I got my new MacBook a few weeks ago, and being never really a fan of trackpads, this one is really great. Two finger scroll/pinch, three fingers swipes, four fingers Exposé. These gestures feel very natural already. After a few days of working on it, I get totally lost when being on a notebook without these features. I so love this machine.

One neat feature I ran into using Photoshop and Lightroom is, that the folks at Adobe integrated some of these features into their programs. By pinching and expanding it's possible to zoom in and out. Scroll through the images and so on. Amazing, almost like a built in tablet. Well, ok, not really ;-)
I tried to find some documentation on those, but somehow couldn't find some. So I thought I share what I found out:

Lightroom:

General: Two Finger - Pinch Open: Zoom In
Two Finger - Close : Zoom Out
Library Modul:
Two Finger - Scroll (up/down &left/right): Scroll through library
Develop Modul:
Two Finger - Scroll (up/down): Adjust Brush Sizes (Adjustment Brush, Spot Removal Tool)
I'm not using the other modules too often, so I can't say anything about that at the moment.

Photoshop:

Two Finger - Pinch Open: Zoom In
Two Finger - Pinch Close: Zoom Out
Two Finger- Scroll: Move screen (Rotate Tool)
Two Finger-Pinched (open) and circle movement: rotate view

That's what I found out so far. Once I find some more I will update this list. If you know some other ones, feel free to share it the comments.

Note: I ran into a few issues with this post which made me post it again. So if this pop-up twice (or more) in your reader, I'm sorry.

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