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chrisell99
chrisell99
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August 14, 2023
Question

When zooming a window over another window, the documents swap priority

  • August 14, 2023
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In the last two versions of Photoshop - currently on v24.7 - there's been a really irritating issue where zooming one window when it's on top of another causes the underlying document to flip to higher priority. 

To reproduce, have separate windows per document. Expand one so it fills the main Photoshop view. Get the other document over the top in it's window and zoom it. The underlying one will flip to highest priority, hiding the one you're trying to zoom. Attached video shows this in action.

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    ledesmartin
    Participant
    May 8, 2025

    This happens to me too

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    Bilderstuermer
    Participant
    April 29, 2025

    This happens to me in 26.6.0

     

    Was this ever fixed? Is it intended behavior, perhaps? Couldn't imagine why it should be, but who knows.

    Trevor.Dennis
    Community Expert
    Trevor.DennisCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    April 29, 2025

    I am not seeing it here with Windows 11 and beta 26.7.0 m.3057

    What zoom method are you using?

    What operating system anmd version?

     

    Are these different documents, or the same document using Window > Arrange > New Window for... ?

    Any other clues that might help us pin it down?

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    Bilderstuermer
    Participant
    April 30, 2025

    Thanks for your reply.

     

    Windows 11 10.0.22631 Build 22631

     

    Those are two different windowed documents.

    It randomly seems to happen on the mouse click when I zoom in or out either after temporally switching  to the zoom tool by holding CTRL/ALT + SPACE, but also after  clicking on the magnifying glass. It does not happen when I use ALT + scroll wheel.

    "Resize Windows to Fit" and "Zoom All Windows" are off. For the move tool, "Auto-Select" is turned off, turning off showing layer bonds etc. doesn't seem to make a difference, either.

     

    When I use the ALT + SPACE method, it even brings up documents that were minimized previously.

     

    Also, for ALT + SPACE, Windows seems to play its sound for an unrecognized key combination (but PS does switch to the Zoom tool and neither key does that individually).

     

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