Adobe Photoshop 6.0 is out and with it comes several new and rearranged context menus. You may think there's no point learning these new keyboard commands when you can simply use your mouse. But, as incredible as it sounds, taking the few seconds needed to move your mouse cursor from the image to Photoshop's menu or toolbar, choose a item, and move the cursor back to the image is extremely inefficient. Believe us, those precious seconds quickly add up.

To increase your Photoshop efficiency, avoid trips to the menu bar. The easiest way to do so is to use the context menus. In almost every scenario, a right-click in Windows or an Option-click on the Macintosh presents you with a pop-up menu of choices targeted to the currently selected object.