P: Incorrect Transform Controls Behavior

[bratan007]

I have Move Tool selected and "Show Transform Controls" checked. I select an image or a text that I want to resize and it shows a bounded box with 8 control points/squares as it should. I hover my mouse above any of those points and it shows a "resize" icon. But when I click instead of resizing image it always MOVES it. After than I have to move it back and click again on the same point and now it would resize.

I've seen this behavior in the program for a very long time, and finally decided to write about it. I don't think this is right. If I want to move an object I would click inside it. There's no logical reason transform controls changes to move all of the sudden...

Is this something that can be changed in settings?

Version 23.4.2

Thanks in advance!

[Ged_Traynor]

Hi

The transform controls are working as they should for me on Windows 10 with Photoshop version 23.4.2, have you tried resetting your Photoshop preferences

[bratan007]

Thanks! I tried that, still same issue. It happens on 2 different Windows computers. I took a 16 second screen recording:
https://youtu.be/Vtupy75ALVE

[Ged_Traynor]

I can replicate the issue with a text layer, I was testing it with an image layer, I don't have the issue on an image layer.

I noticed that if you hit Ctrl + T there's no issue with using the transform controls on the text layer, it only seem to happen with the Show Transform Control option enabled.

I just noticed that when you hit Ctrl + T the transform box size increases vertically and this is what happens with selecting the Show Transform Control option, if you click once the transform box size increases vertically and then clicking again lets you transform as normal, it's the same behaviour in version 22.5.8

[bratan007]

Thank you Ged. You are correct, I didn't realize images were not affected. For sure it wasn't an issue before, not sure which update introduced it tho, but it's been happening for months at least... I contacted support, but sadly they told me I have to click on the box controls before resizing... So that's an extra click I have to remember, and completely unessasry 😞

[Ged_Traynor]

Just use Ctrl + T instead, I can't remember ever using the Show Transform Controls option, hence I never noticed the issue.

[bratan007]

Yeah it's a workaround. You can also click second time and it will work, but it seems like a bug to me. Becuase mouse icon actually changes into transform/rotate graphics when you hover over it, so logcially when I click and drag it should perform this command but it moves instead.  What's strange is that sometimes it actually works ok, i.e. starts resizing text... This just drives me nuts cause of the workflow I'm using (click/drag/reposition/resize)... I hope Adobe will do something about it

[CShubert]

The team is looking into this. Thank you.

[ian carry]

Hello .. can i just add to this?  I have the same issue.. what i realised is, there are two sets of bounding boxes... one is the automatic which appears on selected layers and can be switched on/off with the "show transform controls" switch.  The other one is when you press CTRL+T .. its the bounding box around smart objects ..  

For example when i make smart object with text which is smaller then the whole SO, in layer the transform controls will appear just around text, but when you want to grab them, they'll jump to the "whole smart object" controls ...

and it frustrates me a lot .. the "in layer" transform controls should represent the whole SO all the time

[Stefan27503374fze5]

It's 2024 and this bug still hasn't been fixed. Adobe is really going down the drain.

[Gon266844337xqh]

Was a fix to this ever found?
It's been driving me mad lately and it really hurts my workflow. An issue that accompanies this one is when you go into the transform controls of a text layer, the bounding box is much bigger than the actual glyphs, even before I Ctrl + T the bounding box is perfectly wrapped around the glyphs.

[yohan311538697rb7]

Its 2025 and this is still an issue with the Free Transform tool. It also happens with smart objects. now I have to do extra steps when resizing