- Click Cursors in the left-hand list,
or press Ctrl+5 (or �-5) to switch
panels. - Turn on the Show Crosshair in
Brush Tip check box. Highlighted
green in Figure 9, this option adds a
to the center of every brush cursor,
which helps you align the cursor to
a specific point in your image. - Click Units & Rulers in the left-
hand list, or press Ctrl+7 (or �-7)
to display another panel of options. - Set the Rulers pop-up menu to Pix-
els, which I’ve highlighted green in
Figure 10. As you’ll see, pixels are
far and away the best unit for mea-
suring digital images. - Your preferences now match those
of the loftiest image-editing profes-
sional. Click OK to exit the Prefer-
ences dialog box and accept your
changes.
Figure 9.Figure 10.- Quit Photoshop. You’ve come full circle. On the PC, choose
File→Exit; on the Mac, choose Photoshop→Quit Photoshop.
Quitting Photoshop not only closes the program but also saves
the changes you made to the color settings, keyboard shortcuts,
and preference settings.
Congratulations, you and I are now in sync. Just one more thing: If
you use a Macintosh computer, please read the following section.
If you use a PC, feel free to skip the next section and move along
to the following one, “Structure and Organization.”
Reassigning the mac OS X Shortcuts
Adobe intends for the function keys to display or hide common pan-
els. Meanwhile, pressing � and Option with the spacebar should
access the zoom tool. But in recent versions of OS X, these keys will
tile or hide windows according to Apple’s Exposé or will invoke
search functions via Apple’s Spotlight. To rectify these conflicts,
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