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Bug I think: distortion when stretching a scaled image in free transform

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November 9, 2018
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Here's a video embedded to what I'm talking about. If you try to scale your free transform, it goes wonky and doesn't maintain the aspect ratio. Tried this a few different ways, like holding shift, or using the "maintain aspect ratio" button and dragging the H or V, still does the same thing.

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Correct answer davescm

Okay, I did this as suggested, same issue.

Here's another video:

And dang, resetting all settings really reset everything, I thought it would just be the general settings. It removed all my custom keyboard shortcuts, removed custom workspaces, etc. Not for the faint of heart.

Hi

A preference reset would not help, as this behaviour is Photoshop working normally. Hold down Alt in CC2019 to scale from the centre and keep the proportions (in previous versions it would have been Shift+Alt)

Dave

davescm

Community Expert

Hi

Take a close look at your video. Just before it distorts you are approaching Photoshop's maximum pixel size of 300,000 pixels in either dimension (Horizontal/Vertical). It looks like the problem occurs when that value is exceeded by your transform.

Dave

Tex JenkinsAuthor

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Nope, its distorting the whole time. I'm not talking about when it flips. If you look closely you can see the aspect ratio is changing the whole time. I'm trying to maintain aspect ratio as I scale up, and it distorts if you have a a custom shape like this.

davescm

Community Expert

Ah

I see what you are pointing out now.

Hold down the ALT key to scale from the centre which will maintain the shape then move the result into place before commiting the transform

Dave

Muqqarib Hassan

Inspiring

Hi, It seems like you are holding ctrl button and then transforming it ?

Can you please try following steps.

Select your layer and press Crtl+T and then drag it from the corners without holding any key. (let me know if its work )

Thanks.

Tex JenkinsAuthor

Inspiring

Nope, I’m not holding control. I did an initial transform with control to get this custom shape, yes. But then afterwards, I wanted to scale this custom shape up so that it matches the scale of the bottom layer. And I didn’t want to complete the first transformation before doing this second step because it would result in a loss of resolution.

Muqqarib Hassan

Inspiring

Can you tell me which photoshop version you are using ?

Tex JenkinsAuthor

Inspiring

I also tried dragging the other corners, all while holding shift. No matter what it distorts the shape. I know the workaround is to make it it a smart object and then scale it twice or something like that, but I'd like it to work correctly all in a single transform.

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