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

  • June 12, 2011
  • 79 replies
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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

Known Participant
March 21, 2017
This behaviour can be copied from Ai, Ae, Id, ... Or maybe I am to optimistic about object oriented development 😉
Inspiring
March 20, 2017
It will be forgotten... for all previous version which have been left fot their reasson.
Participating Frequently
March 20, 2017
Time to chime in here again. Although after 6 years this is really feeling like it's falling on deaf ears, or at least deeply entrenched intentionally obtuse ears (I'm talking to YOU, Chris Cox.)

This isn't a outrageous feature request, its a basic utilitarian feature present in EVERY SINGLE OTHER ADOBE APP. 
Participating Frequently
April 13, 2016
I've been much more productive since I learned I could use math in number fields in Illustrator and After Effects. It's a huge time saver, and it's better for my poor tired editor hands, too!

Photoshop should have this. Please add it, making it work like it does in AE or AI. Thanks!



karffe2
Participant
January 13, 2016
it should be included many time ego in CS6
Inspiring
January 12, 2016


How cool it would be if we could enter simple mathematical expressions in size field .
Lets say i have a canvas size of 67 px and if i need to increase it by 4 .. i have to do calclations manually .. Insteas how cool it would be if we could just add 67*4 in canvas dialog box
Known Participant
November 25, 2015


When you Ctrl + T a layer, it would be nice to use simple math operations to change the size.

Example: You have a rectangle that is 800px wide. But I want to change the rectangle to be a third of that size. Instead of making the math operation somewhere else, this could be done straight in Photoshop by introducing /3 after the width value. Illustrator and InDesign do this for a long time and it would be good to make Photoshop do it as well.
Participant
October 22, 2015


I would love it if the Image Size and Canvas Size dialog accepted expressions. For instance, if an image width is 592, let me type in 592 * 2 instead of having me do the math to type in 1184.
karffe2
Participant
September 28, 2015
yes...
Participant
September 27, 2015
Or "Why simplify things when they can be so complicated?" We (all here) did not require that you create a Space Design (need to activate and requires 64-bit Windows 8.1 or later (PC) and Mac OS X 10.10 (Mac)), but to implement a function longstanding other software like Illustrator or InDesign.
It was still much easier to implement a function that exists in Illustrator or InDesign, create Design Space that, right?
Each version of Photoshop, you add functions that personally I do not use and I do not see the point (eg 3D). As against simple features such as allowing to do simple operations in the fields number who Yet many to call and that for years ...
I'm not saying that all the features you add to Photoshop are useless, but for example you add the tool Work Plan (which somehow comes Illustrator) but still not do simple math in numbers fields?