Adobe has released a new utility called Configurator that enables you to create your own panels for Photoshop CS4. Configurator makes it easy to drag and drop tools, menu items, scripts, actions, and other objects into a panel design, and export the results to be used in Photoshop.

Configurator is free for anyone to use, but you need Photoshop CS4 to be installed in order to use the panels that it generates.A full 30-day tryout version can be downloaded here.

Adobe Labs Press Release:

Adobe Releases Configurator for Photoshop CS4

November 19, 2008—Adobe Labs has pre-released Adobe® Configurator, an open source utility that enables the easy creation of panels (palletes) for use in Adobe Photoshop® CS4. Specifically, Configurator makes it easy to drag and drop tools, menu items, scripts, actions, and other objects into a panel design, then export the results for use inside Photoshop. These panels leverage the support for Adobe Flash® built into Photoshop, making it possible to drag and drop audio, video, images, and even other SWF files into a panel design.

Configurator is great for any Photoshop user who’d like to customize the application interface, without having to learn Flash/Flex/ActionScript. It’s particularly suited to authors, trainers, and other experts who’d like to create panels that make Photoshop easier to use, and who’d like to share those panels with others.

Configurator is free for anyone to use. Running the panels it generates requires installing Photoshop CS4. A full 30-day tryout version can be downloaded from Adobe Labs.

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/configurator/

---