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noahs18357377
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April 15, 2017
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editing spacebar keyboard shortcut

  • April 15, 2017
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Hi,

I am switching from Gimp to Photoshop, so I don't know my way around very well yet. I am working with a wacom bamboo tablet,

and in gimp, pressing and holding a button on the pen enabled me to pan around my image, just like the spacebar in photoshop.

First off, I would like to ask what that tool (the one enabled by the spacebar) is called. It is different than the hand tool, in that you can hold the spacebar down as long as you want it, then release and snap back to whatever tool you where using before.

Secondly, I would love to re-assign whatever-that-tool-is-called's shortcut to a different key; one that will work with my wacom pen. I already tried setting the pen button to a spacebar in the wacom preferences, but it doesn't work.

The pen settings actually have an option called "pan/scroll", but alas, it doesn't work in photoshop.

Thanks for your help,

Noah

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Trevor.Dennis
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April 15, 2017

OK Noel, I am not entirely sure I am following you, but an alternative to panning with the Space bar, is the spring-loaded pan from a zoomed position holding down the 'H' key.  You can assign the letter 'H' to either button in Wacom properties.  It's a cool trick with no downsides I can think of.

noahs18357377
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April 15, 2017

What do you mean by "spring loaded"? Are you talking about when it zooms out temporarily and lets you choose what part of the image to pan to? I actually like the tool that is used by the spacebar. I just want to access it with my wacom pen button, instead of the spacebar. That way I could zoom in, draw some, then just hold down the pen button (instead of the spacebar) and pan over a bit. As soon as I let go of the one button, I would be back to the brush tool, and could continue drawing; without the sickening zoom out and zoom in of the "H" key.

Trevor.Dennis
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Trevor.DennisCommunity Expert
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April 16, 2017

Spring-loaded shortcuts are ones that operate while the key is held down, and 'spring back' to the tool being used before the spring-loaded shortcut was used.  These are

R - Rotate Canvas

H - Pan zoom window to different location.

E - Eraser

In fact it works with most of the tools, but where more than one tool uses the same shortcut, I don't think there is a way to switch other than to rearrange the order the tools appear in a custom toolbar (if you have CC)

As you can see in the Wacom Properties screen shot, you can assign any key to either pen button, so whatever works for you.

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