Viewing Your Image at Full Screen
Choose Full Screen from the View menu to hide the desktop and display your image in the center of the screen against a black background.
❙Click the left mouse button to magnify the image or the right button to reduce it.
❙Press Enter to display another open image.
❙Press Esc to return to the normal view.
Viewing Image Information
Choose Image Information from the View menu to display an information box like the one below:
Choose to show image dimensions in pixels, inches, or centimeters.
Click Histogram to display a graph like the one below:
Number of pixels
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The histogram shows the brightness of the overall image and each of the three color channels (red, green, and blue) that make up the image. The vertical axis of the graph represents the number of pixels; the horizontal axis represents the brightness level, from the darkest pixels at the left to the brightest pixels at the right.
❙Click OK when you’re finished with each
information box.
Editing: Transforming Your Images