If you want to learn Photoshop online or by any other means for that matter, one of the most crucial and time saving tools is to customize your Photoshop keyboard shortcuts. If you have Photoshop CS or later, Adobe allows you to add customized keyboard shortcuts so you can quickly access your most commonly used items, such as filters.

Here are the steps to customize your Photoshop keyboard shortcuts. For the most part, working with Photoshop is fun and challenging. One big example is resizing a bunch of pictures say for a video or for a website. You could sit there and do it one by one, or you could set up an Action.

Actions are basically recordings that you can setup in Photoshop to automate certain processes.

All you have to do is click on the "Actions" tab on the Command Central (usually next to "History"). You may have to set up a new action, but once you do just click record and go through your actions. Photoshop will record the actions and store them as a repeatable task.

You may be asking yourself, "what if I screw up? Won't Photoshop screw up every time the action is run?" Simply put, yes. However, the actions are completely editable, so any worries of performing a wrong step can be laid to rest. All in all, though, Actions can save you a bunch of time so you can concentrate on the things you really want to do with Photoshop.

Also, it would probably be best if you knew what and how to do the Action you want to record.

Most of the stuff you would be automating would probably be Photoshop basics. You can learn to master the basics of Photoshop with Photoshop By Example, which is a pretty good deal for the price.

You can learn more about Photoshop, as well as other training courses at http://www.squidoo.com/learn-photoshop-online

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