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I am personally still on CS2, but one of my larger clients upgraded to CS3 about 6 weeks ago, which I have now had a chance to work with for a while… is it just me being set in my old ways or have Adobe gone a bit off-track with their new tool palettes?
Here’s a nice tip - when you are drawing a marquee selection in Photoshop (little marching ants selection) did you know you can move the selection WHILST you are still drawing it - nope me neither until very recently!
Sometimes you need to merge all the existing layers in your document into one layer to either manipulate in a new document or in the existing document - and there is a great little shortcut for this!
You don’t always have the luxury of a dual monitor setup and single monitor setups can get very cluttered with lots and lots of palettes - even if you use the palette dock. Use these simple shortcuts to make the most of your workspace so you can see more of your image when you are working.
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This is a great little tip, especially if you have a-lot of layers! Sometimes you want to move a layer up or down in the layers palette and at the same time keeping an eye on your artwork to see how it is effecting your composition.