CS5 Questions

Dogdots

I just downloaded the new CS5 and while I like some of the features there's some I don't.

If someone knows a short cut to make a photo bigger or smaller while working on it I would love to know it. The little drop down changer is a pain.

Thanks

Ray F

you mean zooming in/out?

i use ctrl + or ctrl -

on my windows system...

Dogdots

Ray F wrote: »

you mean zooming in/out?

i use ctrl + or ctrl -

on my windows system...

Thanks a bunch -- that's what I mean

Ray F

That was easy

Richard

If your mouse has a scroll wheel, you can use that: Preferences->General->Zoom with scroll wheel.

Ray F

Richard wrote: »

If your mouse has a scroll wheel, you can use that: Preferences->General->Zoom with scroll wheel.

oh that's cool. i have to try that myself. is it accurate? i do have a wacom intuos 4 with the jog. when i zoom with that it's rather awkward. always zooming a bit to much or just not enough. i just like to be able to quickly return to a 100% view and not 105% (for example)

Richard

Ray F wrote: »

oh that's cool. i have to try that myself. is it accurate? i do have a wacom intuos 4 with the jog. when i zoom with that it's rather awkward. always zooming a bit to much or just not enough. i just like to be able to quickly return to a 100% view and not 105% (for example)

Ctl-Alt-0 is the quickest way.

pathfinder

Cmnd-0 on a Mac -> 100%. View.

Dogdots

Richard wrote: »

If your mouse has a scroll wheel, you can use that: Preferences->General->Zoom with scroll wheel.

Oh...now I just tried this. Cool

basflt

alt + scrollwheel is zooming
spacebar is panning

Ric Grupe

Richard wrote: »

If your mouse has a scroll wheel, you can use that: Preferences->General->Zoom with scroll wheel.

Now...if only you could do that in ACR...please tell me I'm missing something.

I'm beginning to find I can do a lot more editing in ACR via the adjustment brush that I used to do in PS. Zooming is a pain though.

Richard

Ric Grupe wrote: »

Now...if only you could do that in ACR...please tell me I'm missing something.

I'm beginning to find I can do a lot more editing in ACR via the adjustment brush that I used to do in PS. Zooming is a pain though.

ACR (in Windows) doesn't recognize the scroll wheel for anything, not even changing slider numeric settings. It's just dumb.

basflt

i have CS5 , but alt + scroll works fine [ windows7 ]

Richard

basflt wrote: »

i have CS5 , but alt + scroll works fine [ windows7 ]

Do you mean in Photohop or in ACR? The scroll wheel works fine in CS5 Photoshop, just not in ACR. I'm still running XP.

basflt

both , just tried to make sure [ dont want to be a liar ]

edit ;
just discovered :
when using keyboard , its Ctrl + -and or +key

edit ; tip ;
go to ;
edit ,
at bottom of list is ; keyboard shortcuts
here you can assign your own keys

Ric Grupe

basflt wrote: »

i have CS5 , but alt + scroll works fine [ windows7 ]

Yes it does! Thanks! D

Richard

basflt wrote: »

both , just tried to make sure [ dont want to be a liar ]

Interesting. Alt-scroll does zoom for me in ACR--I had never tried that before, so thanks for the tip--but nothing I do makes the scroll wheel work in the slider controls there. It works fine in PS sliders.

basflt

try ;
click on slider first , so its highlighted , then scroll should work

edit
you are right , on some sliders the scroll wont work in ACR
but in layers they dont work either
think that's in the photoshop system

Dogdots

Interesting that there are so many different ways -- makes it easier to find one that works the best for each individual.

Icebear

I can't tell y'all how many times I've said, "why can't I . . ." only to have someone on DGrin tell me, "well, sure! Ya just . . ." What a grroup!

Richard

basflt wrote: »

try ;
you are right , on some sliders the scroll wont work in ACR
but in layers they dont work either
think that's in the photoshop system

I'm not sure what you mean by "in layers." In Photoshop itself the scroll wheel works everywhere I would expect it to. Perhaps you are trying something that I never do, . I like to do as much with the mouse as I can, so not being able to adjust ACR widgets with the scroll wheel has always annoyed me. I know you can click and drag the sliders, but you get finer control with the scroll wheel changing the numbers one step at a time.

Dogdots

If I use my mouse scroll wheel to enlarge a photo to see it on the screen -- I can then crop it like that too ... right?

basflt

right
you can crop in 2 ways
-the crop-tool [C]
- rectangular selection [marque] [M] ,then , from menu / image / crop

Dogdots

basflt wrote: »

right
you can crop in 2 ways
-the crop-tool [C]
- rectangular selection [marque] [M] ,then , from menu / image / crop

Thanks

Just wanted to make sure -- sometimes I do things thinking I can...only to find out I shouldn't do it that way.

basflt

Dogdots wrote: »

sometimes I do things thinking I can...only to find out I shouldn't do it that way.

well
it is said that its the best way of learning

Dogdots

basflt wrote: »

well
it is said that its the best way of learning

So true

basflt

Richard wrote: »

I'm not sure what you mean by "in layers." In Photoshop itself the scroll wheel works everywhere I would expect it to. Perhaps you are trying something that I never do, . I like to do as much with the mouse as I can, so not being able to adjust ACR widgets with the scroll wheel has always annoyed me. I know you can click and drag the sliders, but you get finer control with the scroll wheel changing the numbers one step at a time.

found it
use up/down arrow-key's

Richard

basflt wrote: »

found it
use up/down arrow-key's

Yes, that's what I do. But what I want is to not have to touch the keyboard while having fine control over the changes.