Revision Date: 15 January 2023

Status Bar

The Status Bar contains various items including help tips,the progress bar, and information about the mouse pointer and the current image.

Help Tips / Tool Status

When a tool is selected, the left-hand side of the Status Bar will contain tips to help explain the function of the tool.  Once drawing or using the tool is initiated, the help tips can be replaced with information about the state of tool use.

Progress Bar

When an Effect or Adjustment is underway, progress towards rendering completion will be displayed as green progress bar in the Status Bar.  The progress bar will fill from the left (0%) to the right (100%).

Image Size / Cursor Location / Measurement Units

The dimensions of the currently active image (width x height) are displayed using the currently set units of measurement. In the image above the size is 600 x 41 (pixels).

To the right of the image size, the current location of the cursor is displayed.  The location is measured from the top left corner of the image which is position (0,0). The current location of the cursor is 336, -160 (pixels).  A negative location value indicates the cursor is either above or left of the top left corner of the image.

The tool to set the measurement units (pixels, inches or centimeters) is located to the right of the cursor location. Here it shows px denoting pixels.

Other options are inches and centimeters. These options are accessed via the little arrow icon which opens a sub menu.

Zoom Controls

At the right-hand side of the Status Bar are three controls to set view size of the image.

The first zoom control is a small text box containing a percentage figure. This is the current zoom size of the image.  Click the percentage figure to activate it and a text box containing the figure will appear. Type in a new percentage setting and press Enter to commit.  In the following figure, the image is being viewed at 100% and the user is changing to 64%.

The quick size icon toggles the image view size between 100% and maximized in the Editing Window. Click the icon to toggle between these two states.

The zoom slider is used to quickly change the view size. Click and drag the slider control to change the zoom setting.

The actual zoom amount is displayed in the zoom text box beside the quick size icon.