CS5 Annoyance - what am I missing?

I hate it when they change thing just for the sake of change. And when it is the User Interface it is even more aggravating!

In CS3 (and CS, and PS7 and PSE2 before that) I would open in image and it would populate into it's own window. Open a second image, it is populates into IT'S own window, and so on. I can move them next to each other on the workspace, drag parts back and forth and so on. Multiple windows, one for each image I open.

NOW with CS5, I open an image and it populates full screen. *Sigh*.

So I click Window -> Arrange -> Float in Window. There - *ta-da* - no longer full screen. Well done - so I think. Now, when I go to open a second image, and instead of populating in a second window, the image populates into the window of the first image. Cannot do side by side. *Sigh*. (Actually, at this point it's no longer *Sigh*, but a lot worse).

So I click Window -> Arrange -> Float all in Windows. There - *ta-da* - now I have separate windows, and can do side by side. But wait, what happens when I open a third image? (Try to guess).

tick tock tick tock

If anyone guessed that the third image populates into the window of the second image, you are right! And if you think I said *Sigh*, well, sorry, but you are wrong about that.

Anyway, I looked in the preferences and saw nothing about "Open Each Image in It's Own Window". (Actually, I had no expectations of finding something useful - but it was worth a try.)

So the question is this, in CS5, (64bit, Windows 7) is there any way to have images open in their own window by default, just like they have in every other version of PS I have ever used.

Rad

Maybe you have to update the pictures in RAW. It could be that your images have old data stored from CS3.

hihohito wrote in post #13390351
Maybe you have to update the pictures in RAW. It could be that your images have old data stored from CS3.

Thanks, but I don't think that's it. They are all unedited JPGs from various cameras, so they have not seen CS3. They are being viewed in windows file explorer then opened in PS using the "right click" open with command.

Rad

What you are looking for is :

Edit > Preferences > Interface

Under the Panels & Documents section uncheck "Open Documents in Tabs"

This should give you back each image in it's own window.

Nightstalker wrote in post #13390484
What you are looking for is :

Edit > Preferences > Interface

Under the Panels & Documents section uncheck "Open Documents in Tabs"

This should give you back each image in it's own window.

You are an awsome stud! (Or studlette, as the case may be.)

Rad

Stud, most surely a stud

I'd give tabbed view a chance. It's pretty nice once you get to know it actually (IMO)

Some more changes:

http://www.lynda.com …ow-interface/40806-4.html
http://www.deke.com …g-cs4-adjustments-palette
http://www.deke.com …/photoshop-cs4-buy-or-die

+1 on Rene's suggestion.

It actually is quite nice once you use it for a while.

I have to agree that the first time I tried the tabbed workspace I thought, "what did they do!". Now I will not work in anything but that. I find it highly efficient for the way I work but they did not force people to adopt this way of working. Adobe changes lots of things from version to version but I have found they always leave you a way of doing it the way you were used to as is evidenced in this case. One of the first things I look at when getting a new version of Photoshop is the preferences file, it will tell you alot by the choices that are in there.

I must say that I had to have a hunt through the menu's to find it as I use the s/w in the tabbed form myself and would never go back to the old ways.

Takes a bit of getting usd to but I much prefer it.