Comments on: Remove Tabs From Adobe Photoshop CS4

By: crowjane

crowjane — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:46:38 +0000

I bloody hate the tabs in Photoshop. Good grief, what were they thinking?
Thank you! I love you!

Jane

By: gemini6ice

gemini6ice — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:08:38 +0000

THANK YOU!

That's all, really. Thanks for helping me with this!

By: portalpotty

portalpotty — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:59:42 +0000

Thank you so much for this. I was an avid user of both Photoshop CS2 and CS3, and when I got CS4, I couldn't understand why everything opened in tabs like that. It is unbelievably unhelpful, especially when previous versions allow you to drag content from one floating window to another. Thanks for allowing me to actually get some work done in Photoshop again!

Even though you can drag the tabs down to the canvas, when opening a new document and pasting, it begins the tabbing cycle again!

By: Janne Jylhä

Janne Jylhä — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:20:47 +0000

hhaugli: you can switch between open documents with Ctrl+Tab.

But this does't help with toolbars that are lost under big amount of documents, because documents float above toolbars in CS4. Anybody have a sollution this? Solution would be to set the toolbars so that they allways float above documents. Another solution would be an option or shortcut key to bring the tools to front (above all documents). Also if i could just browse through toolbars like through documents with Ctrl+Tab, that would do the job. But can't seem to find any of these features in Photoshop CS4!? What the hell…

By: David

David — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:29:35 +0000

Thanks a lot for this very usefull tip, dragging to the top toolbar, who would of thought of that. Been driving me crazy for some time now to, again, many thanks.

By: Joey

Joey — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:35:31 +0000

Thanks alot, I love tabs, but it PS it drives me CRAZY…after spending the last 30mins patching back in Automate>WebPhotoGallery… I figured I'd fix this too.. Thanks

By: hhaugli

hhaugli — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:08:53 +0000

I too can't find much good to say about the tabs. But as soon as you've disabled them my old shortcut for switching between open documents (Cmd+<) doesn't work. Arrgh! Any tips?

By: Michael Chagala

Michael Chagala — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:45:49 +0000

Thank you for the quick, clear, easy solution to this! …took 5 seconds after looking at your screenshots.

By: Janne Jylhä

Janne Jylhä — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:33:19 +0000

I wish there was even a “Bring all tools to front” option or something like that… or you could still put tool panels as tabs OUTSIDE of the working area like in CS3.. god damned, this “feature” really makes my work harder..

By: randyjensen

randyjensen — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:25:27 +0000

I haven't found anything like that yet. I don't think it's possible without some type of third party software or a hack simply because of how the chrome in Photoshop was developed. I think they consider it a “feature” not a bug.