Adobe Premiere Elements 4.0

Customizing the workspace

The workspace in Adobe Premiere Elements is highly customizable: You can add panels, as well as resize, move, hide, and group them to suit your working style. Modifications you make to the workspace remain intact until you modify or restore it to its original configuration.

Display and hide docking headers

Each panel has a docking header containing its title, and sometimes, panel menu buttons. You drag the docking headers to drag panels to new locations. To save space on your screen, you can make the docking headers disappear; then, make them reappear when you need to use them. By default, docking headers are hidden.

 Do one of the following:

  • To make docking headers appear, choose Window> Show Docking Headers.

  • To make docking headers disappear, choose Window > Hide Docking Headers.

Note: To access any of the commands in the panel menu when docking headers are hidden, right-click in the panel.

Display and hide panels

  • To display a panel or make it active, choose its name from the Window menu or click its docking header, if visible.
  • To expand or collapse a docked panel, click the triangle on its docking header. Only docked panels that are vertically aligned, sharing right and left borders, with another panel, can be expanded or collapsed.
  • To close a panel that is not docked, click the Close button  at the right of its docking header.

Dock panels

Drop zones along the edges of a panel are for docking panels. Docking a panel places it adjacent to the target panel, resizing all other panels to accommodate the new panel.

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Dragging panel (A) onto drop zone (B) to dock it (C)

 Drag a panel by its docking header to a drop zone along one of the edges of a panel and drop it.

Open a panel in a floating window

You can open a panel in a floating window. You can add panels to the floating window or otherwise modify it, as you do the application window. You can use floating windows to create a workspace like those in earlier versions of Adobe applications, or to make use of a secondary monitor.

 Ctrl-click and drag the panel or group from its current location to an area where no drop zones appear.

The panel appears in a new floating window.

Resize a panel

When one panel is moved or resized, the other panels adjust automatically to accommodate the change.

 To resize a panel, drag its border.
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Drag the divider between panels to resize them.

A.
Original panels with divider selected

B.
Resized panels

If you have more than one monitor connected to your system and your system supports a multiple‑monitor desktop, you can drag panels to any monitor.

Restore the default workspace

 Choose Window > Restore Workspace.

Adjust panel brightness

You can adjust the brightness of the background color in panels. For example, you may prefer to lower the brightness when working in a darkened room or when performing color corrections.

 Choose Edit > Preferences > User Interface, and drag the slider or click Default Brightness.