View images

• To display the default mode (menu bar at the top and scroll bars on the side), choose View > Screen Mode > Standard Screen Mode. Or, click the Screen Mode button  in the Application bar, and select Standard Screen Mode from the pop-up menu.

• To display a full-screen window with a menu bar and a 50% gray background, but no title bar or scroll bars, choose View > Screen Mode > Full Screen Mode With Menu Bar. Or, click the Screen Mode button in the Application bar, and select Full Screen Mode With Menu Bar from the pop-up menu.

• To display a full-screen window with only a black background (no title bar, menu bar, or scroll bars), choose View > Screen Mode > Full Screen Mode. Or, click the Screen Mode button in the Application bar, and select Full Screen Mode from the pop-up menu.

• Use the window scroll bars.

• 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.

• Drag the colored box (proxy view area) in the Navigator panel.

• Drag in the image. A compass will indicate north in the image, regardless of the current canvas angle.

• In the options bar, enter degrees in the Rotation Angle field.

• Click or drag the circular Set Angle of Rotation control.

Choose Photoshop > Preferences > Interface (Mac OS).

In the General section, deselect Enable Gestures.

• To display the Navigator panel, select Window > Navigator.

• To change the magnification, type a value in the text box, click the Zoom Out or Zoom In button, or drag the zoom slider.

• 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.

  Tip: To simultaneously set the size and position of the proxy area, Control-drag (Windows) or Command-drag (Mac OS) in the image thumbnail.

• To change the color of the proxy view area, select Panel Options from the panel menu. Select a preset color from the Color pop‑up menu, or click the color box to choose a custom color.

Enables continuous zooming while holding down the Zoom tool

See Automatically resize the window when zooming.

Enables zooming with the scroll wheel on your mouse.

Centers the zoom view on the clicked location.

• Select the Zoom tool , and click either the Zoom In  orZoom Out button  in the options bar. Then, click the area you want to zoom in or out.

  Tip: To quickly switch to zoom out mode, hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS).

• Choose View > Zoom In or View >Zoom Out. The Zoom In or Zoom Out command becomes unavailable when the maximum image magnification or reduction is reached.

• Set the zoom level at the lower left corner of the document window or in the Navigator panel.

• Double-click the Zoom tool in the toolbox.

• (Creative Cloud) Choose View > 100% or, click 100% in either the Zoom tool or Hand tool options bar.

• Choose View > Actual Pixels or, click Actual Pixels in either the Zoom tool or Hand tool options bar.

• Enter 100% in the Status Bar and press Enter (Windows) or Return (Mac OS).

• Click and hold in the image to zoom in. Press Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) to zoom out.

• In the options bar, select Scrubby Zoom. Then drag to the left in the image to zoom out, or to the right to zoom in.

The area inside the zoom marquee is displayed at the highest possible magnification. To move the marquee around the artwork in Photoshop, begin dragging a marquee and then hold down the spacebar.

The current tool changes to the Hand tool, and the image magnification changes as follows:

• If the entire image originally fit within the document window, the image zooms in to fit the window.

• If only a portion of the image was originally visible, the image zooms out. Drag the zoom marquee to magnify a different part of the image.

The image returns to the previous magnification and tool.

When Resize Windows To Fit is deselected (the default), the window maintains a constant size regardless of the image magnification. This can be helpful when using smaller monitors or working with tiled views.

• Double-click the Hand tool in the toolbox.

• Choose View > Fit On Screen.

• Select a zoom tool or the Hand tool, and click the Fit On Screen button in the options bar.

  These options scale both the zoom level and the window size to fit the available screen space.