Modify trackpad settings for Photoshop work on laptops
Aug 13, '03 09:34:00AM • Contributed by: Loren
I have recently been learning a lot more about Photoshop. One of the tips I have learned is that you don't have to switch out of the currently active tool in order to move the image around. If you hold down the spacebar, you can click and drag to move around the image you are working on, then when you let go of the spacebar you are still in the tool you were using before. Whatever it may be.
That's pretty handy, but it's very choppy and didn't work well on my Powerbook's trackpad. No problem with an external mouse. I almost bought an external mouse simply because of this, and then I remembered something. OS X has a setting in the Mouse Preferences pane for "Ignore Trackpad when typing." Bingo. I turned that off, and I can use Photoshop easily again.
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