P: Need better zooming

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May 1, 2013
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Can we have an improved zoom for Lightroom? At the moment you can pick 1, possibly 2 and then the toggle jumps around between 100%, fit, fill and whatever you have selected.With the advent of the radial tool, there is often the need to zoom out to 1/8 or even 1/16th.Photoshop has a great zoom, press a key and roll the mouse, how about implementing something like that, even if it has to do discrete steps300%, 200%, 100%, fill, fit, 50%, 25%, 12% 6%, that would be perfect.If there are logistical issues with the mouse wheel, how about actually making the CMD + and CMD - that is the current zoom actually work properly.This would be a worthy improvement for LR4 to LR5.

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Lee Jay

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Zoom clicked point to center means make whatever is under your mouse click the center after zooming. And that's what it does.

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FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor

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Lee J
Quote - Edit - Preferences - Interface - Tweaks - Zoom clicked point to center
so you must always start your edits at the centre where your mouse is.
I've suggested it zooms to where your mouse cursor is, not the centre, not where your last edit was.

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Lee Jay

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By the way, I hate SolidWorks zoom. It's exactly backward of every other application I use, which is irritating. I always go the wrong way.

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Lee Jay

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"...that does not zoom to the mouse pointer..."

It does for me.

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Jay Lee,
Thanks bru, that does not zoom to the mouse pointer, its vastly irritating to zoom to nowhere near where you need to do the work.

The only program I've seen intelligent enough to zoom to the mouse is PS - by virtue of rolling the mouse wheel / touch pad and Solid Works which implements it in the most incredibly intuitive way.

zooming to the centre / previous edit point is SO LAST CENTURY