Getting Around Efficiently

Unless you work with small images, you’ll spend a lot of time scrolling and zooming in and out. You could simply use the standard scroll bars that you see in every document window, and you can use the View > Zoom In and View > Zoom Out commands. There’s also a magnifying glass in the toolbox; with that tool selected you can click a document to zoom in, or Option/Alt+click to zoom out. But Photoshop often provides much more efficient ways to achieve common tasks, and changing your view of a window is no exception.

Nobody’s going to make you memorize every shortcut in this topic; you should simply be aware of all of the choices before you so that you can identify your favorite shortcuts and work them into your normal work habits.