Am I missing something? Help with CS4

[twotimingpete]

I used CS3 for years. I use it with a wacom intuos3 tablet. the tablet has a finger slider that I have always used to quickly zoom in and out. Over years this among other things became a fluid part of my workflow.

I managed to get CS4 thanks to a friend and while I like some of the new features, there are some issues that may sound small but for me are a deal breaker.

1) the zoom speed is wrong. instead of just flipping quickly through relatively small intervals of zoomage, it crawls through many more degrees of zoom, making it take way too long to zoom quickly in and out with my finger slider. I can't figure out how to change this so it works the way I'm used to.

2) the zooming is reversed! I'm used to sliding my finger up zooming in, and down zooming out. in CS4, it works in reverse.

these two things that sound relatively small are making CS4 a major pain to work in. it's like working with my hands tied or breathing through a straw.

I have tried to figure out how to change these things and so far have not been able to. I am, however, known to be stupid. Can anyone help?

 

[Steve]

I have an Intuou4 but see if you have adjustments similar to these.

 

[twotimingpete]

ive got those but they seem to do nothing.

I think the issue here is that CS3 zoomed by, if I recall, degrees of 12.5% per notch, and CS4 is zooming by much finer increments. for me, I am used to BAM zooming way in and BAM zooming way out with one swipe, rather than having to swipe several times to get in or out.

maybe there's some way within photoshop to edit the amount of zoom per notch?

 

[Steve]

Too bad.
I have CS3 and CS5 installed (no CS4) and the tablet works the same with both versions.
Do you have the most current Wacom driver installed?

 

[twotimingpete]

I may have found a way around the zooming speed. what I did was go into photoshop's CTRL-K and set the zooming to the mouse wheel. this gave a nice fast speed. but now the touch strip won't zoom.

BUT then I went to the the wacom properties and set the touch strip to scroll... and now it's pretty fast.

seems like a really round about way of doing somethign simple, but it seems to work.

my next issue... how to reverse the direction! I want up on the strip to zoom in and down to zoom out. any ideas?

 

[twotimingpete]

woh! it's already fixed.

I guess this is the way around both "problems". I guess this may be useful to anyone else who wants up on the touchstrip to be zoom in instead of zoom out.

 

[Steve]

Congratulations.