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Free Transform Aspect Ratio [Aspect ratio remains linked even when Maintain Aspect Ratio is unticked]

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October 17, 2018
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Last night I updated Photoshop to the latest version. I noticed that the Free Transform tool now has the linked aspect ratio as the default selection, however, even when I unclick the link button, the aspect ratio remains linked. Using the shift button does work to unlink them. Is it a bug that the button is not working? Any assistance would be appreciated.

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Luke-RYOT

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I've just discovered this 'improvement' and my biggest gripe is that when scaling proportionately, it doesn't snap to grid, but when scaling un-proportionately, it does.

This forces me to manually try to scale proportionately, which is incredibly fiddly and time consuming.

I think the UX team should speak to and consult with working professionals, rather than directly to engineers. This decision doesn't make sense, why would you not snap to grid or even give an option to enable it.

Grid snapping rules have always been inconsistent and fiddly, I'd like to see these ironed out.

asuperstore

Participant

I reverted back to PSD 2017.

The staff feeback isn't "a wee oversight" this is a popular tool, well for me anyway...get the basics right???!!!

MacAwesome88

Known Participant

I wasn't talking about Free Transform, I was talking about TRANSFORM SELECTION!!! Which had no instructions in Help or Forums about. I found out from another user you have to hold down the SHIFT KEY in order to NON-Proportionally Transform Selection! ALL Adobe Staff is misunderstanding THIS!! TRANSFORM SELECTION! NOT SCALING IMAGES!

JJMack

Community Expert

The new changed transform operation is for most layer types. Not Shape layers perhaps not text layer. I did not read anything about selections. I reverted transform using the PSYserConfig option to the old way so transform would work in a consistent manner. I'm a dyslexic I do not need Adobe help to be dyslexic.

JJMack

GhostlightKeeper

Participant

I just had this same problem. Stupidly enough, holding shift allows you to free transform without the aspect ration locked.

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Joao_Olamobile

Participant

Hello, I can't even access these folders:

1 - //Users/[User Name]/Library/Preferences/Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 Settings/
2 - Go > Home > Library > Preferences > Adobe Photoshop 2019 Settings

Seriously, what do we (your clients for years) need to do to get this fixed??? I really can't work with this "improvement/new feature" of yours...

JJMack

Community Expert

I do not use a Mac However Apple like Microsoft likes you hide files from users, You need to learn how to use finders to view and change your hidden files. They are your files you should be able to access them and change them. Its Apple most likely in this case you need to learn OSX better.

Photoshop CS6 preference file functions, names, locations

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Joao_Olamobile

Participant

I think that if it is software" preferences, maybe it should be able to change in "preferences"...

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Valeriy_M

Participant

3 weeks. The bug is still here. It's a basic behaviour which is broken

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dtristram

Adobe Employee

thanks for posting the bug, I agree, it seems to be a wee oversight in the implementation of the new default behavior. good catch.

Heirloom Bob

Inspiring

Unlink and then you can use Shift and drag without the aspect ratio.

JJMack

Community Expert

Adobe will fix that bug

JJMack

John Waller

Community Expert

This is not a bug. It's a new feature in version 20.

New and enhanced features | Latest release of Photoshop CC

See Useability improvements section > "Transform proportionally by default".

There's has been lots of discussion on this in the past few days in these forums. It seems to have split the community. Most people are asking why?

SCALE 2019 VERSION

If you really don't like it to can revert to the behaviour of the past 19 versions by following the steps above.

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RiiverAuthor

Participant

Thank you for the response, but I don't think you read my question correctly.

I understand that the aspect ratio being locked proportionately is the new default, however, when you click the link button on the top of the screen to deselect it, should that not unlink the proportions? When I use the Free Transform tool, the aspect ratio remains locked whether or not the link button is clicked. Only using the shift key seems to work.

John Waller

Community Expert

Yes, you're right I missed that part. There have been hundreds of questions about the new behaviour recently so I thought this was another.

My apologies. I don't have an answer to your issue at this stage I'm sorry.

I've added a note to the Subject Header to clarify your query to prevent others misreading your question in the same way that I did.

Sahil.Chawla

Adobe Employee

Hi Riiver,

You can revert back to the legacy transform, to revert to the legacy transform behavior, please do the following:

Use Notepad (Windows) or a text editor on Mac OS to create a plain text file (.txt).

Type the text below in the text file:TransformProportionalScale 0

Save the file as "PSUserConfig.txt" to your Photoshop settings folder:

Windows: [Installation Drive]:\Users\[User Name]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC 2019\Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 Settings\

macOS: //Users/[User Name]/Library/Preferences/Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 Settings/

Regards,

Sahil

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Laura Tallo

Participant

What do you do if you can't follow the indicated path to revert to legacy? I can get to library and preferences, but Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 settings are not there.

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dtristram

Adobe Employee

Laura, Install and launch and quit Photoshop CC 2019 at least once to populate that folder.

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