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Panning and zooming documents

Panning and zooming documents - Photoshop Tutorial

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Panning and zooming documents

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- [Instructor] There are a number of different ways to zoom in and out and pan around images in Photoshop. I'm going to show you a number of different ways so that you can choose your favorite. Here in bridge. I'm going to select the Mesquite Dunes and Zabriskie Point image and use Command + O in order to open them both into Photoshop. Now the easiest way to select the zoom tool is to choose it in the toolbar or just tap the Z key. By default I've got it selected to zoom in on the options bar, so every time I click, I'll zoom into the image. I can either choose the zoom out option or just hold down the Option key on Mac or the Alt key on Windows if I want to zoom out. If I click and hold, I can continuously zoom in on an image, and if we go far enough, we'll actually start seeing this pixel grid overlay, and this is called animated zoom. If I want to zoom in and out much faster, I can use Scrubby Zoom. I do…

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