CS6: May I suggest to use the middle mouse button as hand tool? So pressing down middle mouse button will drag the image. This will be more convenient because we can drag the image using simply the mouse, instead of having to use the current method of both keyboard+mouse.
Well, i noticed that because the autohotkey send both space and left-mouse presses at the same time it makes photoshop think that you pressed the left key for adding another point when using lasso tool...
To help fix this i added a small delay between the space press and the left-mouse press and also for the press release after...
That so it feels like when you press space and then press left-mouse in order, to pan, and then when you release the left-mouse first then release the space bar after. And as usual it starts off and you turn it on/off using scroll lock key.
I am unaware where i've got this from but I keep trying to move my screen (not a specific object) to travel to a different area whilst zoomed, Just wondering if there's a way to change it from holding space to just using the middle mouse button to move around?
How many people have a three button mouse? Only MAC users, and not all MAC users... PC users would have no use for this idea. Cost of making this available weighed against incremental revenues for Adobe? This sort of thing has to make fiscal sense to get "on the table" for any company. This gets put in the drawer along with suggestions for Lightroom For Kindle.
I think you misunderstood, This would be as simple as changing the hotkey from holding space to holding the middle mouse button
I forgot I had posted this, Thanks for helping though!
It was just that there seems to be hundreds of different shortcuts available and I didn't know where to find that one! Asking its users bring more fruit than google, as I couldn't find the answer there! I shall keep looking, Thank you
I would like to adress my question directly to the enginers, hope some of you will answer me: how does it possible that since PS CS5 there are full of threads about the need of middle mouse button as a key for using hand tool, but we still have no option and we forced to use third party softwares for that.
I know there are many users (so am I) want to have this option in photoshop as in every other graphic software, even the simplest ones support this possibility. It would be very much appreciated to have this simple shortcut setting.
@artofwalls40000 OH!, I feel you... I'm starting to believe that the team working on developing Photoshop are working on Mac devices that does not have support for middle-mouse buttons in their development environment, hence why they are unable to add the feature!, they have no way to map something to middle-mouse button...
However, my script (the one with the delay between presses) is working like charm since then, and IMHO is even better than the ones that map to H key! as the Space+Left-Click behavior makes sense than holding H+Left-Click, but that is just me, to each their own.
But I still totally support the idea of having this feature internally implemented in Photoshop, who knows!, maybe the developers will add it to their new year's resolution and add it to Photoshop, and make their customers happy for 2021. 🙂
I have a fresh install of Photoshop, and the middle button does nothing. I have the overscroll option checked, but that shouldn't have anything to do with the middle button since that option is just about being able to scroll around past where the document borders end.
This is frustrating because the middle button for panning is the default behavior in Illustrator!
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