P: Transform/Resize is constrained by default - Want ability to go back to legacy behavior

Agreed agitpromo...One would think that after all the complaints, and if Adobe really cared about their users, they would have already put it back the way it was and then work on making changes that the user could elect to use or not.

What's really frustrating for me is that these days, Game Developers are much more responsive about issues with any new release and will generally post a patch within a few days. Game Developers! Those bugs aren't affecting people's jobs and yet they patch 100x faster.

We pay $500+ a year to use Adobe products and the competition for them keeps getting tougher — Sketch, Procreate, Affinity Designer, et al.

You would think they would care about how to make their products better. Thing is I WANT to continue to use them. But stuff like this is just rude and insensitive to users and will eventually hurt their bottom line if they continue to alienate users.

Agreed, just untick the constrain tickbox by default and tell people. What a bloody awful balls-up!

Very true. Or, they could have quietly and simply slipped in a preference for those who wanted that backwards behavior and all are happy.

It's very bizarre.
The onus should be on the users who want to change 2 decades of convention, to click a box in pref. The ones who did not want that change could not have to lift one finger, pun intended.

I'm actually fine with the change in principle, so long as it's done professionally.

i.e.

1.
Recognise shift to constrain as fundamental to design UI which goes back to the dawn of design on a computer. i.e. this is going to be a huge change.

2.
Identify where shift to constrain appears in every app across CC, 100s of places right?

3.
Make the change (an enormous amount of work) and test.

4.
Properly announce that CC 2019 will fundamentally change the way shift to constrain works (i.e. PR, blogs, ads etc)


Slipping this change through on one tool, in one app, with a one-line note in a corner of the internet is unprofessional, low-quality, embarrassing, jaw-dropping and just plain sloppy work.

haha I can imagine

Upgrade Notes 20.0.4:
Fixed Menu Item "Free Transform" to "Transform"

> The feature is named 'Free Transform' for God's sake. >

Everyone keeps saying that. I'm becoming afraid they'll rename the tool. ROFL

Agreed, that auto-commit nonsense is mind-numbing several times a day.

The other thing that bothers me is the 'auto commit', if I attempt to drag a guide too far away from the actual transformation, but that has not been a dealbreaker. I've learned to drag the image close enough to the rulers to prevent that. Also, I am trying to stay near the handles to not commit.

I tend to want to update each time because 1) I am not paying for the updates 2) I don't like to get too far behind current software versions, because being behind after 4 or 5 updates can also bring in some unexpected nuances once you do upgrade.