Full Size Photoshop Canvas on a Mac February 20th, 2009
8 commentsSo i recently acquired a new uni body macbook and have since been getting used to the switch from windows to mac. I gotta say I’m very much loving the OS X experience and the multi-touch gestures on the giant new track pad. That being said, one of the things that was really annoying me was the default modal disjointed photoshop experience. I like all my apps to be in a nice neat window container.
Here’s the default “disjointed” photoshop setup on a mac
Now i wanna contain all those wild modal panels into one cohesive application window. So i choose “Application Frame” From the “Window” menu like so:
That leaves me with a beautifully framed and contained photoshop with a full size canvas. This is much easier to work with since i am no longer accidentally clicking the desktop and losing my application focus.
Keep in mind that this is CS4 and your mileage may vary depending on what version you are using.
I can’t speak for CS4 as I’m still running 3 but in all PhotoShops previous you can toggle your screen view by simply hitting the ‘F’ key. I particularly like this feature when I want to step back and critique my design or share with others. I’ll tap ‘f’ until I get the black frame and then hit ‘tab’ to make my tools hide, all that’s left is a full screen of the image.
I just switched to a Mac a few days ago and this has been driving me NUTS – thanks so much for posting this – now I can stop shaking my fist at my beautiful new MBP.
OH SCHWEET!!! You just made my day!!!
I’ve been searching on forums all over and asking on youtube how to fix this issue but no success. I got so pissed off with the Mac version of Photoshop mainly because of this disjoint that I often switch back to Windows for any photoshop work.
You Rock!!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! I too am a former PC user and have done graphics on PCs for about 10 years. This issue was driving me crazy — thanks so much for solving it for me!
@cecy
glad i could help
Thank you! Now I can enjoy Photoshop to the fullest again
Thanks.. I was annoyed by this for so long.. but didn’t bother trying to fix it, until now.
Dude. You have no idea how many months this was ruining my day when I wanted to go to my mac on photoshop. I just couldn’t get used to the default non-framed. I thought, “are they effin’ out of their minds?”
You, my friend, have saved me some heartache.