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

Speaking of annoying problems, I have four emails that say there's a response to this thread. FOUR. Now I have Unfollow every thread that I post something in. THAT is painful. I don't need 4 emails that advise me that someone replied to this thread. I ONLY NEED email notificationss when someone replies to my question or answer. Nor do you!

Talk about a waste of time! Adobe certainly doesn't have a grip on this aspect ratio 'problem', nor a grip on mulitple replies that don't even concern me!  Why don't you bitch about that?

p.s. The transform has also a bug since 20 years(!): If you come too close to the borders of the canvas the transforming frame starts rapidly increasing itself and destroys your adjustment process... I think everybody knows this issue, but seems not to be worth to fix it for adobe...

Please just add the ability to "stick" to what it was last set to, just like every other option in the program. I can't imagine why this is such an obstacle for you guys to implement.

We don't have to chose "Point Sample" and "All Layers" for example, every time we click the Eyedropper Tool. We don't have to click the "Current & Below" evey single time we use the Clone Stamp Tool. We don't have to select "Path" every single time we use the Pen Tool, and so on and so on. No, they stay what they were last set to as does every other tool option in the program. It just doesn't make any sense, who could it possibly offend to have it stay where it last was?

Sorry Len Goforth, please get better out of this thread, if you are not interested. It's just making angry to listen to your unconsideted comments. If you haven't the experience right now to understand what's going on in many peoples practice, you will not get it here by long explanations. I'm deep in photoshop since 1994 and there's nothing new you could tell me... shift Key... LOL...

Dear Mister Smarty Pants, first of all, shift+alt key doesn't even work. Whenever you try to do a free transform, the percentage at the top is never equal to each other even using shift+alt. It's always off by either a 1% and sometimes that's can distort logos and icons that are very small. The only way to resolve that problem is by clicking the chain.

I ask you to try this yourself and if by miracle you can get the H & W the same exact percentage without hitting the chain, I will come to your house and lick your fingers for magical essence. Because there's zero way you are helping this forum by commenting silly known solutions, than understanding the problem.

Read the past thread as to why this won't work!

Use the shift+alt key!

Look, this is a problem. The problem is not that the user is lazy or forgetful, but that the UI forces the user to repeatedly select the same action again and again. That's the problem, and simply put: that's poor UI design.

We're asking the UI accomodate a user preference, not force a predetermined setting. If you would never use it, it would not affect you and you probably don't get why it would be useful. But if you have been feeling the pain, like myself and others who have commented on this thread, then having a preference setting (whether global or sticky) would be a huge relief.

Then you'd have the opposite problem.

Look. This isn't a problem. The problem is that the user is forgetful or too lazy to click the lock.

I click on this annoying chain, 142 times a day.
I waste exactly 11 mins a day clicking this on.

Adobe, why do you change the interface for usability. But not for saving designers time?