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- [Instructor] In this movie
we're going to take all those

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panels that we organized
in a previous movie,

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and we're going to save them
off as a custom workspace that

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we can choose anytime we like
from this workspace menu.

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All right now I'm going to make
a couple of additional tweaks.

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For one thing, we don't
need this color ramp

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to be nearly this big, and so
I'm going to drag the bottom edge

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of the color panel upward in order

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to shrink that ramp like so,

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and that'll give us a lot more
room for the layers panel.

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I also want to see at least a
little bit of the stroke panel,

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so I'll click on its tab in
order to expand the entire panel

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like so, and then I'll click
on this double arrow icon

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next to the word Stroke to
collapse it incrementally until

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we're seeing the line
weight and nothing more.

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Next, notice that some of my
layer names are truncated.

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For example this guy
is really called quads,

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but it's appearing as Q-U dot, dot, dot,

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and so I'm going to make this
panel wider by dragging its

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left-hand edge like so to
let's say about this location

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here at which point we can
see all of our layer names.

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Now let's see if what
we've done is a workspace.

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By clicking on Essentials
Classic up here at the top

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of the screen and choosing
the new workspace command,

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and now I'll just go ahead
and name this guy One-on-One,

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obviously you can call your
workspace anything you like,

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and notice that I'm getting
this warning telling me that

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this name already exists and
clicking OK will overwrite

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the previous workspace, which
is just fine and in fact,

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this is how you update
workspaces in Illustrator.

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And so I'll just go ahead and click OK,

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and now I've got my own
custom One-on-One workspace.

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Now to see how that compares
to the default workspace

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just go ahead and choose
Essentials Classic.

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Now, immediately you
won't see any difference

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and that's because
Illustrator was constantly

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updating that workspace on the fly.

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And so if you want to
get back to the original,

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click on Essentials
Classic again and choose

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Reset Essentials Classic
and you'll go back

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to that factory default setting,

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complete with the
ginormous properties panel.

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And then if you want to return

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to the workspace we just created

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then bring up that menu
again and choose One-on-One,

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and that my friends is how
you organize your panels

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for what I believe to
be maximum efficiency

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when working inside
Illustrator, and how you save

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your network of panels
as a custom workspace.