I'm not a trackpad fan, but I will admit that gestures are cool. Ivan at Creative Bits has identified the gestures available in Photoshop, includingPlease keep your comments relevant to this blog entry. Email addresses are never displayed, but they are required to confirm your comments.
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5-13-2008 @ 12:15PM
conigs said...
I wouldn't really call these gestures. It sounds like a lot of these are the same as using a scroll wheel on a mouse (ie, holding shift and scrolling zooms in and out, scroll wheel pans around document, etc). And two finger tap as context menu is something that's set in the trackpad pref pane. Am I missing something here?
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5-13-2008 @ 12:17PM
Johnny said...
I'm with you. These 'gestures' are simply scrolling modifiers. Using two fingers has been the method for scrolling on a Mac trackpad for a while now.
5-13-2008 @ 12:21PM
jake Moore said...
You can hold Ctrl and use two fingers to zoom the whole screen.. That's been around for a long time.
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5-13-2008 @ 12:52PM
Andy said...
Not really a photoshop user myself, but for any apps i fancy adding a gesture to, i use multiclutch.
In short it's bloody brilliant. Anything with a keyboard shortcut can have a gesture assigned to it.
p.s. I'm sure most of you may have heard of this - i did find it on TUAW :)
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5-13-2008 @ 1:18PM
Kev Orng said...
Which modifier do I press to thumb my nose at Vista users as I sail past them on the internet?
Besides becoming a regular poster on Digg, that is.
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5-13-2008 @ 3:00PM
jollyllama said...
"Ivan also wishes for user-defined gestures, something that only seems logical for Apple to implement."
Well, that's obviously coming, but in the meantime why didn't you link to Multiclutch? User defined gestures in a quickly installed freeware pref pane. I just used upswipe to trigger my Quicksilver shelf to retreive my TUAW password.
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5-13-2008 @ 3:10PM
Sabi said...
Yeah all these are old gestures been there for a whiiile....
i mean a long while
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5-13-2008 @ 3:20PM
Joel Rose said...
I would like to see 2 Gestures for Flash that basically do this:
no matter what part of the UI is selected, you can quickly scrub through the the timeline
and
no matter what part of the UI is selected, you can scroll the stage.
I do realize that the < and > keys work when you are working on the stage to scrub through the timeline- but that's one frame at at time. I would like to be able to easily 'fast forward' in the timeine with a gesture.
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5-13-2008 @ 4:33PM
mike said...
uh, just so you know, the key is "option," not "alt." go install windows if you prefer "alt."
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5-15-2008 @ 1:26PM
Cedric said...
That key on my MacBook Pro says "alt" and has a weird symbol under it.
On topic: all those "gestures" also work outside Photoshop ...
5-13-2008 @ 4:56PM
George said...
I commented over at Creative Bits too, but here it is again for TUAW readers: xGestures http://alum.hampshire.edu/~bjk02/xGestures/
Shareware app ($5) that allows you assign mouse gestures to preform keystrokes and other actions. Multiclutch mentioned above only works if you have a MacBook Air/Pro. xGestures works with any Mac, and works with just about all the software on your machine. Each app can be configured independently, or global gestures can be assigned as well.
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5-14-2008 @ 9:16AM
Jim Morrison said...
I'm using Multi-clutch (great for swiping tabs in Safari), but I'd love an alternative (or better implementation) as its throwing up loads of errors and conflicts in my logs.