Help · Working with photos
Move a photo inside its frame
Sometimes the box is in the right place but the picture inside it is not — a face is off to one side, or the horizon sits too high. This slides the picture without moving the box.
Steps
- Press
H, or click the hand button next to the arrow in the toolbar. - Scroll on the photo to zoom the picture in. Zoom in first if the whole picture is currently showing — if nothing is hidden, there is nothing to slide.
- Drag on the photo. The frame stays put; the picture moves under it.
- Press
Vto go back to the arrow when you are done.
The other way
Select the photo with the arrow tool and drag the pan badge on the selection. Same result, without switching tools.
Zooming
With the hand tool active, scrolling over a photo zooms the picture inside its frame rather than zooming the whole canvas. It zooms around the pointer, so put the pointer on the part you want to keep and scroll.
> Note > Holding Space gives you the hand tool for as long as you hold it, then hands the arrow > back when you let go. It is faster than pressing H and V when you only need one nudge.
Is this the same as cropping?
No, and the difference matters.
| | Moving inside the frame | Cropping | |---|---|---| | The frame | Stays exactly where and how big it was | Shrinks to what you kept | | The layout | Unchanged | Changes | | Best for | Recentring a face, fixing a horizon | Cutting away parts of a picture you do not want |
Both are reversible. ⌘Z undoes either.