2.Click Command-C to copy on a Mac, Control- On a PC and also create a new layer that you would like to copy the objects selected to.

3.Then click onto the designated layer you would like to assign the copied objects to.  It is always good also to lock any layers that are not in use as this will protect them from being altered or selected. Click command-F to paste it in place. PC, it’s Control-F.

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Photoshop key commands

F (Cycle Screen Modes) — Switch between normal screen, full screen with task bar without title bar, and full screen with black background. Works great when used in conjunction with Tab to hide toolbars — maximum working space, no distractions.

X (Switch Colors) — Swap your foreground and background colors. Very handy when working with masks.

D (Default Colors) — Reset your foreground and background colors to black and white, respectively.

Ctrl + ‘+’/’-’ (Zoom In/Out) — Quickly zoom in or out without changing your current tool.

Alt + Mouse Scroll (Zoom In/Out) — Fastest way to zoom — scroll up to zoom in, and scroll down to zoom out.

Ctrl + Alt + Z (Step Back) — Ctrl + Z is OK if you catch a mistake immediately after it happens, but this command will continue to march its way up the history tree.

Ctrl + S (Save) — You should get in the habit of just hitting this combo on impulse about every 5 to 10 minutes. Also use Ctrl + Alt + Shift + S to bring up the save for web dialog.

Ctrl + Alt + Shift + N (New Layer No Dialog) — Quickly insert a new empty layer on top of the active layer. Get rid of the Alt key to bring up the new layer dialog for more options.

Shift + Click Mask (Enable/Disable Layer Mask) — When working with masks it’s typically done in small increments. Disabling the mask allows you to check the results of your masking against the original.

Alt + Click Mask (Toggle Mask Visibility) — Doing this will bring up the mask as a grayscale image so you can see what you’re working with. Useful if you have areas that need to be filled in or smoothed out.

Ctrl + Click Mask (Load Mask As Selection) — Selects the white part of the mask (grays are partially selected). Useful if you want to duplicate a mask or it’s inverse. Using Ctrl + Click on a layer without a mask will select the non-transparent pixels in that layer.

Ctrl + J (New Layer Via Copy) — Can be used to duplicate the active layer into a new layer. If a selection is made, this command will only copy the selected area into the new layer.

Caps Lock (Toggle Cross Hairs) — Switch between the standard tool icon and a set of precision cross hairs. Useful for spot-on selections.

Shift + Backspace (Fill Dialog) — Good time saver when working with masks. Also, use the Ctrl + Backspace to fill with background color and Alt + Backspace to fill with foreground color.

Ctrl + H (Hide Selection Lines) — When working with selections, use this command to hide the “marching ants” while keeping the selection.

Ctrl + I (Invert Selection) — Select the opposite of what is already selected. Also a good tool when working with mask creation.

Ctrl + D (Deselect) — After working with your selection, use this combo to discard it.

Side Note: When working with selections, they can be applied to a layer as a mask simply by adding a new layer mask using the little box-with-a-circle-inside icon at the bottom of the layer palette. This also works with adjustment layers by automatically applying the selection to the mask

Ctrl + G (Group Layers) — This command groups selected layers in the layer tree. Adding Shift to this combo will ungroup layers when the grouped layer is selected.

Ctrl + A (Select All) — Creates a selection around the entire canvas.

Ctrl + T (Free Transform) — Brings up the free transform tool for resizing, rotating, and skewing the image using a dragable outline.

Ctrl + E (Merge Layers) — Merges selected layer with the layer directly below it. If multiple layers are selected, only those will be merged.

Crtl + Shift + E (Merge Visible) — Merges all visible layers into one. Not recommended practice in typical photo editing because you’ll lose layer information.

Ctrl + Alt + E (Stamp Down) — Merges all selected layers into one new layer. Add the Shift modifier to this combo and you’ll get a new layer containing a merged representation of all visible layers (handy for sharpening adjustments)

Ctrl + Alt + Shift + R (Rotate Arbitrary Dialog) — bring up the rotate dialog to straighten out your horizon… but it’s not typically used since we all take perfect photos, right?

