September 2009
Beginner
640 pages
26h 48m
English
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Arrange Menu
This menu (whose icon is a gray square divided up into smaller squares and rectangles) lets you organize your image windows and tabs to best suit your workflow. The top part of the menu consists of thumbnails for the different ways you can tile your image views. Clicking a thumbnail puts you in a tabbed, tiled view, even if you began with floating windows. Just click the thumbnail that shows the layout you want. The large, single rectangle at the menu's upper left returns you to the basic tab view of one visible image tab with the others tucked away behind it.
Tip
To tile floating windows, go to Window → Images → Tile.
The bottom part of the menu rounds up several useful view commands also found in other menus:
Float All in Windows. If you've enabled floating windows (Image Views), choose this and all your image tabs turn into windows.
New Window. This is the same as the View menu's New Window for… command. It opens a separate view of your image, not a duplicate file.
Actual Pixels. Choose this option or press Ctrl+1 to see your image the exact size it would appear on the Web or in other programs that can't adjust view size (as Elements can).
Fit On Screen. Use this command or press Ctrl+0 to make your photo as large as it can be without you having to scroll to see parts of it.
Match Zoom. Choose this item to make the magnification level of all open windows match the active image window.
Match Location. When you have only part of a photo visible in a window, choose this item ...
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