Sep 03 2010
Bennasnake, Woodabitcha*
Maybe I’m just resistant to change. But I don’t care for the new drag-&-zoom feature in Photoshop CS5. I believe Nature intended for you to drag a zoom marquee to enlarge an area of the photo, and it’s an old habit. In CS5, the same drag zooms the image enormously, as if it’s pulling it toward you, without centering on the area you’ve intended to capture. I looked in Preferences and the User Guide for a way to disable it, to no avail. So I settled for gingerly clicking and cursing under my breath.
I mentioned this to a group of SAS folks I was training in CS5 this week, and one of the guys sent me an email afterward, calling my attention to the “Scrubby Zoom” option in the Options bar. Doh! Now, of course, it’s obvious. If I’d known it was called “Scrubby Zoom” instead of “Pain-in-the-Butt Zoom,” I could’ve looked it up. Now I know, and I’m passing it on to those of you who like the Old Ways better.
*If you live in the South, no translation is necessary. But, for the rest of the world, the subject means: “Had it been a snake, lurking so close, in the same obvious location as the Scrubby Zoom option, it would have bitten you.”
Thanks for this information. I have also been looking for a way to turn off this “new and improved” feature.
Thank you thank you thank you!
I can’t tell you how often I went back to CS4 just to use the zoom feature for some super detailed work. This helps a lot.
No more “pain-in-the-butt-zoom” I like that.
Took me a while to get used to it but like the new alt+right click to set the size and softness of a brush, no way I’d want to go back to the old way.
I’ve always used the brackets [ ] for brush size, and shift+brackets for softness/hardness, so I guess I haven’t used the Alt-right-click much. But that’s why they give us 14 different ways to do everything.
count me as one of the snake-bitten. thanks for the anti-venom of help.