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igor_vds
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September 6, 2012
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Problem with zoom in Photoshop CS6

  • September 6, 2012
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Hello

I've got problem with new(?) feature in Photoshop CS6.

When I'm working on my project and have for example 150% zoom and I want to move workspace with SPACE+LMB.

In my previous version (CS3) I can do this without problem but know Photoshop shows me my file with FIT TO SCREEN zoom and some frame to choose

which screen area I want to zoom in.

It's just zooming out to full view of file. I hate this, but I can't turn it off.

My system info:

Adobe Photoshop Version: 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00) x64

Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit

Version: 6.1 Service Pack 1

System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:5, Stepping:5 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, HyperThreading

Physical processor count: 2

Logical processor count: 4

Processor speed: 2660 MHz

Built-in memory: 3828 MB

Free memory: 148 MB

Memory available to Photoshop: 3250 MB

Memory used by Photoshop: 80 %

Image tile size: 128K

Image cache levels: 4

OpenGL Drawing: Enabled.

OpenGL Drawing Mode: Basic

OpenGL Allow Normal Mode: True.

OpenGL Allow Advanced Mode: True.

OpenGL Allow Old GPUs: Not Detected.

Video Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation

Video Card Renderer: GeForce GT 420M/PCIe/SSE2

Display: 1

Display Bounds:=  top: 0, left: 0, bottom: 768, right: 1366

Video Card Number: 2

Video Card: Intel(R) HD Graphics

OpenCL Unavailable

Driver Version: 8.15.10.2189

Driver Date: 20100728000000.000000-000

Video Card Driver: igdumd64.dll,igd10umd64.dll,igdumdx32,igd10umd32

Video Mode: 1366 x 768 x 4294967296 colors

Video Card Caption: Intel(R) HD Graphics

Video Card Memory: 1024 MB

Video Rect Texture Size: 16384

Video Card Number: 1

Video Card: %NVIDIA_DEV.0DF1.01%

OpenCL Unavailable

Driver Version: 8.17.13.553

Driver Date: 20120802000000.000000-000

Video Card Driver: nvd3dumx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um

Video Mode:

Video Card Caption: %NVIDIA_DEV.0DF1.01%

Video Card Memory: 1024 MB

Video Rect Texture Size: 16384

Serial number: 90970819015185381107

Application folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit)\

Temporary file path: C:\Users\VDS\AppData\Local\Temp\

Photoshop scratch has async I/O enabled

Scratch volume(s):

  C:\, 111,7G, 14,6G free

Required Plug-ins folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit)\Required\

Primary Plug-ins folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit)\Plug-ins\

Additional Plug-ins folder: not set

Installed components:

   A3DLIBS.dll   A3DLIB Dynamic Link Library   9.2.0.112  

   ACE.dll   ACE 2012/01/18-15:07:40   66.492997   66.492997

   adbeape.dll   Adobe APE 2012/01/25-10:04:55   66.1025012   66.1025012

   AdobeLinguistic.dll   Adobe Linguisitc Library   6.0.0  

   AdobeOwl.dll   Adobe Owl 2012/02/09-16:00:02   4.0.93   66.496052

   AdobePDFL.dll   PDFL 2011/12/12-16:12:37   66.419471   66.419471

   AdobePIP.dll   Adobe Product Improvement Program   6.0.0.1654  

   AdobeXMP.dll   Adobe XMP Core 2012/02/06-14:56:27   66.145661   66.145661

   AdobeXMPFiles.dll   Adobe XMP Files 2012/02/06-14:56:27   66.145661   66.145661

   AdobeXMPScript.dll   Adobe XMP Script 2012/02/06-14:56:27   66.145661   66.145661

   adobe_caps.dll   Adobe CAPS   6,0,29,0  

   AGM.dll   AGM 2012/01/18-15:07:40   66.492997   66.492997

   ahclient.dll    AdobeHelp Dynamic Link Library   1,7,0,56  

   aif_core.dll   AIF   3.0   62.490293

   aif_ocl.dll   AIF   3.0   62.490293

   aif_ogl.dll   AIF   3.0   62.490293

   amtlib.dll   AMTLib (64 Bit)   6.0.0.75 (BuildVersion: 6.0; BuildDate: Mon Jan 16 2012 18:00:00)   1.000000

