From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)

945 Hiding a single Home screen thumbnail

From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)

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945 Hiding a single Home screen thumbnail

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- [Instructor] All right, now I'll show you how to hide a single thumbnail here inside the Photoshop home screen. And so notice if I click on the PS icon in the top left corner of the screen, that I have no image open, which means at least by default, that I'm seeing the home screen, which I can also get to by clicking on this little home icon in the top left corner of the screen. Notice that Home is selected in the left-hand list. And so as you can see here, I'm seeing the thumbnails for a bunch of recently opened files. Now this trick only works for local files, that is files that have been saved either to your system's hard drive or some other local device. It does not work for cloud documents. And so if a file ends in psdc, that is a Photoshop Cloud document. Now if you're seeing a very nice thumbnail like this, it means that it's locally cached. If you're seeing a very jagged thumbnail like this one, then that tells you that it's only available on the cloud and so if you click this thumbnail, it's going to take a few seconds to download. However, notice these two guys, they're both PSD files and so if you have a file that ends in PSD or any other extension except for PSDC, then this trick is going to work. And so let's say I want to specifically delete the thumbnail for this Robot cat file. Now what would be wonderful Adobe, if anybody's listening, is if you can just right-click on the thumbnail and then choose a Hide command. But instead, what you have to do is hover over the file name. After all, you want to see where this file is located so you can rename the image file, that's all you have to do, just give it a different name. Now I want you to notice something, the file is also available to me if I go to the File menu and choose Open Recent. And so notice that I'm seeing Robot cat.psd at the top of the list, and that's because for me, it is the most recently opened image file. And so, having figured out where that file is, all you have to do is go to the File menu and choose Browse in Bridge, at least that's the way I like to work. You can also open the file on a Mac or PC. In any event, I'll just go ahead, choose that command to switch over to Bridge, and then I'll rename the file. And you can also delete it if you want to, that's awfully dangerous, or you can move it to a different folder. But in my case, I'm just going to rename that file something like let's say Danger cat should work, and now I'll just go ahead and switch back to Photoshop by clicking on the little boomerang icon up here in the top left corner of the screen. At this point, you'll still see your thumbnail, but go ahead and click on that thumbnail, and you'll see that Photoshop can no longer find that file, and that's because recently it has a different filename. At which point, when you click OK, that thumbnail should disappear. Now in my case it hasn't. However, go to the file menu and choose Open Recent, you can see that it's disappeared from this sub-menu. Now sometimes if you end up experiencing this phenomenon where the thumbnail persists, you may be able to just hover over its path name again, and that might force it to disappear. If not, what you'll need to do is go up to the File menu and choose the Exit command here on the PC, that would be the Quick command on the Mac. And then just restart the program, at which point that thumbnail should go away. And that once again is how you remove the thumbnail for a recently opened file, and again it has to be a local file. So any file that doesn't end with a PSDC extension, here inside the Photoshop home screen.

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