a quick photoshop question

Hi

I am a beginer editorial photographer and need to do quick edits - I have a workflow coming together
1 take pics lock in camera
2 Ingest with photomechanic
3 select and edit with Photoshop
4 crop and then run an action
5 FTP
when the images open in photoshop the first thing I do is crop

THE QUESTIONS
1 Is their a shortcut key for crop on a mac in CS3 ie control something
2 Anyone happy to share workflows / actions or know where I can go for these

I shoot sport

Thanks

For the 1st:

Simply press "c" to get the crop tool activated. If that is what you were looking for?

Hitting the letter C will take you to the Crop Tool. You still have to perform the crop that you want.

Are you actually cropping parts of the image off or are you using this as a method of resizing. If you are resizing the image this can be done quite easily through the image processor though it leaves your original intact. I get the impression from your described workflow that you are editing the original, a method that I would not personally use. I always have an intact original, whether it be RAW or JPG from the camera.

You do not describe what the action in your step number 4 does so further suggestions on similar actions are hard to come up with.

There are many sites that have alot of free and purchase actions. www.atncentral.com is one of these. Google will yield you many more sites or you can check the stickies here that list some.

Hi

As ever thanks - everyone is so helpful
I mean that what happens iks the firt thin g is the crop tool comes up and then I select an area of the image but then to actually crop I have to go to the drop downs rather than just pressing a key or keys - lazy I know but will save me vital seconds

Actions - wel I want one to take an out of camera jpg to the point I can FTP it and get a paper to print it

I have modified a friends exposure sharpening and saturation/hue action but open to advice - I shoot using 1 D MARK II's

Once you've drawn the crop marquee, you can simply press Enter to crop.