Hand tool - Shortcuts (Spacebar / H )

Hi,

I am using PL 8.6 on Windows. The behavior that I am seeing is the following in Customize view.

  1. The H key activates the Horizon tool instead of the Hand tool. This is documented differently in Menus and Preferences – ViewPoint Guidelines => Question, is there a another letter that I can use to activate the hand tool?

  2. When another tool is selected (e.g. Repair), pressing the space bar changes the mouse cursor into a hand icon. However, the image cannot be “grabbed” and moved. Tried with and without pressing down the left mouse button.

  3. I supppose there is no way to just use keys to pan the image araound. Correct?

Is this a bug, or am I missing something?

Hi and welcome here.

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Here you can check (most of) the shortcuts used in PhotoLab …


and as you noticed “The H key activates the Horizon tool …”

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As long your image fits on screen (or is smaller / zoomed out)
the mouse cursor appears as …

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Zoom in and the mouse cursor changes to …

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Now, when you have a Local Adjustment tools activated
the according tool (e.g. the brush) is shown …


To get the Hand press and hold down the Space Bar.

Hi Wolfgang,

Thank you very much for the detailed instructions. Unfortunately, the process is not working for me.

Everything works as expected up to the point where I actually try to move the image. Following your steps, while the image is zoomed in to 150%, I activated the brush tool in Local Adjustments. Then, I press and hold the space bar. This hides the Brush tool and shows the Hand tool. However, the Hand tool does not work. I am unable to move the image around. It just moves over the image. Whether I hold down the left mouse button or not while also holding down the Space bar, does not make any difference. When I exit out of the Brush tool (Esc), the Hand tool appears and works as expected.

@user908377

Well, it works as described. Make sure you’re zoomed in far enough so your image overlaps your monitor’s preview window.


shown here in the Navigator at 70% zoom level

note
For extensive editing, try the Navigator instead of ALT + mouse cursor/hand.

:slight_smile:

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Navigator is a good tip. Thank you!

With regards to the described behavior, I have always made sure the image was zoomed in beyond the viewport. Well, I suppose something is off on my machine.

Anyhow, thanks so much for bearing with me!