I read from somewhere that making a mask with Photoshop shouldn't take more than 20 minutes. I think that is big fat lie, even with CS5 and refine edge tool. Tai sit en vaan osaa.
I have been also recording some Photoshop actions to speed up my workflow. If you need to do same thing for tens or hundreds of photos, it will be way faster to make those things with actions. Color space change & flatten layers action for saving the PSD as JPEG was so important I binded it under F2 key. Using the Photoshop might soon start to feel like playing FPS games where most of the keyboard keys are mapped to certain game commands :)
