It was 6/7/03 8:46 am, when James Chastney wrote:
> You know you can get special Photoshop keys for your keyboard, listing the
> short cuts. A bit garish and I personal found with them on it harder to type
> letters etc. MacFormt where giving away a 5 or so sample keys last month.
>
> http://www.logickeyboard.com/photoshop
James
Nice idea but their promotion is a bit weak:
'Every serious Photoshop user should use a LogicKeyboard'
Honestly? I would say every Sunday Photoshop user should use a
LogicKeyboard. <g>
"Not only will new users find it much easier to get to grips with Photoshop,
but experienced Professional will save time (and money!) through having a
LogicKeyboard at their fingertips."
If you are a experienced Professional, you will already know the shortcuts
and a whole lot more than ANY keyboard can list! For example, how can they
list:
Save for Web - Cmd+Opt+Shift+S
Stamp into new layer: Cmd+Opt+Shift+N then E
Select layer under pointer - Cmd+Opt+Ctrl-click
To give just three examples, or to give more examples:
USM - Action
Blur - Action
Image Size - Action
Canvas Size - Action
Dust & Scratches - Action
Rotate - Action
Duplicate - Action
Scanner - Action
Convert to Profile - Action
Those are some of the shortcuts that I use most often but none can be got to
without setting up an Action (Come on, Adobe, pull your finger out and give
us a customize keyboard dialog box - it is 2003!). That leaves just a few
simple oft used strokes:
Curves - Cmd+M
Levels - Cmd+L
Dupe layer - Cmd+J
H & S - Cmd+U
Gamut Warning - Cmd+Shift+Y
Default Colors - D
Switch Foreground and Background Colors - X
Zoom - Cmd and + and -
Fit on Screen - Cmd+0
Rulers - Cmd+R
Inverse Selection - Cmd+I
Create layer below - Cmd-click new layer icon
Then there's the tool selections but most of them are obvious:
Brush - B
Move - V
Marquee - M
Pen - P --- BUT not always the old reliable Pen tool since Adobe made a
dog's dinner of it by coupling it with the Shape tools! Anyway, why is it
called a Pen tool? Shouldn't it be the Vector Path Tool? Or someSuch?...
And not so obvious, maybe:
Rectangle - U
Healing Brush - J
And you should already know the Kindergarten shortcuts of Cut, Copy, Paste,
Select All, Esc, New document, Print, Save, Save As, Quit, Close Window,
Close All Windows,
Of course, I know a few more and I'm by no means a professional...
--/ Shangara Singh
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