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There’s a lot of buzz about Adobe’s beta release of Photoshop Express, the simplified online photo editor and hosting service. The review over at Webware mentions the site’s TOS, which is worth a look:

Adobe does not claim ownership of Your Content. However, with respect to Your Content that you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Services, you grant Adobe a worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable license to use, distribute, derive revenue or other remuneration from, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content (in whole or in part) and to incorporate such Content into other Materials or works in any format or medium now known or later developed. (emphasis mine)

I’d like to see some clarification on this. Especially the parts about being irrevocable and being able to “derive revenue.”

Update 3/29/08: Ars Technica has more details and a response from Adobe.

Actions are a great way to accelerate your Photoshop workflow, but clicking though the actions panel to choose the one you want can be a hassle. I recently decided to streamline the process even further by assigning keyboard shortcuts to my most used actions.

Assigning the shortcuts is easy, the option is just buried in the Photoshop actions menu.

To get started, fire up PS (I’m using CS3) and click the actions tab. Choose the action that you want to assign the shortcut to then click the tiny arrow (expertly circled in the image on the left) to open the actions menu. Then choose Action Options. This brings up a window where you can choose the F-key you want to use. You can also specify if you want to make use of the CTRL and/or Shift keys for your shortcut. Click OK and you’re done.

Now you can fire off actions without having to aim your mouse. It scores points for boosting both speed and laziness - a win-win situation.