Directional Zoom While Masking?

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Cooknn
Jan 10, 2007
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When I am working on masks, I am constantly zooming in and out. Is there a way I can get the cursor to cause Ps to zoom to the area it’s pointing to? Corel Photopaint does this by zooming with the mouse wheel. Right now when in Photoshop I have to zoom out then move the image over then zoom back in. Not as nice as it could be. Thanks in advance.
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Ram
Jan 10, 2007
Are you using the Zoom tool? It does exactly what you seem to be asking for.
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Cooknn
Jan 10, 2007
DOH. Thanks Ramón. I’ve never even tried that tool. Guess there’s always a first time 🙂
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Phosphor
Jan 10, 2007
With any tool active, Hold down Command + Shift.

Click in the area you want to focus on; Also, Click and Drag diagonally, de-click.

The shorter distance you drag, the more you zoom in.

Add the Option key to zoom out.
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Buko
Jan 10, 2007
command + space = zoom in

option + command + space = zoom out.
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Phosphor
Jan 10, 2007
WHOA!

My post above should read "Command + Space"

1000 pardons, and sorry for the muck-up.

Good catch, Buko.
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Cooknn
Jan 10, 2007
Preferences "Zoom With Scroll Wheel" in the Ps Beta is EXACTLY what I was looking for. That way I don’t have to change from the Lasso tool to Zoom. Thanks for your help!

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