Tools

1. Uncheck Show Tooltips (Optional)

Tool Tips have been around in Photoshop forever, and they’re a great way to help new Photoshop users learn their way around the program. With Tool Tips enabled (which they are by default), hovering your mouse cursor over a tool in the Toolbar pops up the name of the tool along with its handy keyboard shortcut. Here’s what a traditional Tool Tip looks like as I hover my cursor over the Move Tool:

2. Uncheck Show rich Tooltips

In Photoshop CC 2018, Adobe has introduced Rich Tool Tips. Instead of just a small, simple text box, we now have a much larger box that’s, well, pretty much impossible to ignore. Along with the tool’s name, keyboard shortcut and a brief description of what the tool is used for, Rich Tool Tips also includes a video animation showing the tool in action: In theory, Rich Tool Tips sounds like a good idea. Who wouldn’t want an animation showing how the tool works? Of course, the simple answer is anyone who already knows how it works. And even if you haven’t yet learned how to use the tool, you still won’t know just by watching a 5 or 6-second animation. So while they sound great in theory, Rich Tool Tips don’t offer much value in the real world. In fact, they can quickly become annoying, taking up too much space on the screen without any real purpose for being there.

Preferences → Tools → and uncheck Use Rich Tooltips

3. Uncheck Enable gestures

In Photoshop, two-fingered touch gestures are used to control the location, rotation, and scaling of the image canvas view. Users may alternate between touch view control and other interactions using the mouse or stylus. Touch control of the view is very convenient when painting on large monitors which are difficult to rotate physically and on tablets and touch displays. But its is pretty useless if you are using a traditional input device like a Mouse. To disable touch gestures

Preferences → Tools → uncheck: Enable gestures

4. Uncheck Enable Flick Panning

There is no Photoshop user who doesn’t use the hand tool, this tool allows users to quickly pan around large image while zooming in. So, if you were to click with the hand tool, drag (or flick) the image, and then release the hand tool, the image will continue to move across the window with a kind of ‘gliding’ motion. Flick Panning is the ability to have the image move as if it has some kinetic energy. While panning an image if you release the mouse button while the mouse is still in motion this will flick the image such that the image will continue to move even though you’re not holding it with your mouse anymore. The image will continue to glide in the direction you flicked it. While to some users this can be visually appealing for some users it can be quite annoying sometimes. To disable Flick Panning

Preferences → Tools → and uncheck Enable Flick Panning As a side note, Flick Panning requires OpenGL drawing.

5. Check Show Reference point when using Transform.
6. Check Zoom With Scroll Wheel (Optional)

If you don’t have touch based input device and you are using a mouse as your input device. Zooming and scrolling with the mouse wheel is a lot more faster and convenient. To enable this option

Preferences → Tools → and check Zoom With Scroll Wheel

7. Uncheck Animated Zoom. (Personal preference)