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Slowmousion Slows Your Mouse for Precision with a Hotkey
Posted by Kevin Purdy at 12:00 AM on August 29, 2008
Windows only: Free mouse utility Slowmousion is a small, memory-resident app that can be seriously helpful for Photoshop/GIMP aficionados and anyone else who has to draw or select objects with precision. The app sits in your desktop tray (taking up about 3.6MB on my Vista system) and lets you enable its cursor-slowing function with a keyboard key, middle mouse button, or other hotkey. The one big drawback is a missing option to adjust the slow-down speed—those who really need fine-point control may like it, but some might miss a gradual velocity option. If you'd rather do the delicate stuff with your keyboard keys, our own Adam Pash's Mouser can get that done. Slowmousion is a free download for Windows systems only.
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digitalgravy
Posted 12:43 AM 29/8/08
I can imagine this could be very handy during online gaming sessions...
Although I use a Logitech mouse (forget the model) which has hardware buttons on it to increase / decrease the sensitivity on the fly. Incredibly good stuff for zooming across 4 monitors and Synergy to a PowerBook and then slowing down for precision bezier curves in Illustrator!
digitalgravy
Recoding
Posted 12:42 AM 29/8/08
@Phoshi I also use it in Games :P a function like this can be very helpful anywhere!
Recoding
Phoshi
Posted 12:39 AM 29/8/08
Oh ho ho, anybody this serious about image editing should have a graphics tablet anyway, also macs/linux/windows sucks for reasons XYZ.
Seriously, though, this is pretty cool. I wonder if it can do it in a game, for better accuracy on those fps' which don't have ironsights.
Phoshi
Recoding
Posted 12:39 AM 29/8/08
I use the builtin function to XP called MouseKeys (Start>>Control Panel>>Accessibility Options>>Mouse) This means i can turn off numberlock and press 6, and it moves 1 pixel to the right, very helpful in photoshop etc.
Recoding
Fuzz
Posted 12:31 AM 29/8/08
If you have an MS IntelliPoint mouse and install the IntelliPoint software you can do this as well. And you can adjust the slow speed. Just go Control Panel, mouse, buttons, and for wheel click(or select another button) set it to "precision booster". I just discovered this yesterday, and it helped me out with some onscreen digitizing!
Fuzz
LiquidGravity
Posted 1:18 AM 29/8/08
2 minutes in AutoHotkey and you can have all the same effects and even change the speed.
LiquidGravity
LiquidGravity
Posted 1:31 AM 29/8/08
Here is one in AutoHotkey language. You can change it to whatever speed you want.
Go down to the post by ivanw.
[www.autohotkey.com]
LiquidGravity
Phoshi
Posted 1:27 AM 29/8/08
Awesomeness :D
You can never be too accurate.
Phoshi
A3sthetix
Posted 3:35 AM 29/8/08
Anything for the people running Macs? I usually zoom into the screen using Control + Mouse Scroll Wheel. This can be adjusted in the Keyboard & Mouse preferences pane
I'm fairly new to the Mac world and haven't seen a feature like this in the OS.
A3sthetix
The How-To Geek
Posted 3:32 AM 29/8/08
@Fuzz: Another vote for Precision Booster over here - I use it nearly daily when taking screenshots.
The How-To Geek
garbanzo-bean
Posted 4:01 AM 29/8/08
@LiquidGravity: thanks for the ahk script. good stuff :)
garbanzo-bean
sn1per420
Posted 6:15 AM 29/8/08
If you play many games (or like ergonomic mice), the Logitech mx518 is pretty good, and it's got two buttons to increase/decrease dpi on the fly.
sn1per420