Introduction / Navigation Tools
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[00:00:00.0] Before I talk about the Tools palette in general, [00:00:02.0] I want to show you two tools in the Tools palette that will help you navigate around your picture. [00:00:09.0] At the very bottom of the collection of icons here are two icons - [00:00:14.0] one that's a hand and that's called the hand tool obviously, and the zoom tool or magnification tool. [00:00:25.0] I'm going to choose the middle viewing mode right here, and with the zoom tool [00:00:32.0] I'll move the zoom tool into my image, and you can see it has a plus in the middle of it. [00:00:38.0] That means that if I click now, I'll zoom in. [00:00:41.0] So again clicking once, zooms in. And that is exact same effect as choosing View>Zoom In. [00:00:52.0] If you hold down the Option key on the Macintosh or the Alt key on Windows computer, the plus turns into a minus. [00:01:04.0] And now that allows you to zoom out when you click, making your picture smaller. [00:01:11.0] If you're zoomed in to the point that you know your picture is all the way off to the screen, [00:01:19.0] you can choose the hand tool by clicking on it, and press and move your image around. [00:01:28.0] So I'm clicking and dragging with my hand tool, so that you can see a different area of it on the screen. [00:01:35.0] Double clicking on the hand tool zooms to a particular magnification that fills the image on your screen. [00:01:49.0] So you can see up here in the Navigator palette that zooms to a 122%. [00:01:57.0] Double clicking on the zoom tool zooms to a one-to-one ratio; that is one screen pixel for one image pixel or 100% magnification. [00:02:10.0] Which in this case is a little bit smaller. [00:02:13.0] So that makes sense - my actual image is this big, but if I want to see it to the largest extent possible without going outside my window, [00:02:24.0] I can double click on the hand tool, and it will zoom to fill it as best it can on the screen. [00:02:30.0] Another technique you can use with the zoom tool is to drag-select an area. [00:02:39.0] So I'm going to click and drag diagonally right here, and when I let go the screen will zoom to this area. [00:02:47.0] So those are two very helpful tools. Finally the last thing I wanted to mention is if you're on another tool such as the move tool, [00:03:03.0] if you hold down the spacebar, I'm going to zoom in a bit, [00:03:07.0] if you hold down the spacebar temporarily it gives you the hand tool so that you can move around on the screen. [00:03:15.0] And when you let go of the spacebar, you're back to whatever tool you selected. [00:03:19.0] So that's a great way of not having to pick the hand tool, just to get the hand tool while you're using another tool. [00:03:26.0] So that spacebar gives me the hand tool temporarily - it allows me to move, and then it puts me back to whatever tool I was using. [00:03:34.0] [00:03:35.0]
Tutorial Information
| Title: | Adobe Photoshop 6 |
| Author: | Andrew J. Hathaway |
| SKU: | 33189 |
| ISBN: | 1930519206 |
| Release Date: | 2001-01-01 |
| Duration: | 13 hrs / 129 lessons |
| Captions: | For Online University members only |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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