Adobe Photoshop CS5 One-on-One

To assign another thumbnail three stars, select it and click the

third dot or press Ctrl+3 (�-3). To remove a star rating, click

to the left of the first ★ (so that you see a small, momentary )

or press Ctrl+ (�- ).

If a yellow hint box obscures your view as you try to click below

a thumbnail, turn off the hinting. Press Ctrl+K (�-K) to bring

up Preferences, click Thumbnail in the left column, and turn

off Show Tooltips near the bottom of the dialog box.

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At this point, I extend you the courtesy of opting out of the following steps.
After all, you’ve stuck with it this far. If you’re tiring, take a break. But like
any good teacher, I have to let you know that I wouldn’t have included the
remaining steps if I didn’t consider them of the utmost importance. So even
if you take a break now, try to rejoin me later. Lots of good stuff coming up.

17. Loupe the next butterfly. Advance to the next photo, Butter-
    flying_03.jpg, which features another butterfly from my sons’
    and my visit to the Denver Butterfly Pavilion. I like the image,
    but before I can assign it a rating, I need to inspect the quality
    of the detail. The Preview panel includes a loupe (pronounced
    loop) function that—like a traditional optical loupe—lets you
    magnify small areas in a photo. To invoke the loupe:
    
    
    • Move the cursor over the image in the Preview panel. It im-
      mediately turns into a magnifying glass with a plus symbol
      (the standard zoom cursor).
    
    
    • Click the detail that you want to magnify. A rounded square
      appears with a sharp corner pointing to the center of the
      magnified view. (In Figure 1-16 on the next page, I colored
      the loupe outline white to make it stand out; it’s actually
      always black.)
    
    
    • Drag the loupe to magnify other details in the image. If
      you drag too close to an edge, it adjusts to accommodate.
    
    
    
    

Use your mouse’s scroll wheel (or scroll ball) to zoom in or out with the

loupe. If your mouse lacks a scroll wheel, press the and keys. You

can zoom in as far as 800 percent and as far out as 100 percent, as listed

at the bottom of the Preview panel.

Check out the key elements of the image—the wing detail,

proboscis, legs, and antennae—for focus. When you are fin-

ished with the loupe, click the × in the bottom-right corner to

dismiss it. Or click inside the loupe.

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The Bridge offers three other ways to inspect

images. There’s the slide show function, which

allows you to magnify images so they fill the

entire screen. Select the images that you want to

view, and then choose View→Slideshow or press

Ctrl+L (�-L). Use the � and � keys to navigate

from one image to the next. Press the key to

zoom in, or use the scroll wheel on your mouse.

Then drag the image to pan it. Press to zoom

out. You can also rotate the images, assign star

ratings, and more. To see a full menu of keyboard

tricks, press the H key for help. When you’ve

finished reviewing your images, press the Esc

key to return to the Bridge. You can also quickly

inspect an image or two with less overhead, press

the spacebar to enter the full-screen preview

(where many of those same slide show techniques

work). Or finally, you can choose View→Review

Mode or press Ctrl+B (�-B) to switch to the Lazy

Susan–style image-on-a-wheel mode.

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