7 Navigator Palette
Used
for changing the view of an image
Grouped with the Info palette
In the default arrangement, this one will be at the top of your column of palettes. Click on its title tab to bring it to the fore, or choose Window > Show Navigator.
In the Navigator palette, you will see a thumbnail copy of the active image. The screen’s boundaries will show as a red outline over your image. If your image doesn’t fit on screen, the screen outline will be superimposed on the thumbnail. Drag the red outline to move the screen’s view. If you click anywhere on the image thumbnail, the view will change to include that area.
The default color of the screen outline within the Navigator palette is red, but you can change this, if you like. Access the palette options by clicking on the arrow in the top right corner. You can choose a preset color, or click on the color box and use the Color Picker. To see how the color picker works, look at the illustration shown at the bottom of the foreground, background color page.
There are zooming features at the bottom of the Navigator palette, which are illustrated and described below.
Please note that this entire palettes section has been updated from a Photoshop 6 version (which was updated from a 5.5 version). Wherever the palette is essentially the same as it was in 6, I have continued to use the screen capture illustrations made using that version. So if you notice cosmetic discrepancies in the illustrations, that's why. In all instances where features were added or changed, I have made new screen captures.
The picture on the left, below, is not the Navigator palette. It shows the image that is featured in the Navigator palette so you can see what the screen outline in the palette is doing.
The illustration below right shows the Navigator palette with
numbers added at the bottom for ID purposes.
Magnification of the image can be changed by using the features at the
bottom of the palette. They are:
1) a box where you can type in the amount of magnification you want, or
where you can view the amount that is currently in effect
2) a zoom out button which looks like two tiny mountain peaks (this
makes the image smaller)
3) a slider which will zoom in if dragged right of center, and zoom out
if dragged left of center
4) a zoom in button which looks like two bigger mountain peaks
and (duh) makes the image bigger when clicked.
In the example shown, the current magnification is 285.77 %, and the view box’s outline color has been changed to blue in the palette’s options, since the default red was hard to see over the red in the image. Find the options by clicking on the arrow in the top right corner of the palette.
As you can see below, I chose one of the preset colors. The color picker can also be used to choose a view box outline color. Activate it by clicking on the large color square on the left side of the box.
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