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Page Down, Page Down, Page Down
On a recent project, I was preparing a series of images for print on a high resolution press (Fuji Frontier 590 to be exact) and I found myself obsessing about removing any residual sensor noise or image imperfections from my collection.
Normally, I’m pushing images to 72ppi for proofing on the web, which will often downsample out any irritable noise, dust, or imperfections. Not this time - it had to be perfectly clean! But … I’m lazy, and I wanted an easy way to inspect my images close up without the usual zoom-pan-zoom-pan tedium.
This lead me to a lesser known technique I will call the ‘PageDowner’ technique. Call it what you will, it’s a complete timesaver.
In the Develop Module set your Navigator zoom ratio to 1:1. Next, press the PageDown (mac users Shift+down arrow). You will notice that the navigator not only honors your zoom ratio as it scrolls down your image, it automatically sets itself back to the top of the image - precisely to the right of your previous vertical scroll path - booyah!
This gives me complete assurance I have scoured every single area of the image, while allowing me to maintain a tight zoom, and my focus on dust busting.
Here’s to obsessive image inspection,
|Brandon Oelling
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On my Powerbook this (great) tip works with Fn + Page down
What does this mean:
"Normally, I’m pushing images to 72ppi for proofing on the web, which will often downsample out any irritable noise, dust, or imperfections."
ppi settings only apply to printing and have nothing to do with screen viewing; only pixel dimensions count, so your comment is confusing to me. Perhaps you are just saying that downsizing images in pixel dimensions from a full capture size, makes noise less easy to see on the screen? It is weird to me that this 72 pixel thing lives on from the beginning days of computers, but really has nothing to do with modern monitor viewing. (sorry, not trying to be a rant)
As for the page up and down technique, isn't that just the coolest? This works great in Photoshop too. I especially like it when you set your view to 100% pixels and hit the "home" key and that takes you right to the upper left hand corner. Cool.......
Nome - the top left corner
End - the right bottom corner
Page down - downwards
Page Up - upwards
Shift + Page down - to the right
Shift + Page Up - to the left