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

I had no idea Kelby was still a thing. I thought he'd flamed out after his excessive claims for Lightroom vs Photoshop were debunked — if no one remembers, photographers who didn't make the move were all said to be willing to destroy their original data, so everyone should want to dump Photoshop and use Lightroom, which preserved their original data.<sigh>

But yes, I agree with Max. If the Kelby organization has the ear of Adobe, not as one more, but as a heavily weighted group compared to the rest of us, it does explain the trend towards pushing features on us that they think will be less confusing to beginners. I do so hope that's not true. There are even a lot of amateurs, photographers and artists, who need the real power of Photoshop, and as I keep saying, are willing and able, at all ages, to learn what they need to learn so they can do what they want to do.

Adobe is going the way of Apple, and while it seems inconceivable we’d use anything other than Photoshop, it was inconceivable a few years ago that I would eradicate Apple software from my life, and regularly test Windows (v10 is much improved). We shouldn’t kid ourselves, Adobe has its eyes on other markets and we’ve all noticed it with the ‘features’ added in recent years. It may take years but I’m definitely keeping my options open.

There's a balance with professional software at this level between accessibility for first-time-users and core functionality workflow for the people who use it on the daily for work.
Thanks for pointing out the Kelby angle. If the community forums of weekend photographers is louder than the one of designers and production artists, the PMs are naturally going to start gravitating towards features that appeal to the amateur. Instead of focusing on things like performance, file bloat, consistency, compatibility, you get things like the "New Start Screen" and fly-out video help toasters on your toolbar.

@Peter Chater: Scott Kelby runs a forum that is not filled with working professionals in any creative field. The only professionals there are the very few instructors left and who come in the community forum to paint this unicorn world photographers live in apparently, and not much else. His target demographic is rich retirees who can spend a lot of money on the gear he promotes from B & H, ProPhoto, Platypod and others. There are maybe 2 working professionals in a creative field there, so sadly for us who have deadlines to meet, we have no representation there, and total newbies and leisure rich amateurs continue to decide what happens to Photoshop and also to Classic Lightroom. I was a KelbyOne member for over 8 years, started with NAPP, and once the transition happened and that 'community forum" was opened you wouldn't believe the kind of stuff that those folks want. Also, there is no coherent way to learn Photoshop on that platform; it goes from learning blending modes to advanced color grading nobody understands or will use in the photos they take. Also, none of those people do graphics in PS or bounce between PS + IL + ID, so I expect more things to be ruined for us as long as those are the people who get to vote on Photoshop features. There is also a "buddy buddy" system there between Scott Kelby & Terry White, Julianne Kost etc., and none of them focus on "how" real professionals that work in magazines, ad companies, clothing companies, etc., are using Photoshop. It's beyond being "cowardly", it's to see how much they can dumb it down for their retired users who have no deadlines and have lost the ability to learn too, hence my earlier comment that those demographics should stick to Elements. I have been to several of their "live recorded" classes and I was the only one in the 40's age group; everyone else was over 70 and 80 years old and there was no one in their 20's, or 30's. In the last two years 1% of their instructors were actual pro's and everyone else invited to "teach" has a different day job or is a total amateur not interested in making an income in an ad agency or as a professional photographer. KelbyOne is the worst thing that has happened to photography since "auto" and Social Media/YouTube came along. The worst, and those of us with actual work and have deadlines will continue to suffer as a result. I freelance, but I still have deadlines, I am not "free" to be done "whenever".

It's really sad that the focus of a company who is known and respected for producing professional software is to now dumb it down to address non working in creative fields demographics. 

The word coward was appropriate from day one years ago... they hide behind silence so you dont know if they are aware or not. The silence and hubris will be their eventual downfall.

Both Kodak and Sears thought they were invincible and that they would never be left behind.

To revert to the legacy transform behavior, do the following:

1.    Use Notepad (Windows) or a text editor on Mac OS to create a plain text file (.txt).

2.    Type the text below in the text file:
TransformProportionalScale 0

3.    Save the file as "PSUserConfig.txt" to your Photoshop settings folder:

·         Windows: [Installation Drive]:\Users\[User Name]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC 2019\Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 Settings\

·         macOS: //Users/[User Name]/Library/Preferences/Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 Settings/

This was posted by an MVP, but I can’t find the original post.

It works!

I've read on more than one photo forum where the name Scott Kelby comes up but I don't have any verification, but really it's the responsibility of the product manager to say yay or nay for any feature, whether it's being added, removed or changed. Have we seen THAT person take even a gram of ownership. That's what I thought. At this point, with the complete radio silence from Adobe, I think the term coward(s) starts to be appropriate. 

Tim - did you just post here without reading through the entire thread. The answer has been posted over and over and over and over again - and then again. All you have to do is make a small simple text file, save it with a specific name and drop it into a specific folder. Done. That ought to take about two minutes and you'll be exactly where you want to be and it fixes the crop tool too. Yahoo. 

is there a setting to go back to the legacy version of the Transform Tool?! PLEASE!!!