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1. Re: Portrait orientation for Photoshop.
Mylenium Jun 4, 2010 10:45 AM (in response to Chrsitian)This was discussed in an older thread. AFAIK there is no solution - since Adobe use their own UI stuff, it does not respond to standard OS behaviors in the same way as apps that use Windows' own drawing routines.
Mylenium
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2. Re: Portrait orientation for Photoshop.
Noel Carboni Jun 4, 2010 12:06 PM (in response to Chrsitian)I assume you want to work on documents in portrait orientation.
Can you make an individual document window occupy the full height of the display?
Try this:
1. Open Photoshop CS5.
2. Edit - Preferences - Interface.
3. Uncheck Open Documents as Tabs.
4. Open an image. It appears as a separate window.
5. Drag the bottom edge to the bottom of your monitor.
Can it be stretched to fill the display?
Adobe missed a trick I think, in that they should allow a mode where the main window is shrunk vertically to nothing, then open documents as windows over the open desktop (vs. over the Photoshop main window). That would be more Mac-like, and I don't think I'd use it, but it would provide a nice workaround for this problem.
Maybe there's a way to do this automatically, but I don't see it in limited testing. For now expanding the document window downward (assuming it will do so) seems the best workaround.
If there's not a way to do this by default, it could be added without breaking the existing metaphor - only do it if the main window has been shrunk to minimum. Hint hint, Adobe.
-Noel
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3. Re: Portrait orientation for Photoshop.
Chrsitian Jun 4, 2010 2:14 PM (in response to Mylenium)Hey Mylenium,
Many thanks - that's NOT really the answer I wanted to hear, BUT.....
christian
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4. Re: Portrait orientation for Photoshop.
Chrsitian Jun 4, 2010 2:17 PM (in response to Noel Carboni)Hi Noel,
I appreciate your suggestion. I will be away this weekend, but will give it a try when I return. It would really be a shame if it could NOT be done, as Mylenium thinks.
I bought the monitor with just that in mind, and since most of my photos are 35mm and portrait mode, it would really be nice.....
Regards,
christian
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5. Re: Portrait orientation for Photoshop.
Noel Carboni Jun 4, 2010 3:25 PM (in response to Chrsitian)Please report back here with your results, and remember to try to make the DOCUMENT window taller, not the Photoshop main window.
-Noel
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6. Re: Portrait orientation for Photoshop.
Chrsitian Jun 4, 2010 4:04 PM (in response to Noel Carboni)will do!!!!
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7. Re: Portrait orientation for Photoshop.
Chrsitian Jun 4, 2010 4:11 PM (in response to Noel Carboni)Hi Noel,
Not sure what is going on, but I just tried again, that is I rotated my monitor to 'portrait' and low and behold, all of Photoshop filled the monitor. So, problem 'solved.' I guess 'gone away' is a better description.
Again, many thanks for your help!
christian
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8. Re: Portrait orientation for Photoshop.
Noel Carboni Jun 4, 2010 4:16 PM (in response to Chrsitian)Great! You seem to have gone where no man has gone before.
-Noel
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9. Re: Portrait orientation for Photoshop.
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10. Re: Portrait orientation for Photoshop.
nickchase220 Apr 14, 2011 10:41 AM (in response to Chrsitian)I realise this is a problem solved / gone away post, but will just say I have been battling the same problem for the last hour, 24" monitor that can go portrait and for the life of me could not fill the screen with the photoshop window.
Turns out photoshop sets its own maximum window dimensions when it loads up based on your screen set up at that point. I don't know if you had photoshop running before you flipped the screen Christian, mine was, but i found a simple close and restart of photoshop solved the problem, I am guessing this may be why your time away solved the problem.
Apologies if this is flogging a dead/live horse
N
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11. Re: Portrait orientation for Photoshop.
Chrsitian Apr 14, 2011 4:59 PM (in response to nickchase220)Thanks so much!!!!!!
I actually don't know why it went 'away' it just did. I am glad you solved
yours and thanks for the clue!
Best wishes,
christian
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