

By default the Toolbar opens at the left as a single column of tools. More after the jump! Continue reading below↓įree and Premium members see fewer ads! Sign up and log-in today. However, if you don’t like the dock system, you can still float palettes and palette groups as you can now. You also don’t have to turn your head sideways to read the labels as with InDesign’s current “stashed” palette interface. It also ensures that palettes can’t hide behind other palettes which can easily happen in InDesign CS2. The new interface makes very efficient use of limited screen real estate. If you want to create a new vertical dock, when you drag a palette or palette group toward the edge of an existing dock, a gray receive strip animates out to indicate that dropping there will create a new dock. Dragging a palette (or group of palettes) over a dock shows a thin blue drop zone, which indicates where the the palette or palette group will land if you release it. You can quickly add palettes to a dock or create new docks. Clicking the icon again (or choosing another palette’s icon) closes it. Clicking on a palette’s icon opens that palette. You can easily click on the gray strip at the top of a dock to toggle the dock between its expanded view and a contracted view that shows only an icon for each palette. They are arranged in vertical “stacks” called docks. You can still see the familiar Photoshop palettes in the new interface, but the way they are organized is new. While Adobe has not announced the fact, it is widely expected that this is not just for Photoshop alone but will be the new interface for InDesign CS3 and other members of Adobe Creative Suite 3 as well.

One of the most notable features of the new version is a totally revamped interface. Just before the holidays, Adobe did the unexpected and released a public beta of Photoshop CS3.
