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wolfie138
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June 19, 2011
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P: Please let us switch off the "bird's eye" feature

  • June 19, 2011
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this could be a suggestion, but for now it's a problem that's driving me crazy : how do you turn off that damn "bird's eye view" option? It's activating when i hit the space bar at certain magnifications and jumps out and disorients me. it's so annoying it's not true. it may be a good tool when someone specifically requests to use it, but otherwise we should either have the option to disable it, or disable it for the Space bar only. Seriously, this "feature" makes me seethe, it totally ruins my productivity as i'm set working at a particular area/magnification then instead of being able to scroll w/ the Space bar as we always did, the view jumps out jarringly and sometimes seems to change the tool i'm working w/ too.

PLEASE, give us an option to disable it.
TIA.

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    aartturi
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    May 13, 2014
    This bug still happens with PS CS6 when trying to use space bar. Its so annoying.. 😕😕
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    January 24, 2014
    Same problem.

    Max zoom then select couple of pixels with the "M" tool. And here it comes - press "Z" then ALT then double click (to zoom out two levels) release ALT and press SPACEBAR and drag = birds eye every time. The tricky part is that you have to do it FAST - really fast else it won't happen. It's like if you're fast they slow you down to make it harder!

    My workflow intention is this - zoom to pixel level select couple of pixels to measure them then zoom out little and drag to other region, zoom in and measure again. This can't happen because bird's eye bug happens every time and it drives me nuts because at high zoom levels I loose my location and have to look for it every time. I have to switch my ZOOMing style because of this 😕😕
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    January 4, 2014
    Another vote for some way to disable this feature please. I seem to end up stuck in birds eye view when using the hand tool for some unknown reason within a couple of minutes of starting to use Photoshop (latest CC version). After switching to a different tool and back to the hand it'll then clear up for the rest of that session. Restarting Photoshop I'll get it again.

    It's been like that for me since CS5 or 6, not sure which.
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    georghilmarsson
    Participating Frequently
    December 2, 2013
    Get someone to write a javascript that disables it?
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    georghilmarsson
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    November 21, 2013
    When I first started to describe this problem that is excactly the view I got from adobe. - They just could not reproduce the bug..... I finally recorded a video of the way this happens, I posted the video to the person at Adobe who was trying to help....and after the video I got no response, nothin
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    vpaceka
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    November 21, 2013
    What's most frustrating about this is that they're not even acknowledging the problem, treating it as if it was a feature that we simply didn't like. It IS a bug.
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    georghilmarsson
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    November 21, 2013
    please please please do something about this!!!!!

    I cannot believe this is just being ignored
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    November 21, 2013
    Another way to "leak" the bird's eye view to space bar (a variation of Vinícius Rezende Paceka's method) :

    while holding down ANY tool shortcut you're not currently using (i.e. hold B while you have Clone Stamp selected) and, at the same time press Alt. Release the tool's shortcut. While holding Alt, press and hold the spacebar. Release Alt. Try to use the spacebar pan. There's your other bug.

    This method not only triggers the bird's eye view but now holding down just the spacebar+dragging behaves like holding down H+dragging.

    At first we thought it was a feature but now knowing it's a bug that is around since CS4 is annoying. It punishes fast interactions immensely.
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    georghilmarsson
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    November 8, 2013
    Please...any comment - has anyone found a way or hacked a solution to this????

    - Im at the point of considering other software this is so annoying.

    A simple checkbox in preferences like the "enable flick panning" would just totally solve this problem! And in any case, a feature like the "birds eye view" is such a dramatic change, a much bigger one than "enable flick panning" that I just don ́t understand why adobe would not let users select to turn this off.

    I just updated to 13.0.1
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    georghilmarsson
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    October 15, 2013
    This has been one of the most annoying bugs/features that I ́ve experienced with photosop, totally killing my workflow when it happes.

    It is somehow connected to the hand tool and should just work when you us "H", but it somehow conflicts when using spacebar to pan around an image.

    My workaround was to delete the shortcut "H" for the hand tool. Seems to work so far.
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