My display is too big, what do I do?

I reset the PRAM and booted in safe mode, but nothing works. The icons are huge. I can't seem to get the display to reset to the proper screen size. Has anyone had this issue?
I was working in Photoshop and was resizing an image display (command +) and somehow that kicked the entire display over the top. Help!

OK then you probably accidentaly turned on Zoom. Please read this article, it will show you how to turn it back off.
http://osxdaily.com/2012/01/02/enable-screen-zoom-in-mac-os-x-lion/

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Just out of curiosity....
Did you ever figure this out?
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Ha, figured it out myself from another discussion forum finally. Thoght I'd share in case anyone else runs into this. They must have hit "Zoom" by htting the "Control" and scroll buttons at the same time..
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The bar at the top of the screen is elongated, and I can't see the time in the top right hand corner.
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I have no idea what caused this and I can't fix it.
Does anyone have idea what the problem is and how to fix it?
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