Navigator Panel take 1: Use the slider along the bottom of the panel. Use the shortcuts Cmd/Ctrl+= or Cmd/Ctrl+–Īlthough the shortcut is technically an equal sign, everyone thinks of these as plus (+) and minus (-) to zoom in and out. Choose Zoom In or Zoom Out from the View menu. (I borrowed this graphic from an old tip titled Use a scroll wheel to zoom in Adobe Photoshop.) On a Mac multitouch trackpad or Magic Mouse, you may also use option + two finger scrolling. Hold down Alt/option and use your mouse’s scroll wheel. Type a magnification at the lower left of your image. Choose the pop-down menu or type your an exact zoom percentage. Type a magnification value at the top of the screen. You can turn the Spotlight search shortcut off in System Preferences under Keyboard & Mouse (look under Keyboard Shortcuts). Tip: On the Mac, the Command+Spacebar conflicts with the default Spotlight search shortcut.
Hold down Cmd/Ctrl+Spacebar to access the zoom tool. Release the Z key to return to the tool you were just using. With any tool active, hold down (no, not just click) the Z key to temporarily activate the Zoon tool. Tip: Press and hold in one place for an animated zoom effect. You can also draw a box with the zoom cursor and the area you surround will fill the image window. You can select the zoom tool from the Toolbar (where it has always been) or at the top of the screen in the Photoshop Application Bar (shown below). I’ll be contributing my own additions in the comments along with the rest of you. How many different ways are there to zoom in Photoshop CS4? I’ve started us off with the eleven from Steve.
How to zoom in photoshop with keyboard pdf#
I was working on this week’s tip, when I got an email from Steve Laskevtich from Luminous Works with a PDF handout titled “11 Ways to Zoom in Photoshop CS4.” There are SO many ways to do the the same thing in Photoshop, that I (like I expect many of you will do) immediately set out to find ways of zooming that Steve had missed.