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It took me a long time (too long) to discover this wonderful site. 
I've already learned so many techniques, shortcuts.......but there are also a number of things that I discovered 'before' that I haven't seen here (did a search). One - just a quickie - is the use of the action buttons.
I use actions regularly, and over some time I ended up with a (pretty well) fixed set. So I won't need to be altering the actions, just using them.
On the actions palette, open the options and click 'button mode'. Now the actions have become buttons.
Advantages:
- All actions are now 'one click', don't need to use (and remember) key combinations;
- Easier to find the action - if you organize and color the buttons;
- You can resize the palette (make it wider) and see all your actions at the same time;
- Because the actions are now more acessible, makes it worthwhile recording simpler actions - like 'Merge everything to a new layer' (new layer, Ctl+Alt+Shift+E).
Disadvantages:
- No access to the 'Toggle dialog on/off';
- Got to turn off the button mode to alter the action.
Or did everybody already know this?
Roland
I've already learned so many techniques, shortcuts.......but there are also a number of things that I discovered 'before' that I haven't seen here (did a search). One - just a quickie - is the use of the action buttons.
I use actions regularly, and over some time I ended up with a (pretty well) fixed set. So I won't need to be altering the actions, just using them.
On the actions palette, open the options and click 'button mode'. Now the actions have become buttons.
Advantages:
- All actions are now 'one click', don't need to use (and remember) key combinations;
- Easier to find the action - if you organize and color the buttons;
- You can resize the palette (make it wider) and see all your actions at the same time;
- Because the actions are now more acessible, makes it worthwhile recording simpler actions - like 'Merge everything to a new layer' (new layer, Ctl+Alt+Shift+E).
Disadvantages:
- No access to the 'Toggle dialog on/off';
- Got to turn off the button mode to alter the action.
Or did everybody already know this?
Roland
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