Zoom mode hand tool

When I'm in zoom mode, is there a way to scroll the image using a hand tool instead of moving that tiny crop box?

Just click spacebar and the cursor will change to the wellknown hand and you’re ready to scroll

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  • CS5 - Standard Screen Mode - Hand Tool don't move the document

    Hi all
    In PS CS5 -> Standard Screen Mode -> Hand Tool don't move the document unless you zoom the document so it became bigger than the working area!
    Is it possible to use the hand tool (move the document arround) while the document is smaller than the working area?
    Thanks

    Why not just shrink the window border and move the Window around to where you want it, as has been described above several times?
    because that will make the working area much smaller. You'll be able to move the Window around, but if you zoom in, you will lose working area and you'll have to use the scrolls.
    Maybe it would help to describe WHY you want to move the image within the window/tab?
    There are many reasons for that and I don't have the time to describe all of them right now. I'll give you just one: if you paste an object that is bigger than the document size and you want to transform the object (scale down for example) - you press Ctrl+T and the top, bottom and middle right points are no visible (they are outside the area). Then you have 2 options if you want to scale down:
    1) scale the image with the left side point, and then move the image back to the document
    2) zoom in the document -> so it became bigger than the working area -> so you can move it with the Hand tool (spacebar) -> so you can see the right points -> so you can transform the object -> and then you zoom out again
    both ways are just very slow
    if you can move the document inside the working area (inside the window) then you can perform the task much quicker:
    move it with the Hand tool (spacebar) -> grab some of the right point and transform as simple as that. And you still can see all of your document, and you can still reach the right points
    this is just one example, I can tell you more

  • Scrubby Zoom and hand tool stop working out of the blue?

    I checked my preferences and OpenGL is enabled, so I don't understand why it randomly stops working when I'm trying to get work done. Been working for less than four hours today and have had to restart Photoshop CS5.5 6 times. It starts working for a little while, then the "Scrubby Zoom" box becomes greyed out and the shortcut doesn't work as well. Also when I hit space (hand tool) to drag the image around, that stops working at the same time as the zoom. I'm using an Intuos4 with this, haven't had problems with it until recently but there haven't been any significant changes in my machine (PC), which has a nice graphics card, processor, etc. I'm using Google Chrome, maybe it has something to do with my browser being open at the same time as PS?
    Any opinions on this are appreciated, thanks.

    Did you do a forum search on the word chrome? It finds this: Re: Space Bar Hand Move & CMD-Space Zoom Not Working—CS5

  • Hand tool and zoom resume

    I apologize for this easy looking question,  but neither the documentation nor my own tests seem to point me to a clear answer.
    I have a waveform graph and I am using the zoom and hand tool on the graph palette.
    1. After applying the hand tool, how can I resume to the original graph?
    2. I zoom a part of the graph more than one time consecutively, let's say twice. After the secodn zoom, I would like to resume to the result of the first zoom. 
    The same way in which generally the zoom-in and zoom-out functionalities work.
    On the graph palette, the left bottom icon of the zoom functions, offer just the possibility to resume to the initial version of the graph.
    I couldn't find a way to achieve an incremental zoom-out as described above?
    Is there any?
    Thank you!
    MG.
    Solved!
    Go to Solution.

    1) Use the Zoom to Fit
    2) You will need to programatically make this.  When you zoom in, store the X and Y scale data (max and min).  You can then make a button to go back to the previous zoom by then setting the scale data with the values you stored.
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  • Hand tool won't drag image - PSE 11

    Windows 7 - 4 gig RAM
    I use expert mode
    hand tool is selected, but it will not drag image. I can vertical scroll with mouse wheel.
    I cannot select scroll bar handles,but I can scroll by clicking blank agacent space.
    I have reset preferences to defaults but no change.

    Try a reset. Click in the tools pallet and select your hand tool, then go to the Tool Options bar at the bottom of the workspace. Click on the dropdown list to the right and choose Reset Tool.

  • Can't pan (hand tool) when zoomed out

    Hi,
    1. make a document
    2. zoom out so you can see the boundary of the canvas
    3. try to pan using the "hand tool" -> cant pan, canvas stays in middle
    4.  - zoom in just enough so the boundary of the canvas exceeds your viewport -> can pan now (but when you zoom out abit after panning to the side, it pops back to middle again)
          - OR rotate the zoomed out canvas just so one of the corners exceeds your viewport -> can pan also (but when you reset rotation after some panning, it pops back to middle again)
    Lets say i want to draw in the lower right corner of my canvas at a zoom which doesnt make the canvas exceed my viewport but at the same time i want to pan so i have that lower right part of the image near the middle of my screen (so its not lost under my layers window and also so i dont have to draw near the edge of my tablet) but i cant because canvas doesnt exceed my viewport vision.
    To get around this so far ive been either rotating the canvas abit and drawing like that so i could pan or i flip the image or move my palettes to the other side for better access but its a mess so i usually resort to having a duplicate viewport for the same image on other monitor which i keep zoomed out to have a view of the whole composition and then paint sort of "blindly" in the first viewport with close zoom which lets me pan and paint somewhat near the middle of screen and watch the result in the second viewport. I was also thinking about making bigger canvas and drawing on a smaller part of it in the middle, but im already working at like 10k res and that would slow things down even more i guess.)
    Am i just missing something? Or is there any better workarounds?

    You could work in the fullscreen mode (press the F key) which allows panning of the document regardless of size.

  • Any way to enable the hand tool when not zoomed in?

    I am always using the hand tool (space) to pan around the canvas while I'm working, but it really bothers me that you can only use it when zoomed in. It assumes that when the canvas fits on the screen you don't need it, but I still have all the tool palettes overlapping the image. I don't like having to press tab to see behind them and it would be much more convenient if it didn't disable the hand tool. Is there any way to fix this? I'm using CS5.
    Cheers.

