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Now that you are an expert on image resolution, how do you get around an image in Photoshop on your computer screen? Well when you open an image say from a digital camera, it might look like this. And as you know this value right here 33.3% indicates the zoom ratio, so we are only zoomed out 33%. We can zoom-in of course by using the zoom tool, so I'm going to click on that zoom tool and move back into my image. And notice when you do that, you get the magnification tool with the plus in the middle of it. Indicating that if I click once, I'll begin to zoom in into my image. Finally I'm zooming in (in this case) to 100% of the image. So right now when it says 100% at the top of the title bar here, that means that I am looking at one image pixel for one screen pixel. If I continue to zoom-in, I'll begin to zoom-in and see the actual pixels which make up this image. I'm going to hold down the option key on the Mac or the Alt key on the PC and notice that the magnification tool or the zoom tool has a minus in the middle, indicating that if I click now I'll be zooming out. So the default is zooming in, option - zoom out. Another technique you can use with the zoom tool is to drag-select an area to zoom-into. So I'm just clicking and dragging diagonally to create a marquee area and I'll zoom-in right to that area. Drag-select. Another nice feature of Photoshop's zoom tool is if I double click right on the zoom tool at any time, no matter what resolution or zoom value I am at, I will zoom to 100%. So I double click on the zoom tool, I'll always be at 100% zoom. Double clicking on the hand tool will zoom to fill your image as large as it can be based on your computer screen size. So you can see what it is doing is it's just spreading out as much as it can to fill up my computer screen. I'm going to zoom-in again to 100% by double clicking on my zoom tool and talk about the hand tool. So I'm going to click on the hand tool and select it. The hand tool of course allows you to scroll around your image by clicking and dragging inside the image window. We could of course do this by going over to one of our scroll bars and dragging up and down. But the hand tool is a little bit more intuitive, allowing you to click and drag wherever you wish in the image window. There are a lot of people I know like to look at their pictures like this with the desktop in the background. However, I prefer the second viewing mode, that's this button right here. The first viewing mode is the default standard viewing mode. The second viewing mode puts my image on a gray background. Well, of course we can't see the gray background right now because we are zoomed in so much. But if I zoom-out, you can see my gray background. Another way you can get to the zoom tool (and this is a very helpful technique that you should remember because you'll be using it a lot the more often you use Photoshop) is if you are using any other tool (and I'm just going to select the lasso tool), I can get the temporarily get the zoom tool by holding down the command and space bar on the Macintosh, or the control key and the space bar on the PC. And that will temporarily give me the zoom tool. And if I add the option key on the Mac or the Alt key on the PC, it will allow me to zoom out. If I am on any other tool, I can just simply press on the space bar by itself and I'll get the hand tool, which allows me to reposition the image anywhere on the screen. So that's simply the space bar when you are using any other tool will temporarily give you the hand tool. So those are some helpful techniques allowing you to easily navigate your image quickly by using these various techniques, of double clicking on the actual tools to zoom into some type of ratio. Or when you are using a different tool, pressing some key combination to get that zoom tool, in this case temporarily.