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1. Re: Mouse Wheel Zoom to Maintain Position
Reynolds (Mark) May 9, 2009 4:35 PM (in response to sfjedi)There is a command if you hold your H key called Birds Eye View. Now this would be improved enormously, I agree also, if it went back to where you started.
There is also a preference that you may not be aware of - "Zoom clicked point to centre" - for people who prefer the Indesign and Illustrator default behavior to Photoshops old better default.
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2. Re: Mouse Wheel Zoom to Maintain Position
sfjedi May 9, 2009 6:09 PM (in response to Reynolds (Mark))Reynolds (Mark) wrote:
There is a command if you hold your H key called Birds Eye View. Now this would be improved enormously, I agree also, if it went back to where you started.
Uhh... I'm using CS4 and the H tool has always been the Hand tool. Is this an OpenGL feature or something? Because I'm on my laptop currently.
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3. Re: Mouse Wheel Zoom to Maintain Position
Reynolds (Mark) May 9, 2009 6:25 PM (in response to sfjedi)Yep, Open GL.
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4. even more
Mobius Strip May 10, 2009 11:53 AM (in response to sfjedi)The mouse-wheel zoom doesn't snap to even zoom increments; in fact, it usually won't even go to them. For example, if you zoom in and out a few times, you can't return to exactly 100%. Nor can you get to exactly 50%, 75%, whatever. Photoshop chooses ridiculous ratios like 77.4%.
The resulting scaling artifacts make mouse-wheel zoom essentially useless.
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5. Re: even more
sfjedi May 10, 2009 1:44 PM (in response to Mobius Strip)Yeah, that's exactly what I'm talking about. Anyone see any problem with changing this idea? If nothing else, at least land on 100%, right?
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6. even more
Mobius Strip May 10, 2009 4:38 PM (in response to sfjedi)It should snap to the same increments as the magnifying-glass tool, when you cross those increments with the mouse wheel.
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7. Re: even more
sfjedi May 10, 2009 4:46 PM (in response to Mobius Strip)Mobius Strip wrote:
It should snap to the same increments as the magnifying-glass tool, when you cross those increments with the mouse wheel.
I agree, but it might bother some people, so just put a checkbox in the zoom tool's property bar to snap to whole numbers or something to that effect.
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8. Re: even more
MadMan151 Nov 2, 2010 4:53 AM (in response to sfjedi)Pressing Shift + Alt + Mouse Wheel will snap to useful increments.
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9. Re: even more
Mobius Strip Nov 3, 2010 5:34 AM (in response to sfjedi)sfjedi wrote:
Mobius Strip wrote:
It should snap to the same increments as the magnifying-glass tool, when you cross those increments with the mouse wheel.
I agree, but it might bother some people, so just put a checkbox in the zoom tool's property bar to snap to whole numbers or something to that effect.
Why would going to 100 instead of 100.3 percent bother someone? Especially when you just left 100 percent, and now can't get back to it.
And what's more likely to be bothersome: stopping at whole percentages, or the current default of stopping at nonsensical fractions?
Pressing Shift + Alt + Mouse Wheel will snap to useful increments.
Thanks. That might as well not exist, however, because no one will ever guess it. TWO modifier keys? Ridiculous. It would make more sense to use modifier keys to allow stopping at random fractions, and have the snapping-to-common-factors on by default.
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10. Re: even more
sfjedi-Gvtvps Nov 3, 2010 5:43 AM (in response to Mobius Strip)Mobius Strip wrote:
Why would going to 100 instead of 100.3 percent bother someone?
Because changing ANY feature from what people are used to seems to bother some people. I can't imagine it bothering anyone myself, but I would NOT be surprised if some tool out there was bothered by this.
But yeah, I totally agree with you. It *would* make more sense if it stopped on even numbers and used the insanely nonintuitive keyboard shortcuts for the fractional percentages.


