- [Narrator] Now if there's a downside to the techniques
I was demonstrating in the previous movie,
it's that you're forever zooming with respect
to the center of your document or artboard.
So for example, if I press CTRL + or CMD + on the Mac,
to zoom in on this welcome screen, after a point,
I end up entirely missing Michelangelo's David,
which means that if I want to be able to see him on screen
I need to manually scroll to that portion of the document,
which can be a real pain in the neck over time.
Alright so, I'll go ahead and fit this Artboard on screen
by pressing CTRL zero, or CMD zero on the Mac,
and notice in my case, the first,
central Artboard is once again active.
And now I'll switch to the zoom tool,
located down here at the bottom of the toolbox.
And the advantage of this tool is that is allows you
to zoom in on a specific detail just by clicking on it.
So for example, I'll go ahead and click on this area
between David's eyes in order to zoom in on his face.
You can even totally shift your zoom to a different detail.
For example, If I click on this leaf ornament right here,
I'll go ahead and center it on screen.
I could click on this second 'o' in the words one-on-one
in order to zoom this text and so forth.
Now notice that my magnifying glass cursor
currently shows a plus sign, which indicates
that it's set to zoom in.
If you want to zoom out, press and hold the ALT key
or the option key on the MAC,
at which point that plus will change to a minus
and then click on an element in order
to center it as you zoom outward.
And now notice that I have the option
of zooming in on this other detail
inside of my illustration by releasing the ALT
or option key so that I return
to my magnifying glass cursor with a plus sign in it,
and then I'll just click on this detail
right here to zoom in on it.
Now once again, this is one of those functions
that you use so often inside Illustrator,
that it's worth memorizing a keyboard shortcut.
And here's how that works.
The first thing I'm going to do is switch back
to the black arrow tool up here at the top of the toolbox
and now I'll just press CTRL zero, or CMD zero on the Mac,
to once again fit the active Artboard onscreen,
and now I'll press the keyboard shortcut for the zoom tool,
which is CTRL spacebar here on the PC,
that's CMD spacebar on the Mac.
And incidentally, those of you working on the Mac,
if you run into problems, sit tight,
in just a moment I'll show you the solution.
And now, having pressed CTRL spacebar,
or CMD spacebar on the Mac,
I'll just go ahead and click on David's face
in order to zoom in.
If you want to zoom out then you add the ALT key
here on the PC or the option key on the Mac.
So in other words, you CTRL ALT spacebar click
to zoom out, that's a CMD OPT spacebar click on the Mac
to zoom out from your illustration.
And then to return to the active tool
you just release your keys and notice that once again
I'm seeing my black arrow cursor on screen.
Now if you're having problems on the Macintosh,
then the most likely culprit is Spotlight.
Notice that, by default, if I press CMD spacebar
I get the Spotlight Search.
Now one way around that is to press the spacebar first
and then press the CMD key, and that way
you can then click to zoom in,
but that's kind of a pain in the neck,
and then if you press CMD option spacebar
you're going to bring up a search window.
So, here's the solution.
What I recommend you do, because CMD spacebar
and CMD option spacebar are such useful tricks
here inside Illustrator, and throughout InDesign
and Photoshop as well, I suggest you change
the OS-level keyboard shortcut by
going up to the apple menu and choosing system preferences,
and then go ahead and click on the keyboard icon,
which you may find in a different location in the list,
and next you want to click on the shortcuts tab right there.
Then, locate Spotlight, and notice our offending
keyboard shortcut, to show the Spotlight Search
it's CMD spacebar, to show a Finder Search window
it's CMD option spacebar.
Let's change both of these by first clicking
on this item, and then clicking
on it's keyboard shortcut right there,
make sure it's highlighted, and press CTRL spacebar.
That's the full CTRL key with the spacebar,
and that'll show you your new keyboard shortcut
which looks like a caret followed by space,
and then go ahead and click on the next item.
Click its keyboard shortcut again to make sure
it's highlighted and press CTRL option spacebar
and you'll end up with this little cryptic thing here,
caret, followed by this thing here,
which stands for the option key, followed by spacebar.
And that should take care of it.
Now if you just go ahead and close your keyboard preferences
and return to Illustrator, you can now
press CMD spacebar and click to zoom in,
and you can click CMD option spacebar
and click to zoom out, just like so.
Alright, now there's one more way to work.
I'll go ahead and reset things by pressing CTRL zero,
or CMD zero on a Mac, which once again
goes ahead and centers the active Artboard on screen.
You can also zoom using the scroll wheel on your mouse.
And to do that, first go ahead and place your cursor
over the portion of the illustration
that you want to zoom in to,
and then press and hold the ALT key
or the OPT key on the Mac, and scroll up with your mouse
to zoom in, like so, or scroll down to zoom out.
So once again, you need to have the ALT key
or the OPT key on the Mac down for that trick to work.
And again, the position of your cursor matters.
If I go ahead and position my cursor
in front of David's face and ALT scroll up,
or OPT scroll up on the Mac,
then I'll magnify David's face here on screen.
And if you're using a Magic Mouse
or some other device such as a Trackpad,
then combine ALT or OPT with the equivalent of a scroll.
And by the way, gestures like
pinching in or out work as well.
And so you have a few keyboard shortcuts to remember
once again, that's CTRL spacebar or CMD spacebar click
to zoom in, CTRL ALT spacebar
or CMD OPT spacebar to zoom out,
and then finally, press the ALT key or the OPT key
and scroll up and down with the scroll wheel
on your mouse to zoom in and out on a specific
detail of your document, here inside Illustrator.