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Dual Windows With Photoshop

July 29th, 2009 in Photoshop Tutorials by Richard Carpenter

Dual Windows With Photoshop

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About The Author: Richard Carpenter

Hi im Richard Carpenter im a freelance web and graphics designer from England. I am also a regular Blogger, Tutorial Writer, and owner of HV-Designs. You can follow me on twitter HERE. You may also view my portfolio HERE.

 

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In this quick article i’l be showing you how to maximize your work space when working on more than one piece of artwork within photoshop.

If your the kind of person who likes spending time retouching photo’s or creating wacky photo manipulations you will know how annoying it is when you have to keep zooming in and out to check on your progress.

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could work on one photo zoomed in at 500%, yet still see the result at 100%. Well you actually can, and il show you how.

Open Up Your Document

In photoshop i’ve opened up an image of charlize theron (just for this example).

Step1

Duplicating The Window

Now we have our image open lets duplicate the window, to do this we need to go to “window” in the menu bar.

Step2

Go to “arrange” then at the bottom click “new window for “file name here”.

Step3

Providing your document window is not maximized you should have two windows. If it is maximized just restore it down.

Step4

Tiling The Document Window

If you head back into the “window” options under the arrange tab you have two options for tiling the document windows, horizontally and vertically.

Step5

Tiling Vertically

If you click “tile vertically” your windows will be displayed like this.

Step6

Tiling Horizontally

If you click “tile horizontally” your windows will be displayed like this.

Step7

Free Too Zoom

Each window can be zoomed and edited differently but the overall result will be applied to whole image. For example if i were to change her eye color.

Step8

The changes are made in the top window and its updated in the bottom window, notice the zoom levels of each window. If you would like the zoom level to be the same in both windows you can simply go to “window > arrange > match zoom level”.

Step9

You can also match the windows location by going to “window > arrange > match location”, there is also an option to do both at the same time by clicking “match zoom and location”.

Step10

Additional Notes

For those using photoshop CS4 i do believe there may be more options to choose from and more views to choose from, more than likely any photoshop version under cs3 will be the same as this article.

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19 Responses to “Dual Windows With Photoshop”

  1. Orca says:

    Shouldnt it be “Dual” instead of “Duel” meaning to fight “I challenge you to a Duel” ???

    Nice article though !

  2. Tyler says:

    Only difference I can see in CS4, is option to match rotation aswell, Match Rotation, Match Location, Match Zoom, Match All.

    Very useful tip here, shame I don’t have my 2nd monitor yet, but when I do I will most using this almost constantly. Having the 100% on the 1280×1024 monitor (current) and on my 22″ work at 500%. Thanks :)

  3. sidd says:

    nice and cool

  4. Madhavi Sani says:

    Thanks. This is really good.

  5. Swen says:

    Wow thanks! I always find it annoying to zoom in, zoom out, check results, zoom in again. This really helps me out!

  6. Richard Carpenter says:

    @tyler:

    two monitors is definetly the way to go… id never go back to using one monitor now ive experienced having two.

  7. TutorialsRoom says:

    Really nice tip, Thank you for sharing!

  8. Jake says:

    Nope, I think he means Dual as in two.

  9. Matthew says:

    Thanks, I never knew about this option and I’ve been using phootshop for 4 years now!

    <3

  10. photo retouching services says:

    A really handy timesaving tip. You could go even further and use dual monitors I suppose.

  11. Tijhaart says:

    Very Helpfull !

  12. designfollow says:

    thanks for this nice tutorial and info.

  13. anivik says:

    nice tuts

  14. xRommelx says:

    i was don’t know that

  15. Gregory says:

    Wow, dude is opening for me! Thanks!

  17. Evan-XG says:

    Hi there . a web developper need some freebies to get started in design
    http://digg.com/design/Dual_Windows_With_Photoshop

  18. sakthi says:

    nice, dude

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