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

I guess InDesign and Illustrator are used mostly by professional users while Photoshop is popular amongst amateurs, so people who do fast fun corrections on other devices they can do in Ps too. Now this app is dedicated to them, especially iPad users, where ID and AI versions don't exist on?

This is a terrible change. I have to relearn a 20+ year reflex for Photoshop only?! ID and AI stay as they were? For what purpose exactly? Does Adobe have any idea how disorienting this is for experienced users? Like so often with Adobe CC, it's back to last year's version or the version before that. I'm surprised holding down Shift doesn't also pop up an ad for Adobe Stock.

This is a terrible change. I have to relearn a 20+ year reflex for Photoshop only?! ID and AI stay as they were? For what purpose exactly? Does Adobe have any idea how disorienting this is for experienced users? Like so often with Adobe CC, it's back to last year's version or the version before that. I'm surprised holding down Shift doesn't also pop up an ad for Adobe Stock.

I'm with Jesse - I'm game to learn new habits - it slows me down but isn't world shattering. I like that there's now a default proportional scale, however, using shift as the "unconstrain" key is a confusing choice. Should've made it the command or control key instead. AND us "old hands" should have an option of  choosing what key we use to constrain/unconstrain transformations. I hope Adobe will give us an option in the future that allows us to choose the unconstrain key or a check box to go back to legacy transform properties that doesn't require us to write and load scripts.

Perfect solution was provided with each earlier version. Problem is even not that's not consistent, but sometimes they give you no choise, or force you to some new preferences changes to change them back you must use some workaround (if possible).

Finding a "fix," since there wasn't officially a hack to "fix" transform, isn't the same issue as " users have had to trawl through forums to find out how to use a tool thats worked perfectly well in one way for years. . . " You didn't have to trawl to find out how  it worked, only notice that there was a central location for finding out what was new before you went any further. You may think that reading the What's New page just makes you frustrated in advance. I prefer to know in advance what to look out for and test —before I make up my mind that it's a good idea or a terrible idea.

And I do think that better headers, like having a good index (which we don't have for the online guide), helps people quickly find what interests them. Getting their attention is half the battle in good design.

But yes, to fix Transform—since they didn't intend for us to choose to go back or they'd have given us a legacy setting—you do have to search hard, and in fact, had to wait for someone to supply it. Not that I think it's a genuine "fix" if you have to hack code to do it.  <g>

Yes but do it properly: consult, announce, make it consistent (as you point out) and change all apps in the suite.

Inconstancies between apps in the suite are sloppy, widening, unnecessary, avoidable and increasingly frustrating.

At first I was annoyed by this feature. As many have reported, we are so very used to holding down the shift key. But I also believe change is important and am trying to embrace this new functionality. In a way, I see the logic — if the assumption is that the most common desire is for a proportional scale, then do that without requiring a modifier key. I do have one concern however, you still need to hold down shift to constrain proportions when making a shape or marquee selection. So now some part of my brain has to do more thinking about whether I am scaling something or drawing a shape or selection! I don't believe there is a perfect solution, but just wanted to share my 2¢.

LOL "We found that many users preferred to back into their garage. NEW FEATURE. Use shift to go Forward."

"Official Response

"new feature, use Shift to *un* constrain.  Constrain to fixed aspect is now on by default.  "


New feature on Camry, use right pedal for brakes, use left pedal for accelerator, and turn signal is now shift lever.