Inside Photoshop: Search Articles

Use the Navigator panel for precise movements

by Renée Dustman
Application:
Adobe Photoshop CS2/CS3/CS4/CS5
Operating Systems:
Macintosh, Microsoft Windows

When you need to edit fine detail in Adobe Photoshop, it’s helpful to magnify the area with the Zoom tool. Doing so, however, makes it difficult to know where you are in the image. You could expend time and energy scrolling around, trying to find a particular image area, but there’s a better way. At a time like this, you need the Navigator panel. To show this panel, choose Window > Navigator. A thumbnail of the entire image appears in the panel and a border (red, by defaul...