Photoshop: Creative Use of the Measure Tool

Photoshop's 'Measure' tool, located on the Eyedropper toolbar fly-out (Keyboard Shortcut: 'I'), has more usefulness than first meets the eye. Drawing a measurement line not only provides the length of the line drawn, but also provides the angle of the line on the options palette.

As an added bonus, Photoshop pre-enters this angle value into the 'Rotate Arbitrary' command (Image->Rotate Canvas->Arbitrary...), saving the added step of entering this value into the dialog when you need to straighten an image.

AutoCAD: FILLET / CHAMFER Multiple Option

The default behavior of the FILLET / CHAMFER commands is to perform one operation and return to the command line. This can become tedious when one needs to repeatedly perform this action. AutoCAD provides the 'Multiple' option to handle this situation. Invoking the 'Multiple' option (type 'M <enter>' after starting the FILLET or CHAMFER command) instructs AutoCAD to restart the command after it finishes until pressing the Escape key to end the command.