How does one enlarge the view of a small photo?

Sometimes I just need to quickly retouch a small, non-pro photo, but the photo's only displayed at its original size. Sometimes I just want to enlarge it temporarly, while performing the retouch.
I realize the enlarged photo won't be sharp, etc -- but it's not permanent; it's just so I can hone in on an element in the photo. I thought I could use the standard, Mac-keyboard shortcuts (⌘+ and ⌘-) to adjust the display of a small photo, but so far, there seeems to be absolutely no way to do this. If the photo is small, it stays that way, no matter what.
Am I missing something?

Thanks, SierraDragon, for the suggestion. It was a good suggestion, and it worked, but it wasn't easy.... (No reflection upon you, but upon the nature of Aperture.)
I created a light table, then it took me 3 or 4 minutes to figure out how to get a photo to display on the light table. After dragging one to the light table icon on the left, I saw it in a list at the bottom, but it was unclear how to get it to display. Eventually I figured out that I had to drag it yet a 3rd time, from that list to the actual table.
After that, I was further confused by the fact that I'd moved the zoom slider (on the light table) all the way to the right, but the photo was still not being displayed above 100%. Finally, it occurred to me to drag one of the "handles" at the corner of the photo and drag to enlarge it.
So that's a total of 6, separate steps -- including the creation of a "light table" -- just to get a small photo into Aperture and to zoom in upon it. Unreal.
I still don't understand why a photo from the desktop can't simply be dropped over Aperture's dock icon. Just getting photos into Aperture is complicated.
I'm a huge Apple fan and supporter, but this has to be the most unintuitive application they've ever released. I wonder if Aperture was originally developed by, then purchased from, another company (just as Logic was, which explains why Logic is so convoluted, as well).
I bought Aperture because I thought it would be like "iPhoto Pro." But it's really a different beast, all together. I love the advanced editing features, but Aperture's too convoluted for me to abandon iPhoto. I find I don't like launching Aperture, because it's too difficult to accomplish simple tasks in Aperture.
I've submitted this issue, among others, as feedback. But I fear that there aren't enough Aperture users submitting these issues for them to be deemed important.
Thanks again.

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