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3 - Up, Down, & Sideways (Hand Tool)

You'll need to move the image of your photograph up-and-down, and from side-to-side.

Scroll Bars

If you need to move the image a great distance, use the scroll bars.

Click on a bar, hold, and drag.

Hand Tool

You can use the Hand tool to move the image shorter distances.

Do the following.

1) Make sure the photograph is enlarged.

2) Press and hold the space bar.

3) Click on the photograph, hold, and drag.

You can also select the Hand tool in Tools, or press h.

Page Up & Page Down

Windows

Press Page Up and Page Down to move by a little less than a screen-full of the image.

To go to the left and right, add Ctrl to the above commands.

Press Ctrl + Page Up and Ctrl + Page Down.

Mac

Press Ctrl + k to move up by a little less than a screen-full of the image.

Press Ctrl + L to move down by a little less than a screen-full of the image.

To go to the left and right, add Cmd to the above commands.

To go to the left and right, press Cmd + Ctrl + k and Cmd + Ctrl + L.

Home & End

Windows

Press Home to go to the upper-left corner.

Press End to go to the lower-right corner.

Mac

Press Ctrl + a to go to the upper-left corner.

Press Ctrl + d to go to the lower-right corner.

Summary of the Above Commands

Windows

Up	Page Up
Down	Page Down
Left	Ctrl + Page Up
Right	Ctrl + Page Down
Home (Upper-left Corner)	Home
End (Lower-right Corner)	Home

Mac

Up	Ctrl + k
Down	Ctrl + L
Left	Cmd + Ctrl + k
Right	Cmd + Ctrl + L
Upper-left Corner	Ctrl + a
Lower-right Corner	Ctrl + d

Move Tool

You use the Move tool to move "smaller things" around a photograph.

Smaller things includes parts of a photograph and text.

You don't use the Move tool to move the entire image of the photograph, except when you're moving a photograph into the Layers panel (Layers palette) of another photograph.

If you haven't already done so, go to Move a Layer.

You also use the Move tool when you're moving selection borders, and selections.

If you haven't already done so, Moving Selections.

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