We work with a lot of beginning Photoshop students, but we have to admit we didn’t learn this little tidbit for the longest time because we never happened to tap the “wrong” key at just the right moment. Photoshop Elements has lots of nifty shortcut keys, but none is so dangerous as the “Tab” key. Let’s say you’re working on a file. Your workspace may look like this:
So here you are, working away, creating a cool image, when all of a sudden all your toolbars and the rest of the workspace disappear.
What the . . . .? Well, Photoshop Elements has this nifty shortcut key. Clicking on the TAB key once hides the toolbar and any other palette you may have open, including the Project Bin. All you have to do is tap on the TAB key one more time and everything will reappear. This tends to happen to the expert typists, who are used to using that TAB key a lot. We hope this little trick will calm the nerves of our beginning students and inspire them to keep learning Photoshop Elements.
BTW, this also works in Photoshop.