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PECourtejoie
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Community Expert
June 21, 2012

P: Snap does not work when resizing proportionally

  • June 21, 2012
  • 42 replies
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To resize proportionally, one has to hold down the Shift key while moving a corner handle.
Unfortunately, this disables the snapping to smart guides: when view>snap guides is active, resizing a layer is supposed to auto-align to the edges of other layers, but it is not the case when doing it from a corner handle while holding down shift, a common practice.

Shift-resizing a middle handle does respect the wanted snapping behavior.

CTRL is the shortcut supposed to disable snapping, not Shift.

42 replies

Inspiring
February 24, 2021

Adobe's getting lazy and software updates are more and more buggy and unusable. Working only with Version 2020 as 2021 has bad latency and drawing issues... Illustrator is similar... so bad...

Inspiring
February 24, 2021

Finally grew so frustrated with this behavior that I went searching to see if it's by design. Saddened to find this thread, would love to see the behavior changed

PECourtejoie
Community Expert
Community Expert
September 17, 2020

@peter_green_4140434  It seems that the update only fixes the non-proportional snapping, I almost cried of joy before trying... Could you demote the answer?

Adobe Employee
September 9, 2020
Dan & All:

So sorry for the confusion, but there was a misunderstanding regarding the fix... We've fixed a bug we had where the NON-proportional case -- i.e. Options bar Lock OFF, or Lock ON and holding Shift -- was not snapping properly to guides, grid, layers, etc. This was a regression from previous functionality, and should be fixed in the current release.

Unfortunately, the proportional case behavior -- i.e. Lock on, or Lock off and holding Shift -- is still the same. A note on this that you won't like... According to the code, this was actually the way Transform was originally designed, way back in the day. The proportional case NEVER snapped. So this is not technically a bug, but rather an old design choice

That being said, we know you all dislike the lack of snapping in the proportional transform case. We have a ticket on the books right now -- an enhancement request -- to get the proportional case snapping. I know no one out there particularly cares, but it's not as easy as it should be, and we have a ton of work on the pile right now. I can't guarantee when we'll get to it. But we absolutely hear you.

Huge apologies for the confusion here. Thanks (hopefully) for your understanding.

-Eric Floch
Photoshop Senior Quality Engineer
Dan Rodney
Community Expert
Community Expert
September 9, 2020
Maybe it "should be fixed" but it's not. I updated to Photoshop 21.2.3 on macOS Catalina 10.15.6 (19G2021) and still can't snap to guides when maintaining proportions. So this bug still exists. I trashed preferences and still no change, no snapping. ☹
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Inspiring
September 9, 2020
Hi Pete, do you happen to know if the following bug has been fixed in the last update (it's written as "solved" but still exists actually) ? Thanks : https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop/having-trouble-with-hand-tool-and-marquee-tool/m-p/11421212...



Pete.Green
Community Manager
September 9, 2020

This issue should now be fixed in the Photoshop 21.2.3 update. 

To update Photoshop to 21.2.3, click"Update" in the Creative Cloud desktop app next to Photoshop. More detailed instructions for updating

 

Update: As Eric Floch points out below, this was not part of the 21.2.3 update. Sorry for the false positive!

Legend
January 23, 2020
Looks like something got messed up with other Transform changes. Engineering is looking into this newer breakage. Thanks.
PECourtejoie
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 22, 2020
Indeed, it does not work in all cases: in constrained, smart guides work with shift, but not without, in unconstrained, it is the opposite, it only works without shift...
Inspiring
January 8, 2020
Still not running in v21!