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Introduction / Navigator Palette

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Another way to scroll around on your image and manage your image is using the Navigator palette. If you're not seeing the Navigator palette, go to the Windows menu and choose Show Navigator. It brings up this small palette, the Navigator palette. And it has some similar features to this option down here. It has a two small mountain icons and this slider right here - you can see if I click and drag this slider over, I am actually zooming in. And notice the red square shows me the same area in this small thumbnail as my actual image. I can drag this small square around and you can see how my image is being updated to show you that exact same area. I can zoom in and zoom out by clicking on the mountains icon. This will zooming back out, you can see what it does when I click. It zooms out. And similarly clicking on the larger mountains zooms in. You can type in a particular zoom percentage if your wish, and it will zoom exactly to whatever you type in - 125% in this case. I use this when I have a very high-resolution image that I want to scroll around quickly on. The one option I have with the Navigator palette is to change the color of this square. For instance, the red indicator color might not be the best choice for a red apple image. So I'm going to go over to the corner pull-down menu on my Navigator palette and choose palette options. And I can change the color. So it's little bit easier to see, depending on what your basic color of the image is. And if you want to make this palette any larger, you can go down to the corner here and enlarge the palette - makes it a little bit easier to see. So the Navigator palette is another way of navigating around your image. And it gives you some of the functionality that the zoom and the hand tool give you, but in a different kind of format.

Tutorial Information

Course: 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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