awakenedbyowls

I don't see anywhere to set the shortcut for the zoom tool but CTRL + '-' and '+' perform this function if that's what you mean I like it the way it is so no point in changing settings and ending up confusing myself with the controls Don't know what you mean by mid-click - if you mean the centre mouse wheel then it doesn't do anything as far as I can tell

Could be - opening files in AD brings the software up on the screen but as you say the focus might still be on File Explorer

Could be a bug - I just tried it with a basic one layer .jpg image and it worked fine (yesterday it wasn't working right with simple images though when I tried) I then tried it with one of the files it was doing it with yesterday and the keys wouldn't respond initially - it seems to open up some files with a random layer selected which then is the layer that moves when I try to reposition the whole workspace to the sound of the error notification - I tried resaving the file after CTRL+D and when I opened it up again it had the same layer selected Not sure what you mean by all the rest - when I was attempting to utilise the Z and spacebar shortcuts it was with the necessary mouse action (which is explained in the first sentence of my OP)

Yeah the OS is Windows (see title) I'm just providing some feedback - if my explanation is not enough then so be it - if people can't understand my English explanation then I DON'T CARE - if it still does it and never gets fixed (which seems quite likely) then so be it - all folk ever do when I post a question or an issue is complain that I'm not doing it right anyway I open file - go to place the workspace where I want - Spacebar or z and mouse action will not work until I have clicked on the workspace Why do I need to click on the workspace to get it to move the work space, when I am already clicking the workspace in order to perform this action? I could train myself to remember to click first this but in my experience when I come across things like this I never remember - because intuitively I expect the software to just respond to the keys I'm pressing - which they should There's another instance where I get knotted up all the time because the software won't recognise Z or CTRL-Z due to whatever I happen to be doing - now why this is is beyond me because these are basic functions which are unrelated to whatever I am doing and should be designed to override everything I don't know whether this is just a new thing with V2 or not as I can't remember if I had this issue before - but either way it's a pain in the ass that constantly gets in the way of my work flow which is bad enough trying to navigate round the bugs and occasional crashes It's a design oversight I'd say Look into it or don't - either way if any better alternatives come along to this unstable mess then you won't see me for dust

Understanding the Navigation panel is entry level stuff I wasn't actually looking for help either, hence why I posted this thread in the Feedback section and not the Questions section Thanks all the same though

You don't have to be a mind reader - just an ability to understand plain English Everything was explained in the first two sentences - succinctly

Then why reply with useless information? I know how to use the Navigation Panel - this isn't what I am asking which I have already explained Try reading what I'm writing before responding - the information about my question is in there I guess so - but the first thing I usually do involves clicking on the workspace only it doesn't respond if I'm holding 'z' or the space bar I'm just giving some feedback so the devs can fix this so I don't have to click on the workspace before I zoom or move the canvas - because I never think to do that: why? Because the software should be designed to recognise and respond to these operations that I am attempting to command It opens files with layers already selected and highlighted but I still have to click on the workspace before I can do anything? Please make it make sense It might help some folk on here who appear to struggle - sometimes I think I'm speaking a different language

Nothing is ever clear from my OP's though is it Maybe I need to go and study literature at Oxford before people understand me

Do you think by now I haven't figured out the Navigation Panel? I'm not asking how to zoom - I'm pointing out that sometimes when I open a file basic functions using the short keys are not initially responding and this (time and time again) causes me agro and gets in the way of my work flow

The problem isn't me not knowing how to use the software - the problem is the software not responding as expected at certain times

Usually when I open a file the first I'll want to do is reposition it - which either involves pressing 'z' and using the LMB to get the size I want or holding the spacebar and moving the canvas Only the software doesn't allow me to do that unless I click somewhere on the page - instead I end up every time going through the same thing where I end up just moving whatever layer is selected by default to the sound of the software alerting me that I'm doing something wrong And then it works - after I've had to ctrl-Z I have to go through this every time and there are other examples of this the way the software is designed - ending up having to go through the same steps, correcting mistakes to perform basic functions I also have trouble getting Zoom and ctrl-Z to work sometimes while the software seems locked into so other mode which is incredible frustrating and disrupting to my work flow - why don't these functions just over ride what I'm doing!? I just about can't use this software anymore it's doing my head in - three years of bugs and crashes - useless - not worth the money or time invested in learning how to use this dysfunctional software

Save as a new brush! Oh how did I not realise that was how to do it? It’s so obvious - just have to remember everything is completely different on the iPad version because that’s the only way to design cross-platform software

Something I’ve done a hundred times yet for some reason all of a sudden I can longer figure out how to do Another attempt to get some work done on AD V2 and I’m just encountering more problems Am I supposed to hold the pencil down on the brush and wait for the menu? I can’t remember if that’s how it works or another way - there isn’t an option in drop down menu from the icon with the three horizontal lines on the top right of the brushes panel or if I swipe left with the pencil - so how the hell do I do this ? I’ve tried my finger but it’s not working either - so is it a bug ? Who knows - I don’t think I’ll ever crack this software

Oh there it is there - in the word “nearly” If you misread it or you’re browsing the pages and reading through stuff fast you might miss that

Well you know - I entered into this knowing I was getting a more grassroots product and not to expect everything You can say they did make this known in the small print that this is the case but I didn’t see it If I’m sold a suite of software that’s cross-platform I automatically expect all the same features to be present across each platform - I don’t think this is an unreasonable assumption to make, albiet erronously or ignorant of the facts in this instance Nonetheless I just looked at the tech specs from the page where I looked previously when I upgraded to V2 and there is no information on the fact the iPad version is missing some of the features on the Windows and (I assume) Mac versions in the main summary - and this seems like a purposeful omission from the key product elements detailed - was I supposed to just know this ? Anyway I suppose we were also sold a product on the basis that it was still in development for new more powerful features to be introduced and so an incomplete product in some sense was part of the deal - but when I find a key function I need is missing and then I find out this was claimed to be in development back in 2019 and it’s still not been done in 2024 while the developers have spent time introducing new features and upgrading the whole suite it’s not a good look for the whole project to me How about get the software working fully across all the platforms you are marketing it for before adding new things? Or at least if you sell an upgraded product on the promise of new features in development then at the very least I expect also previously mentioned upgrades to be included in that I think most folk were happy with it just being a basic stripped down slightly alternative version of the Adobe suite with all the potential to be just as creative without all the more techie professional stuff but having used both V1 and V2 now for 4 years it’s been a process not without regular hiccups throughout the whole time - even now there are still serious unadressed bugs and the odd crash and now they’ve sold the company on to some big tech A.I. Company I’ve never heard of who by all accounts don’t really sound like good news You get what you pay for I suppose - or you get what you can afford to pay for