From the course: Drawing and Painting in Photoshop

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Navigating inside the file window

Navigating inside the file window - Photoshop Tutorial

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Navigating inside the file window

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- [Narrator] Let's have a look at how handling our digital canvas works in Photoshop. Now, if we create a new image file, Photoshop opens it in a window that fits onto our screen and also shows the full extent of our digital canvas. However, this means that often, our artwork is not shown in its original size. In this case, our artwork is shown at 50% of it's original size, and we can see that here in the info bar of our file window. If we go to View, 100%, we now see our artwork at its original size, which means that one pixel for our image file equals one pixel on our screen. But now we can't see the full extent of our digital canvas anymore, and we need to use the scroll bars here to navigate inside our file window. There's a more convenient way for this type of navigation, and we find it under Window, Navigator. This opens up the Navigator palette, and inside the Navigator palette, we always see the full extent of our digital canvas and a red rectangle that indicates the area that…

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