Where is my Hand tool?

I can't find the Hand-tool in Acrobat DC.
And when I selected the zoom tool, I always zoom in.
But I only want to scroll, without pressing then space bar....:(

The Hand tool is in the dark gray toolbar (aka HUD) that appears when a document is opened. It can be docked on the toolbar area by clicking the icon on its right.

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I would really really really love to have the hand tool in the preview application, its the one thing that stops me from using it instead of adobe acrobat reader,
yet its a beautiful application, but I really like using the hand tool to move around a document page when reading. the magnifier is too wobbly and jumpy,

it does, but I prefer the mouse, its faster when i`m working between documents and graphics applications.
scrolling in and out quickly with option and scroll wheel and spacebar/mouse to zip from point to point, then cmmd/tab to my graphics apps and so forth,
two finger method is nice for a leasurely read but I dont have that time anyday of the week.

Where is the Hand Tool?

Hello,
I'm a Photoshop user, and unless I didn't see it I couldn't find the Hand Tool
This is very helpful specially when zooming in to retouch details in specific areas, to move the document from an area to another.
Please tell me I'm wrong and it does exists on Photoshop Touch for Phone
Thanks in advance

In addition to gruele's helpful response-
Please take a look at the Getting Started pod at the right of this forum.
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1152842
The Getting Started pod will help you to understand the new look of PS Touch and the gestures.
Please let me know if you have any more questions,
Janelle

Using the rotate tool and hand tool at the same time in CS6

When using the rotate tool, you used to be able to use the hand tool even when the Rotate dialogue box was up. Is there a way to get that back?
I make Mandalas (http://www.behance.net/gallery/Mandala/2700497) and work from the center out. This poster is 18"x24" so once I start to get to the outer edge, I'm zoomed into the center at 6400% so I can get my crosshairs as precise as I can, then enter a number (45 degrees, 20 degrees, etc.). Clicking Preview helps, but if you're zoomed in and the object is out of view, you have to guess where it's going. In CS5, you could press down the space bar and use the Hand Tool even while the dialog box was up. Is there a fix for this? (Sorry if this doesn't make sense...it's kind of hard to explain over a forum.)

TBamber wrote:
When using the rotate tool, you used to be able to use the hand tool even when the Rotate dialogue box was up. ....
CS5 on Windows 7.
I can use the hand tool while pressing the Space bar while another tool including the Rotate tool is current. But I can not use the Hand tool in anyway if I'm in the process of using the Rotate tool by holding down the mouse button or dragging with it.
While the Rotate dialog is displayed I can not do anything outside of it in any way.
I can use the scroll wheel on the mouse to scroll the view up or down vertically while using any of the tools including the Rotate tool but not when a tool dialog is open.
I'm curious if others experience different behavior on a Windows system .

Path/Shape tool and Hand tool are awful in CS6.

We recently upgraded to CC at work and I do love the idea. Hypothetically, what could be better? Sadly, CC comes with CS6 which doesn't shine so well. Photoshop in particularl is hindering me and slowing down my productivity. Therefore I am sharing my thoughts and hoping something will get done.
Paths/Shapes in CS6 are absolute trash. As an illustrator, I use these tools frequently on a daily basis. It used to be rapid and easy. Now, when I undo more than one stage I have to reselect the path, so that's +1 click per mistake.
I used to love the expanded pathfinder view, of the shapes/pen tool. Now it's contained in a drop-down which feels very dumbed-down and is +1 click EVERY time I need to use something in there. REALLY AWKWARD and a complete pain to use. Especially if I select the wrong draw mode. Why is there not even the option to use the old expanded view, or a PATHFINDER PANEL added to Photoshop for 'traditional' users/illustrators?
Seeing as that hasn't changed for as long as I can remember... I imagine that it is annoying a lot of people. I don't know how you thought it would be good to change that outright without even phasing it out gradually or offering the original view as well. Terrible. Don't even dare tell me to draw my paths in illustrator. Worse still, the infinitely useless marquee tool keeps the original expanded view! So it's not even like it couldn't have been done. Just. Annoying.
Also the Hand tool is a right pain. Are you seriously telling me I can't scrub freely? Outside of the 'frame'?? That's retarded. Even if an imported layer is larger than my document bounds and the 'frame' I still can't even scrub outside of it?
I've been a loyal user of photoshop for over 10 years and this is the worst update I've seen in all that time. There are great things happening, with the content aware stuff and better GL processing etc etc. Sadly, tried and tested features are being wiped out as you try and turn photoshop into one giant DESIGN button.
Sorry for the massive rant. I had real high hopes for CS6 and to be honest, I'm moderately disappointed.
I couldn't figure out where on earth to post this as I couldn't find a feedback button in photoshop. Which may also be a great idea to consider.

