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Scrolling with Mighty Mouse in Photoshop Apps
Trying out my new Mighty Mouse in Photoshop revealed some interesting features -- and even helped explain some old scroll wheel functions that seemed odd (i.e. why using a scroll wheel to go up/down was slow but holding SHIFT made scrolling right/left possible but very fast). Read on for a summary of functions, comparing an old scroll wheel mouse and the new scroll ball in Photoshop. These do not apply universally in OS X or other applications, where some use different keys or even have opposite effects, like zooming in Word. Try these combinations in the applications you use, and you may find some interesting results.

The scrolling functions of the Mighty Mouse in Photoshop seem pretty intuitive and very useful, and I enjoy using the scroll ball a lot, though the buttons do take some getting used to. Here's how the Mighty Mouse ('new') compares to the old scrolling mouse ('old') in each function:

Scroll up/down on mouse
  • Old: scrolls up/down document slowly
  • New: (same)
Scroll right/left on mouse
  • Old: N/A
  • New: scrolls right/left in document slowly
Scroll up/down + Shift key
  • Old: scrolls right/left a "page" at a time (fast; and alternates axis of scrolling)
  • New: scrolls up/down a "page" at a time (fast)
Scroll right/left + Shift key
  • Old: N/A
  • New: scrolls right/left a "page" at a time (fast)
Scroll up/down + Control key
  • Old: scrolls right/left slowly
  • New: scrolls right/left slowly (switches axis of scrolling)
Scroll right/left + Control key
  • Old: N/A
  • New: scrolls up/down slowly (switches axis of scrolling)
Scroll up/down + Option key
  • Old: zoom out/in
  • New: zoom out/in
Scroll right/left + Option key
  • Old: N/A
  • New: zoom out/in (which seems WAY more natural to me as this corresponds to the slider in the Navigator palette, and scrolling up to zoom out never made sense to me)
Scroll right/left, up/down + Command key
  • No effect for either old or new scroll wheel/ball
[robg adds: I can't test these, as I haven't purchased a Mighty Mouse...]
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Scrolling with Mighty Mouse in Photoshop
Authored by: mmouse on Aug 18, '05 02:08:27PM

In InDesign (CS2), holding:
Option: switches axis of scrolling
Control: zooms in and out (down, right = in; up, left = out)
Shift: no obvious effect
Command: same as Control (zooming)

Hope that helps, too! Thanks for the idea to check -- I've never noticed this time-saver!

(Aside: Can't Adobe's programming teams *talk* to one another and coordinate such controls so that they are the same across all CS apps?)

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--mmouse



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Scrolling with Mighty Mouse in Photoshop
Authored by: jacobolus on Aug 18, '05 07:24:41PM

You missed one:

Old-style mouse:
Control+Shift+Scroll: Scroll Up/down a page at a time



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