From the course: Photoshop 2020 One-on-One: Fundamentals

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Zooming in and out

Zooming in and out

- [Instructor] All right, I'm going to start things off by showing you how to zoom in and out in an image here inside Photoshop. We're looking at a stock image from the Dreamstime image library about which you can learn more and get some great deals at dreamstime.com/deke. Now notice when you first open an image, Photoshop zooms you out so you can see the entire thing, including the canvas, which is the four walls of the rectangular image, and this dark area outside the canvas, which is generally known as the pasteboard. Now if you take a look up here in the title tab, you'll see the zoom ratio is 25%. For you, it's going to be something higher because you're working on a larger display. Now that may lead you to believe that we're seeing one out of every four pixels. In fact, we're seeing one out of every four pixels horizontally and one out of four vertically, so in other words, we're seeing one out of every 16 pixels.…

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