Scream of the Crop: How to Resize and Crop Photos - The Adobe Photoshop CC - page 273

This is one of those little tips that just makes you smile. To instantly turn your Background
layer into a regular layer without having a dialog pop up first, just click-and-drag the little
lock icon to the right of the word “Background” straight into the trash (thanks to Adobe's
Julieanne Kost for sharing this one).
Get Your Channel Shortcuts Back
Back in CS3, and all earlier versions of Photoshop, you could look at the individual color
channels for a photo by pressing Command-1 , Command-2 , Command-3 , and so on (on
a PC, you'd use Ctrl-1 , Ctrl-2 , etc., instead). In CS4, they changed the shortcuts, which
totally bummed out a lot of longtime users, but you have the option of bringing those glory
days of channel shortcuts back to the pre-CS4 era. Go under the Edit menu, choose Key-
board Shortcuts , then near the top of the dialog, turn on the Use Legacy Channel Short-
cuts checkbox.