Zoom in with touchpad gesture without pressing alt

[katja_2552]

In Photoshop, I can only zoom in using the touchpad if I hold down the alt key. If I do the gesture without the alt key, the image only moves left or right. If I hold down the alt key, the "actual" gesture (swiping in one direction with two fingers) also zooms. Is there a way to set the touchpad gestures so that the image only moves when you swipe in one direction with two fingers and the image zooms in when you zoom in with your fingers on the touchpad without pressing the alt key for any gesture?
In the browser or other applications, zooming in works even without holding down the alt key.

Win 11
Ps-version: 25.12

[Jeff Arola]

In Photoshop go to Edit>Preferences>Tools and check Zoom with Scroll Wheel.

[katja_2552]

Thanks for the quick reply! If I activate the setting, I can now zoom in without holding down the alt key. Swiping with two fingers from left to right/up to down also zooms in now. Is there a way to assign different functions to these two gestures? I would like to be able to zoom in on the image using the zoom gesture and move the image in a certain direction through swiping with two fingers, and not have to press the alt key for either gesture. Is that possible?

[katja_2552]

Hi, is there any solution to the problem described in my last answer to your message?

[Jeff Arola]

You'll have to look at the touchpad settings, since Photoshop really just uses whatever those settings are.

Some gestures require three and four fingers.