The touch shortcut

- There is one other essential interface element … that you may have noticed … and by default it's down in the bottom left … of the working area. … And in Photoshop on the iPad, … it's known as the Touch shortcut. … Now at the moment, it won't do anything at all. … Just tapping on it will just reveal a larger outer circle. … It does nothing. … But it works as a modifier … for many of the tools and operations … in the absence of keys like Option or Command, … just for example. … So, let's try it out. … What we're going to do is go to the top of the toolbox … and select the Move tool. … And it's important to know … that it's here, by the way, … that you can turn these tools on and off, … so you don't accidentally do anything. … So, we've got the Move tool … and if you press the center, … you get this small bubble at the top right, … which tells you what it's going to do. … It will constrain the Move, … so here it's behaving a bit like the Shift key. … But if you now move your hand on the Touch shortcut, …