As you become more and more familiar with Photoshop, you start to move through the menus very quickly. While many of the fastest combinations of activities will involve keyboard shortcuts, there may still be a lot of things that you do to your images that are more comfortable through the menus.
But you might find that you are often clicking the wrong menu item by accident, which is slowing down your productivity. Even worse is when the item that you are clicking is something that takes a while to load, or isn’t an option that you ever need to change. Our guide below will show you how to remove a menu item in Photoshop so that you don’t need to worry about it clicking it anymore.
How to Hide a Photoshop Menu Item
The steps in this article were performed on the Windows version of Photoshop CC. If you elect to hide one of the menu items using the steps below, you can always return to this menu in the future to unhide that option.
Step 1: Open Photoshop.
Step 2: Select the Edit tab at the top of the window.
Step 3: Choose Menus at the bottom of this menu.
Step 4: Click the top-level menu item containing the option you wish to hide.
Step 5: Click the eye icon next to the menu item to hide it. Once you’ve finished hiding menu items, click OK at the top-right of the window.
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Kermit Matthews is a freelance writer based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with more than a decade of experience writing technology guides. He has a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Computer Science and has spent much of his professional career in IT management.
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