When you have Photoshop set to Application Frame (under the Window menu), and you zoom out of your document, the image appears in the middle of the canvas, but maybe you want it off-center, or near the top or bottom of the screen. In the past, you had to be in a particular screen mode to move your document on the canvas. Nowadays, you can move it in the default view. Hold down the Spacebar and click-and-drag the image area wherever you want on the canvas. By the way, this works when you’re not in Application Frame as well. Zoom out of the image, drag out the bottom-right corner of the document window to see the canvas around your image, and then Spacebar-drag it around in the canvas.
As for the screen modes, which I’ve recently mentioned in a previous column, tap the F key to cycle through them. Each time you tap it, you’ll cycle through three different display modes: Standard Screen Mode, Full Screen Mode with Menu Bar, and Full Screen Mode where the Photoshop interface is completely hidden, to bring focus to your work area
This tip originally published in Colin Smith’s “Photoshop Tips” column in the July, 2023 issue of Photoshop User magazine.
