Why, if this is by design, would you want to zoom into a single pixel at 32000% by default?
By @Ghoul Fool
The default is not zooming into a single pixel at 32000%.
It zooms to the area of the canvas that you drag across. Before we had scrubby zoom, it worked in a similar, but not the same way. When scrubby zoom is turned off in the options bar, you still drag the mouse, but you get a rectangular box showing you what you're going to zoom into and you can use the space bar shortcut to move the box to control where your zoom is going to be. Either way, dragging with the Zoom tool will zoom to the amount that you drag across.
To see how it works, try, dragging across one of her eyes or both of her eyes or her entire face with the Zoom tool.
Jane
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