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[mesotes]

So Ive heard Graphicsgale is the word on the street but Im missing a bit of freedom when zooming in big time, like 2000%..

In Illustrator you are able to scroll and position your "Image Area" so that any corner of the image fits in the center of your screen.. where in Graphicsgale and many other editors, when zoomed in, your scrollable area ends when the image ends.

Is there an option to change this or is there a pixel editor with such behaviour?

thanks

[mesotes]

so uhm.. is it somehow clear what im trying to say? :/

[JaJitsu]

Illustrator uses vectors. Which is why you are able to zoom so much. Since graphicsgale, photoshop, and many others uses pixels, and not vectors, you get that limit when zooming.

[Ravey]

Haven't seen a pixel program that works like you described. I suppose GIMP kind of works like that in an inadvertent way though. You can zoom in to the corner and then resize the window. That would just be a hassle to do.

Fixed scrolling was probably easier to work with in old programs like Deluxe Paint.

[Dacke]

Just to clarify what we are talking about:



Notice how it's possible to scroll into the workspace, even though the canvas has ended.

Example taken from GIMP.
Both GIMP and Photoshop have this functionality. But, as you all know, they are multi-task-tools. So this doesn't answer the original question.

[BlueSweatshirt]

Pixelmator and Pixel for Mac OS X(and OS X only) are a dream for pixel art.

They sound like they have what you're looking for.(Pixelmator images are tool windows which you can position wherever you want on your screen)

Personally, I prefer Pixelmator.

[Dacke]

They sound like they have what you're looking for.(Pixelmator images are tool windows which you can position wherever you want on your screen)

You can already position the canvas-windows wherever you want on the screen in Graphicsgale.

When zooming in, in a window in Pixelmator/Pixel:
Is it possible to scroll away from the canvas inside that window?
If you look at my image above: is it possible to get the grey workspace-area in between the canvas and the scrollbars?

Or are you forced to draw in the corner of that window, with the scrollbars right next to the canvas?

[mesotes]

Just to clarify what we are talking about:



Notice how it's possible to scroll into the workspace, even though the canvas has ended.

Example taken from GIMP.
Both GIMP and Photoshop have this functionality. But, as you all know, they are multi-task-tools. So this doesn't answer the original question.

Yes thats what I mean. This should be independent of your zoomlevel. Thats only important when zoomed in so much, that your image becomes larger than your screen/window. if you try to scroll when zoomed in really close, most Apps dont add any "extra" free workspace (like in the picture above) to scroll.

So the corner of the image stays always in the corner of your window/screen.
like this:


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Nonetheless its good to know which tools have this feature