well people, maybe I was a bit unclear about my problems with tuts of older versions, which involves everything written here. As for shortcuts, so I use a few meantimes, that I know now and they are quiete practical. But most functions I still do with going to the menu or rightclicking. I remember, when I started exercising PS early this year (with a few months break to learn Flash), for example in some tuts has been a command: press D. Lol, I pressed D and didn't see any changes and no explanation what this command does. Today I know, that this swaps back-and foregrund color. When I started to learn I had no clue. Some shortcuts didn't work at all, like Mindburner mentioned, others brought down new windows and I had no clue later, when working on a new tut, how to get down that window again, with the instruction for e.g. open the Hue/saturation window without further explanation where to find. I admit these things often prohibited my fun and I gave up totally enerved. But as I can see now, this was NOT a fault of the PS versions, but due to badly written tutorials and my lack to write things, that were a bit difficult to understand as a reference in my own words or to learn the basics first, before trying advanced tuts. And as a Noob asking in forums to prove, what an idiot I am, wasn't my thing either (still wonder, why so many german forums are so unfriendly, IMO). And yes, I remember looking around for the airbrush and not being able to find it in the tools palette,lol. How can that be, when I have a little pic showing me exactly where it should be in a tut? Hahahaha [confused]
Long words, short sense: You really have to get known with the menu and palettes to know, where to find what feature you need, to know, what the single tools do. Only yesterday I learned, that the move tool does more than just moving, duh. And then the thingy with the shortcuts can come, but I don't think, that I ever will get very accustomed to it. [honesty]
As for certain techniques, so I am glad to hear, that nothing has changed a big lot. As said earlier, I have no experience with older PS versions, that's why I asked. I will continue to work with older tuts.
Hanarky
3[ 3[ 3[ a Borg smily, oh great !