amen....i been wondering about that....Thanks Gran

After you do an outer glow, go Layer-Layer style-Create layer ~ now you can move your outer glow on a new layer!

Ummm.... I fully realize that buglover kicks my sorry ass when it comes to chopping. So maybe this is a technique I'm not familiar with. But.....why would you need to merge a single layer?

"F4 and F6, all the time as I like playing with a lot of layers and colors!" (Mac Hot Keys)

Ive made a whole chapter about that on the start of page 1:

Does anybody read my posts?

The only hot key I use is the one that I heat with my lighter to melt the ice in the car door, -10 C here and I have to get to work.

Were talkin HOT!

i use far too few hotkeys, but the Spacebar pan is the most useful. i just printed out a list and will start using more of them

does anyone know, can i assign a hotkey to select the Add Anchor Point tool?

Under the edit menu go to keyboard shortcuts. Make sure that "tools" is selected under the "Shortcut for" menu. Now you can change shortcuts for all the tools and assign new ones.

But when you select the pen tool, on the toolbar just under the menus you will see "Auto Add/Delete" check box. When enabled it will automatically add or delete points if you click on the path with the pen tool and i guess that is what you want most of the time so it will save you the trouble of changing the tool often.

thanks for your help podgorski

It happens that I want to have an applied copy from a masked layer to scale it, keeping the original as resource for rescaling or changes in the mask.

Also it could be that I have used an effect witch I want to apply, cause if I would scale the object without merging for example an oultine-effect would keep his 3 pixel wide no matter if I scale the obect bigger or smaller.

Right now I create a new empty layer, select both and hit STRG+ALT+E. You also could make a copy and apply the mask, but many times I have a combination of pixel-, verctor-masks and/or effects I want to apply.

In the end: With that way I have to think less

Cheers BL

Just a note, you can scale layer styles if you go to image size and check the "Scale Styles" checkbox. Keeping that in mind, you can copy the layer to a new document, change the image size with layer effects and take it back to the original document. I know this isnt a time saving tip but just an idea in case youll need it

Ahhhh! SEE? I knew it was just another case of a better chopper knowing how to do something that I never would have thought of.

Thanks Bug!

I looked through the shortcut stuff and I can't find where to set it.

with this key...i go to my favorites...