Tips for zooming & navigating your document

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Web design skills are one of the most employable opportunities of our lifetime. In this course you’ll learn how to design a professional website in Photoshop. We’ll start right at the basics of Photoshop and work our way through to building professional website concepts.

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Daniel Scott

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Hi. In this video we're gonna look at zooming  and moving around in a document. Now there are many ways to zoom in and out of a document. I'm gonna show you the quickest and easiest way on our Mac. You hold down the command key  and tap the plus on your keyboard. Now, if you're on a pc, hold down the control key  and tap plus and it will zoom in.

Now, holding that same key  and tapping the minus will zoom out. Now what we wanna do is we wanna make sure  that we're viewing our Photoshop mockup at the same size. It's gonna be rendered in our web browser. Um, because our web browser, obviously we can't zoom in  and out like we can do in Photoshop. So what we wanna do is see it at actual size. Now to do this, if you are on any computer other than a new  MacBook Pro, the easiest way is to get a view  and pick a hundred percent.

Okay? That will show it at its actual size. Now, you can see our mine here,  it is about half the size it should be  because I'm using our MacBook Pro with a retina display. And long story short,  it essentially shows you everything at about half size. Now, what we need to do with anybody with a MacBook Pro is  that you need to be set to this 200%, okay? Blow it up twice the size.

Now Photoshop will show it the same sort of size. It will show you on a website, so you can  be a bit clearer about what sort  of font sizes you want to pick. So to be clear, if you are on any computer,  but a MacBook Pro Retina  display, use this a hundred percent. If you are on a retina display, use 200%. Now that we're in this kind  of closer zoom level, we wanna move around. Now the long way is I could drag these little  sliders around, and that works.

A nicer way to work is if I hold down my  spacebar key on my keyboard. You'll see my cursor changes from, uh, move tool  to this little hand. And this hand will allow me to click hold  and drag my mouse okay? And move around my document so I can click,  I'm holding my space bar key down the whole time,  and I'm clicking, and I'm dragging,  and then letting go with my mouse. And this is a nice, easy way to move  around the document, right? That's, uh, zooming and navigating your document.
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