Photoshop Workspaces Location

So the other day, Doug was migrating his files and settings to a new computer. When it came time to move his Photoshop workspaces he had carefully customized, he had a little trouble finding the actual file, since there's no 'export' option and there are no hints internal to the application. So, based on a suspicion and a hunch, I dug around and found where they live.

Unless you've done some serious customization to the places Windows keeps things, your workspaces should be here :

C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Adobe\Photoshop\9.0\Adobe Photoshop CS2 Settings\WorkSpaces

Replacing "USERNAME" with the name of your user account.

Launchy

On the topics of applications, one of my new favorites is Launchy, a keystroke launcher. Sometimes typing is faster than pointing and clicking. That's the idea here - press ALT+SPACE or whatever combination you set in the preferences and a little window pops up. As soon as you begin typing it begins guessing what you're looking for based on the items in your Start Menu or whatever watched folder you've assigned.

It's especially handy if your Start Menu is a mess, like mine used to be.

LAUNCHY

ColorPic

ColorPic is a handy color grabber. It'll pick colors from any window, wherever your mouse pointer is pointing. Not perfect, but handy and free. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to save the palettes in any conventional palette format, but in the app's directory there's an XML file if you need some portability for the palettes you create in ColorPic.

Get it here.

On the topic of palettes though, Adobe's Kuler Flash app is great.

KULER