Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

There’s more than one way to move around your images choose the one that suits you.

There are a number of different ways of doing most things in Photoshop, and it’s the same when it comes to navigating around an image. Some Photoshop users tend not to use the Navigator palette or the Zoom Tool to access various parts of an image; they prefer using keyboard shortcuts to zoom in and out of the image, combined with holding down the [Spacebar] to activate the Hand Tool. However, many Photoshop users would be lost without access to the Navigator palette; the secret is to be aware of all the options available to you, so that you can choose the ones best suited to your work.

NAVIGATION OPTIONS:

THE NAVIGATOR palette’s slider makes it easy to zoom in and out of an image with far more precision than when using the Zoom Tool.

THE NAVIGATOR palette overlays a red rectangle on an image thumbnail to indicate which part of the image you’re working on in relation to the image as a whole. You can drag the rectangle about to quickly move around the image.

THE ADVANTAGE of using keyboard shortcuts to zoom in and out is that you can keep hold of the tool you’re working with, and don’t have to swap it for the Zoom Tool – this will save you lots of time. Press [Control]+[+] to zoom in and [Control]+[-] to zoom out. THE ZOOM TOOL does have its uses. Double-click on the tool’s icon in the toolbox to display the image’s actual pixel size.