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Zooming techniques

Zooming techniques - Photoshop Tutorial

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Zooming techniques

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- [Instructor] I know what you're thinking, zooming is probably one of the first things you learned when you started using Photoshop, and you're right. Most people know how to zoom using one method or another. But some methods are a little more efficient than others, so let me share some techniques with you. Now the first method that most people are aware of is using the keyboard shortcut on your keyboard, which is Command or Control + Plus to zoom in and Command or Control + Minus to zoom out. And again I'm just kind of tapping the minus key as I'm holding down the modifier, and it zooms in and out incrementally. And that works pretty well, but if I'm trying to zoom in on the lady bug on the left, as I zoom in, it's going to move it out of view because it's zooming in on the middle of my screen. So, the other shortcut that's extremely useful that I use all the time is Command or Control + 0 to just kind of fit the image to your window. Now, the other mechanism that works pretty well…

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