Work with Jasc Paint Shop Pro plugins using LastMenu.

Note: Works with Paint Shop Pro versions except 8

Professional users will get considerable benefits by using LastMenu while working with plugins in Jasc Paint Shop Pro 7. As a rule, the list of effects in Jasc Paint Shop Pro is long. And it takes much time to call almost the same items of menu all the time during everyday work. LastMenu allows to call plugins faster. Using keyboard you may quickly apply for necessary plugin by pressing the chosen keys combination. With the help of suggested default keys "Ctrl+Spacebar" you may call the last menu without looking at keyboard. Anyway you may assign another keys combination for plugins call-in if the given combination is already kept in Jasc Paint Shop Pro.

About simplified use of LastMenu while working with menu and plugins in Jasc Paint Shop Pro you may read here.

Below you can find the information about enriched possibilities which LastMenu gives to experienced users of Jasc Paint Shop Pro.

Usually when you call LastMenu you see the menu you referred to. For example,

In other words, you get the latest menu you referred to.

But sometimes the situation appears when one needs to get quickly not only the latest menu but menu of a higher level than that you referred to the last time.
For example, you want to get access to all plugins at once by pressing "Ctrl+Spacebar" as it is shown in the figure.

It is easy. It is enough to hold Ctrl button or right button of mouse while choosing of plugin.

Let’s consider such examples.

1. Enter menu and choose plugin Average... by holding Ctrl button

2. Then after pressing "Ctrl+Spacebar" (or chosen keys combination) you get full list of plugins.

In other words, by holding Ctrl you make the "last" that menu which is above that item which you chose. This possibility you may use not only while working with plugins but with other items of menu.