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CS4 The Three `F' modes of PS

Jan 27, 2011 9:27 PM

I like to be able to pull/drag images around in the photoshop work space, but unless the image is bigger than the workspace in some dimension, photoshop will not allow that unless one enters the 2nd `F' mode.

 

In that mode the interace automatically goes full screen, which I almost never want.  With a 25 inch monitor, that just isn't necessary.  At least not for the vast majority of my work.

 

So is there some way to make PS allow dragging of image in the 1st `F' mode, or conversely, of making 2nd `F' mode something besides full screen?

 

I'm not really sure if I'm numbering the modes correctly so to make sure its clear which modes I'm speaking of... I'll call the `F' mode with the black background, the 3rd `F' mode.

 

So starting at that 3rd `F' mode, press `F' to get to 1st and `F' again to get to 2nd.   1 and 2 in that scheme are the 2 I'm talking about.

 

Or just open PS and you should be in what I'm calling 1st `F' mode

 
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    Jan 27, 2011 10:16 PM   in reply to HarryPutnam

    In the standard screen mode (1) using tabs, just scroll your image slightly bigger than the

    document window and then you can pan the document, even past the document's edges.

     

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    Jan 27, 2011 11:13 PM   in reply to HarryPutnam

    I don't how to do this in cs4, but cs5 (using tabs), you can move the image around in

    the standard screen mode just like you can in the full screen mode with menu bar (2)

    in cs4.

     

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    Jan 28, 2011 3:15 PM   in reply to HarryPutnam

    Sorry for the confusion. When i said scroll the image slightly bigger

    than the document window, i should have said zoom the image in

    (change the viewing percentage or view size or zoom ratio) using the scroll wheel on the

    mouse or with the zoom tool.

     

    You can enable zooming with the scroll wheel on the mouse by

    Edit>Preferences>General>Zoom with Scroll Wheel.

     

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    In cs4 in the stardard screen mode, using tabs, zoom the image in till it's slightly bigger

    than the document window and then using the hand tool you can pan the image around

    even past the document edges.

     

    The full screen mode is supposed to allow more room for the document,

    so that's why you don't see some things like the frame around the document.

     

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    The second example posted was just to show that cs5 has some improvements in

    stardard screen mode versus cs4.

     

    More about viewing images and screen modes in cs4:

     

    http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Photoshop/11.0/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e4100 1031ab64-74e0a.html

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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