Complete Guide To Navigating Images In Photoshop

In this fourth chapter of our Photoshop Basics series, you'll learn how to navigate images in Photoshop. In Lesson 1, you'll start with the basics of zooming and scrolling, learning all about the Zoom Tool, the Hand Tool and Photoshop's basic navigation commands. Then in Lesson 2, you'll move from navigating a single image to learning how to zoom and scroll multiple images at once!

Lesson 3 looks at the Navigator panel and why it's a great way to keep track of where you are in an image when you're zoomed in! And in Lesson 4, you'll learn how to scroll an image at any zoom level using a new option in Photoshop CC known as Overscroll.

Birds Eye View is an amazing yet hidden feature in Photoshop that lets you instantly jump from one part of an image to another. You'll learn the secret trick to using Birds Eye View in Lesson 5. And if you've ever drawn with a pencil, you know that rotating the paper can make it easier to work. Lesson 6 shows you how to do the same thing with your image using Photoshop's Rotate View Tool. Finally, in Lesson 7, we'll round up all of the essential tips, tricks and shortcuts for navigating your images like a pro in Photoshop!

Use the 7 tutorials below, in the order they're presented, to get up to speed with navigating images in Photoshop quickly. Need print versions of our tutorials? All of our Photoshop tutorials are now available as print-ready PDFs!