In this lesson you'll learn how to effectively zoom in and move around in
Illustrator. It's pretty similar to some of the other Adobe programs. To move around
in a document... If you want to follow along, you can open up in the support
files such as streetlights.ai But to move around, just select the Hand tool here,
that's one way. You can just click and drag and move around an artboard.
You can also use the scroll bars on the right hand side and on the bottom, and if you
have, for example, the selection tool selected, you can press spacebar and that toggles
to the hand tool so you can click and drag and move around, and of course, if you have
a trackpad or tablet or scroll function on your mouse, you can move around using
that as well.
To zoom in, of course you could use the zoom tool on the bottom of the Tools panel.
Just click and drag to zoom into an area or you can just click and like go to
zoom into an area. If you hold down CTRL on PC or Command on the MAC, it toggles
to the selection tool so you can select objects. If you hold down ALT on the PC or
OPTION on the MAC, that will actually toggle it to zoom out. So when nothing is selected,
we zoom in, ALT or OPTION and zoom out. You can also press CTRL on the PC or Command on
the MAC and the plus and minus signs on the keyboard. That's actually my favorite because
you can have any of the other tools selected and just use CTRL or Command
minus or plus and then you can zoom in and zoom out. You can also, of course, go
up to View and there's a couple of shortcuts here. You can see Zoom In and
Zoom Out that we just did. Also CTRL or Command 0 is Fit Artboard in Window.,
Fit All in Window, Actual Size. So I suggest memorizing the shortcuts for a
quicker workflow or if you forget, you can always go to View and then look it up up here.
So it really depends on, if we were zoomed in and we want to move around
really quickly, you can use the scroll bar right here or it could select the
hand tool pretty quickly and just really customize where we want to zoom into
and navigate to in Illustrator.