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

I think if Adobe actually cared to hear from us about issues we are having with bugs, they would put up an actual page to report bugs rather than this dismal forum.

Call Adobe, make them walk you through (or screen-share and make them do it) reverting to CC2018, AND resetting prefs so documents created or edited in 2019 will open in 2018 by default.

They encouraged me to update to 2019 when I had a prefs issue, and after blowing a deadline and losing a client dealing with the 2019 train-wreck, I made them fix the preferences, delete 2019 and reset. Took over an hour, but that's better than working with 2019.

Here is more information for anyone who has similar issues with PS. Nothing has been resolved for me, I still cannot work efficiently. I have ‘publicly’, here in this forum that I can wait until after the holidays and that includes tomorrow. While using PS today it crashed and I rebooted and loaded PS again. An Adobe pop-up window showed up prompting me for information about the crash. Great, I can share this with someone else and I know for a fact that those pop-up windows (surveys) that show up from time to time are read by someone. I started filling it out and just as I was getting ready to send it, the window disappeared. I don’t know where that window went, I don’t know if those comments will be read. I really hope that Adobe can fix our issues and bugs; maybe include some of the ideas that have been suggested. Good Luck!

@1919618 Hompus - I agree.  Changing the behavior of this tool was a mistake.

I don't understand why the link-unlink button is still up there in the toolbar with the transform commands and sizes. clicnk the link and unlink constraints/ proportions button now makes me feel stupid because it doesn't make a difference. Only pressing shift does. 

@TangCanada  Heres what I am not getting... is it that important to use v20 that you need to put up with all the aggravation?>>

That's a fair question, and I'll try to answer as best I can. A very long time ago, Photoshop came up with a new tool that I tried, didn't like, and was willing to criticize to any who would listen. But I was asked if I'd give it another try. So I did. I worked on that tool until I figured out how to adjust my use of it, when it worked and when I shouldn't waste my time using it, and when it worked, it worked really well.

You might  ask what this has to do with the changes to the Transform tool. No, I don't think I'm going to learn to be "happy" about it. I'm still going to ask they give us a choice as to what method we use for transforming, and that they either make "click to commit" a global preference (including for type), or redesign it so it does require a click on an interface item, and not the document.

However, what I learned from that was that if I worked with something long enough to make it sink into my consciousness and a bit below, I could adapt. And to an extent, that's what I've been doing. I do a lot of compositing, which means I do a LOT of transforming. When I start a lengthy session, I now adjust pretty quickly to the kbsc switch. Less so with click to commit, but after I've screwed up on it a few times, I start to find the "zone" again. Like I said, I'm a trained monkey, but it keeps me going.  '-}

It's not when I'm doing a lengthy compositing session that this is a fatal change for me. It's when I leave PS to work in other apps, and am moving back and forth between apps that all handle this different where I find I'm constantly getting it wrong—at least until/unless I'm there long enough I can readjust again.

That's still a pita. So why not just leave 2019 for 2018? Because I'm  curious about the new compositing engine. Will I see any measurable difference in the positive if I use it? Because it appeared to be affecting color, I had to go back to the Legacy setting, but they did release a dot update to try to fix that.  Because if I  (and enough others)  make myself use the Frame tool wherever possible, does that mean they'll upgrade it to be better? I do use CAF—most people I know do say there's a definite improvement, and I've noticed one myself. Would using it more often help me to be better aware of just how to improve my success rate with it? I use MirrorMe in Illustrator. I'd like to bring myself to learn better the ins and outs of Symmetry in PS. And  I'm working more at length in Illustrator right now, so I haven't had time to fully test these other features in my own workflow.

The transform kbsc switch and the click to commit trip me up often, and they handled it with all the aplomb of the Adobe folk who handled the naming of Lightroom CC to, er, name a different  app "Lightroom CC." But it's not fatal in my workflow, if only because when I spend enough time in either AI or PS, I adjust. If my workflow had me constantly back and forth so I never had enough time to adjust my physical actions to the environment I'm in, that wouldn't be true and I probably would go back to 2018, but I tend to spend the minimum of an hour to several hours in just one app. So it's more like using a program in Adobe and a program from another company that does it all differently. IOW, it's a lot like trying to use LR with shortcuts.  <BG>

I really do understand how it's a bridge too far for a lot of people's workflows. And if/when it is that for mine, well, I always keep the last version installed, so I can always give up trying to get along with 2019 and just hope 2020 is better. I'm still not close to ready to jump ship on Adobe. I have 3 of Photoshop's competitor apps, and I'm not leaving Photoshop anytime soon.

That was my thoughts. If they would just acknowledge the problems and let us know they are working on solutions, we could alll move on.

The problem I see is that Adobe will be their own downfall... alll they need to do is acknowledge theres a fook up, ask us to hang in while they address the issue (in our favor of course) and all this shyt will go away... insted they insist on being dumb, IMO to show us whos boss and to piss us off more because we complain.

It will be interesting to see if there is any response. Fingers crossed.

I can do that, but I only rely on hashtags as I don't have any followers on Twitter, and I don't use Facebook either because I have no use for it. But yeah, if you have a larger social media following I think it would help to share there. I was thinking about graphic designer associations like AIGA, since they have more credibility IMO against social media and the disaster that has turned out to be.