   ARE.dll   ARE 2012/01/18-15:07:40   66.492997   66.492997

   AXE8SharedExpat.dll   AXE8SharedExpat 2011/12/16-15:10:49   66.26830   66.26830

   AXEDOMCore.dll   AXEDOMCore 2011/12/16-15:10:49   66.26830   66.26830

   Bib.dll   BIB 2012/01/18-15:07:40   66.492997   66.492997

   BIBUtils.dll   BIBUtils 2012/01/18-15:07:40   66.492997   66.492997

   boost_date_time.dll   DVA Product   6.0.0  

   boost_signals.dll   DVA Product   6.0.0  

   boost_system.dll   DVA Product   6.0.0  

   boost_threads.dll   DVA Product   6.0.0  

   cg.dll   NVIDIA Cg Runtime   3.0.00007  

   cgGL.dll   NVIDIA Cg Runtime   3.0.00007  

   CIT.dll   Adobe CIT   2.0.5.19287   2.0.5.19287

   CoolType.dll   CoolType 2012/01/18-15:07:40   66.492997   66.492997

   data_flow.dll   AIF   3.0   62.490293

   dvaaudiodevice.dll   DVA Product   6.0.0  

   dvacore.dll   DVA Product   6.0.0  

   dvamarshal.dll   DVA Product   6.0.0  

   dvamediatypes.dll   DVA Product   6.0.0  

   dvaplayer.dll   DVA Product   6.0.0  

   dvatransport.dll   DVA Product   6.0.0  

   dvaunittesting.dll   DVA Product   6.0.0  

   dynamiclink.dll   DVA Product   6.0.0  

   ExtendScript.dll   ExtendScript 2011/12/14-15:08:46   66.490082   66.490082

   FileInfo.dll   Adobe XMP FileInfo 2012/01/17-15:11:19   66.145433   66.145433

   filter_graph.dll   AIF   3.0   62.490293

   hydra_filters.dll   AIF   3.0   62.490293

   icucnv40.dll   International Components for Unicode 2011/11/15-16:30:22    Build gtlib_3.0.16615  

   icudt40.dll   International Components for Unicode 2011/11/15-16:30:22    Build gtlib_3.0.16615  

   image_compiler.dll   AIF   3.0   62.490293

   image_flow.dll   AIF   3.0   62.490293

   image_runtime.dll   AIF   3.0   62.490293

   JP2KLib.dll   JP2KLib 2011/12/12-16:12:37   66.236923   66.236923

   libifcoremd.dll   Intel(r) Visual Fortran Compiler   10.0 (Update A)  

   libmmd.dll   Intel(r) C Compiler, Intel(r) C++ Compiler, Intel(r) Fortran Compiler   10.0  

   LogSession.dll   LogSession   2.1.2.1640  

   mediacoreif.dll   DVA Product   6.0.0  

   MPS.dll   MPS 2012/02/03-10:33:13   66.495174   66.495174

   msvcm80.dll   Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005   8.00.50727.6195  

   msvcm90.dll   Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2008   9.00.30729.1  

   msvcp100.dll   Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010   10.00.40219.1  

   msvcp80.dll   Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005   8.00.50727.6195  

   msvcp90.dll   Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2008   9.00.30729.1  

   msvcr100.dll   Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010   10.00.40219.1  

   msvcr80.dll   Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005   8.00.50727.6195  

   msvcr90.dll   Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2008   9.00.30729.1  

   pdfsettings.dll   Adobe PDFSettings   1.04  

   Photoshop.dll   Adobe Photoshop CS6   CS6  

   Plugin.dll   Adobe Photoshop CS6   CS6  

   PlugPlug.dll   Adobe(R) CSXS PlugPlug Standard Dll (64 bit)   3.0.0.383  

   PSArt.dll   Adobe Photoshop CS6   CS6  

   PSViews.dll   Adobe Photoshop CS6   CS6  

   SCCore.dll   ScCore 2011/12/14-15:08:46   66.490082   66.490082

   ScriptUIFlex.dll   ScriptUIFlex 2011/12/14-15:08:46   66.490082   66.490082

   tbb.dll   Intel(R) Threading Building Blocks for Windows   3, 0, 2010, 0406  

   tbbmalloc.dll   Intel(R) Threading Building Blocks for Windows   3, 0, 2010, 0406  

