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Martini Hour 057, In Which Deke Gives You Part of His Brain

This week's visit to the dekeLounge comes with party favors. Yes, dekeOphiliacs, in addition to spending an hour with the man---shoes off and drinks in hand---you get to go home with a little token of Deke's affection, his handy dekeKeys shortcut file.

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Haven't you ever thought it would be great if someone would automagically make your Photoshop shortcuts make more sense and serve the commands that you use most often? For instance, who needs Cmd-Shift-L (Ctrl+Shift+L) to control something as seldom-used as Auto-Levels? Wouldn't it be so much better applied to, say, creating a Levels adjustment layer? The dekeKeys file is chock full of sensible remapping of the Photoshop keyboard shortcuts that is guaranteed to save you time, effort, and brain cell storage.

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