How to turn off alt+click auto-zoom in CC 2020

[riyokuma]

Hiya.

I'm having trouble with this alt+click auto-zoom that got added, and am hoping to figure out how to turn it off.

The work I do involves a lot of "attaching" layers/gradient maps to other layers, which I do using alt+clicking between the layers. If I am a little off on the clicking it now does this awful zoom, which is very frustrating and a waste of time when I then have to zoom back out.

I'm also open to changing my shortcut to attach layers, but I'm not sure if that's possible either? 

Thanks!

[macpawel]

Try to check Zoom With Scroll Wheel - instead od Alt Scrolling

[riyokuma]

I don't want to zoom, I want the opposite, which is for it to not do it when I'm attaching layers to each other.

[Chuck Uebele]

There's no way do do that now. Hopefully Adobe will fix the issues with this feature, so it doesn't interfere with other features involving the alt/opt key.

[riyokuma]

That's disappointing. I suppose I will have to wait and hope. 

[Michael Bullo]

So it sounds like you are frequently "clipping" layers. With the layer selected, you can do this via the "Create Clipping Mask" option within the Layer menu. This command also has a default keyboard shortcut which on a Mac is Command + Option + G. Could you get into the habit of using this keyboard shortcut as opposed to clicking between layers?

You also mentioned something about altering keyboard shortcuts. The keyboard shortcut for creating/releasing a clipping mask can be changed via the Keyboard Shortcuts section of the Edit menu.

[riyokuma]

That will work for me since I can't turn the other thing off! Thank you!

[Michael Bullo]

Excellent. Happy to help.

[Docemmett]

Hi Michael,

have the same issue, but just to mention: If you do a lot of that stuff, you can't beat alt-click with any navigating to any or selecting right-click menues which costs far more time to do then.

[War Unicorn]

For anyone interested, the Windows equivalent is Ctrl + Alt + G.  🙂

This is usually the case for modifier key shortcuts between the two:

Command = Ctrl

Option = Alt

(Yay for interchangability!)