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Zooming in and out of large documents used to be awkward, but with Birds Eye View you will zipping around like a pro.
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Quick reference
Topic
Bird's Eye View is a quick tip for navigating around large documents.
When to use
Zooming in and out of large documents used to be awkward, but with Bird's Eye View you will zipping around like a pro.
Instructions
Regular navigating 1
- Hold down the Command or Control key and press the plus or minus keys
Regular navigating 2
- Use the navigating panel at the top right to set the percentage size and the position.
Bird's Eye View
- From a zoomed in perspective, hold the H key and click your mouse button to zoom out and see the whole document.
- Click anywhere in the document to zoom in to the area that you click on.
- 00:00 Hey everyone, Howard Pinsky here with a quick PhotoShop tip for you.
- 00:03 Looking at PhotoShop's Bird's Eye View feature, which for many view may be the
- 00:07 first time you've come across it.
- 00:09 Put yourself in the following situation: you're working on editing a very high
- 00:13 resolution photo,
- 00:14 and you are zoomed in quite close to see the detail. Instead of zooming back out by
- 00:18 holding the Command key and then pressing the minus key a few times,
- 00:21 and then zooming into a new area, here's a much quicker way of navigating around
- 00:25 your high res images.
- 00:27 Whenever you're zoomed in on an image, instead of going to the extra step such as the one
- 00:31 outlined,
- 00:32 holding down the H key on your keyboard and then holding down your
- 00:35 mouse button
- 00:36 will bring you into Bird's Eye View. You'll notice a rectangular
- 00:39 outline that moves as you drag your mouse. Place it over the next area that you want
- 00:43 to focus on, and let go!
- 00:44 You're zoomed in and ready to continue editing.
- 00:47 Hold down 'H' pan to another area and continue editing.
- 00:51 Super simple, super effective, and that's Bird's Eye View in PhotoShop.
- 00:54 If you find yourself working on a very large
- 00:58 document,
- 00:59 remember this quick tip and it may save you a little bit of time.
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