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Making Fine Adjustments to Onscreen Controls
If you want the visual guidance of onscreen controls with the precision of the Inspector, you can
use different keyboard modifiers.
Up and Down Arrow keys can be used to adjust the vertical position of an onscreen
control by small steps.
Holding down the Command key while using the Up and Down Arrow keys reduces the
scale of each step by a factor of ten. Holding Shift increases the scale of each step by a
factor of ten.
Toolbars
There are two toolbars in the viewer: a viewer toolbar, which always appears at the top of each
viewer and gives you control over what that viewer shows, and an optional node toolbar that
appears underneath that gives you contextual controls based on the node you’ve selected in
the Node Editor.
Viewer Toolbar
A viewer toolbar runs across the top of each viewer, providing access to many of the most
commonly used viewer-related settings, as well as an indication of the status of many of the
most important settings. Most of the menus and buttons found on this toolbar are described in
detail throughout this chapter.
The viewer toolbar.
Node Toolbars
In addition to the viewer toolbar, a node toolbar is displayed underneath, at the top of the
viewer display area, whenever you select a node that exposes special nodes. Examples of
nodes that expose a toolbar include the text, masks, paths, paint strokes, and the 3D
environment.
The node toolbar shown for the Paint node.
Customizing the Node Toolbar
If you want to change the size of the buttons that appear in the Node toolbar, or turn on text
names for each node, you can right-click anywhere in the empty area of the toolbar and choose
new settings from the Icon Size and Button Style submenus in the contextual menu.
The contextual menu for the node toolbar.
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