ALL IMAGES BY DAVE CROSSchoose the color from the menu beside that item,
click OK, and you’re good to go.
If you ever want to change or remove the color
coding, return to Edit>Menus. To edit the individual
menu items, you’ll have to go and find them as there’s
no automatic way to show only the menu items that
are currently color coded. Once you’ve found them,
use the Color menu to change the color, or put it
back to “None.”you want to display. (This is why it was suggested
in the previous answer that you choose a name for
each layer comp that’s more descriptive than “Layer
Comp 1.”) At any time in the process, you can switch
to a different layer comp by using this menu in the
Properties panel. [Click here to check out a tutorial
that shows using layer comps in a design project in
the October 2020 issue of Photoshop User. –Ed.]Q: I created a pattern using the Create
from Image option in the Libraries
panel (Window>Libraries). Now the
pattern is in a Library, but I’d like to put
it into the Patterns panel. Is that possible?
A: Yes it is, and it’s as easy as this: Right-click on
the pattern in the Library and, from the pop-up
menu, choose Create Pattern Preset. The pattern
will appear at the bottom of the Patterns panel
(Window>Patterns), then you can click-and-drag
it to change its location in the panel or drop it into
a group (folder). [Click here to check out an article
on using the Create from Image option in the March
2020 issue of Photoshop User. —Ed.]
Q: I recently saw someone working in Photo-
shop and some of their menus were color
coded. How did they do that?
A: That’s an option found in the Keyboard Shortcuts
and Menus dialog. Go to Edit>Menus and find the
menu item that you want to color code. Then simply
Should you want to remove all color coding at
once, at the top of the dialog, change the Set drop-
down menu to Photoshop Defaults. (Note: Changing
the Set to Photoshop Defaults will also affect the
visibility of menu items, so if you’ve previously hidden
any menu items, they’ll all be made visible if you use
this method.) n PHOTOSHOP Q&AKELBYONE.COM