The Navigator Palette
If you do a lot of detail work where you need to zoom in on your image as if you're wearing glasses as thick as Coke bottles, you should love the Navigator palette (Figure 1.16). The Navigator palette floats above your document and allows you to quickly move around and zoom in and out of your image. A little red box indicates which area of the image you're currently viewing. By dragging this box around the miniature image of your document that appears in the Navigator palette, you can change which area you're viewing in the main image window. You can also just click outside the red box and the box will center itself on your cursor.
Figure 1.16. The Navigator palette.
 | If you don't like the color of the little red box, or if there's so much red in your image that the box becomes difficult to see, you can change the box color by choosing Palette Options from the side menu of the palette. |
There are a number of ways to zoom in on your document by using this palette. Use the Mountain icons to zoom in or out at preset increments (50%, 66.67%, 100%, 200%, and so on), or grab the slider between them to zoom to any level. You can change the number in the lower-left corner of the palette to zoom to an exact percentage. However, my favorite method is to drag across the image while holding down the Command key (Macintosh) or the Ctrl key (Windows), to zoom into a specific area.