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Hi everyone,
Could some super-experienced someone please explain to me why there seem to be so many undocumented keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop? I fail to get why this is a cool or helpful thing.
For example, in one of Deke McClelland’s awesome PS tutorials on lynda.com, he shows how you can make a selection within a mask/alpha channel, then hit Backspace to erase that part of the mask. Very cool! But how would one know to hit Backspace otherwise?
Edit / Clear doesn’t show any keyboard shortcuts assigned. I generated the shortcuts summary, and there’s no mention of backspace used as a shortcut. What gives?
Scott Kelby’s "CS2 Killer Tips" has a couple of other examples of keyboard shortcuts that apparently aren’t officially documented by Adobe, as do various web pages, such as this one (scroll down to "the undocumented fill shortcut")–
< http://www.photoshopsupport.com/photoshop-blog/05/05/10.html>
Looking forward to all helpful comments,
Thanks,
Brad
Could some super-experienced someone please explain to me why there seem to be so many undocumented keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop? I fail to get why this is a cool or helpful thing.
For example, in one of Deke McClelland’s awesome PS tutorials on lynda.com, he shows how you can make a selection within a mask/alpha channel, then hit Backspace to erase that part of the mask. Very cool! But how would one know to hit Backspace otherwise?
Edit / Clear doesn’t show any keyboard shortcuts assigned. I generated the shortcuts summary, and there’s no mention of backspace used as a shortcut. What gives?
Scott Kelby’s "CS2 Killer Tips" has a couple of other examples of keyboard shortcuts that apparently aren’t officially documented by Adobe, as do various web pages, such as this one (scroll down to "the undocumented fill shortcut")–
< http://www.photoshopsupport.com/photoshop-blog/05/05/10.html>
Looking forward to all helpful comments,
Thanks,
Brad
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