- [Instructor] In this movie we're going to take all those
panels that we organized in a previous movie,
and we're going to save them off as a custom workspace that
we can choose anytime we like from this workspace menu.
All right now I'm going to make a couple of additional tweaks.
For one thing, we don't need this color ramp
to be nearly this big, and so I'm going to drag the bottom edge
of the color panel upward in order
to shrink that ramp like so,
and that'll give us a lot more room for the layers panel.
I also want to see at least a little bit of the stroke panel,
so I'll click on its tab in order to expand the entire panel
like so, and then I'll click on this double arrow icon
next to the word Stroke to collapse it incrementally until
we're seeing the line weight and nothing more.
Next, notice that some of my layer names are truncated.
For example this guy is really called quads,
but it's appearing as Q-U dot, dot, dot,
and so I'm going to make this panel wider by dragging its
left-hand edge like so to let's say about this location
here at which point we can see all of our layer names.
Now let's see if what we've done is a workspace.
By clicking on Essentials Classic up here at the top
of the screen and choosing the new workspace command,
and now I'll just go ahead and name this guy One-on-One,
obviously you can call your workspace anything you like,
and notice that I'm getting this warning telling me that
this name already exists and clicking OK will overwrite
the previous workspace, which is just fine and in fact,
this is how you update workspaces in Illustrator.
And so I'll just go ahead and click OK,
and now I've got my own custom One-on-One workspace.
Now to see how that compares to the default workspace
just go ahead and choose Essentials Classic.
Now, immediately you won't see any difference
and that's because Illustrator was constantly
updating that workspace on the fly.
And so if you want to get back to the original,
click on Essentials Classic again and choose
Reset Essentials Classic and you'll go back
to that factory default setting,
complete with the ginormous properties panel.
And then if you want to return
to the workspace we just created
then bring up that menu again and choose One-on-One,
and that my friends is how you organize your panels
for what I believe to be maximum efficiency
when working inside Illustrator, and how you save
your network of panels as a custom workspace.