Palettes and workspaces

Palettes are floating windows that belong to the document in front; each row of the Window menu shows or hides one, with a check mark while it is open. They follow the document window, also to another monitor, and they hide while another application is in front.

Palette	Shortcut	Palette	Shortcut
Toolbox	`Ctrl`+`Alt`+`1`	Layers	`Ctrl`+`4`
Control Palette (the Options bar)	`Ctrl`+`2`	Channels	`Ctrl`+`Alt`+`4`
Swatches	`F5`	Paths	`Ctrl`+`Alt`+`7`
Gradient	`F6`	Histogram	`Ctrl`+`Alt`+`8`
Pattern	—	History	`Ctrl`+`Alt`+`9`
Brushes	`Ctrl`+`5`	Levels	—
Stroke	`Ctrl`+`7`	Scopes	—
Transparency	`Ctrl`+`8`	Actions	—
Character	—	Navigator	`Shift`+`F8`
Paragraph	`Ctrl`+`Alt`+`T`	Pathfinder	`Ctrl`+`Alt`+`P`
Align	—	Spray	—
Transform	—	Scripts	—
Info	`Ctrl`+`9`	AI Console	`F7`
Comments	—	Feedback	`Ctrl`+`Alt`+`F`

A few palettes worth knowing

History lists every step made to the document; click a step to go back to it. Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Shift+Z undo and redo.
Navigator shows the whole document with the visible part outlined; drag the outline to scroll, or use the zoom slider. View ▸ Zoom In (Ctrl++), Zoom Out (Ctrl+-), Actual Size (Ctrl+1) and Fit In Window (Ctrl+0) do the same from the keyboard.
Info reads the colour under the pointer and the size of the selection; Histogram and Scopes show the distribution of the image.
Transform is the numeric side of Edit ▸ Free Transform (Ctrl+T): width, height, position and angle of the active layer.

Workspaces

Window ▸ Workspace ▸ saves the current arrangement of palettes as a named workspace (New Workspace…) and switches between saved ones; Delete Workspace… and Reset Palette Locations are in the same submenu, and Window ▸ Reset Palettes… puts every palette back to its default place.

Appearance

Windows, menus, dialogs and palettes follow the light or dark mode of Windows, and switch as soon as it changes. Edit ▸ Preferences… ▸ Interface ▸ Appearance can keep Flare always light or always dark instead. With a high-contrast theme of Windows the palettes use its colours and no transparency.

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