Get Photoshop Actually Working For You in Under 5 Minutes (Blake Rudis Shows How)

Get Photoshop Actually Working For You in Under 5 Minutes (Blake Rudis Shows How)

There’s a specific kind of frustration that hits when you open Photoshop with a clear vision and spend the first ten minutes just… rearranging panels. Or worse, you dive straight into editing and realize halfway through that your workspace is fighting you the whole time. I used to lose embarrassing chunks of billable time to this exact problem before I started treating my workspace setup like a pre-flight checklist rather than an afterthought.

Stop Letting Photoshop's Junk Drawer Slow You Down

Stop Letting Photoshop's Junk Drawer Slow You Down

I got my start making garbage memes in MS Paint, which means by the time I actually sat down with Photoshop, I thought having more tools meant more power. I was wrong. What it actually meant was twenty minutes of clicking the wrong thing, panicking, and Googling “why does the rectangle tool keep doing that.” Photoshop has a legacy problem. Half the toolbar exists because someone needed it in 1998, and Adobe never had the heart to pull it out back.