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October 15, 2018

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

  • October 15, 2018
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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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Participating Frequently
October 31, 2018


When resizing any kind of layer, the proportions are locked. When I click the lock icon to unlock it it doesn't work. It remains locked. I'm unable to resize layers freely. I've been using Photoshop for over 10 years and never had this issue before. It's been happening since the last update. I'm using Windows and I have the same issue on 2 different computers.

By the way, when creating vector shapes and changing the feather, Photoshop sometimes crashes. This one has been going on for years. 
Kukurykus
Legend
October 30, 2018
it's not company - customer relation anymore by any means, but more like:

Angry and Arrogant Antique Absolute Autocrats against Amorphous Ants 😕😕

Something like Ancient Grecian Gods versus weak humans with their fate!

We need our Prometheus, and maybe not new Ps, but new Pr application!
Inspiring
October 30, 2018
Look at how many years Eastman Kodak maintained industry dominance and an arrogant, holier than thou attitude before the failed!
Sounds like Adobe doesn't it?  
Legend
October 30, 2018
And please also talk with teams across other CC apps so we get consistency. 

e.g. SHIFT to constrain is such a fundamental change to the way ALL graphics apps work, and changing it requires you to make it CC-wide, announce it properly, and provide a one-click fallback.

Making a fundamental change like this, and the way it's been done, is arrogant. Arrogance breaks commercial trust and we already have more than enough arrogance to deal with in the form of Apple.

Known Participant
October 30, 2018
Unfortunately, you are correct.  I uninstalled PS CC 2019 and just use 2018 to get my work out.  I hate jumping through Adobe's hoops every time some "genius" at Adobe has a digital orgasm.
JJMack
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 30, 2018
more Adobe Garbage Keep on abusing your Customers.
JJMack
Kukurykus
Legend
October 30, 2018
The guy who decided that had to be a drunk clown or simply contracted agreement with Apple to make Photoshop working this way. win-win solution for both, but most commited users have now to suffer and can speak openly only to each other as none of prominent persons appears to read about their frustration.

Adobe Max 2018 had to become unhealthy preoccupation of something that in practise was a fail. But that is no matter - people bought it after all. You are right about unifrom scaling that has to be same for all produtcs but some odd way it's inconsistent with scope of just one 😕😕 Regarding undos, what about ExtendScript ToolKit? I don't like the new way of how that works but they don't plan to make new version of ESTK so we have to still use that by both ways?
donbarrum
Inspiring
October 30, 2018
I expect this not to change. I suspect Adobe has the same mindset as apple, people doesn't know what they want more than us. 

I think the whole reasoning Adobe has for doing this, is that they want Photoshop to be more user friendly for that tiny userbase that doesn't use a keyboard (i.e tablet only) - which they expect to grow, and probably scale will work this way on the iPad version of Photoshop. 
 
I could live with this change IF it was consistent throughout the entire program. It's the poor implementation that makes it a horrible change. 

Also, another thing that doesn't make sense to me AT ALL. At Adobe Max 2018 they bragged about this feature and the multiple undos. And the argument for making multiple undo's was to unify all the Adobe programs more, making undo's the same across every program (thank god they at least made an option to turn off this, I like my ctrl-shift-z for multiple undos). But then they do the COMPLETE OPPOSITE with the the uniform scaling and make sure its NOT unified across the whole program suite...So what is it ? Unifying the programs, or UNunifying? 
Kukurykus
Legend
October 30, 2018
Actually I'd like to believe but seeing there is 12 pages long theard that took 2 years users begged to bring back old crop method it is more likely Santa Claus is going to do that this year for us.

I didn't read that but it seems that crop started with CS6 was left for next CC releases:

https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/photoshop_6_crop_tool
Participating Frequently
October 30, 2018
They probably laughing their azzes off knowing no change is coming after they invested all that time in a failure they will convince themselves it was the right thing to do and press on with deaf ears..