One of the pieces of data LrC stores in its catalog is the last zoom position you zoomed into on a photo. Let me know if you have any handy zoom shortcuts in the comments. To learn about the new Scrubby and Box zoom functions, jump over to my post on the October 2020 updates. To zoom incrementally, press CMD = (PC: Ctrl = ) to zoom in or CMD – (PC: Ctrl – ) to zoom out. One of my favorite zoom tricks is to start in Grid view of the Library module, select a photo, then press and hold Z to zoom in to 100%, check focus, and then release the Z key to return back to Grid view. Likewise, pressing the Z key does the same thing. You can also use the Spacebar to zoom in or out as needed. This is why having that 100% button always visible in the center of the panel is handy. If you zoom to a different value, say 200%, then clicking in that photo, and subsequent photos will switch you between Fit and 200% (or whatever value you chose) until you change it to something else. By default, that should switch between Fit and 100% views, which are what I use most of the time. In normal use though I rarely touch the Navigator panel, and instead simply click on the photo to zoom in, and click again to zoom out. When zoomed in closer than Fit screen you can also use the Navigator panel to pan around the photo by clicking and dragging the box that appears, or just by clicking in the area you want to see. Those ratios have all been replaced by view percentages, and you can access a range of zoom percentages, from 6% to 1600% in the (tiny) drop-down menu on the right-edge of the panel. Previously, we had ratios like 1:1 or 1:2, and so on. In the center is the button to jump to viewing at 100%, which you may recall is a relatively new update. Fit view will show you the entire selected photo within the workspace, and Fill will fill the entire workspace with the photo, which can leave some areas of the photo outside the visible work area, as if it were cropped. It is also a panel that exist in both Library and Develop.Īcross the top of the panel you can choose between Fit and Fill (with Fit being the default) view. It’s worth starting with a look at the Navigator panel because that is where you can choose different levels of zoom as well as see what zoom level you are currently viewing. Some are old, and some have been recently added, and we can leverage them in the Loupe view in Library module and Develop.

There comes a time in every workflow for pixel peeping, and Lightroom Classic (LrC) has a number of ways for us to zoom up close and personal with the pixels in our photos.

Lightroom classic keyboard shortcuts