Zooming/panning using the mouse wheel scroll

[Art_A._...@adobeforums.com]

Hey everyone,

Lately I've been frustrated by the functionality of the zoom in Photoshop - and I don't mean the Zoom Tool, but simple zoom in/out operations. I seem to recall that the default behaviour in Photoshop was that you zoomed with Ctrl+mousewheel scrolling, and if you just scrolled, then the picture would pan up/down (vertically). And you could untick the "Zoom with scroll wheel" option if you didn't want Ctrl+scroll to mean "zoom".

However for a while now, having that option ticked seems to mean that scrolling (with no Ctrl) is all it takes to zoom in/out, and if you untick the option then you need to press Alt+scroll to zoom; in either case, there is no shortcut for panningup/down.

Anyway, whether this was really ever the case or not, my question is: is it somehow possible to make it so Ctrl+scroll zooms and (simple) scroll pans vertically? Anticipated thanks for any help.

[Denn...@adobeforums.com]

What PS version are we talking about?

Here is the behavior I see in CS4 when all the Zoom options are unchecked in Edit>Preferences, General tab:

- Scroll wheel alone: Vertical pan
- Scroll wheel & Ctrl: Horizontal pan (a little weird that since the cursor changes to a plus magnifying glass)
- Scroll wheel & Alt: Zoom

It's not exactly what you asked for but it's close (Alt instead of Ctrl for zoom).