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P: Add option to disable ALT/OPT + Click 'Zoom to layer' behavior

Forum|Forum|6 years ago
November 5, 2019
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Going to go back to the previous version of PS until there is a way to turn this off or it's changed or eliminated. Seems someone at Adobe forgot that holding "Alt" while clicking a layer group is how we collapse/expand layers! Now when I try to collapse a layer group the whole thing zooms???? No bueno, Adobe.

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omerakyol

Participant

This is extremely annoying, it literally destroyed my workflow. I constantly use Alt + thumbnail to remove the whole layer from my selection. We must be able to turn it off immediately!

jane-e

Community Expert

"I constantly use Alt + thumbnail to remove the whole layer from my selection."

Hi Omerakyol,

This sounds like it may be a different issue. If you have selected multiple layers and need to deselect one, then use Command (Mac) or Control (Win) and click that layer to remove it from the selection. Don't Cmd/Ctrl+Click the thumbnail itself, though, as that is the shortcut to select the pixels on the layer — click to the right of it.

Jane

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omerakyol

Participant

I know its much easier for you to assume users as idiots at first but no, by selection, ı mean the selection on the screen. I am using photoshop to earn my living for 16 years straight now, thank you. And I am sure many people here are using ctrl/alt + thumbnail to add and subtract layer pixels to make complex selections. It is obvious developers or testers don't have any clue, tough...

Edit: typo

timtwo1980

Participant

totally agree! as soon as I updated today... I've been searching for how to turn it off the whole day! very annoy!!!

Jeff Arola

Community Expert

As far as i know, there is not a way at this time to turn off the Zoom to Layer Content’ feature

in photoshop cc 2020.

You could make a feature request/bug report over here:

https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family

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NP_03

Participating Frequently

How do you turn off “Zoom to Layer Content” in PS 2020?! The action is trigged when option/alt clicking a layer or group which in turn zooms to the contents of the layer to the screen. The action is the same key combination used to collapse nested groups. The new feature is not desirable and I'm looking for a way to turn it off. Please help!

Full description of the aciton can be found here, topic #9.

JJMack

Community Expert

Where did you see Alt-Click Layer Pallets (Layer Content Thumbnail, or mask thumbnail, of outside the layer thumbnails) documented as a shortcut for collapse nested groups? I can not find that Alt-Click Layers is a Photoshop shortcut for collapse nested groups. I can find fit layers to screen

JJMack

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NP_03

Participating Frequently

Opt/Alt + click the triangle next to a Layer Group will expand/collapse all Layer Groups including nested Layer Groups.

Not sure of the official documentation but I've been using this feature for years. The same auther in the link above documents the feature here posted on 11-05-2015.

The issue is this same legacy feature is now combining a non desirable feature (Zoom to Layer Content) which I would like to turn off.

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