From the course: Introducing Photoshop
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Using the Hand and Zoom tools - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Introducing Photoshop
Using the Hand and Zoom tools
- [Instructor] All right, now I'll introduce you to a couple of tools down here at the bottom of the toolbox, namely the hand tool, which looks like a hand, and the zoom tool, which looks like a magnifying glass, both of which allow you to get around inside of an image with a lot more precision. Now, I just opened this image, so I'm zoomed pretty far out. And so let's say I want to zoom in. I'll just go ahead and press Control + plus or Command + plus on the Mac to zoom in incrementally. But notice as I do, I'm always zooming with respect to the center of the image. And as a result, I'm getting a good view of this guy's nostril. Well, let's say I want to pan the image to a different location. Then I could go ahead and select the hand tool, which notice has a keyboard shortcut of H. We'll come back to that in a moment. But the easier way to access that tool when using any other tool inside Photoshop is to press and hold…
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