Photoshop and trackpad gestures
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, including- Alt (Option) key + double finger track to zoom and out within a document
- Hold the Apple (Cmd) key to zoom the whole screen
Ivan also wishes for user-defined gestures, something that only seems logical for Apple to implement.
What's on your "Gestures Wish List?"
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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,...
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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.
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.
May 14 2008 at 9:13 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyuh, just so you know, the key is "option," not "alt." go install windows if you prefer "alt."
May 13 2008 at 4:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThat key on my MacBook Pro says "alt" and has a weird symbol under it.
On topic: all those "gestures" also work outside Photoshop ...
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.
Yeah all these are old gestures been there for a whiiile....
i mean a long while
"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.
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.
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 :)
You can hold Ctrl and use two fingers to zoom the whole screen.. That's been around for a long time.
May 13 2008 at 12:21 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI 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?
May 13 2008 at 12:15 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI'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.
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