Not that you should ever be designing with a touchpad… but! still annoying when you are trying to do some Photoshop on a plane and you keep rotating your image and there’s no dumb “turn off” switch. Found this plugin straight from Adobe:
Turn off the Adobe CS4 Touchpad Compass Feature
Adobe answered our prayers, now just integrate it into the preferences.
This seems to be the bane of Andy’s existence so I on his behalf I thank you for pointing this out.
Also, I only design with the touchpad…
How do you integrate this download into the preferences? This compass think is driving me crazy. I am not a professional, I just use Photoshop for scrapbooking and I hate this compass. Thank you
@ Christine
You need to install it in the plugins folder of your photoshop software. Depending if you are on a mac or windows machine, it will be in a different place. You can try searching “Plug-Ins” there should be a few in there already like Automate, Effects, Parser, etc…
Thank you for publishing this solution. I couldn’t figure out how to get rid of the compass and it was annoying.
thanks Jon, as yes, this too I found super annoying on ther mac when working on plane etc…
so I downloaded the plug in, open it, and installed it in the plug in folder
question is, and sorry if this is obvious, but how to turn it on and off
let me know
thanks
Thank you! I hate that thing!