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October 15, 2018
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P: Transform/Resize is constrained by default - Want ability to go back to legacy behavior

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
November 17, 2018
Can someone tell me if the Constrain Button on the toolbar in PS cc 20.0.1 is fixed with the update?
I won't be installing the new version until all the bugs have been fixed.

Cheers!
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Rosa
Inspiring
November 17, 2018
I have no idea why Adobe what to change their user experiences and behavior. I used PS for 10 years now I made mistakes every time while using the Free Transform in 2019.
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Inspiring
November 16, 2018
I've been using Photoshop since it first came out. Using the Shift key to constrain proportions is one of the cornerstone key commands of the application. To arbitrarily switch to the opposite action, after nearly 3 decades, is unnecessary, illogical and completely tone-deaf to the core, long-time, loyal users.

I've lost a lot of billable work time to go back and recheck sizing of graphics, because of Adobe's shift to NOT constrain scaling update. So who may I send my invoice to at Adobe?

Change it back! I'm not able to justify this ridiculous hinderance of my workflow and I don't have time to get our IT department's approval to mess with the code of the Photoshop application.

We're mad. We're frustrated. We're YOUR customers!
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Kukurykus
Legend
November 16, 2018
Each recreated feature should have option to revert.
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Legend
November 16, 2018
Christ, I couldn't work out what this problem was, infuriating sorry.
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Participating Frequently
November 16, 2018
Mark - Fully agree. There are many times where you WANT to move your cursor farther away from the corner to make very minute changes, and now if you go too far, bam, you've committed the transform. So far I have yet to see, although I may have missed it, any kind of mea culpa from Adobe saying that they indeed, did eff it up and will have a fix shortly. In the meantime, the text file works fine but does not increase the safe zone around the frame during a (not so) Free Transform.
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Inspiring
November 15, 2018
24 years of muscle memory that now have to be retrained.  Thaaaanks.
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Inspiring
November 15, 2018
OMG - WTF - Adobe... what were you thinking??? Thanks a million - I thought I was loosing my mind - I have used Photoshop since inception. Can't change some of those things.
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Kukurykus
Legend
November 14, 2018
We are like ants that humans beyond our world can't understand their needs. They try to "help" by bulding tunels, bridges and everything our community could grow up but since they can not live in our bodies - everything they do is more about what they guess that is better for us. Other bad side of it is we are during neverending experiment closed by its hermetic frames with no chance to say understable word. When a group by chance will get out they made enhacements to detain us and prevent from another escaping attempt. When they are getting bored or think we can't feel good with stagnancy we have to adapt to new challenges by stepping backward and start over that we were satisfied with. In worst case they make fun observation how we behave when they ruin our well built constructions.
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Inspiring
November 14, 2018
I think it's time we start a letter writing (old school will be more effective) to the the Adobe Board of Directors: https://www.adobe.com/about-adobe/leaders/board-directors.html. I would ask that current top three levels of Adobe "leadership" be fired. We need to become activists and let the company know our displeasure as customers. I'm suspecting that Adobe may be monitoring this conversation and that they're just waiting for the smoke to blow over so they can continue on as they always have. If we want change we must be relentless in communicating our needs and desires. We are paying customers: Adobe exists because of us. Yes, I know this is much easier said than done, but if not now, when?

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