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Is Your Photoshop Toolbar Missing? Here’s What to Do
You might need to reset the essential workspace to fix this issue
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Updated onOctober 4, 2023
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Adobe Photoshop comes loaded with many useful tools for selecting areas, cropping images, and many more, which you can pick quickly by clicking on them from the toolbar. However, the Photoshoptoolbar might go missingfor some reason.
While this might be frustrating, getting the toolbar back is straightforward with the right troubleshooting steps. And we will show you how to do it in this guide.
Why did my toolbar disappear in Photoshop?
Below are some of the reasons your Photoshop toolbar might have disappeared:
How to get back Photoshop Toolbar that disappeared?
1. Use keyboard shortcuts to restore panels.
The above are the default keyboard shortcuts to Photoshop panels. The tools with no keyboard shortcut dock with those with shortcuts.
For instance, the Style and Swatches panels in Photoshop dock with the Color panel do not have keyboard shortcuts. The Tools panel has no shortcut also but cannot dock with other panels.
However, you can transform it from a single-column strip to a two-column toolbox arrangement by clicking the arrow with double heads aboveTools.
In Photoshop Creative Suite 2, this can act as the toolbox arrangement permanently.
2. Change the commands
In this field, you assign Tools to shortcuts toelementsin the interface. Simply press the combination and select a tool to invoke. You can tweak the pre-assigned shortcuts, also.
3. Use SHIFT + TAB and the Windows Menu
4. Customize the toolbar
5. Create a new workspace
You can only add custom menu layouts and shortcuts for a particular set of tasks to a workspace.
Therefore, create multiple workspaces, which will contain custom arrangements to fix the issue of the toolbar not showing in Photoshop.
6. Use workspace tools
If you had workspaces set up, but for some reason (ex., An upgrade), some tools may get missing from the toolbar. In this case, follow the steps above to restore the missing tools.
7. Reset the Essentials workspace
The solutions in this page serve for both when the toolbar is not showing in Photoshop. You will also find fixes for when specific tools are missing.
In case yourExcel toolbar is also missing, check our detailed guide on the topic to restore it quickly.
Feel free to let us know the solution that helped you fix this issue in the comments below.
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Radu Tyrsina
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