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darcfuture
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September 11, 2020
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Where is the shortcut for Panning?

  • September 11, 2020
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I want to assign middle mouse button to pan.  How do I do this?

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    mark@headTrixCommunity Expert
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    September 20, 2022

    I have a mac, and a mac mouse with the little rubber ball on the top middle of the mouse.... with it I can scroll up and down in this browser window, in Premiere I can scroll the timeline, and in Photoshop I can pan my canvas.... so its already part of the normal functionality of the mouse. And if all else fails, just press the HUGE spacebar button on your keyboard and you can easily pan and move the canvaas around when zoomed in.

    Hope this helps.

    cheers,

    mark

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    mnemonicon
    Participant
    September 21, 2022

    It's PAINFULLY OBVIOUS(as obvious as, say, A HUGE SPACEBAR) that original post(and me) are trying to circumvent pressing down the spacebar, as well avoid the HEINOUSLY designed mac mighty mouse- or whatever nonsense they call it nowadays.  Some people require more from their apps to make work flow more streamlined.  I cant get into Why a person would want MMB to be pan(without being bound to garbage mac mouse) but understand that even if you cant/or chose not to see why, there are many many people out here who would benefit from this.  (And let's be done with the passive aggressive comments.)#iykyk

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      mark@headTrixCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      September 21, 2022

      no idea what you are talking about with "Painfully Obvious" nor do I appreciate your snarky remarks.
      You have had 3 people here try to help you (all for FREE I might ad - we dont work here or for Adobe)

       

      So we are offering our suggestions, ideas, etc. based on our decades of expertise. 
      Some things just are NOT possible. So either use the spacebar key to pan, or use the center of the mouse and scroll. Otherwise its NOT possible. You are so welcome!

       

      cheers,

      mark

      headTrix, Inc. | Adobe Certified Training & Consulting
      Akash Sharma
      Akash Sharma
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      September 11, 2020

      Hi there,

       

      Photoshop uses the spacebar as the modifier to zoom and pan images. Photoshop has the following ways to pan across your images:

       

      • “H” selects the Hand tool.
      • Holding down the spacebar (while most other tools are selected) will temporarily access the Hand tool (allowing quick panning of images that are zoomed in). This shortcut also works while in a modal state (such as while a dialog box is displayed or while in Free Transform).
      • When using the Hand tool to pan, Photoshop “eases out” of the pan (this is referred to as Flick Panning). For an abrupt stop when panning, click, drag and hold with the Hand tool. Note: Flick Panning can be disabled in Preferences > Tools > Enable Flick Panning.
      • When viewing multiple images simultaneously, Shift -drag with the Hand tool to pan all open documents. To set this as the default behavior, with the Hand tool selected, check “Pan all Windows” in the Option bar.

       

      You may also check this discussion: https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/cs6_use_middle_mouse_button_as_hand_tool

       

      Thanks,

      Akash

       

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        darcfutureAuthor
        Participating Frequently
        September 11, 2020

        So basically, you can't.  Great.  And the topic you linked is a request for such a feature... and it was made 9 years ago.  Thanks for the time warp.  It gave me a laugh at least.

          JJMack
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          JJMackCommunity Expert
          Community Expert
          September 11, 2020

          What can you not do?  I have no problem assigning H to the middle mouse button.  I can hold it press the add the left click to get  Spring H Zoom out position the area box let go of the left mouse button zoom back in  then let the middle button up to switch back to the original tool. Or I just tap the middle button to switch to the hand tool the pan with the left mouse button. When the hand tool is the current tool  I can also press and  hold the middle button then add the left mouse button to get the Zoom out and  position  the area box  let the buttons go to zoom back in.

          JJMack
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