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Scroll wheel tricks

Scroll wheel tricks - Photoshop Tutorial

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Scroll wheel tricks

In this exercise I'm going to show you how to scroll and zoom an image using the scroll wheel on your mouse. It starts off pretty darn predictably. If you move your scroll wheel up, you're going to scroll upward inside the image. If you move it down, you're going to scroll downward. I mean what will they think of next? But here's the question, how do you move side-to-side, after all your typical everyday average mouse is made for business types, right? Folks who are in their word processors and their spreadsheets and their Internet browsers looking at their terribly tall documents, but never needing to go left or right. What do we creative professionals do inside the vast 2D world of Photoshop? Well, you do the same thing you do with the Page Up and Page Down keys. You press the Ctrl key here on the PC and the Command key on the Mac and with that key down, if you scroll upward, you'll scroll to the left. And if you scroll downward you'll move to the right. So that's what happens when…

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