I have found that it is possible to use scrubby zoom with a magic mouse or trackpad by holding down the alt key and using gestures - right or down zooms in and left or up zooms out (Photoshop CS6). In other words, don't move the magic mouse - just move one or two fingers across the top.
If you're a PS CC 2015 user and are having issues with scrubby zoom, please refer to this KB doc which includes a link to the plug-in which should fix the zoom problem on 10.11 (and a few other issues):
Hi folks - currently running Creative Cloud 2015 on a Mac Pro 2013 6 Core, Dual D500's, 1TB, 32GB and El Capitan 10.11. The problem I'm seeing is similar to the scrubby zoom issue, except I use marquee zooming with the zoom tool, and it is exhibiting a couple of second delay before actually drawing the marquee and engaging the zoom - very jerky.
Also Photoshop stutters occasionally when panning with the hand tool - not every movement but if you have a large-ish image it will jerk and stutter at some point during panning - not experienced either of those issues before upgrading to El Capitan.
Yep, that seems to have fixed the delay in the Zoom marquee and the panning jerkiness, will keep testing and feedback if anything else crops up. Thx to those who created the plug-in so swiftly 🙂
Last update of PS CC2015 (mac version) changed the way zoom works and my productivity is completely down.
Zooming and dezooming precision is totally lost !!!
is it a bug ? is it normal ? how can I turn back to previous behaviour ??
Hello - I have used the plugin for a week or so - no I have another bug - after using NIK plugin - the plugin don't work - and I have to restart PS - anyone else - or is it just me?
Nik seems to be the difference. Have you checked for updates? Another way to tell is to hold down Shift when starting Photoshop to exclude third party plugins.