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Customizing the toolbar

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- [Instructor] In addition to using a lot of different panels, you'll also spend a lot of time in Photoshop switching tools. Now almost every tool has a keyboard shortcut. For example, the Move tool has the keyboard shortcut of v and the Marquee tool has the keyboard shortcut of m. So just tapping those two keys, will select the tool for you. Now, almost all of the tools, the ones with the little triangle to the lower right of their icon have nested tools or additional tools that are grouped together. If you click and hold, you'll get a fly out that will show you all of those tools. And that also shows you the keyboard shortcut associated with that tool. So when I tap the L key, I will select the tool that I have most recently selected, or the one that's on top. So tapping the L key will select the polygonal lasso tool. But if I want to cycle through the other tools, I just need to hold down the shift key and tap the L…

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