Deen That's a neat shortcut. It works. However, I'll stick with Jeff's Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V combination (although it's another 2 keypresses) for one simple reason: it works in about every known Windows compliant application - oh, and actually Ctrl-J is not a "one hand only" combination for me. As I'm a "Left-hand-keyboard / Right-Hand-Mouse" PC user, the big four shortcuts for me on WIndows are: Alt-Tab Switch applications Ctrl-C Copy Ctrl-X Cut Ctrl-V Paste Ctrl-Z Undo These I use all day-every day in Excel, Word, PhotoShop, Visual Basic, IrfanView ... PhotoShop. One other combination that I'm starting to use more ... Ctrl-A ... appears to "Select All" in *almost* all Windows Apps - it is not supported in PFE :o( - There are others, but frankly once you are at the stage of needing to either a) look at the keyboard b) use two hands You might as well use the (generally slower) mouse route ... Her's Bill's statement: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q126449 The prob with most other shortcuts is that they tend to be application-specific: for instance Ctrl-S in Outlook sends the message, in another program it does sommat totally else. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Deen Hameed" <deenhameed@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2004 12:19 AM Subject: Re: Newbies photoshop question > Make a selection, > Hit Ctrl-J - it will copy the selection to a new layer. > You can move it where you like with the move tool. > > Alternatively, > > make a selection. > while pressing the Ctrl+Alt keys together, drag the selection where you want. > It will duplicate the selection, on the SAME layer. > > Best regards, > Deen > 2004-12-11 11:17:13 > > -- > Deen Hameed > 0405 649 101 deenhameed@xxxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.deenhameed.blogspot.com > http://calendar.yahoo.co.uk/deenhameed > > At 2004-12-11, 02:04:31 Tony (am9849@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > > > >>Hi > > > >Can someone help a newbie out? I know there is a way to make a selection, > >copy it and with the move tool bring it to another location on the picture > >and paste it there, but I don't remember how its done. An example might be > >to use the marquee tool drag it to select some background, then copy it and > >with the move tool, move it to another location and paste it there without > >disturbing the original area you copied it from. > > > >Look forward to you all giving this newbie some help. > >Thanks > >Tony > > > > > > ___ END OF QUOTED TEXT ___ >
