Use the rotate view tool, Use the navigator panel – Adobe Photoshop CS4 User Manual
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USING PHOTOSHOP CS4
Workspace
Last updated 1/10/2010
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Select the Hand tool and drag to pan over the image. To use the Hand tool while another tool is selected, hold down
the spacebar as you drag in the image.
If your computer has OpenGL, you can use the Hand tool to “flick pan” the image in the direction you want to view.
After a quick mouse gesture, the image will move as if you were continuously dragging. Enable this feature by choosing
Edit > Preferences > General (Windows) or Photoshop > Preferences > General (Mac OS) and then select Enable Flick
Panning.
Dragging the Hand tool to view another area of an image
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Drag the colored box (proxy view area) in the Navigator panel.
Use the Rotate View tool
You use the Rotate View tool to rotate the canvas non-destructively; it does not transform the image. Rotating the
canvas can be useful for any number of reasons, including facilitating easier painting or drawing. (OpenGL is
required.)
Use rotate gestures on Macbook Pro and Macbook Air computers with multi-touch trackpads to non-destructively
rotate the canvas.
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Do any of the following:
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Select the Rotate View tool
and click-drag in the image to rotate. A compass will indicate north in the image,
regardless of the current canvas angle.
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Select the Rotate View tool. Enter a numeric value (to indicate degrees of shifting) in the Rotation Angle field.
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Select the Rotate View tool. Click (or click-drag to scrub) on the Set Angle of Rotation of the View control.
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To restore the canvas to the original angle, click Reset View.
For a video on the Rotate View tool and other workspace tips, see
Use the Navigator panel
You use the Navigator panel to quickly change the view of your artwork using a thumbnail display. The colored box
in the Navigator (called the proxy view area) corresponds to the currently viewable area in the window.
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Do one or more of the following:
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To display the Navigator panel, select Window
> Navigator.
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To change the magnification, type a value in the text box, click the Zoom Out or Zoom In button, or drag the zoom
slider.
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To move the view of an image, drag the proxy view area in the image thumbnail. You can also click the image
thumbnail to designate the viewable area.