Side Note: Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) has the ability to straighten photos before they ever make it into Photoshop. When straightening, you draw a line you’d like as your horizontal and ACR will take care of the rotation and crop for you.

CTRL + ALT + DEL (Kill Photoshop) — Quite useful when Photoshop takes your computer hostage. Must have used the Ctrl + S command prior to the hostile takeover in order to prevent mental breakdown.

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Hey, business owners, what is more fun than invoicing clients and managing expenses?! Having teeth pulled? Running marathons? Being savagely eaten a pack of wild wallabies in the Outback? We all know that keeping track of billing and costs, for most people, is not the most glamorous part of running a business, but we all want to get paid, right? FreshBooks.com offers a solution to all of you business owners who dread the hours in the week that you have to sit down and start tracking income, salary, payments, assets, benefits, equity, annuity, and all of those other financial words. FreshBooks, an online invoicing, billing, and time tracking program, makes addressing your finances extremely easy and manageable and reduces that daunting feeling the word “billing” brings on.

FreshBooks offers a single online portal for all of your bookkeeping and billing needs. They offer so many different services, things you did not even realize you ever needed, but will make your life so much easier. Let’s start at the beginning, the look and feel of all of the FreshBooks services is extremely professional, so your clients will be far more impressed than they were with that last invoice you scribbled on generic “invoice” stationary you picked up at the dollar store. They even give you the option to brand your system and all of your invoices with your company logos and colors. Forget those generic invoice e-mails, even with messages sent automatically through the FreshBooks system, you have the opportunity to personalize. For those of you willing to drop a little extra dough, you can even make your custom FreshBooks login page look like your company’s webpage, all in the name of consistency and professionalism.

Right, now that you’ve taken the time to make your FreshBook page all fancy ‘n stuff, you can move on to the meat and potatoes of the site. Assumedly, you want to make money from your clients. As far as invoicing goes, you can set up automatic billing with a credit card, create automated payment reminders so that both you and your client can forget your payment schedule, and collect payments through PayPal, VeriSign, and other online payment methods. For those of you who have crossed the threshold into international business (or just those of you who think it would be funny to send a client a memo requesting 14,000 Gambian Dalasi), you can invoice your clients in any currency.

Is the primary use of your desk calendar to practice writing your signature and doodle stick figure drawings of the annoying girl in the office with devil horns? Forget calendars, FreshBooks is all set to organize your time for you. You and all of your employees can track your hours and specify which projects you were working on and when. Share your budget plans, your deadlines, and your project management with your clients to make sure that you’re all on the same page. Beyond invoicing and time tracking, you can send estimates, track expenses, and manage your relationships with independent contractors.

Want to know what makes FreshBooks most legit? There’s an app for it (sorry, Apple, is it okay to use that phrase?). So say you’re out on client meetings all day long and suddenly realize that you forgot to do all of your billing and invoicing. You certainly don’t want an angry mob of paycheck-less employees at your door on Friday. You can fix that through your iPhone app, MiniBooks. There’s also a widget that you and all of your employees can download directly to their computers in order to do time tracking right from your desktop.

Best of all, FreshBooks saves you the hassle of dealing with the crazy middle-aged billing lady you thought you were going to have to hire. Sure, you might miss out on a little bowl of candy and stories about how crazy her 1st through 14th husbands were, but we promise FreshBooks is still the better option. The customer service that you receive from FreshBooks is absolutely top-notch. Despite being an online company, you can always get in touch with a real live person during business hours. The people you talk to are friendly, helpful, knowledgeable, and so reliable. Obviously, when disclosing tons of information about your company’s finances, it’s important that you trust and can depend on the service and the service providers. Give them a shot, you will not be disappointed. And you will definitely no longer find yourself making dentist appointments and doing distance training in order to avoid sitting down and bookkeeping.

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