Adobe Photoshop/layers palette

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Expert: - 2/9/2007


Question
well on day i was messing about with a project of mine and I accidently close (pressed the X button)on the layers palette and I cant seem to get it back can you help me please!!!! I CLOSED IT OUT AND REOPENED IT BUT IT DONT COME BACK!! HELP PLEASE

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Hi Crystal,

With Photoshop open, you should be able to go to the Windows pulldown menu (across the top of your screen) and select the submenu Layers and see your Layers palette opens as normal.

If this doesn't work, you can try resetting your preferences. An easy way to do this via keyboard commands is to hold the Ctrl + Alt + Shift keys (if you're using a PC) or Command + Option + Shift (for Mac OSX). Then open Photoshop, while holding down these keys. You should then see an alert box that says, "Delete the Adobe Photoshop Settings file?" Click Yes, and that should restore your program back to its original state.

Hope this helps,

Lisa

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I've used Photoshop since the release of version 2. I taught college commercial art and graphic design for 10 years, and within that realm, taught Photoshop at every level, and with each successive product upgrade. My experience with Photoshop is thus extensive and well-rounded, from photo retouching to color adjustment to incorporating Photoshop and ImageReady into Web design. I am primarily a Mac user (since 1985), but am also PC-savvy.

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I've been a graphic designer for 22 years, was a national magazine art director, a designer for the Department of Defense, a college art instructor, and have my own freelance Web and graphic design business, LittleWorks (www.little-works.com). I've also worked for several printing companies, in both prepress and art.

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PICA award (Printing Industry of the Carolinas Award for the design of a media kit that accompanied a magazine I was art directing at the time)

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