Layers Window Zoom

Forum|Forum|11 months ago
May 23, 2025
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I must have missed the memo; When did clicking somewhere *gestures wildly* on the Layers Window activate some kind of zoom for the current document?

What is exactly and how do I avoid thise seemly annoying feature in the future?

Windows

AxelMatt

Community Expert

Sorry, butI don't understrand exactly what you mean. Please describe more detailed.

What do you mean with "...some kind of zoom..."?

Where do you click?

Do you do a left or right click?

I don't know anything about such an feature.

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Ghoul FoolAuthor

Inspiring

Sorry for being deliberately vague, but I have on several occasions managed to activate a zoom feature by accidentally left clicking on the layers palette. In that you can move a layer up by click dragging it - or set a layer mask by Alt clicking on the border between two layers. It's something contextual like that. Only I don't know actually what I've pressed; as I was trying to do something else at the time.

AxelMatt

Community Expert

@Ghoul Fool At the moment the only thing I can imagine is, that you've done a right click on the layer thumbnail (1). Then you click on Medium/Large Thumbnail (2).

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