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Assign a Keyboard Shortcut to the Color Picker
You can assign a keyboard shortcut to bring up the Foreground (or Background) Color
Picker (this is handier than it sounds). Go under the Edit menu, under Keyboard Shortcuts,
and from the Shortcuts For pop-up menu, choose Tools . Then scroll down near the bottom,
and you'll see Foreground Color Picker and Background Color Picker. Click on whichever
one you want, and type in the shortcut you want. I have to tell you up front: most of the
good shortcuts are already taken (in fact, almost all combinations of shortcuts are already
taken), but my buddy Dave Cross came up with a good idea. He doesn't use the Pen tool
all that much, so he used the letter P (for Picker). When you enter “P,” it's going to warn
you that it's already being used for something else, and if you click the Accept and Go to
Conflict button at the bottom left, it assigns P to the Color Picker you chose, and then sends
you to the Pen tool to choose a new shortcut. If you don't need to assign one to the Pen tool
(you don't use it much either), then just leave it blank and click OK.
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