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Bird’s Eye View

 

When you’re zoomed in on an image so tightly that you’re only viewing a fraction of its contents, press-and-hold the H key and then click-and-drag your mouse to temporarily zoom out and see the full contents of the image. A rectangle will appear to indicate which area you were previously viewing. Drag that rectangle to a new location and release the H key to quickly zoom into the new area. This is a great way to quickly navigate a large document.

3 Comments

  1. jude said on — June 26, 2009 @ 12:58 am

    This does not work unless you have GPU capabilities.

  2. rop cleact said on — October 23, 2009 @ 7:47 pm

    Interesting website, i ahve bookmarked your site for future referrence.
    I am find your source via http://google.com

  3. Danial Sabagh said on — August 1, 2010 @ 5:02 pm

    @jude you’re right, it doesn’t work unless you have GPU capabilities. ;)
    Thanks

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Create A Composite Layer

If you have a multilayer composition and you
want to apply an effect to all the layers at once, don’t flatten the layers–use a composite layer instead. Hide the layers you want excluded, and press Shift-Command-Option-E (PC: Shift-Ctrl-Alt-E). A new layer will be created at the top containing a merged copy of all the visible layers.

Another option is to create a new layer at the top of the stack and make it active. Command-click (PC: Ctrl-click) each layer you want to include to make those layers active, as well. Press Option-Command-E (PC: Alt-Ctrl-E).
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