How to use the zoom and the hand to move the thing aroud, or the lasso tool,

[Lucky_Sunshine1183]

i am a fan of lightroom, but i am to old and to attached to photoshop, and its making me nuts to not be able to use the standard photoshop tools, like the zoom and the hand to move the thing aroud, or the lasso tool,

its almost as if you over simplified the interface when designing it, and i have no desire to learna  brand new interface all over again or go hunting for standardized tools, can you please show me where those itms are located ?

pretty please with sugar on top,

i do a lot of high detail work, and i love ai add and subrtract tools, but hunting for the tool to grab the picture and move it to the next area, or the magnifying glass to zoom in and out are a pita, even with keyboad short cuts you could simplify this for me,

thanks

Sunshine

[Rob_Cullen · Accepted solution]

Because the 'Lightroom' apps are in the  'Parametric raw editor' class they do not have the ability to move pixels around (as does Photoshop), and likely never will.

You would need to change to a subscription (Contact Adobe) that includes Photoshop - the Photography Plan 1TB  (@ BUY PHOTOGRAPHY PLANS ), or have another 'Pixel based' editor. eg. Photoshop Elements, and many others (not Adobe).

[Lucky_Sunshine1183]

I have the photo shop plan....

I'm not looking for a pixel editor....

You would think it would make sense to have a magnifying glass, a toolbar and a grabber to slide around the screen.Easier.

I'm asking you

Where the magnifying glass is for easy zoom

And the hand tool is so I can easily slide around the screen

That is all

[Lucky_Sunshine1183]

Did did you even check my account to verify that?I have the full paid plan?

[JohanElzenga]

Did did you even check my account to verify that?I have the full paid plan?

By @Lucky_Sunshine1183

Are you asking yourself that? Rob is not an Adobe employee. He cannot check that. And no, neither am I.

[Rob_Cullen]

Hi @Lucky_Sunshine1183 

The Lightroom apps (because they are parametric editors) have individual zoom values selectable (Previews of differing % sizes)-

Lightroom (Cloud based)-

Lightroom-Classic-

LrC can toggle between two values (eg, FIT<>100%) by pressing the [Space Bar]. Selecting a %value becomes the 'default' for the [Space Bar] toggle. eg Click 50% and [Space Bar]  will toggle FIT<>25%.- Very useful!

Both Lr & LrC will drag an image in the main window with the left-mouse button (when it is zoomed beyond 'Fit' size.)

LrC can also move the visible area of a zoomed image by dragging the frame on the thumbnail in the Navigation panel. (See second screen-clip above.)