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Creative Suite 2 Universals / Universal Keyboard Shortcuts pt. 2

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Now a few other universal keyboard shortcuts here and these are standard not only in Adobe applications but in almost any application other there as well - be it Microsoft Word or programs for any other vendor. If I hit Ctrl A or Command A on the Mac, I will get Select All. We'll talk a little bit later about what these little marching ants mean. I'm just going to hit Ctrl D to deselect that. But basically what that means is that my image is completely selected. I can then hit Ctrl or Command C, as in cat, to copy that image or whatever else is selected. I can hit Ctrl or Command X to cut and I can also hit Ctrl or Command V to paste. If we hit Ctrl or Command S, that will save - always a good habit to get into when you are working especially in applications like this where you might be demanding a lot of your system. It has a tendency to crash. Saving often will erase the headache of having to start all over again from scratch. And I want to show you one more keyboard shortcut that's pretty universal here. It's going pretty sophisticated for where we are in the game but just tuck it away in the back of your mind for later use here. If we just select this rectangular marquee tool and as we click and drag we get this little rectangle here defining our selection area. Now if we hold the Shift key it will constrain the proportions to be a perfect square or in other words the height and width will be perfectly constrained and proportionate. I'm just going to hit Ctrl D to deselect that. But this not only works with this particular tool but it works all over Photoshop and all throughout the Creative Suite. If I'm making a circle in Illustrator for example, holding Shift will make it so that it will not be an oval but that it will be a perfect circle, meaning that its height and width will be perfectly proportionate. Later on we'll talk about making shapes. We're going to use the custom shape tool here and select maybe a butterfly. And as I click and drag to make a butterfly you'll see as I squish it I can make it any weird butterflyish shape that I want but if I hold the Shift key it will constrain it so that it's a perfect shape. Now there are other keyboard shortcuts, loads of them. And there are other universal shortcuts as well, but I want to give you here just an introduction to keyboard shortcuts and just a little teaser of the integration between these amazing programs - how you can learn one feature or shortcut in one program and how it's the same throughout the board. Knowing one of these programs well is like knowing all of them just a little bit. So as your learning these applications think is there a better, faster, smarter way to do that. Chances are keyboard shortcuts have the answer.

Tutorial Information

Course: Adobe CS2 Power Projects
Author: Chad Perkins
SKU: 33760
ISBN: 1-933736-82-8
Release Date: 2007-05-17
Duration: 8 hrs / 111 lessons
Work Files: Yes
Captions: For Online University members only
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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