at home, and every Adobe Photoshop I've used, the ZOOM tool has defaulted to Zooming IN when you click. I'm at my boss' house, working on a pool render... and the ZOOM tool is stuck on ZOOM OUT by default, and it's driving me nutz! I keep trying to zoom in,, and wind up zoooming out alll the time... How is it that you can set the zoom tool back to the default zoom IN.. without having to hold ALT everytime to reverse it? Thanks... I guess I need to upload some of my before and after shots... we take a picture of the customer's yard and house. I draw in the decks, the pool, furniture, landscaping, etc. I render the water in bryce (with the partially completed photo attached to a surface) so that I can render the realistic water with reflections of their house and whatnot in the water. Pictures can be worth a thousand words... mine are worth thousands of dollars... only because we are building the pools I render. Other pool companies have been TRYING to do what I can do, but none have yet succeeded as well as we have. And I have the helpful folks here to thank for the tidbits of info that help me out when i'm stumped... Thanks, W3

Have you tried reseting the tools? I would be interested to see your work for sure;)

How do I reset the tools? Thanks for the idea.. but i don't know where to go to do that yet... with my luck, i'll find it just after i post, but that's not always the case, just most of the time.

This may be a bit draconian... This will reset ALL of your preferences to default... If you're using Windows, Press, and hold down, Alt, Control, and Shift AS photoshop is losding..... as soon as you see photoshop start to load, hit them keys, and hold them down 'til you are prompted to de;ete current settings... If you're using Mac, hold down Option, Command, and Shift, instead. this's a little after the fact, but... if you have a scroll mouse, rolling the wheel while you are on the image will zoom in/out, centering on the cursor.... from the sound of it it might be more convenient for you. Lou.

From memory, when you click on the tool a little icon of the tool appears in the top left screen of PShop. Next to this is a drop down box button, navigate through this and you will have the option to reset all tools or your current tools. Well I think thats right, just check out your help file if I'm mistaken;)

I dont remember when did I last time used zoom tool lol., the much faster way of zooming is to use this key combination CTRL++ to zoom in, and CTRL+- to zoom out :) Tihomir

Thats only good to zoom into the center of the working window.

Yes, but thats why you have hand tool or simply pressing the SPACE and move to desired place. Simple and fast :) Tihomir

He did say he was tired of having to do it that way. Lou.

Yes, your right;)

Ok.... I'll admit it... at 60 you start forgetting stuff..... I think. ... masterw3.. Look at the toolbar when you have the zoom tool "on"... to the IMMEDIATE right of the Icon, you will see two more Icons... one with a "+", and one with a "-"... whichever one you click becomes the default action when you click the mouse. Lou.

Forgot to just go back and LOOK at the t'bar. LOL.

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Not bad for 60;op

I've NEVER used the zoom tool. I just go to view on the menu and use the view options to zoom in and out. And I always have to zoom in on images when I'm working. It's never slowed me down or been a hassle to do it the way I do.

bonestructure... Well, that's why photoshop is SO set up to MAKE it user friendly. I think they latched onto the idea that, if you could arrange things the way you like, it'd sell better... there's a 15 answer thread on "User friendly" on one of the forums, now. Me, I couldn't work without being able to use the mouse. my stuff is billboard size. Can't afford the 50" plasma screen yet... sniff sniff... more like drool, drool. anyway, Here's to much bigger monitors at lower prices.... Free? maybe?. Lou.

DUDE, thats hard way, just use ctrl+keyb + and - and zero.