When Drawing, Photoshop Zooms in to 1600%….How Can I Stop This?

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Holly_P
Nov 5, 2005
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Currently I am running Photoshop 7. While drawing a picture with the brush tool, every so often Photoshop would, without warning, zoom into 1600%. I hadn’t accidentally pressed any strange buttons, or done anything besides press on my tablet tip to draw. This is really irritating me, and I’d love to know why this is happening, and how I can stop it so I can finish my picture! Thank you very much, I hope someone knows! 🙂
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Rob_Keijzer
Nov 5, 2005
Are there any side buttons on the pen, and are they perhaps configured to zoom? Also, when in the zoom tool, dragging the pen draws a rectangular marquee that zooms to full size (with a maximum of 1600%).

Rob
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chrisjbirchall
Nov 5, 2005
Pressing Ctrl and Spacebar together will turn the brush (and any other tool) into a temporary Zoom Tool. Could you have a sticky space bar and the pen’s side button configured for Ctrl??

Just a thought.

If you want to rule out a corrupt Prefs file (which can cause all sorts of strange behaviour) delete/reset them as per the FAQs.

Chris.
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Leonard Lehew
Nov 6, 2005
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 23:03:02 -0800, wrote:

Currently I am running Photoshop 7. While drawing a picture with the brush tool, every so often Photoshop would, without warning, zoom into 1600%. I hadn’t accidentally pressed any strange buttons, or done anything besides press on my tablet tip to draw. This is really irritating me, and I’d love to know why this is happening, and how I can stop it so I can finish my picture! Thank you very much, I hope someone knows! 🙂
I had a similar problem. It also happened in other applications besides Photoshop. Things would be operating just fine, and suddenly this strange zooming would start. It would happen with virtually any application that supported zooming, and it would occur as soon as the mouse cursor, passed over the window. For example, when the mouse moved over an Outlook mail window, the text in the window would suddenly expand.

I never did determine the exact cause of the problem. For a while, I suspected that it was some accessibility function gone awry, but I could find no evidence of that. The problem seemed most likely to occur if I switched from the LCD on my laptop to an external display

I finally eliminated the problem by uninstalling my display driver and installing the latest version from the vendor. I have an NVIDIA GeForce 6800 video card. When I uninstalled the driver, I responded "yes" to the prompt that asked if I wanted to also remove all display profiles. The problem has not recurred since I did this.

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