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Inspiring
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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Known Participant
October 23, 2018
From a practical point this change makes sense... I teach new students and holding shift while constraining is just not natural because every app they use outside of Photoshop doesn't require holding shift.

BUT... The way Adobe implimented this shows their attitude and that they really couldn't care about existing users. They already have our money. They are only interested in getting new clients.
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Known Participant
October 23, 2018
Well they broke that rule a very long time ago and people adopted it as the norm. Now they are trying to fix what they fixed when it wasn't broken
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Kukurykus
Legend
October 22, 2018
Good to know votes are merged, I always thought we lose them.
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Kukurykus
Legend
October 22, 2018
They should let us choose the way we want to confirm changes!
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Kukurykus
Legend
October 22, 2018
I agree, that change was not needed for anything 😞
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Legend
October 22, 2018
Yep. Merging does add up the Votes from the merged topic (but won't double votes if the same person votes on both the parent and merged doc - of that makes sense)
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Known Participant
October 22, 2018
Anyone who wants this change needs to "Me Too" at the top of the page... that's how the requests get prioritized. I am not sure if merged pages add their "Me Too"s...
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Known Participant
October 22, 2018
this is my biggest problem with 2019
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Inspiring
October 22, 2018


It used to be that to maintain proportional scaling, a user would hold the shift key while scaling. In Photoshop CC 2019 the proportional scaling is done without pushing anything, but now when you hold the Shift key it UNLOCKS proportional scaling.

To just change the scale tool to be backwards relative to how it has very literally always been without an easy way to change it back or any documentation the first time you use Photoshop CC 2019 is ridiculous. It shows that the people making the software don't actually use the software.

The fix is easy: Instead of making some one line script file, have an in-app toggle switch to allow for legacy scaling proportional.

I've been using Photoshop for 25 years, and this is absolutely 100% perplexing.
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Known Participant
October 22, 2018
hmm. Really? It should work.

Maybe recheck the spelling? Make sure it's a .txt file.
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