I’m a great believer in using keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop CS/CS2/CS3 or Elements to work more efficiently and quickly. Here’s two great ones:

• Ever wanted to quickly duplicate a layer and make a new one? Instead of selecting the layer, copying it, creating a new layer, and pasting, just hit Ctrl-J (Command-J on a Mac) and it happens like magic. Neat trick huh?
• Ever wanted to fill a layer fast with the foreground or background color? I used to go to Edit-Fill, select Foreground or Background from the pull-down menu, and click Okay. Instead hit Atl-Backspace to fill with the foreground color or Ctrl-Backspace to fill with the background color. (And use Shift-Backspace to bring up the fill dialog box quickly)

Hope you enjoy these tips - till next week Keep Scrappin’!

Stan - The DaddyKitty