Photoshop offers a variety of ways to view your image documents as you work with them. You can pull back to look at the big picture or zoom in to work on a tiny portion of the image in minute detail. A useful Navigator palette is also at hand to show you exactly where you are in an image and help you move to a specific spot with a click of the mouse button. Should you want to align objects precisely on the screen, Photoshop offers grids and guides with some “magnetic” properties. And, if you’re having trouble finding the image you want, Photoshop even includes a browser to help you search visually.
Looking at the Image Window
Each Photoshop image document resides in its own window, which provides multiple views of the same document. You can drag the window anywhere in the Photoshop working space, but you can’t drag it to a second display screen if you’re using Photoshop with more than one monitor in Windows (Mac users
can, though). Remember that you can, however, move palettes and dialog boxes onto a second monitor.
The image window comes in handy because sometimes you’ll want to look at an image from two perspectives. For example, you may want to get up close and personal with an image to edit pixels, but you still want to view the full image in a fairly large size. Or, you might want to zoom in on two different portions of an image, but find that simply enlarging the entire image on your screen doesn’t show both parts at once.
In either case, all you need to do is create a new image window for the same image. You can size each window separately, and you can center the window on any portion of the image you like. For example, you can have one window zoomed in on the upperright corner of an image and a second window zoomed in on the lower-right corner, and have both visible on the screen at once.
Here’s a quick list of what you can do with multiple windows:
-->Keep different parts of an image straight by creating multiple windows. Select the document window you want to duplicate, and then choose Window➪Arrange➪New Window for (filename) from the menu bar. You can size and position the new window and zoom in or out without affecting the view of the original window.
-->Keep windows organized by cascading them. If you find that you’ve created so many windows that you can’t view them all easily, Photoshop can automatically arrange them for you in its working space. Choose Window➪Arrange➪Cascade to create an overlapping stack of windows arranged from the upper-left to the lower-right side of your display.
-->Keep from losing important windows by tiling them. Choose Window➪Arrange➪Tileto arrange the windows side by side without overlapping. Photoshop changes the size of the document windows so they all fit on the screen, but doesn’t change the zoom amount. In many cases, the reduced-size windows have scroll bars to let you view the hidden portion of the window.
-->Tidy up by closing windows you don’t need anymore. To close a specific window, click its Close button in the upper-right corner of its title bar under Windows (at the top left in the Mac OS).
-->Close all windows in one fell swoop. To close all windows, choose Window➪Arrange➪Close All (or press Shift+Ctrl+W) in Windows. If you’re using Mac OS, choose File➪Close All instead. On the Mac, you can also hold down the Option key and click the Close button to close all open documents.
-->Minimize a document (in Mac OS). To minimize an active document and place the thumbnail in the Dock, choose Window➪Arrange➪Minimize. To maximize the image, simply click the image thumbnail in the Dock.
-->Bring all Photoshop documents to the front (in Mac OS). The Mac OS allows you to work in multiple applications and multiple files simultaneously. Sometimes when you switch back into working in Photoshop, your documents may be buried behind non-Photoshop files that are open in the other applications (the files are interleaved).
Choose Window➪Arrange➪Bring All to Front to bring all your Photoshop documents to the forefront.
Looking at the Image Window
Each Photoshop image document resides in its own window, which provides multiple views of the same document. You can drag the window anywhere in the Photoshop working space, but you can’t drag it to a second display screen if you’re using Photoshop with more than one monitor in Windows (Mac users
can, though). Remember that you can, however, move palettes and dialog boxes onto a second monitor.
You can move palettes and dialog boxes out of the main working space (and onto a second monitor), but documents must stay put in the original display if you’re using Windows.
The image window comes in handy because sometimes you’ll want to look at an image from two perspectives. For example, you may want to get up close and personal with an image to edit pixels, but you still want to view the full image in a fairly large size. Or, you might want to zoom in on two different portions of an image, but find that simply enlarging the entire image on your screen doesn’t show both parts at once.
In either case, all you need to do is create a new image window for the same image. You can size each window separately, and you can center the window on any portion of the image you like. For example, you can have one window zoomed in on the upperright corner of an image and a second window zoomed in on the lower-right corner, and have both visible on the screen at once.
Here’s a quick list of what you can do with multiple windows:
-->Keep different parts of an image straight by creating multiple windows. Select the document window you want to duplicate, and then choose Window➪Arrange➪New Window for (filename) from the menu bar. You can size and position the new window and zoom in or out without affecting the view of the original window.
-->Keep windows organized by cascading them. If you find that you’ve created so many windows that you can’t view them all easily, Photoshop can automatically arrange them for you in its working space. Choose Window➪Arrange➪Cascade to create an overlapping stack of windows arranged from the upper-left to the lower-right side of your display.
-->Keep from losing important windows by tiling them. Choose Window➪Arrange➪Tileto arrange the windows side by side without overlapping. Photoshop changes the size of the document windows so they all fit on the screen, but doesn’t change the zoom amount. In many cases, the reduced-size windows have scroll bars to let you view the hidden portion of the window.
-->Tidy up by closing windows you don’t need anymore. To close a specific window, click its Close button in the upper-right corner of its title bar under Windows (at the top left in the Mac OS).
-->Close all windows in one fell swoop. To close all windows, choose Window➪Arrange➪Close All (or press Shift+Ctrl+W) in Windows. If you’re using Mac OS, choose File➪Close All instead. On the Mac, you can also hold down the Option key and click the Close button to close all open documents.
-->Minimize a document (in Mac OS). To minimize an active document and place the thumbnail in the Dock, choose Window➪Arrange➪Minimize. To maximize the image, simply click the image thumbnail in the Dock.
-->Bring all Photoshop documents to the front (in Mac OS). The Mac OS allows you to work in multiple applications and multiple files simultaneously. Sometimes when you switch back into working in Photoshop, your documents may be buried behind non-Photoshop files that are open in the other applications (the files are interleaved).
Choose Window➪Arrange➪Bring All to Front to bring all your Photoshop documents to the forefront.
Viewing and Navigating Images in Photoshop
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