is there a button for temporary zoom to mouse location ?

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February 20, 2020
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Hi,

CS6

rather than keep scrolling in and out for every placament of the pen tool, the only way to ensure its where I need it for an ACCURATE trace of a technical object, I need to hit a key and have it do a super magnification of where the cursor is, then release it to be back to my overview. I will wear out my scroll wheel at this rate.

Merlin

How to

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r-bin

Legend

Why press ctrl+alt+space when enough alt+space?

1. If the GPU is ON, you can press ctrl+space (or alt+space) and move the mouse, holding left-click, to left and right.

2. If you press Shift, then the speed of the zoom with mouse wheel will increase 10 times.

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Merlin3Author

Inspiring

Hi,

I am using crop tool at the moment and again need to zoom in for the moment I place the crop tool and be back to overview by rel;easing a key, ctrl space doesnt do it, I get the magnifier then I have to click click click click then click crop tool for top left placement then I am stuck, no means of zooming out, but this is not whats needed, I simply need to hit a keyb'd button and see the area at cursore x5, click the crop tool, then release the key to back to my normal view, shovehand to lower right and hit that key again, click crop tool, release key and bbe back to normal view.

I tried the windows magnify thing, no good, having a floating zoom window, no good, gets in the way. My photogrammetry prog is alt and you see a magnified area, click the curve drawing tool precisely where its needed, release alt and back to normal.

I am scrolling in, click, scrolling out, shove hand, scrolling in, click, scrolling out.

surely Adobe has something for toggle zoom, as we all need to do so.

Merlin

Conrad_C

Community Expert

Photoshop has many shortcuts for zooming, but it’s hard to find one that lets you jump to a specific high magnification and then back out to a specific low magnification…without moving where the pointer is on the image.

Are you looking for something like this?

If so, that’s not provided by Photoshop. It’s a feature of your computer’s Mac or Windows operating system. That demo shows the Zoom feature of macOS Accessibility, intended to help compensate for vision problems, but a lot of people use it as a general purpose magnifier. If you’re on Windows, use Windows Accessibility Magnifier instead. Below is what the Mac feature looks like:

Unlike any of the Photoshop zoom shortcuts, the OS Accessibility magnifier does not change where your pointer is on the image, so after you’re done positioning and hit the key to zoom back out, the pointer is still where you precisely left it.

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Merlin3Author

Inspiring

Hi,

To have that square mag as you have it but only an inch wide would be ideal if I can hit a key and have it appear and disappear. The link to windows has three views none of which are of use and also as I am not running aero so I only have docked mode, a long strip at top of screen, no use at all. Relying on Msoft to understand the needs of photoshoppers and CAD work is dodgy ground. I dont have any of those options you show for a mac.

MAC is more attuned to design needs but I was expected to learn a PC for such as it meant we were compatible with the typists at my place of work, we never ever once needed the typists ! We always fed work to and fro to the print dept who were on macs. thats the logic of Govt officers who had zero clue on what we needed, and kept me on win 2k when all else were on XP, working on a 19inch monitor CRT when clients had a 24inch LCD because they were higher rank.

I have a photogrammetry prog and alt magnifies the image at pointer tip, for placement of markers, else there would be so much scroll wheel use it would wear the mouse out in no time ! Just need the ability in Photoshop to instant zoom in and out. Adobe develoeprs need to to do actual work to undwerstand the basics we dont always have even after now., like a pixel grid that has a choice of colours for use over white backgrounds., (its white only) .. basic stuff.

Look as if I will be scrolling in and out instead.

Merlin

jane-e

Community Expert

"Look as if I will be scrolling in and out instead."

Hi Merlin,

This may or may not help.

Window > Arrange > New Window
Window > Float All
Resize and move both windows, zoom one window
Draw with Pen tool in one window
To align the two windows, use these commands from Window > Arrange. They don't have keyboard shortcuts, but you can create them.