Stupid Photoshop Transform Behavior when Vector Layers Are Involved

Still an issue in 2025. On a Mac. 

With text layers and line layers all selected, the cmd/ctrl+T transform operation only affects the line layers. 

The layers are set up like this:

- Text 1
- Line 1
- Line 2
- Line 3
- Text 2
- Text 3

If I select Text 1 through Line 1, great, everything works.

If I select Text 1 through Line 2, broken, only the Line layers get transformed. 

If I select Text 1 through Line 3, broken, only the Line layers get transformed.

If I select Text 1 through Text 2, broken, only the Line layers get transformed.

If I select Text 1, Line 1, Text 2 only, great, everything works.

Every single combination of layer selections, as long more than one Line layer is selected, only transforms the Line layers. But when only one Line layer is selected, no matter which Text layers are selected, the transform works fine. 

I run into this problem every single damn day. Photoshop gets new problems every year.

This affects layer masks too (in PS 2025 on mac)  — if you're trying to transform vector layer with linked mask transform will apply only to vectors until you deselect paths in the paths palette. Incredibly annoying. 

Can replicate this issue too. Not sure if its related but the transform behavior seems to have a mind of its own. Sometimes shift is required to contrain proportions, other times not. Today seems to be a day where I need to hold down shift to contrain the proportions of anything I scale. 

I've just run into this bug as well. I have raster layers and vector layers. When I hit Ctrl+T after selecting both types of layers, only the vector layer gets transformed. My file is under NDA so I can't show it. I have 5 layers; 2 are vector ellipses and 3 are raster drawings. In my layers panel I've highlighted all 5 layers, but the transform bounding box only contains the 2 vector ellipses. This is a sudden change that wasn't happening last week.

I restarted Photoshop and the problem disappeared. I'm not saying that it's a solution, I'm just saying the problem didn't persist. A lot of problems I run into with photoshop are something that happens during boot, or with cached data I think. This is the first time it's occurred so I can't offer any repro steps, but since there is already a thread I thought I'd document it here. 

I just realized that, in this particular example, there are no raster layers present. This is just the file I happen to be working with at the moment. But nevertheless. It happens very frequently, but not all the time.

I agree it is strange and can replicate it here in both v22 and v23. When you use Ctrl+T it switches to selecting just those paths in the paths panel.  You can get around that issue though by checking 'Show transform controls' in the options bar for the move tool and just dragging the corner handles (rather than using Ctrl+T)

Dave

Can't replicate it on this end. I have text and image layers, I select some (or all) from the layer stack, and use Command T; scale, and every layer selected is affected.