Photoshop Animated Zoom

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September 22, 2022
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Hi guys

I have a new macbook pro with Monterey on it, I've unchecked the box that says 'animated zoom' but it still stays on. I know a lot of people love it but myself and others in the company don't, how do I rid my photoshop of the A.Zoom?

TIA

Dan

macOS

N

No thank you.

Inspiring

Dan - did you ever solve this issue?

Derke

Anshul_Saini

Community Manager

Hi @No thank you.,

Thanks for following up. To help us see exactly what’s happening on your system, could you please create a short screen recording showing the behavior? Specifically:
• Go into Preferences > Tools and confirm that Animated Zoom is unchecked.
• Select the Zoom Tool and click once on your canvas. With Animated Zoom disabled, the zoom should jump instantly (for example, from 100% to 200%) with no smooth animation.
• Also check the Scrubby Zoom option in the top Control Bar. If that’s turned on, it allows click-and-drag zooming regardless of the Animated Zoom preference, so toggling it off may help clarify what you’re seeing.

This recording will help us determine whether Photoshop is misbehaving or if another setting, like Scrubby Zoom or system input preferences, is affecting zoom behavior.

Also, copy & paste your system info from the Photoshop Help menu > System Info.

Looking forward to your update so we can narrow this down.

Best,

Anshul Saini

N

No thank you.

Inspiring

Sorry. What?

Derke

J

J453

Legend

I can't reproduce. Unchecking animated zoom seems to disable it. See attached video.

animatedZoom.zip

Jeff Arola

Community Expert

Does it have anything to do with your Trackpad settings under Apple>System Preferences>Trackpad>Scroll & Zoom?

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danielwellsAuthor

Participant

That's right Jeff, can't turn it off. Don't know why, just not a fan of the animated zoom

D

danielwellsAuthor

Participant

Thanks Cory. I've tried all suggestions on the link and still no luck. Might try an older version of ps and see what happens.

Jeff Arola

Community Expert

Just so we're on the same page, Animated Zoom allows a user to click and hold the Zoom Tool to zoom in and in combination with the Alt/Option key zoom out. Normally without animated zoom checked one has to do multiple clicks to zoom in/out of an document.

So your saying even after unchecking Animated zoom in Preferences>Tools, the behaviour persists?

The old behaviour of the Zoom Tool before photoshop cs4 was to either do multiple clicks to zoom/in/out or drag a marquee around an area then after releasing the mouse the area would be zoomed into. If with the Zoom Tool selected and Scrubby Zoom checked one can still zoom with the Zoom Tool by click holding and dragging left or right instead of multiple clicks or dragging out a marquee.