Perhaps I can impart a little humor in this situation. Here goes: As the story goes, one afternoon a couple just leaving a costume party as a Cow decided to take a shortcut home across a field. We will call the guy in the front of the cow costume, Mr. User. Let’s call his wife who was the back end of the cow, Mrs. User. Mr. user and Mrs. User began their journey across the field. Romping along, they were having a great time, until they saw Mr. Bull, we will call him Adobe, was charging toward them. Mrs. User said in a panic, “What are we going to do.” Mr. User said, “I’m going to bend over and eat some grass and, if I were you, I would brace myself! ... View more

If the OS is dependent on a font, why in world would you want to try and hide it.  There are so many REAL issues with software, why pick on something like this. But if you want to have a font not show up in a program, it would be nice to have a way to hide it not try to disable it. ... View more

Well, I spoke too soon! And now I'm so confused! When I use Distort, it works right. When I use Transform, it is still the same old problem. Today, I think that just about the time it looks like Adobe is getting their head on straight again, their head falls off! By the way, when you look at the long list of fixes an update like this addresses, you have got to wonder why.  Our engineers would tell us that they can put a product on the market with at least 80% of the problems solved. The other 20% of the problems had to be identified by the end user. Many time we had to delay a release in order to reach that goal. ... View more

I can't reproduce this problem in 20.0.2. I uninstalled 20.0.1 and reinstalled. Now, when I run Distort, it works as it should. What is missing with this update?  ... View more

Lorem ipsum place holder has been a feature in other software for years.  It seemed logical to include it in Photoshop. Better yet, if you don't like it you can disable it. ... View more

Jeffery Tranberry There have been so many questions posted about the use of the shift key if you want to Distort. If nothing else, why hasn't there been an explanation? ... View more

Photoshop 2018 still works OK. If you are waiting for a reply from Adobe, don't hold you breath, you will be very blue and dead! ... View more

Both Kodak and Sears thought they were invincible and that they would never be left behind. ... View more

To revert to the legacy transform behavior, do the following: 1.    Use Notepad (Windows) or a text editor on Mac OS to create a plain text file (.txt). 2.    Type the text below in the text file: TransformProportionalScale 0 3.    Save the file as "PSUserConfig.txt" to your Photoshop settings folder: ·         Windows: [Installation Drive]:\Users\[User Name]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC 2019\Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 Settings\ ·         macOS: //Users/[User Name]/Library/Preferences/Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 Settings/ This was posted by an MVP, but I can’t find the original post. It works! ... View more

Like many, I have been a loyal Adobe user since Photoshop 2. I believe I owned every Suite and every upgrade. I presently have the "full-blown" Creative Cloud". This last round of changes, the obvious silence on the part of Adobe,  the number of complaints and a new product on the market makes me look long and hard at "Why Stay With Adobe"? Affinity Photo and other products they make, look better every day. Affinity Photo is the first product and maybe the only product to be a real Photoshop look-a-like! While much of the interface looks like Photoshop, it does have a learning curve. I am going through that now.  I've also asked my Daughter who is an Art Director to take a look. She says, for a big company like hers, such a change is difficult but not impossible. ... View more

While this is not "For REAL" I love it! ... View more

For what it is worth,my Daughter the Art Director, will not let IT update her department MAC's at this time until she has a chance to determine if this is a good idea. She is in the printing business and Illustrator is a big part of what they need to do their job.  ... View more

I agree with you Cristen. Adobe likely has up to 14M Photoshop users. As you can imagine, as much as 80% of them are not dependent on Photoshop for their daily income.  They also are less likely to be impacted by any change. There is another company, Affinity Photo, that is hot on the heals of Adobe. While it will take a long time, years, it is likely that Adobe will redirect some of their resources to growth in other areas rather than fight an uphill battle.  I haven't seen it but I know that Affinity also has an ipad product. AI, Artificial Intelligence, for example, offers some great new avenues for software development. Then the question comes, do we go in that direction or somewhere else. Will investing in AI give a good return? Does creating a Photoshop product for iPad have a better return? So many questions! But you are right. A unified effort with many is the best possible way to get their attention. ... View more

Perhaps everyone should take a look at the attached link if you want to see where Adobe is placing their business emphasis. Maybe what we are experiencing is the result of them going in another direction! https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-customer-highlights-2018-adobe-experience-business-awards/ Enjoy! ... View more

