Keyboard modifiers for WB tool?

I seem to remember seeing a post with a keyboard modifier that would cause the WB eye-dropper to remain active allowing one to click on a few different spots before accepting a choice of WB settings.
I can't find that post now. Was I just imagining that or did I possibly confuse a shortcut from recently released competitor's product?

I don't know about a keyboard shortcut, but if you hold the mouse button down and move the cursor around the white balance will change on-the-fly depending on what is under the cursor.
Ian

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http://help.apple.com/motion/mac/5.0/en/motion/usermanual/#chapter=16%26section= 4

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This has never happened to me for Chinese.
I wonder what application you're using when this happens? Or does it happen in any application?
It's possible for an application to have a setting that matches the input language to the font. So I can guess that maybe what is happening is that your cursor is in Korean somehow when you want to switch so that the app wants you to input Korean even though you've switched.
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OK, I've been doing this since CS2 with no need for a script. To hide guides and show preview...
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4) Click your cursor inside 'New Shortcut' and hit the key you want or type it in. I choose the unused F2 key
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Its clear from some of the great new features in CC2014 that there are some brilliant minds working on the Premiere team. But from the inexplicably obvious design blunders that keep getting committed again and again, it's also becoming ever so clear that there are some real ***** (insert own word) making such horrible decisions that they've got no place working at Adobe.
I concur and I also know (as fact) that some best work and advice from in the team is being "over ruled" in the push to democratise the software in the aim of increased sales to dumber users.

Keyboard shutcut for choosing background color when brush tool is active?

Hello,
I've forgotten the keyboard shortcut for choosing a background color when the brush tool is the active tool . Holding down the alt key with the brush selected chooses the foreground color. What key do you hold down to select the background color? I'm on a mac. Thanks.

caligula1 wrote:
One keyboard shortcut for choosing a background color that you might not be aware of is opt + I (on a mac)
That's interesting, but is it a lower case L or upper case i? I certainly can't make it work on a PC.
A couple of thought for you... There are no easy to use shortcuts unused in Photoshop nowadays, so I sometimes steal them from little or never used operations. For instance, how many people use H for panning instead of the Space bar. I know H has the benefit of locking in panning, but I don't think I have 'ever' had a need for it. I have, in the past, stolen Y from Blur and Smudge, but I have not done so in recent versions.
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Hi, Beau Parks. Welcome to this forum.
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--BEGINNING OF SCRIPT
--Optional part:
tell application "System Events" to set UI_enabled to UI elements enabled
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Keyboard shortcut for Spot Removal Tool

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I don't understand why this changed since it's a basic OS global shortcuts, and every other program behaves the way it should. Flash CS6 running on the same system behaves fine, but Flash CC doesn't. If you have ever written code, you know that any second that a programmers hand doesn't have to leave the keyboard to search for the mouse is invaluable, and this has forced me to stop using Flash CC and use Flash CS6 to edit my Action Script classes becuase it's unusable otherwise.
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