Master Photoshop's toolbar by customizing it to match your workflow

Summary

If you're learning Photoshop, the tools panel is where everything starts. Get it wrong or ignore it, and you'll fight the software every time you open it. Dinda shows how to save a custom toolbar preset so that if you accidentally hit "Restore Defaults," your setup isn't gone. There's more in the video that isn't covered here, including how to expand images with both Content-Aware Fill and Photoshop's AI-powered Generative Expand, how the reference point in the crop tool changes the way cropping works, and how to straighten a photo using the dedicated straighten feature rather than rotating by hand.

Key points

• If you're learning Photoshop, the tools panel is where everything starts.
• Get it wrong or ignore it, and you'll fight the software every time you open it.
• Dinda shows how to save a custom toolbar preset so that if you accidentally hit "Restore Defaults," your setup isn't gone.
• There's more in the video that isn't covered here, including how to expand images with both Content-Aware Fill and Photoshop's AI-powered Generative Expand, how the reference point