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Before I talk about the Tools palette in general, I want to show you two tools in the Tools palette that will help you navigate around your picture. At the very bottom of the collection of icons here are two icons - one that's a hand and that's called the hand tool obviously, and the zoom tool or magnification tool. I'm going to choose the middle viewing mode right here, and with the zoom tool I'll move the zoom tool into my image, and you can see it has a plus in the middle of it. That means that if I click now, I'll zoom in. So again clicking once, zooms in. And that is exact same effect as choosing View>Zoom In. If you hold down the Option key on the Macintosh or the Alt key on Windows computer, the plus turns into a minus. And now that allows you to zoom out when you click, making your picture smaller. If you're zoomed in to the point that you know your picture is all the way off to the screen, you can choose the hand tool by clicking on it, and press and move your image around. So I'm clicking and dragging with my hand tool, so that you can see a different area of it on the screen. Double clicking on the hand tool zooms to a particular magnification that fills the image on your screen. So you can see up here in the Navigator palette that zooms to a 122%. 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. Which in this case is a little bit smaller. 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, I can double click on the hand tool, and it will zoom to fill it as best it can on the screen. Another technique you can use with the zoom tool is to drag-select an area. So I'm going to click and drag diagonally right here, and when I let go the screen will zoom to this area. 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, if you hold down the spacebar, I'm going to zoom in a bit, if you hold down the spacebar temporarily it gives you the hand tool so that you can move around on the screen. And when you let go of the spacebar, you're back to whatever tool you selected. 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. 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.