Why is the Navigator zoom preview darker?

[Kurb]

Did I miss something in the preferences? I can’t find a way to change the fact that the rectangle in the navigator from where I zoom is Darker? This isn’t giving me the right preview I need while drawing, need to unzoom and rezoom all the time, I feel confuse on why this has been default setting like that?

[walt.farrell]

2 hours ago, Kurb said:

Did I miss something in the preferences? I can’t find a way to change the fact that the rectangle in the navigator from where I zoom is Darker? This isn’t giving me the right preview I need while drawing, need to unzoom and rezoom all the time, I feel confuse on why this has been default setting like that

I think it's just supposed to be showing you what part of the image will be visible in the workspace. I don't think you're supposed to be using the rectangle as an actual preview of anything; it just helps you position the image in the workspace for you to work on.

[Kurb]

1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

I think it's just supposed to be showing you what part of the image will be visible in the workspace. I don't think you're supposed to be using the rectangle as an actual preview of anything; it just helps you position the image in the workspace for you to work on.

Well that wouldn’t be very useful then, I think the navigator could be more of use if it could served all of this at the same time, a preview and a way to navigate your picture.

Working on drawings that will end up on a small game card, I really need that preview to be the right shade. 
Well, I will put this in the feedback/idea instead.

[R C-R]

50 minutes ago, Kurb said:

Well that wouldn’t be very useful then, I think the navigator could be more of use if it could served all of this at the same time, a preview and a way to navigate your picture.

The main function of the navigator window is to provide an overview of the entire workspace, regardless of the document size or the zoom level, so among other things you can click anywhere in it to center the workspace view on that point, or click & drag to pan the workspace view. If you enable the advanced mode, you can also set & name viewpoints, & then use the popup menu to quickly jump to any of them.

[GarryP]

I think it might be more useful if the view rectangle in the Navigator Panel showed the correct colour while the area outside of it was shaded.
That seems a better way round to me; you want to concentrate on the bit you’re looking at rather than what’s around it so what you’re looking at should be the right colour and the rest should be shaded. In other words, what you can see is as you see it, and what you can't see is 'in the dark'.

[carl123]

14 hours ago, Kurb said:

This isn’t giving me the right preview I need while drawing, need to unzoom and rezoom all the time,

Not sure exactly what you are doing but View > New View may be an alternative to using the navigator. You can keep/set the new view to whatever zoom level you want whilst zooming in and out on the original view of the document.  Especially useful if you have 2 monitors.

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, GarryP said:

In other words, what you can see is as you see it, and what you can't see is 'in the dark'.

You can see the 'in the dark' part fine in the workspace window. I don't understand why you would want the overview the Navigator panel provides to put everything else 'in the dark' instead.

34 minutes ago, carl123 said:

Not sure exactly what you are doing but View > New View may be an alternative to using the navigator. You can keep/set the new view to whatever zoom level you want whilst zooming in and out on the original view of the document.

The Advanced mode of the Navigator panel provides a way not only to create new views but also to rename or delete them, & to jump among any of them in one step.

[Kurb]

On 1/23/2020 at 4:28 AM, carl123 said:

Not sure exactly what you are doing but View > New View may be an alternative to using the navigator. You can keep/set the new view to whatever zoom level you want whilst zooming in and out on the original view of the document.  Especially useful if you have 2 monitors.

thanks for you trick.