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October 15, 2018

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

  • October 15, 2018
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When selecting a layer and dragging a corner handle with the shift (or alt-shift) key pressed, the resize proportion isn't constrained. This started with this most recent update.

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RosaPerry
Inspiring
December 22, 2018
Warren HeatonAlexandra Giamanco, Perhaps copy and paste below to Facebook and Twitter or any other social media platforms? Change below to suit how you want to advertise the problem. I will be doing this but I will be adding hashtags for attention.
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Photoshop CC 2019: Transform/Resize is constrained by default - Want ability to go back to legacy behavior.  Do you agree? Click 'Me Too"
https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/constrained-resize-ps-cc-20?
Rosa
RosaPerry
Inspiring
December 22, 2018
You'll find all over YouTube a significant amount of PS instructors who will not use CC 2019. Their comments - "it's buggy".  A couple of these instructors are well known and went to Adobe MAX 2018.
Rosa
Known Participant
December 22, 2018
A lot that has been is here is 'over my head', but I use PS all day (and at night too). I went back to 2018. After reading what has been posted here, I'm not alone in what I was thinking. The update that I installed was 'broken' and I was at my wits end until I went back. My only advise is to fill out those surveys that show up from time to time and make a comment. I know for sure that someone reads them. Good Luck! 
Known Participant
December 22, 2018
I had two instances where these forums here actually solved a problem that was very significant.

First ---
In 2014, my Wacom had a problem toggle with Shortcut X between foreground and background. ( o I thought(  At that time I retouched skin with the grey layer technique as I learned from Kathrin Eismann's photoshop book. This technique was not working anymore.
Toggling had a lag or did not switch at all.
After speaking to Wacom extensively, they blamed it on photoshop. Turns out it was a photoshop bug.
Photoshop did not reply directly.
I published it on macnn ( a forum that doesn't exist anymore) and wrote to Kathryn, telling her that the technique she describes is useless.
Upon that "pressure", Photoshop software engineers  specifically wrote a plugin that got rid of the toggle problem and later implemented it in an update.

Second ---
One or two years later, designers changed the Interface and it was quite a nightmare!
All the colors were gone and all was much harder to see. After lots of retouchers complained a couple of us wrote and even drew up examples what we thought will work better, like colors for layers and colors for paths even ( that came later)

Throughout the process the communication was not the greatest. 
But in the end they changed it.
I am sure the people who are directly involved read these comments and will take them to heart.
I am not sure how much they have to say in that matter.
It might be a marketing thing or a political issue in which direction photoshop will head, I agree.

What might work for the the future is to report this to people like Phlearn, photoshop magazines, retouching forums etc.

MacNN at that time picked up the story and that definitely helped.

I think what doesn't help is being rude or advising to use pirated software.

Then like me I will just skip reading the comment

I am of course very upset about the unworkable update and hope this will get resolved soon.

In the meantime I only use 2018.

lonnyc85144968
Participating Frequently
December 22, 2018
I don’t encourage pirated software and wouldn’t use it myself. The point I am trying to make, however, is that if Adobe doesn’t care about their professional customers,why stay loyal to them? They won’t even provide us with a proper page to report bugs, but rather put up this blog for us to have a bitch-fest. I ended up on this blog under this subject simply because I wanted to report buggy behavior on the new v20, and had my comment merged tothis topic even though the “free” transform tool was a minor part of the subject.
Warren Heaton
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 22, 2018
Please be careful not to encourage illegal activity on an official Adobe forum.
lonnyc85144968
Participating Frequently
December 22, 2018
Thank you TangCanada! I’m in total agreement. I dumped v20 almost right away...not just because of the problem with the free transform tool and the horrible auto commit and type tool fiasco... but also due to the endless bugs it has. I honestly have to wonder why we would continue paying for a subscription when we can use pirated Adobe software that actually works ourselves.
Participating Frequently
December 22, 2018
For the near term or even the mid term, using older versions is fine. I mean, really, what are the real, useful differences between CC2018 and CC2019. Precious few of any consequence as far as I can tell, and some of the ones they really touted might work well on a web sized demo but are completely worthless on real world hi-res imagery. And there appears to be one more crappy bug I've run into now. The toggle on/off check in the Curves dialog simply does nothing at all now, at least when using an Fkey action to bring that dialog up, which also brings up the old old, much more desirable (IME) curves interface. You can still toggle the entire Adj Layer on and off but it ain't working right over here. 

The longer Adobe goes without saying a thing, the worse it looks for them. But they've already got our money and that's all that really counts in the end. 

 Maybe this was their long term plan all along. Force everyone into a mandatory monthly payment, choke the life out of the program, then laugh all the way to the bank. 
Participating Frequently
December 22, 2018
@Cristen Gillespie
Heres what I am not getting... is it that important to use v20 that you need to put up with all the aggravation?
As soon as v20 aggravated me I dumped it.

I know sweat shops in India who do retouching still using pirated copies of CS6 and do darn good work... why would anyone need to put up with Adobe's insults to its long time users in favour of some old Kelby fogies and a ton of broke school kids on iPads.

Adobe is heading down the wrong road by pissing us off with bad software and they will find out much sooner than later.
Known Participant
December 21, 2018
I know! . . . and I use Windows.