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Wabber_HM
Inspiring
November 4, 2019

P: Alt-Clicking arrows next to groups zooms to the group

  • November 4, 2019
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Due to the new feature to zoom to a layer's contents in Photoshop v21.0.0, it now conflicts with the feature to auto-collapse or expand all of a group's folders by Alt-Clicking on the arrow next to the folder icon. Now, it still does the action, but while zooming into the group at the same time. I like the new feature, but it should only work when alt-clicking on any other part of the layer.
This zoom feature also always stacked like it does now on all layers when the arrow next to Artboard layers were alt-clicked in previous versions. It would zoom and collapse layers under it.

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schroef
Inspiring
November 23, 2023

@J453 

 

Issue is still there in 22.5.1 so its a regression or never was fixed, i think the latter because i see reports with multplie version numbers

Known Participant
May 29, 2020
+1 being able to disable alt-clicking to zoom layer contents. OR change the behavior... a little-known feature is to alt-drag a layer or group to the new layer icon in the layers palette. Doing so brings up a dialogue inquiring where the user wants to place the copied layer/group. it's extremely useful for duping chunks of content into a new doc, in the exact location.

I use this hundreds of times a day... With the current functionality, every time I do this, my source doc blasts to fit the screen, overlapping the target doc. Working with 64x64px icons this is especially annoying and disruptive to my workflow.

I actually dig the idea of alt-clicking a layer to zoom to extents and could definitely see myself using it. But, in it's current implementation, it fires off during other, unrelated operations.
Inspiring
February 27, 2020
Please give us an option to turn alt clicking "Zoom to Layer Content" off. It's happening even when I'm creating a clipping mask. Don't piecemeal and try to fix each shortcut issue, just give us the option to turn it off. I'm running 21.1 and it's infuriating.
Known Participant
January 23, 2020
I use Alt+click to collapse/expand layer Effects globally, so definitely "Zoom to Layer Content" should be on/off feature.
Participating Frequently
December 20, 2019
Still not fixed for a substract selections like "Ctrl + Alt as Substract selection (-)". Still Zoom it and make me cry... Why.
donbarrum
Inspiring
December 11, 2019
please me too this one as well, I opened this again since it was merged into this without being fixed. 
https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/ctrl-alt-drag-shape-layer-to-mask-zooms-the-layer-and-resize-your-canvas
Known Participant
December 11, 2019
https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/alt-shortctut-in-layers-panel-and-zoom-to-content-feature

Topic opened here, just in case we need more "me too" for this reason specifically.
donbarrum
Inspiring
December 11, 2019
I hope we don't have to me-too and make new bug reports for every way the "alt click layer" creates a zoom problem? Because there are many ways currently  it zoom un-intentionally and some of them have been merged into this chat by the moderators even if they are different situations than what the topic says. I find it strange that Adobe merge it all into one chat claiming its fixed when it is different issues - unless you consider to fix it all at once... And in that case it is not fixed yet!  
donbarrum
Inspiring
December 11, 2019
what if you have this problem with other layer use cases different from what you link to? My problems were merged into this group but has not been fixed with 21.0.2
Legend
December 11, 2019
The issue for groups was fixed in 21.0.2.

Please add a me too for the selection shortcut problem here: https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/photoshop-zooms-out-while-trying-to-subtract-...