| Clicking in the image when the zoom
tool has been selected in the toolbox will increase or decrease the
magnification of the image by a preset amount. The change will be
centered on the spot clicked. Repeated clicking will continue to
increase or decrease the magnification. If you reach the maximum amount
available, the center of the zoom tool's cursor will appear empty. To
reduce magnification, hold down the Alt key and click in the image, or
choose the minus icon in the tool’s options bar. Decreases will be in
preset increments. Repeated clicking will reduce the image farther.
To temporarily access the zoom tool while using other tools, press
Ctrl-spacebar to zoom in (increase magnification), or Alt-Spacebar to
zoom out.
Note - if your Alt key does not appear to be working in
Elements, you may have another program running in the background that
has taken over that key. GuruNet (Atomica) and FlySwat are two such
applications. Uninstall them, or reassign the hot key in those programs
to regain use of the Alt key in Elements.
You can drag a selection rectangle with the zoom tool, and that part
of the image will be magnified to fill the screen. This is my preferred
way of zooming.
Double clicking the zoom tool icon in the toolbox will cause image
magnification to go to 100 %.
Other ways to change image magnification include using the
Navigator palette, or typing an exact amount in the box at the
extreme left corner of the status bar, and then pressing Enter. Double
clicking the
Hand tool's icon in the toolbox will cause the image to resize to
fill its window.
The keyboard shortcut for this tool is the letter Z. |
