Navigation Pane / BirdsEyeView

If you are really zoomed in your image, it may well happen that you do not know where you are in the picture. To assist us with this, we have the “Navigator” panel.
To unfold, click the icon for “Navigator” in the “Panels”. If this is not there for you, click “Window” in the menu bar and select “Navigator” in the drop-down menu. If this is not there in the list, first click the option “Show All Menu Items” and select “Navigator”.The part of the picture that is shown in a red frame in the “Navigator” panel is shown in the picture window. The more you are zoomed in, the smaller the box is.
You can use this frame to move the image by placing the mouse pointer over it and dragging it when it changes into a “hand”.
The part of the picture where this small box is placed, is shown in the picture window. 

You can resize the “navigator window” by changing the mouse pointer over the corner.
And when it changes into a double arrow, click and drag until it reaches the desired size.

To change the zoom level in your picture window, change the size of the red rectangle in the “Navigator” panel, of course.
But I think you know it already.

You can also zoom with the zoom tool in the navigator window. Please hold the Ctrl key on your keyboard pressed and click and drag in the “Navigator Window” on the place where you want to zoom.

In Photoshop CS4, we have indeed something new, the BirdsEyeView. You need to have the “OpenGL” technology on your computer.

What exactly this extra feature does is same as the “navigator window”, but this happens directly in the picture window.
Please hold the H key on your keyboard pressed and then hold down the mouse button in the picture window.
The picture is zoomed out to full view immediately and you can move to the desired position for zooming using the light gray small box that appears.
Release the mouse button when you’ve achieved this.

Navigate by buttons

A final way (at least till we discuss more) to navigate in a zoomed image is by the use of keys on your keyboard.
Probably this is the oldest way, but I want to mention this yet.

We use the keys “Page Up” and “Page Down” on our keyboard.
When you click on the “Page Up”, it is exactly as an “Avatar” brought up in your photo.
Click on the “Page Down” button, your screen is just lowered.
If you wish your screen to go left, then press Ctrl + Page Up.
If you wish your screen to go right, then press Ctrl + Page Down.

If you want to move up, down, left or right by smaller parts, you hold the Shift key on your keyboard pressed while you navigate.

If you want to navigate all the way to the left of your image, click the Home key on your keyboard. If you wish to navigate to the top right corner, hold the Alt key on your keyboard pressed.
If you want to naviagte all the way to the bottom right corner of your image, click the End key on your keyboard. If you want to navigate to the bottom left corner, hold the Alt key on your keyboard pressed.

This is all about the navigation in a photo.

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