    Hello!
    If you press F to be in one of the full screen modes, you should be able to pan around with the hand tool.
    Pierre-Etienne

  • Adobe Reader 8 won't start in "hand tool" mode

    I have Adobe Reader 8.1.3 on Vista Home Premium.
    The program will not start in 'hand tool' reading mode, it always starts in 'select tool' mode and I have to change it manually. If I quit reader after switching it to 'hand tool' mode, it does not remember, and next time starts in 'select tool' mode again.
    In Edit -> Preferences -> General -> Basic Tools, the only Hand- or Select-tool checkbox that is checked is "Make Hand Tool Read Articles".
    Based on a similar question in the Adobe Reader Unix forum (http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3c055988) I fould all the instances of registry key "aDefaultSelect" that I could (4 of them) and changed their values from "Select" to "Hand".
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    Any help would be much appreciated.
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    Nevermind, seems to be working now!

  • Zooming whenever I double-click on any margin of pages with Hand Tool or Selection Tool selected

    I have used Acrobat and recently upgraded it to Acrobat XI in order to use it with my tablet PC.
    But whenever I double-click with my digitizer pen, with Hand tool or Selection Tool selected, on any margin of pages, it zooms in. i.e. it automatically magnifies itself as if I did the same thing with magnifying tool. This happens even when I try to double-click on the textboxes to edit it!
    I don't want to zoom it all the time!!!

    Try switching off this setting: Edit - Preferences - General - Make hand
    tool use mouse-wheel zooming.

  • Hand tool + zoom shortcuts don't work!

    there seems to be a problem with my Adobe Creative Suite 2 programs shortcuts. whenever I want to use the Hand Tool (space bar) or the Zoom tool (Command+Space Bar), it just doesn't work. I always worked with those shortcuts on older versions. Is it just me? I checked for shortcuts conflicts on my computer and it doesn't seem to be the problem.
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  • How to stop Hand Tool from zooming?

    I have Acrobat Pro 7.0. When I'm viewing PDFs, at some point the Hand Tool ends up with what looks like T with a downward pointing arrow at the bottom on it, and anytime I click in text while using the Hand Tool, the page zooms in and out. If I click in the margin I can drag the page as usual. I've been using Acrobat for years and I had never encountered this feature until just a few weeks ago. At some point I managed to get this to stop - to operate as the basic Hand Tool to drag pages around, but now that zooming feature is enabled again and I have no idea what I did to activate it nor can I figure out how to disable it. Can someone please tell me? I dug around in the Help for a bit but didn't see any reference to this. Thanks.

    I think this is a document-specific setting of some sort after something I just noticed.
    When I open certain PDF documents only, then I click in the body of any page (except the cover page, and table of contents page), whether that page contains just text or text and graphics, the icon appears on the Hand Tool right away and each time I click the page zooms. I also noticed now that each time I click the current page moves down about a third of the way, so if I keep clicking, I end up on the next page and each subsequent page is also zoomed.
    However, if I click the navigation arrow button that takes me back a page, those pages assume the default zoom (100% in this case).
    This behavior does not occur in most of my other PDFs. All are produced by me, from FrameMaker, using essentially the same features, so I have not (intentionally) enabled anything in Frame for these documents that would result in this behavior).
    I messed around with my mouse trying to trigger this, and nothing happened. I restarted Acrobat between trying different things, so I think this is an Acrobat feature. Hopefully this other information will be recognizable to someone who knows how to disable this. In the meantime, I'll scour the Acrobat Preferences again. Thanks for any further input.

  • Hand tool in CS4

    I was wondering if there is a way to use the hand tool (or spacebar) even if the entire image is visible, like you could do in previous versions. One might wonder why you would want to pan if you can already see the entire image. This comes up when one of your layers is bigger than the main image. If you try to Transform the layer, but the transform handles are off the edge of the screen, you need the hand tool. Otherwise you have to zoom out even further to get at the handles.

    You can change from "Standard screen mode" to "Full screen mode with menu bar" or "Full screen mode" by using the icon on the tool bar. Or, as in all versions of PS, press F on your keyboard to toggle between the modes. You can then use the space bar to pan the image in both of the Full screen modes. A useful thing to remember!
    Geoff

  • Is there a shortcut for the hand tool in Au, like holding down the spacebar in Ps and Ae?

    Is there a shortcut for the hand tool in Au, like holding down the spacebar in Ps and Ae? It seems only available in the time ruler above the waveform or when dragging the 'zoom selection(?)' in the mini waveform at the top. I'm using a Wacom, so no scroll wheel...

    ?I went ahead and added a feature request for a Hand panning tool.  The request comes in every so often, and we certainly want to make Audition more appealing to a wider cross-section of Creative Cloud users.  While we probably can't emulate the "press-and-hold space bar" model, a shortcut key to toggle that mode would be possible.

  • Middle Mouse Hand Tool

    It'd be really awesome if you guys could make it optional to set the hand tool to be used by holding down the middle mouse button and ONLY the middle mouse button. I reckon it would be a lot more comfortable to have that functionality as a one-hand job rather than a two-hand job.

    generally it's a usability sin not to use the MMB click at all.
    But i would really prefer other things than the hand tool ... the current navigation with the space bar would be very consitent if  SPACE + LMB / RMB would zoom in an out, and maybe a simple SPACE hit zooms to 100 % ... as i wrote in an other thread already.
    MMB should be used for example for custom tools menu, a popup for the last used functions, or - and this is what i would prefer - go into transform mode.

  • 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?
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    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. ....
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