Tip for 10/31... Beyond the borders...

[angedawn]

OK - this is a tip that may be more suited for advanced users... I'm warning you on that one up front!

You know when you are working with an image and you zoom in on it and then sometimes it's hard to work with it because your window border is right up against the edge of your image. (Like sometimes when you want to use a big brush and you get it too far out onto the edge and it disappears?)

OK, so if you have been scrapbooking, designing, just messing around with photoshop for a while, I'm sure you might have run up against this issue. Here's how to solve it (this is in PS CS 2 - but may work for other versions as well!). You need to change your screen mode. You do this by clicking on one of the three buttons at the bottom of your tool box that are on the second row from the bottom. The bottom row has the move to Image Ready button, it's the 3 buttons above that. They are "Standard Screen Mode" (the one on the left -probably the screen mode you mainly use), "Full Screen Mode with Menu Bar" (the middle one) and "Full Screen Mode" (the one on the right).

Change your mode to either "Full Screen" or "Full Screen with Menu Bar" and you can now drag the image past it's border. Clickon the hand tool and see what happens when you work in these modes! They may just make some of your editing or detail work a little smoother! :)

Happy Halloween everyone! :)

[DianneRigdon]

Awesome tip! Will try that!

[happyrobyn]

Thanks Ange! Off to give it a try. I always just scale the image down so everything fits in the window and I can see past the border but you can't see up close this way. Can't wait to try out the tip!

[lindse]

Or just press F :)

[Nevermore]

Or just press F :)

Why do I never think of these things! What a great tip. And I am sure I can remember the shortcut for this one. How often do I say oh F! when this happens to me?

[scrapsie]

Thanks for that great tip, it drove me nuts loosing the brush, ect :cool:

[vkimmycat]

I found this out by accident, just last week! Too cool a tip, though, thanks!

[ErinBoBerin]

I am constantly toggling back and forth because I only have a 15 inch monitor, my F key is probably my most used one. And, if you press tab all your menus dissapear, just press tab again to get them back. If the image extends beyond your screen you can press the space bar to temporarily bring up your hand to move it around.

[angedawn]

Oh, so glad to have all these additional posts! :) Thanks you guys for sharing your knowledge! :) I always love when I learn something new from Tip Tuesday too! :) YEAH! :)