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Annoying Photoshop CS4 Compass Thingy

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.

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11 Responses to “Annoying Photoshop CS4 Compass Thingy”

  1. Sam Armacost says:
    June 5, 2009 at 11:41 pm

    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…

  2. Christine says:
    July 27, 2009 at 6:48 am

    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

  3. Jon Bolden says:
    July 27, 2009 at 6:55 am

    @ 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…

  4. Linja says:
    December 6, 2009 at 5:52 pm

    Thank you for publishing this solution. I couldn’t figure out how to get rid of the compass and it was annoying.

  5. sonny says:
    December 29, 2009 at 8:27 pm

    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

    :-)

  6. Marlena says:
    March 4, 2010 at 12:20 pm

    Thank you! I hate that thing!

  7. Cara says:
    March 30, 2010 at 1:46 pm

    whoever came up with this thing??! what a horrible, horrible idea! THANK YOU so much for the fix! Adobe, stop making stupid updates please <3

  8. John says:
    May 24, 2010 at 6:09 am

    Thanks!

  9. Ann says:
    May 24, 2010 at 9:16 am

    Thank you so much — that stupid compass thing has been driving me crazy!!

  10. Alina says:
    July 20, 2010 at 4:49 am

    Thanks this is so far the worst feature from Adobe but I feel the same as @sonny. I’ve already installed the plug-in in my plug-ins folder but I have no idea how to make it work. I loved how I googled annoying compass in photoshop and I knew I wasn’t alone! Thanks again!!

  11. Name Here says:
    July 29, 2010 at 12:16 pm

    Plugins must be the best invention of all times. Being able to plugin interesting features as to what one is doing is so important. Real viral traffic generators have though been missing but just on market is the iLikeViral plugin which I will try.

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