chalk tip #16: ImageScope joystick mode

Did you know ImageScope has a “joystick mode”?  Actually we call it “autopan”, and it lets you use your mouse or trackpad as if it were a joystick for panning around within an image.  Using it is simple; any time you have an image open, click the mouse wheel (or the center button of your trackpad).  The mouse cursor will change into a little box, like this:

Now move your mouse (or brush your trackpad) in the direction you want to pan, as if it were a joystick, and the image will move in that direction:

The image will keep moving until you move your mouse (or brush your trackpad) back to the original position, you do not have to keep moving your mouse.  You can change direction just by moving your mouse in a new direction.  The further you move it, the faster the image will pan.

To exit joystick mode, just click the mouse wheel again (or the center button of your trackpad).  Joystick mode is easier to use than to explain, so please try it!

Oh, and if you don’t have a clickable mouse wheel or middle button, you can right-click and select “autopan”:

(As you can see, you can also select other tools by right-clicking; but that’s a chalk tip for another day :)