ABSTRACT
Getting to know the basics of Photoshop takes a few months, although it will take a little longer than that to become a fluent Photoshop user. One can speed up their Photoshop work is by learning many of the various keyboard shortcuts. There are a lot of these in Photoshop, so it is best to learn a few at a time, rather than try to absorb everything at once. One can record a great many operations in Photoshop using actions. Photoshop actions are application scripts than can be use to record a sequence of events which have been carried out in Photoshop and any actions recorded this way can then be replayed on other images. For actions that involve recording the placement of objects or drawing of marquee selections, it is a good idea to record setting the ruler units as part of the action and the lack of a Background layer can also stop some actions from playing.