   TfFontMgr.dll   FontMgr   9.3.0.113  

   TfKernel.dll   Kernel   9.3.0.113  

   TFKGEOM.dll   Kernel Geom   9.3.0.113  

   TFUGEOM.dll   Adobe, UGeom©   9.3.0.113  

   updaternotifications.dll   Adobe Updater Notifications Library   6.0.0.24 (BuildVersion: 1.0; BuildDate: BUILDDATETIME)   6.0.0.24

   WRServices.dll   WRServices Friday January 27 2012 13:22:12   Build 0.17112   0.17112

   wu3d.dll   U3D Writer   9.3.0.113  

Required plug-ins:

   3D Studio 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00)

   Accented Edges 13.0

   Adaptive Wide Angle 13.0

   ADM 3.11x01

   Angled Strokes 13.0

   Average 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00)

   Bas Relief 13.0

   BMP 13.0

   Chalk & Charcoal 13.0

   Charcoal 13.0

   Chrome 13.0

   Cineon 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00)

   Clouds 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00)

   Collada 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00)

   Color Efex Pro 4 NO VERSION

   Color Efex Pro 4 NO VERSION

   Color Halftone 13.0

   Colored Pencil 13.0

   CompuServe GIF 13.0

   Conté Crayon 13.0

   Craquelure 13.0

   Crop and Straighten Photos 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00)

   Crop and Straighten Photos Filter 13.0

   Crosshatch 13.0

   Crystallize 13.0

   Cutout 13.0

   Dark Strokes 13.0

   De-Interlace 13.0

   Dicom 13.0

   Difference Clouds 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00)

   Diffuse Glow 13.0

   Displace 13.0

   Dry Brush 13.0

   Eazel Acquire 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00)

   Embed Watermark 4.0

   Entropy 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00)

   Extrude 13.0

   FastCore Routines 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00)

   Fibers 13.0

   Film Grain 13.0

   Filter Gallery 13.0

   Flash 3D 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00)

   Fresco 13.0

   Glass 13.0

   Glowing Edges 13.0

   Google Earth 4 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00)

   Grain 13.0

   Graphic Pen 13.0

   Halftone Pattern 13.0

   HDRMergeUI 13.0

   IFF Format 13.0

   Ink Outlines 13.0

   JPEG 2000 13.0

   Kurtosis 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00)

   Lens Blur 13.0

   Lens Correction 13.0

   Lens Flare 13.0

   Liquify 13.0

   Matlab Operation 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00)

   Maximum 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00)

   Mean 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00)

   Measurement Core 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00)

   Median 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00)

   Mezzotint 13.0

   Minimum 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00)

   MMXCore Routines 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00)

   Mosaic Tiles 13.0

   Multiprocessor Support 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00)

   Neon Glow 13.0

   Note Paper 13.0

   NTSC Colors 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00)

   Ocean Ripple 13.0

   Oil Paint 13.0

   OpenEXR 13.0

   Paint Daubs 13.0

   Palette Knife 13.0

   Patchwork 13.0

   Paths to Illustrator 13.0

   PCX 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00)

   Photocopy 13.0

   Photoshop 3D Engine 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00)

   Picture Package Filter 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00)

   Pinch 13.0

   Pixar 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00)

   Plaster 13.0

   Plastic Wrap 13.0

   PNG 13.0

   Pointillize 13.0

   Polar Coordinates 13.0

   Portable Bit Map 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00)

   Poster Edges 13.0

   Radial Blur 13.0

   Radiance 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00)

   Range 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00)

   Read Watermark 4.0

   Reticulation 13.0

   Ripple 13.0

   Rough Pastels 13.0

   Save for Web 13.0

   ScriptingSupport 13.0

   Shear 13.0

   Skewness 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00)

   Smart Blur 13.0

   Smudge Stick 13.0

   Solarize 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00)

   Spatter 13.0

   Spherize 13.0

   Sponge 13.0

   Sprayed Strokes 13.0

   Stained Glass 13.0

   Stamp 13.0

   Standard Deviation 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00)

   Sumi-e 13.0

   Summation 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00)

   Targa 13.0

   Texturizer 13.0

   Tiles 13.0

   Torn Edges 13.0

   Twirl 13.0

   U3D 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00)

   Underpainting 13.0

   Vanishing Point 13.0

   Variance 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00)

   Variations 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00)

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   Wind 13.0

   Wireless Bitmap 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00)

   ZigZag 13.0

Optional and third party plug-ins:

   Camera Raw 7.1

   Nik Selective Tool 2.1.3.17256

Plug-ins that failed to load: NONE

Flash:

   Mini Bridge

   Kuler

Installed TWAIN devices: NONE

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5 replies

C
Cluthavaults
Participant
August 5, 2013

The Bird's Eye view is normally activated by holding the H key while clicking and dragging.  There is a bug that makes this feature sticky.

