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

FREE TRANSFORM.
THAT was my grievance in the first place, and I wasn't happy that Adobe talked me into letting them "upgrade" to 2019 as a "bug fix". 

Cost me a deadline and a client!

And several hours scrubbing that 2019 turd off my Mac and tweaking preferences so I could open the damn files in 2018.

NOW, I'm reluctant to try the new version of Illustrator because I don't know what they might have screwed-up.

Very well said. Click Me-Too as most of us did 😉

As I was just watching a photographer's video who was raving about this change I was struck with this additional observation: It's call the Free Transform tool NOT the scale tool. So the original behavior made more sense because it was Free Transforming. If it was called the Scale Transform or simply the scale tool, then, well, I might expect it to act proportionally. So in essence the engineers and managers at Adobe in their infinite poor wisdom on this decision, have screwed up the very definition of what the tool is all about. Scaling proportionally has it's place but in my world non-proportional scaling is more my need as I'm doing photo illustration and compositing in an architectural environment. And as anyone knows walls are not built plumb and square and very, very rarely do we have a straight on view that would allow proportional scaling. And once again this should be a user-settable preference on how the tool works and not through some text file preferences setting "hack".

The most annoying thing is that it isn't consistent. On shape layers it does still work the old way. At least make everything the same. Now transforming a shape needs shift, transforming an image doesn't. Different key commands, for essentially the same action? That's just really confusing.

Lisa, I do hope that Adobe respect you enough to reply.
That would be refreshing!

One can only wish!

We shouldn't have to do this. This is Adobe's responsibility. We don't get paid the big bucks to code Adobe software.

Come on Adobe engineers, listen to us, your long term loyal users.  . . . Then again why would you Adobe, when you probably get thousands of 'new' customers a week, who wouldn't know about the dramas we 'old school' had to put up with your buggy software.

Old school is probably what Adobe built their fortunes on. Please respect the old school Adobe. You have a lot to learn from us. 

This is from the actual Photoshop what's new site: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/whats-new.html. But your point stands: we should be able to opt out of any new interface or functionality enhancements that have no reason for being there except some coder woke up on the wrong side of bed one morning.

I don't disagree that this gets the functionality back.  But we shouldn't need a hack to fix this.  And how long will this "fix" work?  Will we have to wait for an MVP to publish another workaround with the next release?  Or the one after that?

Reposting this to this thread from above:


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!