Zoom with wacom or without scroll wheel

[Adriano de Regino]

Hi, I´m new here, and right now trying to adapt my workflow from PS to Afiniti Photo, and being a wacom user, I´m missing a way to zoom without the scroll wheel, "but yet using the pen", in PS we can use Ctrl+Alt+MMB, same with 3DsMax, and this allows for zooming without scroll or Ctrl + "+/-".

Is there a way to configure Affinity Photo to work as such? 

Thanks.

[toltec]

1 hour ago, Adriano de Regino said:

Hi, I´m new here, and right now trying to adapt my workflow from PS to Afiniti Photo, and being a wacom user, I´m missing a way to zoom without the scroll wheel, "but yet using the pen", in PS we can use Ctrl+Alt+MMB, same with 3DsMax, and this allows for zooming without scroll or Ctrl + "+/-".

You can press the Ctrl key (Windows) and click drag to zoom in or out. It works for a mouse, should work for your pen too?

Press Ctrl + Alt, draw a marquee, and it will zoom to that area.

EDIT: Forget to mention that unless you have Zoom Tool selected, you have to press the Spacebar, then the Ctrl key (hold both down) then click drag.  That should work with every tool.

[v_kyr]

Did you tried to alter some of the Wacom App-specific settings accordingly and tested then, if those might interact afterwards in the manner you are looking for?

[Adriano de Regino]

Well, my wacom doesn't have a circular scroll wheel, nor a linear one like in intuos 3, its a simple bamboo. The only way to handle zoom with it, is if it where possible to zoom using the LMB, MMB or RMB, by clicking them.

So, if the software haven't a way of zooming with the click of those buttons, my hands are tied with the wacom settings.

Thanks for the suggestion V_kyr

[Adriano de Regino]

20 minutes ago, toltec said:

You can press the Ctrl key (Windows) and click drag to zoom in or out. It works for a mouse, should work for your pen too?

Press Ctrl + Alt, draw a marquee, and it will zoom to that area.

Thanks Toltec, its an idea! But for this to work one must beforehand select the "z" tool for zooming, the idea was to zoom without changing the current tool, using only modifier keys.

If there is no way for that, this could surely be a feature suggestion.

[toltec]

24 minutes ago, Adriano de Regino said:

Thanks Toltec, its an idea! But for this to work one must beforehand select the "z" tool for zooming,

Oh, yes, sorry, missed out the fact you have to press the Spacebar, then the Ctrl key (hold down both), then click drag. That should work with every tool.

My bad 

At my age, I get a bit confused sometimes.

 

[v_kyr]

20 minutes ago, Adriano de Regino said:

Well, my wacom doesn't have a circular scroll wheel, nor a linear one like in intuos 3, its a simple bamboo. The only way to handle zoom with it, is if it where possible to zoom using the LMB, MMB or RMB, by clicking them.

So, if the software haven't a way of zooming with the click of those buttons, my hands are tied with the wacom settings.

Thanks for the suggestion V_kyr

I too have a Bamboo with 4 buttons on the left side, where when used in Affinity Photo the Bamboo top button toggles between touch on/off, the third from top performs a right menu popup for zoom options where I can select (Zoom enhance/Zoom lower/Zoom suitable/100%/200% ...) via the pen, the forth bottom button performs hand tool canvas moving around.

I also recall that the button settings etc. can be partly customized via the Bamboo driver software.

[Adriano de Regino]

3 hours ago, toltec said:

Oh, yes, sorry, missed out the fact you have to press the Spacebar, then the Ctrl key (hold down both), then click drag. That should work with every tool.

My bad 

At my age, I get a bit confused sometimes.

lol, I´m pretty old too my dear.

Thanks a lot for the tip! it solved my issue!

Now I can gladly press SPACE+Ctrl+LMB and zoom my projects.

The only draw back is that you need to press "space" before pressing "Ctrl", for it to work.

[Adriano de Regino]

3 hours ago, v_kyr said:

where when used in Affinity Photo the Bamboo top button toggles between touch on/off

Thanks c_kyr, its just I don't like to take my hand of the keyboard, so I´v disabled touch, even so I could use it with the pen hand, I didn't adapted to it.

[v_kyr]

13 minutes ago, Adriano de Regino said:

just I don't like to take my hand of the keyboard

Then you might want to try these ...

View shortcuts

Action	Key
Zoom In	Cmd +
Zoom Out	Cmd -
Zoom to Fit	Cmd 0 (or double-click View Tool icon)
(Zoom to) 100%	Cmd 1 (or double-click Zoom Tool icon)
(Zoom to) 200%	Cmd 2
(Zoom to) 400%	Cmd 3
(Zoom to) 800%	Cmd 4
(Zoom to) Actual Size	Cmd 8
(Zoom to) Pixel Size	Cmd 9
Hot key zoom in	Spacebar Cmd -click
Hot key zoom out	Spacebar Alt -click

[Adriano de Regino]

Thanks! those shortcuts really help, most I was already aware off.

Another suggestion would be to have Cmd+5 as a zoom to 50%, there is no shortcut for it yet.

Even though the keyboard shortcuts are great, zooming with the pen has its benefits "precision, speed, and intuitiveness" and the solution for zooming using the pen, still a bit of a draw back, having to press Space before Ctrl, since Ctrl is a modal shortcut for the hand tool, is super counter intuitive, and I cant get used with it.

Don't want to complain here, I´m just offering a possibly helpful insight about the software UX.

Thanks again v_kyr.