Simple but powerfull feature request!

AB
Posted By
Andy_Bay
Sep 29, 2008
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Hi guys!

Imagine this in PS:

When pressing a hotkey (for example ctrl+Z or something like that) PS would magnify the pixels around your cursor, lets say like 50×50 pixels. This would let you place your cursor instantly in the exact spot you want still seeing also the whole image! I think it would be great, especially when making precise selection start points with the selection tools! At the moment you need to zoom in the whole image and after that zoom out to be able to select more so this small feature would totally remove that step as you would instantly see a close up of the pixels near your cursor!

If anyone feels like this is a good idea, let’s post it together as a feature request to Adobe! I’m sure if many of us will post it, they will eventually include it, since it’s not a very hard feature to implement at all!

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Ram
Sep 29, 2008
Implemented in CS4.
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Ram
Sep 29, 2008
In any event, the Feature request section is here:

<http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.eeadb1c/>
AB
Andy_Bay
Sep 29, 2008
"Implemented in CS4."

Really? That’s so cool, now I now I’m going to upgrade!

What is this feature called in CS4?
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Ram
Sep 29, 2008
I don’t recall the terminology. Read John nack’s blog and watch the videos, it’s in one of them, somewhere.
AB
Andy_Bay
Mar 10, 2009
I still can’t find this feature, can someone tell what it is called?
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Mark_Reynolds
Mar 10, 2009
There is a new feature, the official name of it I can’t recall, which with the press of a single key, allows you to zoom OUT of a high res image, and back in again at a defined point very quickly. This is an Open GL feature meaning that you need a half decent graphics card for it to work. It allows precision placement as you need.
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Mark_Reynolds
Mar 10, 2009
AB
Andy_Bay
Mar 10, 2009
Thank you, your the man! I was going crazy trying to find this over the internet!
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v6v6v6
Mar 10, 2009
Hi Andy, I posted a request for something similar in the Feature Requests forum at <http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b81ad3>. The original discussion on the Photoshop Macintosh forums is at <http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b81a73/7>.

I feel something like this would be useful.

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