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How to zoom in on a Mac
Hey everyone in this video, I wanted to show you how you can zoom in on your Mac, just like this with a prebuilt setup on your Mac. If it's your first time here, I make tech tutorials just like this one, five times a week. So please consider subscribing. So let's jump into system preferences. I'm actually going to use the zoom option just to show you how it works. So let's go-to system preferences here. Let's go ahead and click that to open it. Let me zoom back out and under system preferences. There's an option here on the bottom called accessibility. Let's go ahead and click that one and I'll zoom back out again. Let me zoom back in, just to show you a little better and here there is an option called zoom. Go ahead and click that and this is where you turn this option on and off. So use a keyboard, shortcut to zoom. I have that checked on and use scrolls gesture with a modified key. So in this case I have the option and I'm using a magic mouse. So if I hold the option down, I could zoom out with my finger and zoom in that's this option here.
So if I turn this off, you won't work by turning this on. You will work just like that and you could use command or control as your keyboard modifier. Also, I like an option. I don't use options very often, so that's how I'm going to zoom in and with the keyboard shortcut, you got option command and eight equal or minus.
So let me just show you if I hold command. Option and plus ILS zoom all the way in and minus we'll zoom all the way out. So that's a way to seamlessly zoom in and out with a keyboard shortcut. If that's what you like, and you could change the speed and the way the zooms in. So if I go to options here, I could do the maximum zoom to be a 12 right now is a four.
So when I do it, it goes four times. What if I do eight. It will go eight times, much more closely. So it depends on what you want to do and you got a minimum zoom and got some other options here and I like continuously with pointer this way. When you zoom in like this, it will follow your pointer as you move around.
So I'm going to press, okay, here, let me come back out and the other option I wanted to show you here is zoom style. So right now I'm a full screen. So when I zoom in the whole screen zooms in, but if I changed it to picture and picture. It will just zoom in on the area that I'm talking about and the rest of the screen stays the same and again, this moves. So if I use my mouse, I'm using option a mouse, this keyboard modifier here, and I could just show you things around the screen really easily. Now, one more thing to note, if you are on Mac iOS, high Sierra. In this operating system, this option doesn't actually get recorded when you do a screen capture.
So you will actually distort this screen when you zoom in this option will work this picture and picture, but the full-screen option, when you zoom in, you actually distort the screen and I'm actually using a camera to record my screen in this case, just to be able to do this presentation. Otherwise, when I do this one, I'm using screen capture.
Like OBS it distorts the screen and that's just a bug in the operating system that I'm hoping Mac will soon fix at any time. It's been around since Mac iOS high Sierra came out and still, March of 2008 is still a bug. So hopefully by the time you check it out and you're using this operating system, The bug will be gone so you can do screen captures and do full zooms and get those recorded.
In the meantime, you could use the picture and picture setting if you're using this for any screen capture, and this is not just the OBS QuickTime has the problem with screen capture, screen flow. Really any Mac screen capture software will have that distortion happen, and I couldn't find a solution to it.
Because it's a Mac problem right now with this operating system. Anyway, I hope you found this useful. Please give it a like and subscribe to this channel. As I said, I post tech videos and Mac tutorials just like this one, five times a week. So I really hope to see you in the next video. Thank you so much for watching.