7 Screen Modes and Jump To
Used for selecting
screen mode, and jumping to ImageReady
Found at #15 and 16 in the Toolbar diagram at left
These two features, screen modes and Jump To, are not related but didn’t really require full pages of their own, so here they are. An odd couple.
First, the screen mode buttons. Standard screen mode is what you’re all familiar with. The image is contained within a resizeable window which sits on the Photoshop background.
When you click the center icon, for full screen mode with menu, the image window covers 100 % of the screen. The image itself is not magnified, but the gray active window background is. It’s the same background you see if you drag a window larger than your image, only in this case, it covers the entire screen.
The third option, found by clicking the right most icon, gives you full screen with no menu and the area surrounding your image becomes black.
The Jump To icon at the very bottom of the toolbox, and at the far right above, is used to jump to ImageReady. The image which is active in Photoshop when you click the icon will be opened in ImageReady and can be edited there. You can jump back to Photoshop by clicking the same icon in ImageReady.
At left below, is standard screen mode which you get by default, or by clicking the screen mode button on the left in the toolbox.
On the right is full screen mode, with menu. You get this if you click the center screen mode button in the toolbox.
And, shown below is the full screen with no menu, which you get by clicking the screen mode button on the right in the toolbox.
Please note that this entire tools section has been updated from a Photoshop 6 version (which was updated from a 5.5 version). Wherever the tool is essentially the same as it was in 6, I have continued to use the screen capture illustrations made using that version. So if you notice cosmetic discrepancies in the options bar, menus or palettes, that’s why. In all instances where features were added or changed, I have made new screen captures.
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