Viewing images

You can view your image at any magnification level from 0.29% (Photoshop) or 12.5% (ImageReady) to 1600% of the image’s actual size. Adobe Photoshop displays this percentage in the image window title bar. When you use any of the viewing tools and commands, you affect the display of the image, not the image dimensions or file size.

Using the View menu

To enlarge or reduce the view of an image using the View menu, do one of the following:

• Choose View > Zoom In to enlarge the display of the image.
  
  
• Choose View > Zoom Out to reduce the display of the image.
  
  
• Choose View > Fit on Screen. The size of the image and the size of your monitor determine how large the image appears on-screen.
  
  

Each time you choose a Zoom command, the view of the image is resized. The percentage at which the image is viewed is displayed in the Title bar and in the lower left corner of the image window.

Using the zoom tool

In addition to the View commands, you can use the zoom tool to magnify and reduce the view of an image.

1.	Select the zoom tool () and move the tool pointer onto the 01Start image. Notice that a plus sign appears at the center of the zoom tool.
2.	Position the zoom tool over one of the skater images in the 01Start image, and click once to magnify the image to the next largest preset percentage.
3.	With the zoom tool selected and positioned in the image area, hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS). A minus sign appears at the center of the zoom tool ().
4.	Click once; the magnification of the image is reduced to the next lower preset percentage. You can also draw a marquee with the zoom tool to magnify a specific area of an image.
5.	Draw a marquee around the head of one of the skaters using the zoom tool. Area selected Resulting view The percentage at which the area is magnified is determined by the size of the marquee you draw with the zoom tool. (The smaller the marquee you draw, the larger the level of magnification will be.) Note You can draw a marquee with the zoom-in tool to enlarge the view of an image, but you cannot draw a marquee with the zoom-out tool to reduce the view of an image. You can use the zoom tool to return quickly to a 100% view, regardless of the current magnification level.
6.	In the toolbox, double-click the zoom tool button to return the 01Start file to a 100% view. Because the zoom tool is used frequently during the editing process to enlarge and reduce the view of an image, you can select it from the keyboard at any time without deselecting the active tool.
7.	Select another tool, such as the hand tool ().
8.	Use the keyboard to temporarily select the zoom-in tool by holding down spacebar+Ctrl (Windows) or spacebar+Command (Mac OS). Click to zoom in on an area of the image, and then release the keys.
9.	To select the zoom-out tool from the keyboard, hold down spacebar+Alt (Windows) or spacebar+Option (Mac OS). Click the image to reduce the magnification, and then release the keys.

Scrolling an image

You use the hand tool to scroll through an image that does not fit in the active window. If the image fits in the active window, the hand tool has no effect when you drag it in the image window.

1.	Drag the lower right corner of the image window inward to reduce the window size so that only part of the image fits in the window.
2.	Select the hand tool () and drag different directions in the image window to bring another skater into view. As you drag, the image moves with the hand tool pointer. Like the zoom tool, you can select the hand tool from the keyboard without deselecting the active tool.
3.	Select any tool but the hand tool.
4.	Hold down the spacebar to select the hand tool from the keyboard. Drag to reposition the image. Then release the spacebar.
5.	Double-click the zoom tool to return the image to 100% magnification.

Using the Navigator palette

The Photoshop Navigator palette lets you scroll an image at different magnification levels without scrolling or resizing an image in the image window. (ImageReady does not have a Navigator palette.)

Using the Info bar

In Photoshop, the Info bar is positioned at the lower border of the application window (Windows) or the lower border of the image window (Mac OS). This area displays the current magnification, an area for specific choices of information types, and context-sensitive information about the currently selected tool. In ImageReady, the Info bar appears at the lower border of the image window.

You can click an arrow button on the Info bar to open a pop-up menu of different categories of information. Your selection from the menu determines what kind of information appears next to that arrow on the Info bar.

Photoshop Info bar

ImageReady Info bar

By default, the file size for the active image appears in the Info bar. The first value indicates the size if saved as a flattened file with no layer data; the second value indicates the size if saved with all layers and channels.

In ImageReady, you can use the percentage pop-up menu in the Info bar to change the view of an image by a preset zoom percentage. For complete information on the ImageReady Info bar options, see “Looking at the Work Area” in ImageReady 7.0 online Help.