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Inspiring
June 12, 2011
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P: Allow simple maths in number fields.

  • June 12, 2011
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So if I want my canvas to be 43px smaller I can basically type 160-43. Or if I want it to be 2.5x bigger I can do 160x2.5.
Any number field can benefit from this. Very often I have to open the calculator to figure out numbers.

79 replies

Inspiring
September 12, 2015
A good step forward. Perhaps you do manage to get into the Classic view of Photoshop. 🙂
Participant
September 12, 2015


(Excuse my English, I am French and I pass by Google translation. I hope you understand what I mean :-p)
For those who do not know, in Illustrator or InDesign, in the fields where you enter numeric values (such as height or width fields of an item), the four basic operations we can do.
For example, if you want an item to be 2 times higher, we will type * 2 after the height and validates it by pressing Enter. Same thing if you want to move it 10 pixels on the X axis, + 10 you type after the value in X and you confirm with the Enter key. If instead of hitting Enter, you Alt + Enter, it performs the transformation you while duplicating the item.

By cons, we still can not do it on Photoshop. This is unfortunate because it is handy.
Participating Frequently
June 17, 2015
We really need clunky 3D features more than this basic utilitarian one.
Legend
June 17, 2015
Note - you can do simple math in the Design Space interface of Photoshop: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/usi...
karffe2
Participant
June 17, 2015
of course, this feature may be only in CC version... : /
Participant
April 25, 2015


Wouldn't it be great to add simple math to photoshop's input fields? this feature is available in Illustrator and Indesin, too. E.g. you can input something like this: 20px / 2, which will result in 10px.
Inspiring
February 17, 2015
I don't know where it is on the prioritized list. While it would be nice to have, there really are more important things ahead of it (many of which you can already find requested on this site).
Participating Frequently
February 16, 2015
Thanks Chris.

Understand the need to prioritise feature requests.
But where does this stand in that list?

Personally I think it should be near the top!
Inspiring
February 16, 2015
Millions of users, thousands of requests, and a (more or less) fixed number of engineers. It all takes time.
Participating Frequently
February 16, 2015
I'll point out again here that having this feature in a sort-of round-a-bout way in one dialog, the Canvas size dialog, isn't what we're asking for in this thread.