I've always viewed the PS market as one made up of: Professional of ALL Expertise Levels! ... View more

My Daughter, who is the Art Director for a mid-sized printing company outside of Chicago,150+ employees, told me that tech service had updated her PC, not her MAC, to the latest version of Photoshop. They are not supposed to do that without her permission. She said, "Nothing works like it should anymore and I am having it switched back to 2018". Like so many professional of all expertise levels, she is now taking a hard look at Affinity Desktop. So am I and the more I look, the more I like!  ... View more

Lisa, I do hope that Adobe respect you enough to reply. That would be refreshing! ... View more

If I do this to the 2019 update, will all the other related problems go away? To revert to the legacy transform behavior, do the following: 1.    Use Notepad (Windows) or a text editor on Mac OS to create a plain text file (.txt). 2.    Type the text below in the text file: TransformProportionalScale 0 3.    Save the file as "PSUserConfig.txt" to your Photoshop settings folder: ·         Windows: [Installation Drive]:\Users\[User Name]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC 2019\Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 Settings\ ·         macOS: //Users/[User Name]/Library/Preferences/Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 Settings/ ... View more

To revert to the legacy transform behavior, do the following: 1.    Use Notepad (Windows) or a text editor on Mac OS to create a plain text file (.txt). 2.    Type the text below in the text file: TransformProportionalScale 0 3.    Save the file as "PSUserConfig.txt" to your Photoshop settings folder: ·         Windows: [Installation Drive]:\Users\[User Name]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC 2019\Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 Settings\ ·         macOS: //Users/[User Name]/Library/Preferences/Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 Settings/ This was posted by an MVP, but I can’t find the original post. It works!     ... View more

Look at how many years Eastman Kodak maintained industry dominance and an arrogant, holier than thou attitude before the failed! Sounds like Adobe doesn't it?   ... View more

I was so confident that Adobe would not ever make a change like this that I developed a method of creating a shadow if a layer like a person that could be quickly adjusted and placed anywhere you wanted. It is fast and beautiful. I paid over $400.00 to have it made into a Photoshop Script. It is dependent on being able to move the center point to an appropriate pivot position and use the top-center of the DISTORT box to move it where you want it. At the time, I didn't make it for sale. I did give it to a few people and now, if I want to sell it or give it away, I need 2 sets of instructions so people that want to use with the new version of Photoshop. Even that would be OK if there had been a good reason for the change. ... View more

I've been using Photoshop professionally since Photoshop 2. Most of the time, updates had value and few if any were just plain unnecessary. Changing how a selected layer is constrained has no apparent value. Did it bring value to something else in the program? Probably not! Two weeks ago  David Tristram, an Adobe employee, wrote the following: "new feature, use Shift to *un* constrain.  Constrain to fixed aspect is now on by default" What he wrote could be easily interpreted as: You guys are all stupid and I am the Photoshop God. Therefore, we made this change and you will have to get used to it!   Just imagine how nice it would have been if he had written a great explanation as to why this change was made! ... View more

There is something seriously wrong with Distort in the latest version and I do not have the time to find a workaround. What a shame and it was working so well! Looking at all the reported problems, makes you wonder if Adobe bothered to check anything on this latest update. ... View more

To revert to the legacy transform behavior, do the following: 1.     Use Notepad (Windows) or a text editor on Mac OS to create a plain text file (.txt). 2. Type the text below in the text file: TransformProportionalScale 0 3.     Save the file as "PSUserConfig.txt" to your Photoshop settings folder: ·         Windows: [Installation Drive]:\Users\[User Name]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC 2019\Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 Settings\ ·         macOS: //Users/[User Name]/Library/Preferences/Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 Settings/ This was posted by an MVP, but I can’t find the original post. It works! ... View more

This only changes the backdrop color but not the white background of the Image Thumbnail. For example, t cloud with the background removed would appear in Photoshop Bridge with a white background. I want the thumbnail background to be changeable as a default setting in Photoshop. So have many other people for the last 7+ years according to what I've read in the blogs. ... View more

While this works in Photoshop as expected, it has no effect on the image displayed in Bridge. The background is still white! ... View more

Thank you, Yes, the customers settings are the same as yours. BTW, thanks so much for your attention to this. Too bad Adobe tech doesn't take such an interest in a customers. ... View more

Yes, I just tried that. Even though I was signed in to the site, when I tried to post, it came up asking me to sign in to post. ... View more