- Save the dekeKeys shortcuts. Click the
disk icon ( ) to the right of the Set
option to save the modified shortcuts.
Name the new shortcuts “dekeKeys CS5”
(or your own name if you plan on cus-
tomizing them further), and click Save,
as in Figure 5. Then click OK to complete
the process. You now have shortcuts
for some of Photoshop’s most essential
commands, including Variations, Color
Range, and Smart Sharpen. - Adjust a few preference settings. To
minimize confusion and maximize Pho-
toshop’s performance, I’d like you to
modify a few preference settings. Choose
Edit→Preferences→General (that’s
Photoshop→Preferences→General on
the Mac) or press Ctrl+K (�-K). I’ve
highlighted these settings in Figure 6 and
the next four figures. Red means turn
the option off, green means turn it on.
Figure 5.Figure 6.
- Photoshop lets you copy big images.
And when you switch programs, Pho-
toshop conveys those copied images
to the system. Problem is, that takes
time and the operation often fails.
Avoid complications by turning off
the Export Clipboard check box. - Turn off the Use Shift Key for Tool
Switch check box. This makes it easier
to switch tools from the keyboard,
as we’ll be doing frequently over the
course of this book. - Make sure that both the Animated
Zoom and Enable Flick Panning
check boxes are available and on.
If they’re dimmed, you either have
a system that is incompatible with
the graphics acceleration standard
OpenGL or need to update your
graphics card driver.
PeaRl Of WISDOmFor information about the wonderful features that rely on OpenGL, watch
Video Lesson 2, “Navigation” (see page 40).
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