Apologies for the triple post but this is still frustrating me.
I don't understand why Adobe would do something that slows down long-term Photoshop users so much!
When I am on the path selection tool, the little check mark to deselect all paths is gone. Why? It was one tiny button that didn't even add clutter and was impecably useful.
Now, if I'm trying to add to my path or subtract from a path, the minute I switch my pen to this mode, the whole shape layer abides by that rule. So my existing path is inverted if I select subtract, etc.
Why does the pen tool now control paths in the same way as the path selection tool? I thought that was the ENTIRE POINT of the path selection tool. For selecting and modifying a paths properties. Any modifiers applied to the pen should be strictly for once you draw with the pen? Again. More clicks, more undos and more workarounds to figure out. All of which seem much slower and more convoluted than every previous version of the CS.
Also, where have the transform controls gone from the path selection tool? Once again, another click. Right click > free transform. Who thought that would be smart? Works for some but not me for a second.
These bulky, childish cursors are annoying some of my colleagues too. Even precise cursors are now massive. Where have sleek, 1px thick cursors gone? Why have we got these chunky horible things that look like they're from the Sims or something?? I'm not playing a videogame. I'm working. I feel like a school child with these hilariously over-sized pointers.
It's not even like a fix for these issues is needed. Simply revert back to the method which was practical and useful? With some of the new additions like the rubber band and illustrator style-stroke... All great stuff, if applied to the *real* path tool. Not this lame excuse of one. Why did you got screwing with what WAS one of the most versatile tools in photoshop? I can only hope this is the first stage of a major upgrade in this tool.

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I know you can use the tab key to switch between tools, but what I'd really like is to map the hand tool to the middle mouse button. When I press the middle mouse button, I want the hand tool to pop up and grab the diagram so I can drag it around the screen and quickly get to where I want to be. Ctrl-shift is a shortcut to the hand tool, but then I have to go through the bother of sitting up straight and lifting my chin off my left hand.
Is there a way to get anything like this working? I even went so far as to go into the Intellimouse driver software and set application specific settings for Labview, mapping the middle mouse button to ctrl-shift. Didn't work.

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In PSE 12, I lost the left hand tool bar in the GUIDED mode, how do I get it back?

I generally use Elements in Guided mode and Expert. But at some point I lost the tools on the left hand side. The pencil and brush, the blur and healing tool, etc. Basically everything one needs to work. But Expert and Quick modes still have their tool sets. Does anyone know how I can fix this? I would really appreciate any information I can get!

Hi Brian,
Basically, you got that right. Where i have complete tool sets for Quick and Expert, I only have the hand and magnifying glass in guided. And this happened only in the last 2 weeks, prior to that the Guided mode had its complete set as well.
I'm beginning to suspect that theres a problem with this version of Elements. I am a long time user of Adobe Illustrator, and many a time I would inadvertantly mis-key something that would call up a screen change that would drive me nuts for a few minutes. I thought that maybe I had done something like that here,- with Elements. Not out of the question. But I'm older and slower, and never was as fluent in PS as Illustrator.
I am curious, I know these forums exist to help one another,- and I am grateful for whatever help I get, BUT doesn't there come a point where the manufacturer of the product should "step up to the plate" as they say??
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Hand tool changes to article pointer

I've read that when someone creates a pdf file with an article, this is what causes the Hand Tool to change in appearance and move/zoom the page when you click anywhere. This is one of the most annoying 'features' I've ever come across. I prefer to use the Hand Tool to pull the page exactly where I want it to be, rather than scrolling with the wheel, and every time I click my page jumps and zooms from where I was at. I cannot see how this would be useful in any setting, let alone as a default. Is there any way I can override this? I'm using Adobe Reader 9, not the full pro version.
This wouldn't be quite so obnoxious, but it zooms the page so large that it requires horizontal scrolling to read it all. If anyone knows an solution, please share!

Disable the entry 'Make Hand tool read articles' in the preferences of Adobe Reader.

URL Link and the W over the hand tool?

I think I have two things going here. 1 is how do I unlink a PDF to a URL? 2 what is the W over the hand tool? I want to highlight some text but the hand with the w shows the link of where I found the pdf and does not allow me to make the text changes I'm wanting to.

Second question first: The W over the Hand tool means that your link will open in your browser (W = Web).
First question: The link may have been created in the PDF file. But Acrobat/Reader by default creates links when it recognizes a URL. You can turn this off in Preferences > General. Uncheck "Create Links from URLs".

Hand Tool Default in Acrobat 9

I hope this is an easy question, but it has been bugging me since my last update. When I view a PDF (Acrobat 9 Pro) the select tool is the default. I cannot find any setting that will make the hand tool be the default. Does anyone know where this setting is, or some other way to save your preferences?

Yes, just go here: https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

Photoshop won't let me deselect the hand tool

I was sent a jpg of a web banner ad to change. It was emailed to my PC where I have Photoshop CS2 and I tried to do the changes there, but found I don't have the best copies of our logo on the PC, so I saved what I had done so far and I transferred it to my Mac to work on. I'm on OS X 10.;7.3.
When I opened it on my Mac in Photoshop CC, the hand tool was showing on screen even though the move tool was highlighted in the toolbox.
It would not let me change tools in the toolbox; the hand icon remains no matter what I do. But it doesn't behave as you would expect the hand tool to behave, either; it doesn't move the workspace around. It doesn't seem to have any effect at all.
Though I can still copy and paste using the menus. But I can't move what I pasted with the keyboard arrow keys.
I was able to save and close the document using the menus.
Has anyone seen anything like this before? Is there anything I can do to fix it?
I thought it might work better in Photoshop CS6, so I was going to try that next.

