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LegacyLover
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November 22, 2021

P: "Disable Reduce User Experience Friction" Not Working in Photoshop CC

  • November 22, 2021
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Photoshop CC Version: 23.0.1

Operating System: Windows 10

 

I am a new user to Photoshop CC, but I have been using Photoshop CS6 and older versions over the course of 15 years.  A quality of life change that I noticed in CC is that whenever I use the type tool, it no longer allows me to move the text by dragging anywhere outside the editable area when the type tool is active.  There appears to be an invisible "bounding box" that only allows me to move the text within a specific region before the cursor reverts back to my OS cursor and immediately commits the text rather than letting me drag it around.  Additionally, when I click to place text and the line is blank, I have no option whatsoever to move the text unless one character is added.  This is incredibly frustrating to work with as the type tool has never behaved this way prior to CC and I don't understand why this functionality was changed.

 

Upon further research, I noticed optional extensions that can be enabled from the following help documentation: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/enable-optional-extensions-photoshop-cc.html

 

While one of these has helped me return Photoshop to the legacy behavior I expect, it seems the "ReduceUXFriction 0" setting is not working as intended.  With it set, I am still able to click the canvas to commit active text in the way I described above.  Also, I still get the dialog box to convert the background layer to a normal layer when I attempt to move it.  So I'm not sure if this setting is working properly.

 

As an extra measure, I also tried the "OnCanvasClickToCommit 0" setting, but no difference was made in the text tool behavior.

 

I am aware that holding the "alt" key allows me to move the text from any point, but this defeats the purpose of having a setting in the first place that allows for the legacy behavior to be applied.  I have attached short videos that demonstrate the expected behavior versus the actual behavior.  If there is something I am misunderstanding, please let me know.  I might just be missing a tiny setting and giving myself extra headache for no reason.

 

Thank you!

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Legend
November 24, 2021

Thanks. Engineering is looking into this.