5 Comments

1. David A.
   Posted September 30, 2009 at 4:01 pm | Permalink

   Worthless? does your mouse have a precision mode? I think not..

   Im a little bias after spending a day rate on a Intous4.

   good post. thanks!

2. David A.
   Posted September 30, 2009 at 4:13 pm | Permalink

   My new favorites are: P for pen tool, S for Clone, B for Brush-
   It strains my eyes to find those little tool icons sometimes.

   Favorites keystrokes anyone?

3. Nate
   Posted September 30, 2009 at 4:38 pm | Permalink

   I’m not saying the Wacom pad is worthless, just the little customizable buttons on the side. I never use them… just learn the shortcut! Faster, more consistent place for your hands to be, works without any customization.

   I don’t use the Wacom mouse because I don’t like having to stay on the pad with a mouse. I put the keyboard on the left, pad on the right, regular laser mouse above the pad.

   Shift+Opt+Command+E: copy merged. There’s no button for it, and I use it all the time.

4. David A.
   Posted October 1, 2009 at 12:09 am | Permalink

   Ive been trying to remember that one, awesome. Up till now Ive been doing the 3 step: select all layers, duplicate, command E to merge duplicate layers. From there Ill do a selection then copy paste and transform. I use command T then hold down control to activate contextual menu which lets me flip between scale, warp, skew, perspective or whatever. I like that one too..

   Command I to Invert
   Command Shift U to desaturate
   type 5 while on a layer to change it to 50% opacity
   and of course the old command shift N for a new blank layer

5. David A.
   Posted October 1, 2009 at 12:18 am | Permalink

   Ok Im looking at that again - Theres some real time savers in there.. No Joke!