# Set pan and zoom

With the Slide Show dialog box, you can customize panning and zooming in each slide. You determine the start point and end point by positioning the bounding boxes on an area of a photo. The boxes are resizable; the smaller you make a box, the more dramatic the pan and zoom effect becomes. You can also add additional pan and zoom start and end points to a slide. The end point of the previous pan and zoom marks the beginning of the next pan and zoom.

Note: You can use pan and zoom on photos, but not video clips.

1. In the storyboard, click the slide to which you want to add pan and zoom.
2. In the Slide Show dialog box Properties palette, select Enable Pan & Zoom.
3. The Start bounding box has a green outline. In the main preview window, drag a corner of the bounding box to resize it.
4. Drag the Start box to the area of the photo where you want panning and zooming to begin. Resize the box until it surrounds the area you want to focus on.

   Setting the start point after enabling Pan and Zoom
5. Click the thumbnail marked End. The End bounding box has a red outline. In the main preview area, resize and move the box until it surrounds the area where you want the additional pan and zoom to end.

   Selecting the end point
6. To add an additional area to the pan and zoom, click Add Another Pan & Zoom To This Slide. Photoshop Elements adds a new slide to the Storyboard with a Link icon indicating the additional pan and zoom. The former end point and the new start point are linked (if you edit either point, the changes affect both). Drag the new End bounding box until it surrounds the area where you want the pan and zoom to end.
   Note: Moving the Start box for an additional pan and zoom affects the End box of the previous pan and zoom.
7. To swap start and end points, select the point and then click Swap . To place the start and end points on the same slide, click Copy Start Point To End Point or Copy End Point To Start Point .

   Original pan and zoom (top), and after swapping pan and zoom (bottom)
8. Preview the pan and zoom by clicking the Play button.
   Use additional pan and zoom to prolong the focus on an end point before a transition.

This page on the Web