Pen Tool Selection Keyboard Shortcut

Hi Sir/Mdm,
I am using Photoshop CS5 and I am humbly seek help and tip to perform a keyboard shortcut to make selection after pen tool has traced the image. Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

Here's one way:
Choose Edit - Keyboard Shortcuts
Choose Shortcuts For: Panel Menus
Expand the Paths section
Click on Make Selection... and press the key you want assigned.
When you use this key I believe it will cause a dialog to open, which you can confirm with the Enter key.
If you want to do it without any prompt at all it can probably be done through creation of an action.
-Noel

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