Greg@AshwoodPhotographics Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 G'day all. To save time, I was wondering does anyone knows How to keep the active area in the center of the zoom all the time in affinity photo? For instance, if I was working in the bottom corner at 25% and I want to zoom in at 500%, I have to find the area where I was working. The zoom seam to zoom fro the center of the document all the time. Thanks Greg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 . Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 Select the Zoom tool and place the magnifier where you want to zoom and click Approx 8 times, you can see how much zoom has been applied at the side of the file name at the very top of the Affinity Photo window. Don’t use the right click percentages option to zoom you will end up zoomed in to the centre of the document. Also press and hold Option/Alt (on windows) will allow you to draw a marquee to zoom into. The magnifier icon changes to a zoom out icon temporarily but then changes to a zoom in icon as you draw the marquee JenT and Greg@AshwoodPhotographics 2 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg@AshwoodPhotographics Posted March 23, 2020 Author Share Posted March 23, 2020 G'day firstdefence Thanks so much for that. In actual fact I have NEVER use that tool because I always use control +. This is a great forum! Greg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granddaddy Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 Here's how it behaves in Windows. Don't know how it behaves on the Mac. Mostly I zoom with Ctrl-MouseWheel with my selected tool hovering over the point I'm interested in. The image zooms to that point while maintaining the relative position of the point and the tool within the window. It does not move that point to the center of the window. You can pan quickly by pressing Spacebar to activate the View (Hand) tool, but be careful as there is a bug in the Windows version that fails to return to the correct icon for the currently active tool when you release the Spacebar. So, if you are hovering over the bottom corner and use Ctrl-MouseWheel to zoom to that point then your active area will still be in the bottom corner of the window. I've seen posts from a couple of years ago that claims Alt-MouseWheel works also, but that is not my experience. If you go to Edit/Preferences/Tools the Preferences dialog includes a checkbox that says "Use mouse wheel to zoom". Checking that causes the mousewheel to zoom and Ctrl-MouseWheel to scroll. I leave it unchecked . Greg@AshwoodPhotographics 1 Quote Affinity Photo 2.4.2 (MSI) and 1.10.6; Affinity Publisher 2.4.2 (MSI) and 1.10.6. Windows 10 Home x64 version 22H2. Dell XPS 8940, 16 GB Ram, Intel Core i7-11700K @ 3.60 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fritz_H Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 @Greg@AshwoodPhotographics consider enabling Mouse-Wheel-Zoom in settings (no CTRL-Key needed). kind regards Fritz 2020-03-23 12-44-23_1.webm Greg@AshwoodPhotographics 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg@AshwoodPhotographics Posted March 23, 2020 Author Share Posted March 23, 2020 6 hours ago, Granddaddy said: Here's how it behaves in Windows. Don't know how it behaves on the Mac. Mostly I zoom with Ctrl-MouseWheel with my selected tool hovering over the point I'm interested in. The image zooms to that point while maintaining the relative position of the point and the tool within the window. It does not move that point to the center of the window. You can pan quickly by pressing Spacebar to activate the View (Hand) tool, but be careful as there is a bug in the Windows version that fails to return to the correct icon for the currently active tool when you release the Spacebar. So, if you are hovering over the bottom corner and use Ctrl-MouseWheel to zoom to that point then your active area will still be in the bottom corner of the window. I've seen posts from a couple of years ago that claims Alt-MouseWheel works also, but that is not my experience. If you go to Edit/Preferences/Tools the Preferences dialog includes a checkbox that says "Use mouse wheel to zoom". Checking that causes the mousewheel to zoom and Ctrl-MouseWheel to scroll. I leave it unchecked . Thanks for this tip mate Greg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg@AshwoodPhotographics Posted March 23, 2020 Author Share Posted March 23, 2020 6 hours ago, Fritz_H said: @Greg@AshwoodPhotographics consider enabling Mouse-Wheel-Zoom in settings (no CTRL-Key needed). kind regards Fritz 2020-03-23 12-44-23_1.webm 1.23 MB · 0 downloads Thanks for this tip and video Havagoodone Greg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg@AshwoodPhotographics Posted March 23, 2020 Author Share Posted March 23, 2020 Thanks guys for your time and assistance. Much appreciated. Greg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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