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May 1, 2013
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P: Need better zooming

  • 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
    Inspiring
    May 1, 2013
    I never use the Z button since a mouse click does the same thing. And we already have zoom to mouse location.
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    May 1, 2013
    Your comment above fits perfectly with my request, I did not ask for any changes to the click / pan, just CMD + to step through the zoom options and CMD - to zoom back back out
    No reason to stop Z from meaning zoom into 100%.

    By far the most intelligent update to the Z button would be to implement the to zoom into 100% to where the cursor is, What do you think of that Lee Jay?
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    Lee Jay
    Inspiring
    May 1, 2013
    LR's two-level zoom/pan system is absolutely my favorite system by far. I hate having to go to PS and deal with the cruddy zoom-by-steps, select had tool or hit space bar, control-alt-0 to get back out nonsense.

    I'd like some improvements to LR's zoom tool, but losing the two-level click and pan system would make me very angry.
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    StefanKlein
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    May 1, 2013
    Zooming in LR is really cumbersome since LR1. If you compare it to Photoshop`s zooming and panning, LR`s method is REALLY bad! I want to be able to constantly zoom to any level, not just back and forth between 2 options or use a slider. I want PS`s animated zoom (scrubby zoom) and flick-panning. LR`s method is as bad as one can imagine!
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