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Shortcuts for viewing and moving around your images quickly
It is so much quicker to navigate around you image using Photoshop keyboard shortcuts, plus it looks cool when people are looking over your shoulder!
Seriously though, these are useful for any user and should be amongst the first shortcuts you learn. You will never need to reach for that zoom tool again once you have these in your shortcut arsenal!
Apple+0
Fits image to screen
Double click zoom tool in main tool palette
Sets zoom level to 100%
Apple and +/-
Changes zoom in increments
Hold down Space
Temporarily swap active tool to hand tool
Hold down Space+Apple
Swaps active tool to zoom tool (zoom in)
Hold down Space+Apple+Option
Swaps active tool to zoom tool (zoom out)
Page Up or Page Down
Scroll up or down 1 screen height
Apple+Page Up/Page Down
Scroll left or right 1 screen width
Shift+Page Up/Page Down
Scroll up or down 10 units of current measurement
Apple+Shift+Page Up/Page Down
Scroll left or right 10 units of current measurement
Home
Move to top left of image
End
Move to bottom right of image
There are also some other ways to move around your image. The Navigator palette gives you a thumbnail of your image with various controls for moving around and zooming in on your image. It does steal some processing power though slowing things down a little and can steal valuable screen space (although it is resizable), so not so great for single monitor users. It is useful for more precise work in Photoshop, if you want to stay at a specific zoom level and get to certain areas of your image, rather than zooming out then zooming in on the new area.
You can also just type in a number in the zoom level field at the bottom left of your image if you want a precise zoom level quickly.
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Written by Jonny Allbut - freelance graphic designer
Last modified: 13 November, 2006 (13:47) | First published: 13 November, 2006
Filed under Shortcuts - Categorised sets 2 Comments »
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Comment by outsourcing
November 15, 2006 @ 11:23 pm
cool, great tips! thanks!
Comment by Jonny
November 17, 2006 @ 2:09 pm
Well thank-you, hope you put it to good use! There are lots of other great tips on this website for you to discover!!