click on the arrow icon to the right of the palette tabs to open the menu.

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