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howto parallel zooming with side by side pictures ?

dflinkmann
I am currently in the trial phase and it looks like CO 4 fits my needs.

However I still don't know if its possible to parallel zoom into several pictures which are side-by-side to compare them.

I am often shooting several very similar photos (following race cars in action) and I don't want to zoom in every picture before comparing them.

What option / key have I missed ?

Thanks and kind regards,

Daniel Flinkmann
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    Well, you are ready for some hidden gems and features of CO4!

    Let's assume you selected a few images (12 max.) and have them side by side in multiview mode.

    Now you can zoom in or out in three different ways:
    - select the Pan cursor tool (hand symbol, or character H from keyboard) and double click in an image to go to 100%
    - select the Zoom cursor tool (Z, toggle with Shift+Z for zoom in or out or use the Option key for quick toggle)
    - use the scroll wheel of your mouse
    Zooming takes effect on the primary selected only.

    Next, hold the Shift-key while zooming as described above and notice that all selected images are zooming in or out.

    A fourth way of zooming, the slider in the toolbar, is not affected with the Shift key blessing.
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  • dflinkmann
    Dear Paul,

    thanks for the hints.

    The shift-double-click to switch between crop and 100% on all opened pictures is great. Also moving the zoomed in View with the dragging with left mouse button and shift is very nice.

    What does not work is shift + mouse scroll wheel for zooming all in parallel, but I can live with that. (Single Picture zooming with the scroll wheel works ofcourse).


    Thanks again,

    Daniel
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    Dear Daniel,
    Thanks to your posting I digged into this and also found some inconsistencies. On my MacBook Pro (OS X 10.4.11) it works slightly different than in your setup (maybe you have a PPC Mac or run 10.5.x):

    Zooming in/out a selection of images in Multiview mode while holding the Shift-key. This works for the Pan tool (double click), and Zoom tool and mouse-wheel; does not work for the Slider (Viewer, top right).

    I also compared it with the Windows version and it had different inconsistencies (which might not be interesting here). Anyway, I reported it to Phase One already and they are working on it.
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  • dflinkmann
    Hello Paul,

    Thanks for double checking and reporting this.

    Kind regards,

    Daniel Flinkmann
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