A more elegant solution for customizing Photoshop’s UI: custom panels.
My artist brain still likes clicking on colored buttons more than memorizing
shortcuts or digging deep into menus, so I made two flash panels.
One is more like a toolbar, has custom icons and was made in Flex.
The second one is a bigger panel (best fit on a secondary monitor) containing
all tools, more common filters, selection commands, file and layer operations,
grid, guide, etc visibility and snapping. It was made with Adobe Configurator.