Did you know that….
Despite the fact that both the Edit » Fill command and the Paint Bucket tool [G] are disabled for type layers, Alt+Backspace (fill with foreground color) and Ctrl+Backspace (fill withbackground color) still work!
sooo go ahead and trick those fill layers commands!
i’m sure you use photoshop’s crop tool!
and yes, i’m sure you’ve noticed that if you crop images in photoshop (using the crop tool [C] or edit » crop), you will lose all pixels outside the crop boundaries.
but are you sure you want that?!
To crop your image without losing any data, use canvas size (image » canvas size) instead. Photoshop will warn you that some clipping will occur, but for some reason that does not happen.
….and all “cropped” data will be preserved outside the canvas boundaries!
haha… you have outsmarted the crop tool in photoshop!!
are you in a hurry? are you interested in copying your favorite drop shadow settings faster?
you can do that using the eyedropper tool:
1. select objects you want to apply “drop shadow” to.
2. press I to switch to the eyedropper tool and click directly on the frame edge of the object containing the drop shadow youâ??d like to apply to all the objects.
3. inDesign places the sampled drop shadow on all of the selected objects at once.
simple isn’t it?
PS: these might be some of the last posts regarding indesign… it mostly depends on the results of this poll i made. it will reveal to me your design interests. so don’t hesitate to help me 
Hold down the Alt key when selecting a color with the eyedropper tool [ I ] to define a background color in photoshop.
easy, isn’t it?
To draw a straight line with any paint tool, click on the image, move the mouse, and then Shiftclick.
Photoshop will join the two points with a straight line using the current tool.
