It's not that A is hard to reach, it's that it just seems like an unnecessary hotkey that could be replaced with a context sensitive click. Anyway thank you for the answers!
i had a look at the current state of 2.8 the other week and it looks like quite a lot is changing. i'd question the benefit of really diving into 2.79 now (and configuring it to act more like another app!) because quite a bit of what needs reconfiguring to bring the app closer to what i'd call common-sense 3d app behaviour…
Hmm.. i remember someone ask a similar question (somewhere) and indeed the UV where (somehow) accidently "shrunken".. they didn't fit anymore.. Another (weird) idea would be.. usually in blender (default theme) the overlay color is white and some orange if selected.. additionally marking the faces in a faded orange.. like…
Blender always seems like Linux. Sure it gets the job done and works for almost everything but it just always seems off by just a smudge and always seems like I have to lurk through countless forum posts to find a "work around" to get something to work as expected. It is free and keeps getting better and easier to get…
In this case, i would make the Sphere a separate object and move the plane above it. I would then select the sphere, shift click the Plane and bake. Is that what you mean? *edit* It seems like Blender wont make an alpha for this if you bake like that :/ As a work around, give the Sphere a diffuse colour of Black and bake…