zoom feature that uses mouse movement?

[KingGambit]

Please bear with the newbie post!

I'm pretty certain that I had used some kind of method of zooming which involved moving my mouse left or right (sorry, I can't recall what hotkeys/commands I used) to create a continuous zoom effect rather than increments.

However, I had to reset my preferences and now I don't have the same effect (I get a marquee box to zoom into if I drag and move my mouse rather than zooming in and out).

Was this actually even a feature or am I going crazy?

I googled around for it but found no results.

 

[Tom Mann]

Just Google {scrubby zoom}

Tom

 

[IamSam]

I agree with Tom.

Go to Photoshop > Preferences > General (PC: Edit > Preferences > General) and enable Zoom Clicked Point to Center.
Once you’ve done that, select the Zoom tool (Z) and choose Scrubby Zoom in the options bar. You can now click anywhere in the canvas and drag right or left to zoom in and out of the document at that specific point. You can click and hold the Z key while working with any other tool, click and hold the mouse and drag left or right to zoom, then release mouse click and release the Z key, and continue working with the original tool.

 

[KingGambit]

UPDATE: so I'm assuming it's called "Scrubby Zoom"-- but it's greyed out so I cannot select it. Answers online say to check for OpenGL in my performance preferences but I don't see where that is:


Also, Is there an "Edit post" feature? Can't find it.

 

[KingGambit]

Whoops sorry, seems like I didn't refresh the page in time for that post.

IamSam, I've enabled "Zoom Clicked Point to Center" but "scrubby zoom" is still greyed out unfortunately.

 

[KingGambit]

EDIT: Managed to follow your steps again after resetting preferences once more and it worked! Thanks mods! Sorry for triple post. :lol:

 

[IamSam]

No worries! Glad it worked!

 

[Tom Mann]

Yup, glad to have helped.

BTW, that's a nice video card for PS. It's not the latest, but it supports 10 bit per channel (aka, "30 bit") output to your monitor. Is that why you selected it?

Tom

 

[MrToM]

No worries! Glad it worked!

Sorry IamSam,Tom but does it work?

... "scrubby zoom" is still greyed out unfortunately.

Or have I just lost the plot?

@ KingGambit:
What you've checked so far is fine, and yes, the tooltips do indeed prompt you to check your OpenGL.

It looks as though your graphics card is fine as the 'Advanced Settings" button is enabled and "Use Graphics Processor" is checked...So far so good.

If you click on the "Advanced Settings" button you should get something similar to this:


This bit is really odd...
"Use OpenGL" is actually "Use OpenCL".....does anyone know if that's just a typo?
If not, what is OpenCL?

EDIT:
Found this from Adobe, OpenCL exists!

OpenCL
OpenCL is a technology that allows applications use the processor that's on the video adapter, the GPU. Several features use OpenCL in Photoshop CC, so they should be faster. Make sure that OpenCL is on to run these features at their fastest speed.
To turn on OpenCL, choose Edit > Preferences > Performance (Windows) or Photoshop > Preferences > Performance (Mac OS). Click Advanced Settings, and select Use OpenCL.
The features that are OpenCL enabled are:

• Video Panorama
• Blur Gallery (Iris, Field, and Tilt-shift Blur)

I just love the way Adobe assume that the answer to everything is just a click away.

None of that is very much help I know, sorry, and I can't check my CS6 version for comparison as the graphics card isn't suitable and so the advanced settings are not even available.

It could still be a graphics driver issue, despite giving the impression its fine, have you tried an update?

Regards.
MrTom.