Here’s
a simple trick that could help you work on images easier. Did you ever notice
that sometimes when you’re working on a large image or document that has a lot
of detail, that it can make your monitor feel pretty small? This can happen
even if you have a large monitor. Do you find yourself zooming in to touch up
some of the fine details and then zooming out to see if the changes look good, only to
find out it doesn’t work? Or maybe you’re working on an image that you know
you’re going to put up on your website or send in an email and you only want to
see how the final image will look with the changes? Here’s an easy way to help
you solve this problem.
In
Photoshop, just go up to the Windows drop-down menu and choose Arrange. At the
very bottom of that menu you’ll see New Window for (name of your document). This
will open a second window for your document that will update in real time with
each change you make. You can keep your main image regular size and zoom in
tight for working on the finer details in the second window.
Tip: this works
really well if you have a two monitor set-up.
Try it yourself the next time you’re fixing those fine details. Nice
huh?
Remember,
as always, keep shooting and have some fun!
