Navigating in your file

Sometimes you have really zoomed into the image and you do not know where you are in it.
For this we have the navigation pane.
To get to the Navigation pane, we have a number of ways.
The first is the four-headed arrow button (1) in the lower right corner of the image.
This opens a thumbnail of the navigation pane.
The navigation pane shows you the whole picture, which includes a frame (2).
This small box shows us the part of the picture, which is visible in the document window.
By clicking and dragging the small box you can view the part of the picture that is visible in the document window.

 

Through this navigation pane you have the option to open a separate window so that it always stays open.
Just click the “Window” button (3) in the menu bar.
Select “Dockable dialogs” (4) in the drop-down menu, and click “Navigation” (5).

 

This opens the “Navigation” dialog (6).
In this window we click and drag a box (7) to the part of the picture that is visible in the document window.
Below the navigation window we find a menu bar (a) containing a slider and a number of buttons that we can use to adjust the zoom level.

If you make use of this navigation window, you can attach this to the “Channels, Layers window” (8), or the option window of the toolbox.

Even when the navigation pane is attached to one pane or the other, you still have the box (9) and the menu bar (a) to display the file in the document window.

 

For your information:
The more you are zoomed into your picture, the smaller the box in the navigation pane will be.
Makes sense, right.
Here’s another tip.
When you’re working with another tool, such as a brush, and you want to navigate to another part of the picture, keep the spacebar on your keyboard pressed.
You must then click and drag it to the part in the image where you want to draw, and you can then let go of the spacebar, and continue drawing with the brush.

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