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Photoshop's Most Important Keyboard Shortcuts  - or

Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts to Zoom and Navigate

category: digital photography and image editing

Keyboard shortcuts are designed to save you time. Automating repetitive tasks by recording Actions and assigning keyboard shortcuts to them will save you even more time. But, if you're just an occasional Photoshop user, maybe most of the time it just isn't worth the effort.

You can, after all, do just about everything by clicking through the menus. Here is the exception: if everything is frozen because you are in a dialog box and you forgot, everyone forgets, to set the view to 100 percent because you're sharpening, or 300 percent to make sure the edge on your mask doesn't flake away during a levels adjustment, then you need these shortcuts; there is no other way.

To move the image around, dialog box or no, press the spacebar and your cursor turns into a hand that allows you to move your image. If you want to zoom in, hold the spacebar and press the Ctrl key while clicking anywhere in the image window. Each click zooms in tighter. If you want to zoom out, hold the spacebar and the Alt key while clicking. If you want to zoom straight to 100 percent, press Ctrl+Alt+0, that's zero, or fit on-screen Ctrl+ 0.

He said on 09.23.05 @ 04:35 PM CST