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

@2849114 Yep! But Windows has improved to the point where it's possible to switch. Recent Apple/Adobe decisions create doubts, even if we end up staying.

Sometimes, the alternative is simply a company who cares more - whatever we think of the change, Adobe's assessment/implementation/communication has been sub-par.

What I find scary, is that there is no guarantee about Affinity. Once you start going deep and try to speed up workflow. Who knows what could happen?

If I am annoyed about this transform thing, certainly learning a entire new program is going to have it's curves. How effective can you be with brand new software? Can you trust it's technically efficient?

This was the worse mistake Adobe had made, ever. But they have a relatively decent track record. I think they have their tail between the legs on this one, and eventually they will revert back. I hope.

I agree; where else can we advertise this thread? Busy people working may not know it exists!

Ben, don't you find that Windows basically crushes one's creative soul?  Okay, I'm over stating it a bit.  Windows has gotten to be very Mac like over the years with some improvements; however, the Windows Color Picker burns a hole in my mind's eye anytime it pops up.

This thread could really use more "Me Too" votes at the top.   Of course, almost as my people who've voted for it have also left it.

There is a very good chance of Free Transform reverting complete or at least getting a "Use Legacy Transform Controls" in the preferences if this get a high vote count.

@Cristen: LOL...Yeah, sadly they are.

They do, very very deeply too. What I don't understand are two things:
A) why AIGA isn't 100% involved with Adobe to where Adobe is consulting them first when making major changes like this one.

B) why is Adobe hell bent on supporting amateurs instead of professionals who use their products for 12+ hours a day. 


I can actually answer "B" by simply saying "newer generations" woke up on YouTube and only a few people from these generations still value a 4 year solid education in graphic design/photography (because the cost of those degrees versus wages is lopsided), and so they're dumbing stuff down for YouTubers and weekend users at the request of KelbyOne wannabe's, which is very disappointing, annoying and sad for us pro's. I wish Bert Monroy could save Photoshop for us, but I don't know that he can or is willing to.

I'm a trained monkey. Every time I transform and want to rotate, too, I click in the wrong place, hit Cmd-T again, and try to be more careful. I'd complain, but I have been doing that since they ruined text for me by making click to commit, so I just sigh, sigh, sigh and repeat the process while trying hard not to be so aggravated over and over and over.

I'd go along with Auto-commit for text and transform if it only worked when you clicked on the interface, not the document. And it's not impossible to do. There's code that knows you've clicked on the interface, not on your image. Then it would be more convenient, instead of a major inconvenience.

Is there also a script to deactivate that always interfering Auto-commit of transforms by clicking in the canvas? This is even more annoying for me than the completely messed up integration of propoprtionals transform!

And Marla only described the consequences for scaling constrain behaviors. It all gets even worse if you try to perspectively transform or distort while constraining the movement of the anchors to straight lines. Everything is totally messed up, depending on the layer type. The most annoying change since the creation of Photoshop!

Is there also a script to deactivate that always interfering Auto-commit of transforms by clicking in the canvas? This is even more annoying for me than the completely messed up integration of propoprtionals transform!