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Zooming in and out

Zooming in and out - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Illustrator One-on-One: Fundamentals

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Zooming in and out

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- [Instructor] I'm going to start things off by showing you how to zoom into or zoom out from a document. And the idea is that sometimes you want to close in on a detail to make sure it's in good shape and other times you want to back away to take in your entire design. And you do so by going up to the view menu and taking advantage of these two commands, zoom in and zoom out. The thing is you're going to be using these commands so very often that you're best off memorizing a couple of very basic keyboard shortcuts and those are Control plus that's Command plus on the Mac to zoom in or Control minus that's Command minus on the Mac to zoom out. And let me show you what those look like. Now, these are incremental zooms by the way. So notice that I'm starting off at 42% and so you can see the zoom ratio at all times represented up here in the title tab. If I were to press Control plus or Command plus on the Mac, I…

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