P: Free Transform - ability to set Maintain Aspect Ratio as default

Also a graphic artist. PLEASE IMPLEMENT THIS.

I virtually never have to distort images in the context of my job. I virtually always have to maintain aspect ratio. I work with photographs of humans and animals for portraits. I easily waste minutes of my day, every day, every month, every year, checking this box.

What we want are more plugins like picture frames, fire and trees.

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REQUESTS / IDEAS:
Please finally add an automated "BFF" stickers or filters for sharing selfies! Would love to get these posted on Behance INSTANTLY. Also, maybe a constant "Local Weather" ticker and you could make it so that we can't turn it off, ever. (fingers crossed on this one!!!)

That "maintain Free Transform blah, blah, blah", thing everyone wants, whatevs, who cares. Just focus on releasing new, not really finished, not really tested, not really likely to be used by anyone type features, please.

PRAISE:
Love when you rework standard Tool functions and operations after an update. We typically give everyone a full day off from projects to do some relearning, which we all love! A little "Adobe mandated brian exercise" we like to say!

Don't listen Adobe.

We don't need productivity or workflow enhancements.

God forbid that we could work more efficiently or effectively.

What we want are more plugins like picture frames, fire and trees.

*sigh*

And you wonder why anyone who can is moving to Sketch?

When Adobe opened CC it was like Uber taking place of taxi cars pointing only on the larger markets with biggers profit margins.
So hte last 6 years I've been working on ways of using the crop tool the way my team needs.
Adobe doesn't even imagine its possible to do this but I have successfully create a bunche of scripts that are using the Transform tool in the way it receives the behavior I need for my team.

For example, nowadays I don't even use the native crop tool to my hiper-big image prodution.
For us, crop tool is made for beginners and for creatives that have few images to process in a day.

Our scripts are using free transform using our team ratio (that can be pre-set by the retoucher) as well the our crop permits integrate more info like metadata to builde dynamic over path grids according to the studio type and product type.
I could be naming more assets we are using in our production processes, but Adobe doesn't want to know. That is something not profitable and requires that they listen to big image production teams, wich they don't.

Instead, we have lots of companies editing ising tools for creatives and not for big image production processes.

Lucky are the guys from the video and press markets. They are somany that Adobe has already waken up years ago (profitable) and nowadays we have lots of assets to deliver faster and faster broadcasting, videos and PDFs and e-books.

The image mass production is not so. 

In my team I have my retouchers croping in photoshop using only 1 single click in some cases and 2 in others. And the crop script tool is using the Free Transform tool enabling automatic immediate re-cropping it if the retoucher miss or distorts an angle or skews.
The overlay grids over crops are design by us for our needs (we do not need Golden Ratio or Rule of Thirds,...).

Finally, what I mean is that companies like mine need to have developers specialized on photoshop scripts because Adobe doesn't deliver what they need.

Sorry I can't tell more about us, but that is possible to do in photoshop.
I do  not now if still will be in the next updates. And that's a big problem.

ABSOLUTELY! There aren't many things that I don't scale when placed in Photoshop and 99% of them I need to scale proportionally. Why can't Adobe give us a pref or at the very least a 'sticky' option for this button!

They keep trying to give us features we really don't need instead of production enhancers that would help us time wise more than all their new features. Adobe should listen to us old timers who have been using Photoshop since version 1.0! PLEASE give us this simple little request!

If it really is on a request list shouldn't this topic be listed as "Under Consideration" rather than "Idea"?

Ditto to all of these requests. I've been using Photoshop for around 18 years now. In the position I've held for the last three years, we make vehicle advertisements for the internet; so lots of logos, photos, and text that needs to be scaled quickly and proportionally.

Of course, I use the shortcut key (command-t, in my case) to quickly enter transform, and I've long been in the habit of holding "shift" while dragging a corner, but no, it's not precise.

It also doesn't help if the corners I need to drag are outside the screen area, at which point I need to:

- zoom out
- find a corner
- shift/drag the corner (or option-shift drag if you want it to shrink into the center)
- zoom back in to the previous view

Or:

- go up to the bar
- toggle the button
- enter a 30% or so value to get the image small on the screen
- grab a corner and scale it as needed

What I prefer to do is scrub the width or height number in the top bar. Much faster, but it also requires the click to get it to stay proportional.

Not a big deal, until you've done it 20-30 times in the last hour.

In the past month I worked on approximately 2881 images. At a safe guess, at least 2000 of them required proportional scaling of at least one layer, and as many as there are layers in the file. Lets go with a conservative average of 5 objects scaled per image.

If it takes one second to redirect my cursor and click the proportional button, that would be (1 click) x (5 layers) x (2000 images), for a total of 10,000 seconds = 166 minutes = 2 hours 46 minutes. Spent clicking a button. A button that could be set, by a preference, to a preferred state.

It's wasted time and I'm glad to hear that it's on the request list, as of 9 months ago. I just hope it actually shows up, and I wanted to add my voice and viewpoint to the debate.

MY god, how has this not been fixed yet??? SO OBVIOUS, YET SO DIFFICULT! Nothing a client loves more than an accidentally bastardized logo!

Why not just allow the Scale command to lock aspect ratio then. Scale should probably be seperated from all of the other Transform sub-menu commands since they are all used for altering proportions.

As far as my grasp of English and general terminology, "scaling" something up or down is understood to be proportional. If anyone were to ask for a 1/80 scale model of a building complex for example, they would expect it to not be skewed or distorted. They would expect it to be identicle in every aspect except for it's size.

Just think about it at least.

When it comes to the logo design you have to perform well research. I work in a custom logo design service in Australia and that's what I learned from them.