You might try a reset: Press Cmd+Opt+Shift (Mac) or Ctrl+Alt+Shift (Win) immediately after initiating Photoshop startup. Select "yes" when prompted. You must press the the keys before Photoshop actually starts loading.
Benjamin

Hand tool 'locked'

Hi all, I have a simple problem:
In Photoshop CS3, the hand tool is the only tool I can now use: no matter what tool I click, the hand tool stays, nothing else happens. I tried restarting Photoshop and that didn't work. Any ideas?
Thanks heaps!
Brad

Stuck space bar?
Try tapping it a couple times to unstick it.
Happens to me too. I'd like to take my keyboard apart and clean itjust because it really needs it (ashes, eyelashes, cat hairs, dust, crumbs, etc), but it's a particularly tough one to disassemble.
Now, having said that, I DO think there's something in the software (I'm using PS CS2 on Mac)that causes the "Hand Tool" to stick, because it'll happen in PS (tapping the space bar fixes it), but I've never seen a long stream of repeating spaces being generated in any other app where I type text, for example.

Hand Tool

I am using Fireworks CS4 and the hand tool will not go away
if anyone knows what I am doing wrong let me know.... Thanks in
advance...

Thanks! I'll try it if it happens again!
half hour later . . .
Okay everyone . . . the people suggesting tapping the space bar are correct. When the tool sticks as the hand, tap the space bar, and that clears it.
I am not convinced that the keyboard is the problem. Rather, I think that there is something in the program that causes the hand tool to appear and then stick, and the space bar clears it. Here's why:
FYI - I said what follows, above; but I'll repeat here for clarity:
To try to rule out issues on my end, I . . .
1) re-Ghosted my PC back to a pristine image (then DL & installed all updates) to try to rule out system software issues
2) did Symantec disk check to try to rule out disk errors
3) DL Photoshop from Adobe website all over again (to try to ensure error-free file); install and reboot
4) DL Photoshop update; install and reboot
It doesn't get much cleaner than that. In addition, my keyboard (Saitek Eclipse II) is pretty new.
Here ias where the hand tool issue has appeared repeatedly for me:
I used photoshop for a couple of hours doing simple layers, cropping, and text with effects without problems. But then, I closed the program and opened it up again to do something more complex. The hand-tool issue appeared at the same point it did before I went through all this:
I had some photos that I wanted to use as fill for shapes on the masked layer below the group . . .
1. I grouped 6 layers
2. ctrl-click the masked layer below the group, then clicked on the group
3. Choose layer>layer mask> reveal selection (puts the grouped photos into the shapes in layer below)
And this is where the hand appears--not every timwe, but a few times. I was also frequently going back and forth between a You Tube viseo and Photoshop when the hand appeared.
Anyway, tapping the sapce bar seems to resolve it.
Cheers.
mike

Hand tool Scroll all I'm missing something

When I choose the hand tool and in options Scroll ALL. I'm supposed to click and drag to see the other open files (photos). What am I overlooking?
PSCS2 Wxp

Dear Curt et al,
Here is the quote from PS CS2 Help
"To view images in multiple windows
The document window is where your images appear. You can open multiple windows to display different images or different views of the same one. A list of open windows appears in the Window menu. To bring an open image to the front, choose the file name from the bottom of the Window menu. Available memory may limit the number of windows per image.
(ImageReady) The document window lets you switch easily between original and optimized views of an image using tabs, and to view the original image and multiple versions of an optimized image simultaneously.
Do one of the following:
Choose Window > Arrange > New Window For [Image File Name].
(ImageReady) Drag any tab away from the document window.
If you want to arrange the windows, choose Window > Arrange and then choose one of the following:
Cascade Displays windows stacked and cascading from the upper left to the lower right of the screen.
Tile Horizontally or Tile Vertically Displays windows edge to edge. As you close images, the open windows are resized to fill the available space.
(Windows) Arrange Icons Aligns minimized image windows along the bottom of the screen.
(Photoshop) You can use the Hand tools Scroll All Windows option to scroll through all open images. Select it in the options bar and drag in one image to scroll through all visible images."

Hand tool pressed and its option

Hi,
can the hand tool, when it's pressed and when you get the gigantic red rectangle, which zooms out, be stopped in the middle of that process and leave the magnification position of where I stopped?
I tried with alt, command, ctrl, shift, nothing...

This is the one and only time I've managed to get a script to work for me, every other script I've attempted to do has failed miserably.
try {app.layoutWindows[0].zoomPercentage = 130 } catch (e) {};
Just copy that text and save it in a text editor as something like zoom130, but you can change the figure of 130 to your preference. You can then assign a kbsc to the script.
I know it's not what the OP wanted, but I think it could be a solution. You could even have two or three of them.
30%
130%
170%
under shortcut keys F2 F3 F4 or something.
Just save them as different files with different percentages.

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