Scrolling and Zooming
Interacting with the view of your image
These tools can also be used without having to rely on the buttons on the tool panel. Holding CTRL+Shift on the keyboard while dragging on your image will let you pan around without switching tools. Doing the same with the Right Mouse Button will zoom in and out. You may notice that there are no scroll bars around the image. Working with the CTRL+Shift combination is less clunky, uses less screen space, less button clicks, and becomes intuitive very quickly. There are also other keyboard shortcuts for working with the display. n
Center the image under
the cursor. Use this to center on your point of interest. |
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The current zoom factor is displayed in the title bar of the application. |
“Artist guides” can be used for copying images by hand from a source hard copy images. Simply draw a grid using a ruler or straight edge on the source image, or on tracing paper over the image. |
Clicking on the rulers will toggle between Inches and Centimeters. |
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The Artist Guides have several uses. Firstly, they can be used for copying a source image to a destination image. The source could be a photograph, or picture that exists on paper, or any type of image. You can make a grid using a ruler and a piece of tracing paper to overlay your picture, then use the Artist Guide on the destination. Your grids should match up, so you can now use them as a reference from copying one image to the other. The grid helps in determining where major details (such as someone's eye) should be placed. |
Another use for Artist guides is for a visual reference of composition. For example, you could compose your image in thirds, using the guides. |