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Press on the Alt key (Option key on the Mac) while still holding down these two keys and you can zoom out. Now hold down Ctrl + Space Bar (Command + Space Bar on the Mac) and you can zoom in. Click for example on the Elliptical Marquee Tool icon. You can also use the Zoom Tool when it's not active. Hold down the Alt key (option key on the Mac) and the cursor changes to and we're now able to zoom out by pressing the mouse button again. Open an image, select the zoom tool and move the cursor over the image the cursor will turn into something like this, which means that we can now zoom in by pressing our left mouse button once. This allows us to see a lot more details:Īnother way to zoom in or out is by using the Zoom Tool (shortcut is Z) in the options bar. Important to mention is that we can resize the navigator panel by clicking and dragging the lower right corner that I have marked in this screenshot: Look at the screenshots in the left image we're not able to move the square and in the right image we have no problem to do this: Note: you can only move the square if it's smaller than the image itself (in case you wonder why the little hand cursor doesn't appear when you move over the square). When that happens you just hold down the left mouse button and move the square to reveal a different part of your image in the document window. We can move this square by moving our mouse cursor over the square until a little hand appears. The red square marked with D tells us which area of the image will be visible in our document window and will get smaller and smaller the more we zoom in. Clicking on the icon marked with C allows us to zoom in. We can also use the slider marked with E to zoom out by moving the slider to the left or zoom in by moving it to the right.īy clicking the icon marked with B we're able to zoom out in small steps. Only values between 0.11% and 1600% are allowed. In the box marked with A we can enter the zoom factor which is currently 81.97%. Let's have a look at the navigator palette:
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If the navigator palette is not visible, then you have to enable it first in the menu by going to Windows / Navigator. We can also use Photoshop's Navigator Palette to navigate our image. The Print Size button displays the pixels at the size it will print ( see Image / Image Size. The Actual Pixels button also allows you to zoom in at 100% and the Fit On Screen button allows you to fit the image inside your document window, like we did earlier by double clicking on the Hand Tool icon (or using the shortcut). When the Zoom Tool is active you'll also notice 3 buttons in your options bar: The same can be achieved by pressing Ctrl + 0 (read 'zero') in Windows or Command + 0 on the Mac. We can also fit our image inside our current document window and we do this by double clicking on the Hand Tool icon (shortcut is H) in the tool bar. Viewing an image doesn't effect the image in any way, so don't you worry if you see these artifacts at other zoom levels than 100%, because they're only visible in your document window. The only difference is that after using Image / Image Size these artifacts are final, but not when we're just viewing with the wrong percentage. Zoom out to 90% or zooming in to 110% creates artifacts in our document window.īut then again, any resampling of an image, whether you're using zoom or Image / Image Size in your menu has a negative effect on the quality of your image. In the original image at 100% we see a smooth line. Zooming in to 100% ( 1 to 1 view) is important if you want to have an undistorted view on your pixels. The same can be achieved by pressing Alt + Ctrl + 0 (read 'zero') in Windows or Option + Command + 0 on the Mac. You can quickly zoom in to 100% by double clicking on the Zoom Tool icon in the tool bar. Note: in Photoshop CS2 every single document window has its own status bar, in earlier versions there's only one status bar for all images (at the bottom).
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Sometimes this status bar is disabled and in that case you have to go the menu and select Window / Status Bar to enable it ( will appear in front of it). In this example we can change the value 89,21% to 200% by entering a value of 200 and pressing enter.
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We can do that for example by using the status bar: Sometimes we want to zoom in with a specific percentage. So if you want make sure it always works, just hold down this key like I always do. Note: sometimes you need to hold down the Alt key (option key on the Mac) when you use the scroll wheel, I think it's a glitch in Photoshop. It's easy to zoom in/out in Photoshop if we have a wheel mouse rolling the wheel away from us allows us to zoom out, rolling the wheel towards us allows us to zoom in.