Image skates around the screen

It sounds like you are using the Marquee Tool in a possible zoomed mode. If you’re making tedious selections at a zoomed in view, you can temporarily press the space bar to scoot the whole canvas to center your work. Otherwise, you might want to fit the image to the screen by double-clicking the Hand Tool. Now there is no place for the image to skate too!

Peadge 🙂

"Colin D" wrote in message

I’m using Elements 3 on a win2000 machine. When using the marquee tool, and the Transform/Distort tool, as soon as the cursor gets anywhere near the edge or corner of an image, the damned image skates rapidly off the screen, away from the cursor.

I can’t find anything about this in the help files, or in settings or Preferences. Does anyone know the answer to this annoying behavior?
Colin

Peadge wrote:

It sounds like you are using the Marquee Tool in a possible zoomed mode. If you’re making tedious selections at a zoomed in view, you can temporarily press the space bar to scoot the whole canvas to center your work. Otherwise, you might want to fit the image to the screen by double-clicking the Hand Tool. Now there is no place for the image to skate too!
Peadge 🙂

"Colin D" wrote in message

I’m using Elements 3 on a win2000 machine. When using the marquee tool, and the Transform/Distort tool, as soon as the cursor gets anywhere near the edge or corner of an image, the damned image skates rapidly off the screen, away from the cursor.

I can’t find anything about this in the help files, or in settings or Preferences. Does anyone know the answer to this annoying behavior?
Colin

Thanks for the reply, Peadge, I tried the hand but couldn’t make it do anything except grab the image and move it around. I paid a bit closer attention to the problem, as follows.

The image appears to open in ‘full-screen’ mode, i.e. the little box next to the X for closing the image is in the ‘two small overlapped boxes’ mode, indicating the image is full screen. The top and side rulers cover about three times the image width and height, and the scroll bars are sized at about a third of their travel, which means that the actual scrollable area on the screen is about three times the width and height of the image. If the marquee tool approaches or goes outside the image boundary, the image scoots one way or the other, to the extent of the scrollable area, and not to put too fine a point on it, it’s a bloody nuisance.

If I click on the ‘double boxes’ to reduce the image to normal mode, I then get a frame around the image which does eliminate the surrounding space, but that makes it awkward to use marquee tools etc at the edges of the image, and I prefer not to have the frame.

I had a close look at PS6 as well, and it does not move the image at all with the marquee tool, even in full-screen mode, which is what I would expect, and am used to with PS6.

Although PS6 lacks the advanced shadow, mid-tone, and highlight handling of Elements 3, This scrolling problem might see me ditching E3 if I can’t overcome it. {:-(

Colin.

The "problem" you’re experiencing may actually be a new feature. I think in PS CS, when in full screen mode or zoomed in, you can actually scoot the page *past* the boundaries of the image, which wasn’t possible in earlier versions. Elements 3 may’ve also adopted this feature/

It may be that Snap is enabled. Go to View > Snap and uncheck it.

Peadge 🙂

"Colin D" wrote in message

Peadge wrote:

It sounds like you are using the Marquee Tool in a possible zoomed mode.

If

you’re making tedious selections at a zoomed in view, you can

temporarily

press the space bar to scoot the whole canvas to center your work. Otherwise, you might want to fit the image to the screen by

double-clicking

the Hand Tool. Now there is no place for the image to skate too!
Peadge 🙂

"Colin D" wrote in message

I’m using Elements 3 on a win2000 machine. When using the marquee tool, and the Transform/Distort tool, as soon as the cursor gets anywhere near the edge or corner of an image, the damned image skates rapidly off the screen, away from the cursor.

I can’t find anything about this in the help files, or in settings or Preferences. Does anyone know the answer to this annoying behavior?
Colin

Thanks for the reply, Peadge, I tried the hand but couldn’t make it do anything except grab the image and move it around. I paid a bit closer attention to the problem, as follows.

The image appears to open in ‘full-screen’ mode, i.e. the little box next to the X for closing the image is in the ‘two small overlapped boxes’ mode, indicating the image is full screen. The top and side rulers cover about three times the image width and height, and the scroll bars are sized at about a third of their travel, which means that the actual scrollable area on the screen is about three times the width and height of the image. If the marquee tool approaches or goes outside the image boundary, the image scoots one way or the other, to the extent of the scrollable area, and not to put too fine a point on it, it’s a bloody nuisance.

If I click on the ‘double boxes’ to reduce the image to normal mode, I then get a frame around the image which does eliminate the surrounding space, but that makes it awkward to use marquee tools etc at the edges of the image, and I prefer not to have the frame.

I had a close look at PS6 as well, and it does not move the image at all with the marquee tool, even in full-screen mode, which is what I would expect, and am used to with PS6.

Although PS6 lacks the advanced shadow, mid-tone, and highlight handling of Elements 3, This scrolling problem might see me ditching E3 if I can’t overcome it. {:-(

Colin.

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"Peadge" wrote in message

The "problem" you’re experiencing may actually be a new feature. I think in
PS CS, when in full screen mode or zoomed in, you can actually scoot the page *past* the boundaries of the image, which wasn’t possible in earlier versions.