Zoom Resizes Windows isn't working anymore

[mikem60178444]

I have ZOOM RESIZES WINDOW checked under Edit>Preferences>Tools. However lately, when zooming out using  CTRL+"-" or scrolling out with the mouse wheel, the image gets smaller but the window does not. It remains at the same large size. This has been going on for the past month or so.

(I'm running Adobe Photoshop Version: 24.0.0 20221013.r.59 3a3d761 x64 on a Windows 10 PC wth 96 GB RAM and a verified compatible GPU with 8 GB VRAM.)

Thanks!

[Jeff Arola]

Are you using Floating Document Windows or Tabbed Documents?

The window size won't change when using the Scroll Wheel to zoom in/out.

You can reset the photoshop preferences by going to Edit>Preferences>General, checking

Reset Preferences On Quit and rerstarting photoshop and see if that fixed the issue.

[mikem60178444]

Thanks for your help, Jeff.

UPDATE: I'm realiziing now that the problem occurs after I DUPLICATE an image. The duplicate image is placed within a larger window, and CTRL - only makes the image smaller, not the window. Clicking the title line at the top of the duplicate image window seems to correct the issue, but I don't remember that happening before.

I mainly have problems with CTRL+"-". I always have Floating Document Winddows set, which always worked in the past.

I'm going to adjust the original post in light of my new findings.

[mikem60178444]

UPDATE: The issue occurs after I DUPLICATE an image. The duplicate image is placed within a larger window, and CTRL - only makes the image smaller, not the window. Clicking the top title part of the image and then dragging the image fixes the issue, it seems. But I don't recall ever having to do this before.

[Jeff Arola]

If in photoshop you go to Edit>Preferences>Tools and uncheck Overscroll, does that make any difference?

[mikem60178444]

Overscroll is already unchecked.

[J453]

It may help if you could share a screen recording of your steps. Post a URL to the video using CC files or dropbox, YouTube or something similar to share the file.

[GregoryJWolfe_KodakAlaris]

Just installed Photoshop 25.3.1, having the same problem.

[GregoryJWolfe_KodakAlaris]

HEY ADOBE PHOTOSHOP DEVELOPERS!!  LOOK AT THIS AND FIX IT PLEASE!!!

I have pretty much resolved this issue for my purposes, although it is still somewhat annoying and should be fixed.  See below.

I am having this problem is with version 25.3.1 on Windows 10.  The goal was to get the zoom/window behavior to work as it did with my previous really old Photoshop. 8.0:

• Zooming using the zoom tool DOES NOT resize the image window
• Zooming using CTRL+”+” and CTRL+”-“ DOES NOT resize the image window
• Zooming using CTRL+ALT+”+” and CTRL+ALT+”-” DOES resize the image window

Here’s are my relevant preferences settings that make it work as described above:

• Edit/Preferences/Tools
• Overscroll (off)
• Zoom clicked point to center (on)
• Other three zoom settings (off)
• Edit/Preferences/Tools
• Open documents as tabs (off)

HOWEVER, to get the desired behavior after opening an image, I almost always must first use the cursor to grab the image window title bar and move the window slightly.  This apparently causes the “it’s time to redraw the window” code in Photoshop to run and update the window settings according to the preferences settings.  Until I do that I can't even grab the window frame and drag it to resize.

I have a batch script that loads images in groups of N (e.g., 10, 20, etc.) using the following command line in a loop (photoshop must already be running):

        Photoshop.exe file.jpg

To get ALL the image windows to behave correctly after they have been loaded, I use Window/Arrange/Tile followed by Window/Arrange/Float All in Windows.

Hope this helps someone else out there.  No charge.