Press and let go of the Alt key, the menu bar quick access letters will remain underscored.  Then press the H key, the Help menu opens up.

Don't click the menu, click anywhere on your picture and now the Bird's Eye view is sticky.  Press H to return to normal.

1 - Alt      (press and let go)

2 - H

3 - click on your picture, not the drop down menu

--------------------

Bird's Eye view is sticky

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4 - H to unstick

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PangolinCord
Participating Frequently
August 5, 2013

I've tried this, and have been messing around for about 10 minutes zooming and panning with the spacebar. So far so good! This is the only time I've ever found a solution that works after searching the internet for a long time! Thanks a million

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PangolinCord
Participating Frequently
August 1, 2013

I just got a new computer at work and was upgraded to CS 6...so now my work computer is activating the bird's eye view when I hit space bar to pan now too. It's a total workflow killer and ruins my day. The only solution that I've found that works is to turn off the graphics processor, which at that point I might as well use MS Paint.  I know it only affects a few users, but it's extremly frustrating for those that it does happen to. It's like someone is moving the mouse while you're using the wacom everytime you zoom. Not fun.

Here's a link I found to others having the problem made in 2011.

http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/please_let_us_switch_off_that_damn_birds_eye_option

They disabled these forums a few weeks ago, but you can see there's a user that posted yesterday about it too. Not sure why it's being ignored.

I'd go back to CS3 if I could. What a bummer

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PangolinCord
Participating Frequently
July 5, 2013

Does anyone know if this problem ever got addressed? My work computer is fine, but my home computer will switch to "bird's eye view" when I use the space bar to pan about 1 out of every 3 times. It's driving me nuts. I haven't been able to figure out what's the key differecnce between my work machine and my home one.  I tried all of the suggestions already provided, but no luck so far. Someone on another forum suggested it might be a keyboard related issue, so I bought a new one (I need an upgrade anyway), but that didn't help. If I figure anything new out, I'll let everyone know...but I'm stumped

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BradRabbit
Participating Frequently
July 5, 2013

I don't think the issue ever get addressed. And btw the problem also occurs on Adobe CS6. I use CS5 on my personal machine and CS6 on work's machine. They both get the same annoying problem. It is so obvious and easy to test, but doesn't seem like it gets any attention from Adobe

conroy
conroy
Participating Frequently
September 6, 2012

You are describing the behaviour when H key is held down and left-mouse button is dragged. Strange that it should happen with spacebar. Something to try... activate Hand Tool, then in Options bar, right-click the hand icon at the left and pick Reset Tool.

Noel Carboni
Noel Carboni
Legend
September 6, 2012

Good call conroy...  What's that called... I guess they never gave it a name.  It's described here:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-74e0a.html#WSEC71AD4A-39B0-4d94-BBB7-64D9B640275C

-Noel

conroy
conroy
Participating Frequently
September 6, 2012

Bird's eye view, I believe.

Noel Carboni
Noel Carboni
Legend
September 6, 2012

It is supposed to still work the way you want (Pan invoked by holding the space bar down), and for me and others I know it does work.  I am running Windows 7 x64 as well.

Any chance you've swapped your right and left mouse buttons?  Has a left-handed person used your system recentliy?  Check the Windows control panel settings for your Mouse.

If not, something must be intercepting the space bar key events on your system, though I don't know what that might be.  Have you got any utilities running that intercept keystrokes to do special things (e.g., invoke different desktop functions)?

-Noel

I
igor_vdsAuthor
Participant
September 6, 2012

No, I'm pretty sure and check this. Mouse button orientation is good.

It's look like this on screenshot:

The worst thing with this that is don't do everytime. It's depend, but I have no idea from what.

How it works?

I've got image with 1000px width and 3000px height. I'm zoomint part with text and zoom is in 300%.

I choose Text tool, write something, hit CTRL+Enter to accept this. Then, I click 'V', hold Space and then I can move workspace.

But when I write this text, accept this, choose ZOOM tool and zoom out once or twice, then it's start like on screenshot.

I can't work like this :/

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