Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers Tutorials
Photoshop Foundations / Navigation Tips
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At times when you're working in Photoshop, you're going to want to see your entire image on your monitor. While for other tasks, you'll need to zoom in and then navigate around your image. Photoshop provides a variety of ways to navigate around your images and I've mentioned some of these in other movies but I want to concentrate on the different ways here. Pressing the shortcut Control Zero on a PC, Command Zero on a Mac will always fit your image to the available space. In fact, there are three shortcuts that I highly recommend you memorize. Control Plus on a PC or Command Plus on a Mac will always zoom in. Control or Command Minus will zoom out and Plus is in and Control Zero, Command Zero returns it to fit in the space on your screen. These shortcuts always work to change the image magnification no matter what task you're in the midst of in Photoshop. To jump to 100 percent, you can use the Magnification Control in the Application Bar or you can double click on the Zoom Tool down here. When you're zoomed into your image, so that all of it is no longer visible, there are several ways to move about through the image. Some people like to use the Navigator Panel. So let's come up here to Window, Navigator and we see a new panel appears up here. This tiny little red box shows exactly which part of the image we're seeing over here. I can click and drag it to see different parts of the image. I can also change the image magnification from the Navigator, sliding it to whatever is convenient. I personally prefer to use the scrollbars over here on the sides of the image. Note that you can click and drag them and get your image into view and then when you want to see the next screen, if you place your cursor in the white area immediately below the blue scrollbar and you click, then Photoshop has moved down to the next unit and made that visible. If you follow the Navigator while I click, this may be more apparent. I'll click. See the Navigator has moved down? And the area that's visible over here has moved down. That way you can be sure that you're not missing any area when you're checking your image for dust. Another thing that you can do is to press the Spacebar to temporarily access the Hand Tool and click and drag. Of course as you saw in another movie, you can come up here and click on the Hand Tool and click and drag as well. A new feature in Photoshop CS4 is the Birds Eye View. When you're working along at a high magnification, such as when checking for dust, and perhaps you have the Spot Healing Brush selected or any other tool and you want to temporarily see the entire image, press and hold H on your keyboard, which accesses the Hand Tool, click and you'll momentarily zoom out. Now, you have to keep the H Key depressed as well as keep the click held. You can then drag the box to another area if you want to move to a new area or leave it where it was. When you release the H and your left click, you'll zoom back into the new area and you will still be on your original tool. So let's take a look at that again. I'll press H, click in, move and let go. If you let go one at a time, if you let go like I did the first time of the H Key first and then let go of the left click, you will no longer be on the same tool that you were originally working in. So that's something that you want to be a little bit cautious of. But Birds Eye View can make it a little faster because you don't have to constantly click back on the tool that you were working on when you're also wanting to zoom out. It's really pretty slick.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers |
| Author: | Ellen Anon |
| SKU: | 34036 |
| ISBN: | 1-935320-74-2 |
| Release Date: | 2009-09-23 |
| Duration: | 8.5 hrs / 112 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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