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lmknightart
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January 9, 2023
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Transform not maintaining proportional scaling

  • January 9, 2023
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When I use transform in the latest version of photoshop (and several previous ones) the aspect ratio isn't being maintained when committing the transform. This is NOT a shift key issue and I am informed about the change in the transform controls several versions back so please do not offer that advice. I will use transform with the aspect ratio locked and enter an exact whole number percentage. When I commit the transform and look at the aspect ratio it is not even. Sometimes by a whole percentage point. What should be 50% by 50% is sometrhing like 49.92%x51.1%. This happens when use shift and when I enter the percentage manually. This is incredibly frustrating because I do work that requires perfect scalling and proportion. Is there a fix for this bug? I really cannot stand that something that worked perfectly in the past is broken like this. 

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Correct answer Bojan Živković11378569

Transform also depends on number of pixels. If you have one side 201px and the other 200 it can not divide 201px to 100.5 pixels but rather to whole number. Can you right click on W and H value in the options bar and change to Pixels before scaling and to capture that values? By the way, you can do math in the W and H fields just type /2 for example after value as shown on screenshot what is equal to divide by factor 2 (50%).

 

 When Photoshop is acting strange use Preference reset as possible solution https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/preferences.html

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lmknightartAuthor
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January 10, 2023

Thank you for explaining this to me! I feel like in older versions they may have disguised this more so i didnt relaize it was happening. Ive searched so long for an explaination and could only find people confused about the shift bar issue. It makes sense that it wouldnt be perfect particually with a smart object since it might not shrink evenly to algin with the smaller amount of pixels. I didnt realize i could change to pixel size that way to look at the numbers. 

Bojan Živković11378569
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Bojan Živković11378569Community ExpertCorrect answer
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January 10, 2023

Transform also depends on number of pixels. If you have one side 201px and the other 200 it can not divide 201px to 100.5 pixels but rather to whole number. Can you right click on W and H value in the options bar and change to Pixels before scaling and to capture that values? By the way, you can do math in the W and H fields just type /2 for example after value as shown on screenshot what is equal to divide by factor 2 (50%).

 

 When Photoshop is acting strange use Preference reset as possible solution https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/preferences.html

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