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Now if we go ahead and just close this unblocked panel down, we can always go up to the window menu for a second and you will notice that you have a workspace menu at the top here. Again very similar to all Adobe applications we can completely customize the way the interface looks and then choose to save that as a workspace.

So what we will do for a second, let us jump across to the list then you will notice that we are currently on standard but we have made changes to the standard workspace. So come down to the bottom of that list and choose reset standard. It will ask you if you wish to discard all the changes you have currently made. Absolutely go ahead and say yes, and then let us come back up to the window menu and maybe go down and choose the character pallet. So we are maybe going to customize our own interface.

Now you will notice the character pallet has appeared and again in its own frame which is dark to the right hand side of our composition here, so the composition has reduced its size to fit the size that is left available. Let us go back up to the window menu and go down and choose paragraph because this is another pallet you will mostly likely use when working with text. Now these two have stocked one above the other.

That is totally fine if you wish to reorganize them, go ahead and pick up the paragraph pallet, you can drag it down and snap that in at the bottom of the character. I always liked to work with the character first so that is the way I would organize, but you might also want to change the width of the composition window by dragging on the left hand side here to give ourselves a little bit more room.

Sometimes we do not need to see all the information here that is in the project window, so we can just customize this. But this does highlight one pretty important thing about this sliding interface. Every pallet has a default size and that is usually snapped into when you pull up the pallet to start with.

If I drag this one out here to extend the width of the character pallet, it maybe that you are possibly working under effects and presets and you just wanted to see a much larger list, dragging them around will change their width but you are moving it away from the standard width.

So it is up to you how you wish to organize this. I am just going to snap my character pallets back over here. Give myself a little bit more room on the composition and possibly even just change the height here of the composition and reduce the timeline. You will notice that everything is wonderfully scaling. I like to call this a liquid interface, just everything responds to each side change that you make. But the most important thing we can do here is go up to the window menu now, going onto workspace, go down and say new workspace.

And I am just going to call that "custom text" for now because there is already a text workspace saved. If you go ahead and click "okay" that is now saved. You can go back up to the window menu chooses workspace again and there you will see custom text is highlighted, but I just want to show you one more important thing here.

Let us jump back across to standard for a second and let us say we make a couple of quick changes to this. Maybe we adjust the width of our composition window. I am going take the info panel, then once again dock it on the right hand side here and maybe we change the effects and presets panel to be slightly higher.

Okay, I have made a bunch of changes there to the standard workspace and then come back up to the window menu now, go down to the workspace option and again jump across to the custom text one you created a second ago. Everything perfectly reformats to what we created. If you now go up to window, go back to workspace and go back over to standard you will notice it goes back to the standard with the changes that you just made.

It does not default back to the original standard. This is very handy because you do not have to reset every single time. However, if you want to, all you have to do is go back to the window menu, once again go to workspace and as long a

Now if we go ahead and just close this unblocked panel down, we can always go up to the window menu for a second and you will notice that you have a workspace menu at the top here. Again very similar to all Adobe applications we can completely customize the... click to read more