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helena1872
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February 9, 2017
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Bridge Preview Zoom (Between 0 and 100%)

  • February 9, 2017
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Hi,

Bridge by default either shows you the full image (completely zoomed out), or gives you 100% magnification (going up to 800%). This is too big for my purposes. I need to zoom in at about 50%. But I don't know how. 

My question is if anyone knows how to zoom between 0 and 100% in any preview mode in bridge.

Even if I have to mod or add an add-on to Bridge. Or petition Adobe to change it. I really need this for Bridge.

Thanks

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    Sahil.Chawla
    Adobe Employee
    Sahil.Chawla
    Adobe Employee
    February 27, 2017

    Hi Helena,

    Magnification in a full-screen preview, a click zooms to the current zoom level, which is 100% by default. Pressing + or - increases or decreases this magnification in additional zooms of 200%, 400%, and 800%. There are no other amounts, and this is not user-configurable.

    You can post a feature request in the Photoshop feedback website: -

    http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family

    Regards,

    Sahil

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      Ashley7
      Legend
      April 1, 2017

      Sahil.Chawla  wrote

      Hi Helena,

      Magnification in a full-screen preview, a click zooms to the current zoom level, which is 100% by default. Pressing + or - increases or decreases this magnification in additional zooms of 200%, 400%, and 800%. There are no other amounts, and this is not user-configurable.

      You can post a feature request in the Photoshop feedback website: -

      http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family

      Regards,

      Sahil

      I had the same question, thanks for your answer. I would like to be able to crop previews. Zooming to differing variable amounts is a way of doing something like that (cropping to the display by zooming the desired amount). Unfortunately, given the lower granularity of zoom control, it doesn't really work well.

      An aside, it would actually not only be nice to have more granularity with zoom, but to also have a "cropped preview" mode, perhaps with the ability to hand drag/move previewed images within the selelcted crop, as well as adjust the crop. When taking portraits, so many photos have the person's head in the same location so this kind of feature can work nicely. If they could have "cropped preview" and face detection to fit my selected crop, that'd be even nicer!

      I'll enter a suggestion... thank you again for your clarification.

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      bbinyc
      Participant
      December 16, 2017

      This zoom toggle needs to be doable with a keystroke.  That way your right hand can navigate with arrow keys, and left can zoom and rate.  Having to take right hand off of the arrow keys every time one wants to check critical focus slows down the editing process immensely.  In Photo Mechanic it's Z (for zoom), which makes sense, though I think it should be user assignable.  In Lightroom either the Z or Spacebar will toggle zoom for you.  But for some reason in Bridge, a dedicated editor, there are countless keys that do nothing in the image viewer except bonk when pressed, it's so wasteful.  I'm aware you can use the + and - keys, but this is also slow, as it's stepped and requires two keys to do/undo. 

      On this topic, double clicking from the contact sheet should open the single image view mode, not photoshop.  Or at least that should be an option.  Photoshop does not need to be opened that urgently, I can right-click and select open from a dropdown menu.  Picking images, viewing them larger, and zooming for focus are what needs to be snappy when making selections.  Very disappointed by how few options there are to customize the interface in Bridge.

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