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Photoshop Elements 6 Shortcut Keys

Use the following shortcuts in Elements to speed up your digital photo editing.

Move	V		Zoom	Z		Hand	H
Eyedropper	I		Rectangle Marquee	M		Elliptical Marqee	M
Lasso	L		Magnetic Lasso	L		Polygonal Lasso	L
Magic Wand	W		Quick Selection Tool	A		Horizontal Type	T
Vertical Type	T		Horizontal Type Mask	T		Vertical Type Mask	T
Crop	C		Cookie Cutter	Q		Red Eye Removal	Y
Spot Healing	J		Healing Brush	J		Clone Stamp	S
Pattern Stamp	S		Pencil	N		Eraser	E
Background Eraser	E		Magic Eraser	E		Brush	B
Impressionist Brush	B		Color Replacement	B		Paint Bucket	K
Gradient	G		Rectangle	U		Rounded Rectangle	U
Ellipse	U		Polygon	U		Line	U
Custom Shape	U		Shape Selection	U		Blur	R
Sharpen	R		Smudge	R		Sponge	O
Dodge	O		Burn	O

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Tags: Elements, Photoshop, Shortcut Keys

Seahawks On Ice

South Lakes High School in Reston, VA hit the ice this Sunday for the inagural Seahawks hockey season.  Their first game was against Stonebridge of Ashburn, VA and it was an exciting thing to watch.  The game ended 10-1 in Stonebridge’s favor but the score did not reflect the effort the Seahawks put into the it.

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Tags: hockey, reston, South Lakes High School

Dublin’s “Cornhenge”

Founded in 1989 by the Dublin Arts Council, the Art in Public Places collection host a unique assortment of outdoor sculptures.  One of which is the “Field of Corn” which features 109 human-sized cement ears of corn.

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Tags: art, Dublin, Dublin Arts Council, Field of Corn, Malcolm Cochran, Ohio, sculpture

Cult of Wendys

My job at Worthpoint has me traveling weekly to Dublin, OH (outside of Columbus).  Dublin is a unique community with a number of its own quirky personality traits.  The roads hardly make any sense, Irish pride abounds with stone fences and images of shamrock at every turn, Van Halen can be found at almost any hour on the radio.  Just the normal kind of quirks you can find in most communities.

What Dublin is probably most famous for is that it is the International corporate headquarters of Wendys.

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Tags: Dave Thomas, Dublin, Ohio, Wendys

Daisy Girl

If you’re reading this based on the title I hope you were not expecting photos of Daisy Duke.

Nancy Schober (aka pixeliciousnl on Flickr) left me a note on an old photo I had of some daisy’s I shot during a DPC photowalk last year in DC.  It appears that Nancy is a Photoshop guru and used my shot as a texture to create this:

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