You’re right – use the zoom tool on the preview window – crash. After almost 10 years of using Photoshop, I’ve never once noticed this —- probably because it seems rather stupid to use the zoom marque in the preview box. I guess it would still qualify as a "bug" (you shouldn’t be ABLE to force a crash), but WHY in the world would you do this? You do notice the little +/- buttons to change preview size, right?
"Doctor, my arm hurts when I walk on my hands". "Well then, walk with your legs … like you’re supposed to!" 😉
-phil
After 14 years of holding down the command and spacebar and dragging over an area to quickly zoom on something you want to enlarge, and you will notice that you don’t even think about it. It becomes second nature, Doc.
Space bar in the preview: moves image
Command key in the preview: zooms image
Command space keys in the image: Immediate crash
Bug.
Can confirm that you are indeed correct. Under OSX, this causes the application to crash. Good find!
No, I’m pretty sure I never noticed because I rely on the image window, rather than the preview window. You do have valid points though and it does seem to work fine in PS7. (sorry about the "stupid" comment) 😉
Just checked again in CS and it appears DRAGGING the zoom tool causes the crash. Simply clicking (even Command+Space clicking), seems fine.
-phil
Check my original post: "(command+space mouse drag)"
I was blurring a subtle adjustment layer and needed to fine tune the grayscale of the layer mask. Yes, I have 2 huge monitors, and almost always use the actual window, but I was already in the dialog box and couldn’t view the greyscale in the actual window. To my knowledge, I’ve never marquee-zoomed in a dialog box either.
You needn’t belittle someone’s bug report especially when you confirmed it yourself.
Adobe acknowledged the bug in the Liquify filter months ago, yet no patch. I don’t have tech support anymore, (nor should I need it just to get a bug confirmed) or I’d have called this one in, not likely they’d issue a patch anyway.
Yeah – that looks like a real bug.
I’ll get someone to write it up.