#15 Photoshop Tips: Navigate Document with the Navigator
Posted on 6:20 AM by Daniy
You can maximize the function of every instrument in Photoshop to enhance your work performance. For that some time, you might see the navigator palette as only an image box which views the entire canvas that you’re working on. But wait there are more to do with this stuff.
Remember when you zoom to your image, you’ll see a red box floating somewhere inside the navigator. It’s the indicator to exact location of your current view in your canvas from the entire image. Put your pointer some place on the red box, and you’ll find the pointer turn to hand-shaped tool. As you drag the hand, the image in your canvas will follow immediately. Now, why don’t you press the Ctrl [Mac: Command] from this point? Surely, you’ll meet the chance to zoom as much as you like.
Finally, the navigator is for navigation, isn’t it?
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#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?
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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