#14Photoshop Trick: When Your Screen Gone Wild, Use the Spacebar!

Posted on 6:14 AM by Daniy

Working on a detail image and making selection by using lasso tools would be a tough work to do. You usually zoom the image, make a start point click, trace and apply ticks on some corners. But when your pointer reaches the edge of the canvas, suddenly the image scrolls too far. It must be hard times since you can’t move pointer to scroll bar and bring back your view to the last check-point. The view becomes ‘wild’ as you move the pointer around the canvas. So how will you tame this ‘wild-buffalo’ lasso tool and get your job done with a fast and furious trick?

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The answer lies on the long bar on your keyboard, which usually called: space-bar. This key is a total solution for most navigating problems which occurs in Photoshop. Hold the space-bar and your pointer will instantly turn into the hand-shaped tool that will help you grab the view and move it in any direction. Release the key and the pointer will return to the previous active tool; in this case the lasso tool.

Here’s another handy trick. While you hold the space-bar, press Ctrl [Mac: Command] at the same time, and the pointer will turn to “zoom in” tool that lets you enlarge the view of your image. Press Alt [Mac: Option] you will find the “zoom out” tool. What a trick, huh?

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3 Comments:

At July 17, 2008 at 11:17 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

sweeeeeeeet thanks!

 
At October 24, 2008 at 2:04 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I FOUND OUT how to turn off this "extra scroll"...in preferences/General, uncheck the "Use shift key for tool switch", and screen will not scroll while a tool (such as polygon lasso) is being used.

 
At April 5, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Anonymous online free Dating Service said...

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