It’s a problem with File Browser. File Browser doesn’t support dual monitors on a PC though I think it does on a MAC.
Larry Berman
Sorry I don’t have an answer to your problem Andrew, but just to let you know that I am running a 64MB ATI Radeon with dual monitor on Windows XP and I can move File Browser to extended desktop monitor no problem!
I’m not rubbing it in, it’s just to let you know it’s NOT a ‘PC’ issue!
This is normal behaviour. You can put the file browser or images on the second monitor if you extend the PS application window across onto your second monitor.
if you extend the PS application window across onto your second monitor
Nope, sorry. I don’t have my ‘application window’ on the second monitor and I can still move the File Browser to the second monitor (when it is NOT DOCKED, of course!)
OK Dion. I am using CS and I can move palettes to the second monitor but not images or the file browser which doesn’t behave as a palette in CS. I didn’t check what version Andrew was using when I posted and I’ve not got 7 to check.
That only works if you extend the desktop, not have totally separate workspaces and can run applications separately fully maximized on each monitor, not one application maximized on both monitors.
But most people that run dual monitors, unless they have older video drivers, can’t run two independent monitors.
File browser can only be dragged onto the second monitor if Photoshop sees it as one large monitor.
Larry Berman
Whoops.. Should read CAN run two independent resolutions.
But most people that run dual monitors, unless they have older video drivers, can’t run two independent monitors.
Larry Berman
Larry, Andrew says in the very first line of his post that he is running extended desktop 🙂
Mick, you are probably right about CS. Funny thing is that I switched to CS over a month ago and have never even tried to move the browser to my extended destop!!! But yes, definately in version 7 it CAN be moved to that second monitor without needing to extend the ‘main’ window!
Which still doesn’t answer Andrew’s original problem.
7.01 i can not move the browser to the 2nd monitor unless it’s docked and I move the option bar over there. ati all in wonder 9700 pro 128 primary. and nvida crap card 2ndary.
Thank you all very much.
I am not the person using this program but I am setting the system up for my Wife.
So far I have been able to do as suggested here and have successfully dragged the Photoshop 7.01 main application window across both monitors.
Next, in this configuration, I have been able to move all the different windows, including the File Browser and Open images across both desk tops.
The only problem that I noticed, and maybe in actual use of the program it is not a problem at all.
I can place the different windows such as "History" "Styles" "Layers" "Tool Presets" etc (I do not know what they are collectively called) on either display and one on top of each other.
Then by clicking on any of them it brings that particular window to the front.
That is not happening with either the File Browser nor any Open Image.
As a result the only way to see them is to make space and move any of the other windows off to the side.
I have not been able to do what Dion states that she can do.
What Graphics Card and Operating System do you use Dion?
After this experience I am almost sorry that I did not get the Matrox Parhelia? card that supposed to handle up to 4 monitors but maybe that would make life too easy for my wife.
Again Thank you all very much
Andrew
My best working setup was this. Leave PS maximized on the first monitor rather than dragging it across both. Drag the toolbar pallettes and option bar to the 2nd. That way the browser IS on the 2nd monitor and the entire 1st monitor can be used for the image. It’s just my prefrence, of course, but I hate it when the image spans across 2 monitors so I just made as much room as I could on my primary. Another plus was that by having all palettes and tools on monitor 2, I was able to show much more of the palettes than I ever was working on one monitor. Very comfortable and you get used to all the info available at a glance very quickly.
good luck,
dave
PS… a downside of spanning monitors with PS is that the 2nd monitor may not be color managed and you’d see differences depending on if the image was on monitor 1 or 2. Another reason to keep your images on your primary, color managed monitor.
After this experience I am almost sorry that I did not get the Matrox Parhelia?
You can’t move the file browser in neither Photoshop 7 nor CS to the secondary monitor with Matrox Parhelia either. You have to extend Photoshops workspace over both monitors (or moving the options bar over there in Photoshop 7, but that doesn’t work in Photoshop CS). That’s the only way I’ve found, if I want the file browser over on my secondary monitor with a Parhelia, and same thing with open documents. Only the palettes can be moved over without stretching the workspace over both monitors.
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Regards
Madsen.
Thomas,
I sure can move the file browser in Photoshop 7 to the second monitor with Matrox Parhelia without the need to extend the workspace over both monitors…
Ronald
I sure can move the file browser in Photoshop 7 to the second monitor with Matrox Parhelia without the need to extend the workspace over both monitors…
Hmmm. Strange why I can’t do it then.
I’m running in 2 displays, Independent mode. Are you using the strecthed mode, or?
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Regards
Madsen.
What Dave suggests in the only way to get the file browser on the second monitor, but as soon as you ‘undock’ it, it slips over to the primary monitor.
Personally I’d like to see the screen shot of the file browser floating over the second monitor. Just doesn’t happen here under any configuration with a Matrox G550.
I’d also like to see proof of that, the FB opens in a contained window instead of a palette so it should not even be possible to do this, the video card would have no bearing on it.
Personally I’d like to see the screen shot of the file browser floating
over the second monitor.
Yea Dion! Pony up! 🙂 And no, you can’t "photoshop" the image to PUT the browser on the 2nd monitor! <g>
Thomas,
I must apologize, you are right that it doesn’t work. It does work on my system but apparently that is because I have 3 monitors with 2 display adapters (Matrox Parhelia running 2 displays, independent mode, and Nvidia Geforce4 running the third monitor).
I can open the File Browser on the third monitor (PS7, not possible in CS) but indeed not on the second monitor.
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Regards,
Ronald
