Adobe Photoshop CS5 for Photographers - Martin Evening [8]
Figure 1.8 Floating windows can be grouped as tabbed document windows by dragging the title bar of a document across to another until you see a blue border (as shown above). You can also click on the title bar (circled in red) to drag a group of tagged document windows to the tabbed windows zone.
Figure 1.9 To open a second window view of a Photoshop document, choose Window Arrange New Window for (document name). Any edits that are applied to one document window are automatically updated in the second window.
Synchronized scroll and zoom
In the N-up display menu (Figure 1.10) and Window Arrange submenu, there are controls that allow you to match the zoom, location (and rotation) of all open images, based on the current foreground image window. The Match Zoom command matches the zoom percentage based on the current selected image, while the Match Location command matches the scroll position. You can also synchronize the scrolling or magnification by depressing the key as you scroll or zoom in and out of any window view.
Figure 1.10 This shows the ‘N-up’ display options for tabbed document windows.
Multiple window views
Multiple window views are useful if you wish to compare different soft proof views before making a print. See Chapter 13 for more about soft proofing in Photoshop.
Image document window details
The boxes in the bottom left corner of the image window display extra information about the image (see Figure 1.12). The left-most box displays the current zoom scale percentage for the document view. Here, you can type in a new percentage for any value you like from 0.2% to 1600% up to two decimal places and set this as the new viewing resolution. In the middle is a Work Group Server button that can be used to check in or check out a document that is being shared over a WebDAV server. To the right of this is the status information box, which can be used to display information about the image. If you mouse down on the arrow to the right of this box, you will see a list of all the items you can choose from to display here (these are described on the page opposite). This box can only show a single item at a time. However, if you open the Info Panel Options shown in Figure 1.11, you can check any or all of the Status Information items shown here so that the items that are ticked appear in the middle section of the Info panel. In addition to this, you can also choose to enable Show Tool Hints. These appear at the bottom of the Info panel and will change according to any modifier keys you have held down at the time, to indicate any extra available options.
Figure 1.11 If you go to the Info panel options menu (circled) and choose Panel Options… this opens the Info Panel Options dialog. Here, you can choose which status items you would like to see displayed in the Status Information section of the Info panel. The above Info panel screen shot shows all the status information items along with the Show Tool Hints info display.
If you mouse down in the Status Information box, this displays the width and height dimensions of the image, along with the number of channels and image resolution (Figure 1.13). If you hold down the key as you mouse down on the status information box, this shows the image tiling information.
Dynamic zoom views
The Zoom status box also has a scrubby slider option. If you hold down the key as you click inside the Zoom Status box (see Figure 1.12 below) you can dynamically zoom in and out as you drag left or right. The zoom tool Options bar also offers a new scrubby zoom option, which I describe later on page 56.
Figure 1.12 The document status is shown in the bottom left corner of the document window. -clicking inside the Zoom Status box allows you to access the scrubby zoom feature.
Title bar proxy icons (Macintosh)
Macintosh users will see a proxy image icon in the title bar of any floating windows. The proxy image icon appears dimmed when the document is in an unsaved state and is reliant