LET THOSE WINDOWS BREATHE

LET THOSE WINDOWS BREATHE!

Since Photoshop 3.0, Photoshop has done something called "protecting the palettes" (I don't know if that's its official name, but we've always heard it called that). What it means is that as you increase the size of your image, Photoshop automatically stops increasing the size of the image window when it reaches the left edge of your open palettes. When it reaches this safety zone, the window stops growing, and only the image within the window continues to zoom. The only way to get around this (in previous versions of Photoshop) was to close your palettes. Then you could zoom the window as large as you'd like. However, Adobe addressed this problem back in Photoshop 6, and now if you want to keep the window growing, click on the Zoom tool, and up in the Options Bar, choose Ignore Palettes.