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Redesigning the 100% zoom function in the preview. Currently, it's performing poorly.

I kindly ask the developer to improve the 100% zoom function in the preview view, which is activated by left-clicking.
This zoom function works very poorly in practice; it's the weakest of all the photo selection programs I know. Even on a very fast computer, it's unresponsive, slow, and inconvenient, as you have to click once to zoom to 100% and click again to return to the full image view. It's not very useful in real world usage.

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Redesigning the 100% zoom function in the preview. Currently, it's performing poorly.

I kindly ask the developer to improve the 100% zoom function in the preview view, which is activated by left-clicking.
This zoom function works very poorly in practice; it's the weakest of all the photo selection programs I know. Even on a very fast computer, it's unresponsive, slow, and inconvenient, as you have to click once to zoom to 100% and click again to return to the full image view. It's not very useful in real world usage.

I understand that you do not like the way it works now, but I need you to tell me how it should work in order for it to be improved.  Otherwise I have little to go on and no changes will be made.

-Kirk

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I understand that you do not like the way it works now, but I need you to tell me how it should work in order for it to be improved.  Otherwise I have little to go on and no changes will be made.

-Kirk

I send you PM.

It's not a matter of like or dislike. I know how this feature works in other apps, and it's all about efficiency, speed, and convenience. PM is great in many ways, but the zooming in the preview is (significantly) below the level of the entire Photomechanic app.

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I posted this awhile ago, without any reaction so far, for about a year and a half
https://forums.camerabits.com/index.php?topic=16283.0

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I posted this awhile ago, without any reaction so far, for about a year and a half
https://forums.camerabits.com/index.php?topic=16283.0

Zoom (loupe) function definetly should be redesigned. Current usability is low.
But, you know, hardly anyone will ask about it, because over the years users have gotten used to the fact that it is not very useful and they think that it has to stay that way. So they don't ask about changes. Or they have no idea how it should work.

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Well, when you use various apps and then compare them to PM you started seeing ways it could be improved.
I think PM should at the very least shamelessly rip off all other working solutions from other apps.