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Robert Studio Eight MN
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August 19, 2021
Question

How do I turn off the option click zoom in Photoshop 22.5.0

  • August 19, 2021
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I use an Apple Magic Mouse and every-time I use option click to take a sample for the Clone Tool or Healing Brush, Photoshop zooms in or out.  In the words of the late great William S. Burroughs .... "It's driving me crazy, it's driving me nuts!"  Please help me keep my sanity and keep me on schedule.  If there's a solution, it's hiding from me.

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Participant
October 29, 2024

Found a fix!!!

Better Touch Tool to the rescue again

 

Kevin Stohlmeyer
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 19, 2021

Its not the option click - its a magic mouse gesture.

Go to Photoshop/Preferences/Tools and disable gestures.

 

 

Robert Studio Eight MN
Known Participant
August 19, 2021

Kevin, thanks for the reply but nope, disabling gestures doesn't work.  In fact disabling any tool* preference related to window navigation doesn't solve the .... dare I say .... "bug"?  

 

Ok wait, wait.  (while writing this I've been trying different things) I just experienced the "bug" switching between the command key and option key depending on wether or not "Zoom with Scroll Wheel" is selected.  If "Zoom with Scroll Wheel" is selected, then holding down the option key enables panning while gesturing on the mouse.  I typically keep "Zoom with Scroll Wheel" unselected.  As you can tell, I don't like zooming or panning going on as I'm randomly gesturing on my mouse while thinking about what I want to do next. 

 

I've looked for a keyboard shortcut to at least try and move the behavior to another key but that doesn't seem to exist.  Or at the very least, I can't seem to find it.

 

*includes Enable Gestures, Overscroll, Enable Flick Panning, Zoom with Scroll Wheel, Animate Zoom, Zoom Resizes Windows, and Zoom Clicked Point to Center.

Kevin Stohlmeyer
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 20, 2021

Have you checked your Mac Mouse settings in System Prefs? These are all gesture related with the magic mouse.