Inspiring

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Zoom to Layer?

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February 12, 2019
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I can't think of the right words to search for this. I've got a huge document with tons of layers — lots of detail.

I'd like to be able to select a layer, and the press a command to move the viewfinder to center over that layer's contents. Anybody have a solution to this? I mocked up what the command would be if it existed xD

Sometimes its hard to find a layer, even with the "Select Pixels" command with all these tiny layers. And that always feels sloppy because I've got to zoom out, hide / unhide layer or something to find it — a way to focus the artboard would be nice in Photoshop.

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Correct answer Tex Jenkins

Thanks everybody, it appears this feature doesn't exist. I took your advices and posted this as a suggestion in the Photoshop suggestions forum.

If you also have this problem, feel free to go give it an upvote: Photoshop: Select a layer and 'show this in viewport' or 'zoom to' | Photoshop Family Customer Community

davescm

Community Expert

Hi

You can submit a feature request at the link below where others can vote on it and it will be seen by teh development team.

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Dave

Tex JenkinsAuthorCorrect answer

Inspiring

Thanks everybody, it appears this feature doesn't exist. I took your advices and posted this as a suggestion in the Photoshop suggestions forum.

If you also have this problem, feel free to go give it an upvote: Photoshop: Select a layer and 'show this in viewport' or 'zoom to' | Photoshop Family Customer Community

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

A hack, but you can at least CMD/CTRL+Click on the layer thumbnail to load a selection, where the marching ants are at least a visible guide, then CMD/CTRL+D to deselect. Not sure if scripting offers another alternative, I give it a quick search.

jane-e

Community Expert

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Tex+Jenkins wrote
I'd like to be able to select a layer, and the press a command to move the viewfinder to center over that layer's contents.

Hi Tex,

Both InDesign and Illustrator allow you to make a selection and use keyboard shortcuts to zoom in on what is selected. The best I have figured out in PS is to use the keyboard shortcut for Zoom and then use Scrubby Zoom to drag to the right to zoom to where I want to be.

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~ Jane

Tex JenkinsAuthor

Inspiring

Thanks, I probably should have started this latest design with InDesign. Was surprised that PS doesn’t have this.

jane-e

Community Expert

Photoshop is a raster program at its core, unlike Illustrator and InDesign which are vector at their core. That's why they behave differently in this regard.

While I don't expect it to be different from what it is, if the engineers could figure out how to zoom to a selection in Photoshop, I would be as delighted as you.

Then again, if someone has written a script or plugin that does this, I hope they speak up!

~ Jane

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