Adobe PHOTOSHOP 6.0 Manual page 23

Set rulers, guides, and the grid
guides, and grid lines:
• To display rulers along the top and left side of the document window, choose View > Show Rulers.
(In Photoshop, you can change the ruler units by choosing Edit > Preferences > Units & Rulers.)
• To place a horizontal or vertical guide, drag from either the horizontal or vertical ruler.
• (Photoshop) To display grid lines throughout the document window, choose View > Show > Grid.
(You can control the color, style, and spacing of the grid and guide lines by choosing Edit >
Preferences > Guides & Grid.)
You can toggle the display of guides and grid lines at any time by choosing the appropriate command from
the View > Show submenu. Checked items are visible; unchecked items are hidden.
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Adjust the image view
ImageReady offer several tools for navigating and
magnifying the view of your image:
• To move a different area of the image into view,
drag with the hand tool ( ) in the image.
You can use the hand tool while another tool is
selected by holding down the spacebar.
To magnify the view, select the zoom tool ( ),
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and click in the image or drag over the part of
the image you want to magnify. To reduce the
view magnification, Alt-click (Windows) or
Option-click (Mac OS) with the zoom tool in
the image.
(Photoshop) To adjust the image view using the Navigator palette, choose Window > Show Navigator.
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In the Navigator palette, drag the view box in the image thumbnail to move the view, or click the area
of the thumbnail that you want to display in the window.
To display the same image in multiple windows, choose View > New View. Multiple windows let you
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display different views of the same image.
To help position and align elements accurately in the image, use rulers,
Drag with the zoom tool to magnify.
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