Working Smart in Adobe Photoshop CS2
| Unless you work with small images, you'll spend a lot of time scrolling and zooming in and out. You could simply use the standard scroll bars that you see in every document window, and you can use the View > Zoom In and View > Zoom Out commands. There's also a magnifying glass in the toolbox; with that tool selected you can click a document to zoom in, or Option/Alt+click to zoom out. But Photoshop often provides much more efficient ways to achieve common tasks, and changing your view of a window is no exception. Nobody's going to make you memorize every shortcut in this topic; you should simply be aware of all of the choices before you so that you can identify your favorite shortcuts and work them into your normal work habits. Shortcuts for Zooming and Scrolling
Photoshop keyboard shortcuts for zooming are built around the plus (+) and minus (-) keys, while the shortcuts for scrolling are built around the Page Up and Page Down keys. Photoshop also makes extensive use of the scroll wheel on a mouse that has one. In Table 3.1 and Table 3.2, you see that you can change what the scroll wheel does by pressing a modifier key.
[*] If the zoom tool is selected, you don't need to press the Command / Ctrl key. [*] If the zoom tool is selected, you don't need to press the Command / Ctrl key. [*] If the zoom tool is selected, you don't need to press the Command / Ctrl key. [*] If the zoom tool is selected, you don't need to press the Command / Ctrl key.
[*] To increase the scroll or zoom amount, add the Shift key to the shortcut. [*] To increase the scroll or zoom amount, add the Shift key to the shortcut. [**] To decrease the scroll amount, add the Shift key to the shortcut. [**] To decrease the scroll amount, add the Shift key to the shortcut. What's so cool about scrolling with the keyboard? Many Photoshop artists like to work in Full-Screen mode, in which the scroll bars simply aren't there, so pressing the Page Up or Page Down key can be quicker and more precise than scrolling with the hand tool. Also, there are times, such as when you're retouching, when you want to examine every inch of an image without missing a spot. Although you can use the scroll bars to scroll the document one screen at a time, it's too easy to overshoot or lose your place. When you scroll with the keyboard, you can move across a document one precise screenful at a time. If you ever lose your place, you can hit the Home or End key to return to a known location.
Navigator Palette
The Navigator palette (Figure 3.1) is feature packed, but many power users don't use it. This is probably because as you become more skilled at getting around with the keyboard, navigation techniques that involve the mouse often slow you down, and the Navigator palette is very mouse oriented. Now, if you like using the mouse, the Navigator palette can be a great help. It comes with a zoom slider, a field where you can enter a zoom percentage, and a red rectangle that you can drag to scroll the document. Its greatest advantage is that when you're zoomed in, the red rectangle shows you which small area of the whole document you're viewing. If you don't need that feature, you might prefer to use other methods to zoom and scroll and therefore hide the Navigator palette to free up some space on your monitor. Figure 3.1. The Navigator palette (left) provides several ways to quickly change the view to any part of a document (right).
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