In General Preferences I notice that you can choose to have your documents open centered, but I am not aware of a setting that will allow you to designate the size. You aren’t talking about having Elements open maximized, are you?
Yes, I believe I was, Jim. Another dumb question answered. Thanks, you solved the problem for me. (I’m embarrassed.)
Wendell
There is no automatic setting, but there are a couple of ways to make the image larger that are very easy. "Fit on Screen" is Control/Command-O (that’s ‘oh’ not ‘zero"), which will quickly enlarge an image to fill the area between the toolbar and the palettes. I just use the Control/Command + or – keys and zoom it up or down to suit me. Neither are hard and probably give much more control than a preset would. It would be hard for Aobe to build something in, I’d think, since people use Elements with monitors that have a wide range of resolutions, and people have images that open in an even larger range of sizes. If I were trying to figure out how to come up with a preset, I wouldn’t even know where to begin in order to accommodate all of the possible variables.
No need to feel embarrassed. It’s hard enough to master a new software program, and it’s easy to forget some of the basic Windows philosophy while trying to learn something new. I’m just glad I was able to help at least a little bit.
Whoops! I was typing while post #3 was coming on! Sorry. 🙂
Perhaps this would be the correct place to ask a question along these lines.
Once you maximize a picture or resize(so it’s in the center of the screen and showing no Canvas), how on earth do you get it back to where it was with the canvas showing?
I’ve done this with a picture when there were other pictures on my workspace – by maximizing, I lose the visibility of the other pictures, too, and I never know how to go back to where I was without closing/saving the current picture.
Any help would be appreciated.
Lorace
To resize your view on the monitor, use the keyboard shortcuts of Control/Command + or -, or go under the View menu and choose Zoom In (or to enlarge, Zoom Out.)
I’m not too sure what you’re referring to when you say Canvas, though. Unless you’ve specifically increased the size of the canvas under Image>Resize>Canvas Size, the canvas size and image size are usually the same. Or, there are cases where someone might create a large blank canvas when they’re moving two or more pictures so they can print multiples at one time. I don’t think this is helping you though! Maybe you could give an example.
Lorace, go to toolbar>window>tile…this will put images next to each other without losing them.
I think you are referring to the image window background, not the canvas, right, Lorace? If that is what you mean, the best thing is to use the Navigator. If the Navigator tab is not in the Palette well, then you can access it on the Windows menu, select Navigator. Use the slider to make the image zoom out, leaving more of the image window background showing.
Patti
Patti, yes, that’s what I meant – the image window background. and thanks Jodi and Beth. I’ll work on those suggestions.
I do know about the ctrl+ and ctrl-. that’s not the problem at all. I think it happens when I double-click the picture. Now I’m wondering and will check it out.
I’ll try the navigator trick. I didn’t know about that.
Thank you all so much.
Lorace
