P: Preferences to turn off auto-commit and double click to edit text

Report · Oct 16, 2018

It's cool that you guys added the addition to auto commit and double click to edit text but please add into tool preferences the ability to turn this off. I just downloaded photoshop 2019 and I keep accidentally editing text instead of moving it and then when I'm rotating or scaling objects it will auto commit for me when I didn't want it to.

Also can you please put other things in preferences to like scaling using the shift key and other things that were changed for usability? People that have been using the program for a really long time are used to it working one way and then just changing it to the opposite is really tough to get used to. Would be very nice to have the option to turn these things on or off depending on if I want them to work a certain way.

Report · Dec 20, 2018

The whole thing is soo broken. Now how am I going to scale something on one axis, while not getting snapped? Usually I could press CTRL - and SHIFT but now that doesn't work anymore, as it unlocks the other axis also.

The user experience is worse too now, since I can't just transform anymore quicly - I have to triple check for every fricking click, so that I'm not accidentally applying the transformation, because only certain areas let me transform (and that doesn't get reverted with the TXT setting).

Please, don't just fix it: Remove this change and fire the employee who came up with it and whoever approved this.

Report · Dec 20, 2018

Returning to the 2018 version is the only solution I have found.

Report · Dec 20, 2018

Guys . . .

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Source: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/whats-new.html#user-experience-improvements

Find under the "Usability improvements" heading. LOL

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Report · Jan 15, 2019

Still no fix for this in 20.0.2. It's a terrible UX decision and it generates real bad feelings about Adobe in general

Report · Jan 15, 2019

I haven't tried the updated PS 2019. Is the constrain link fixed on the tool bar RF ?

I can't bring myself to open 2019.

Rosa

Report · Jan 15, 2019

You mean shift to constrain?
Nope. I'd hoped that they had seen sense. But apparently not.

Report · Jan 15, 2019

The constrain button in the tool options bar. It's being ignored when unchecked in the new default constrained mode. It doesn't matter whether you check the chain link or un-check the chain link nothing happens. It hasn't been fixed. I just updated and checked.

Rosa

Report · Jan 17, 2019

Can confirm, this is screwing me up. I hold shift to click and move multiple text layers and sometimes it just does nothing. I reinstalled CC 2018. Let me turn this feature off.

Report · Feb 06, 2019

I have adapted my habits or gotten used to every other UI change in Photoshop over the last 21 years. I have been trying for months now to accept auto-commit/commit click.

I. Can't. Handle. It.

I'll be zooming in real close to modify the bounding box of a crop or a transform, tweaking it little by little on a very large image and trying to get it just right when BAM. I accidentally click outside of an invisible boundary and commit. It's infuriating and tedious to have my progress thrown away and have to start over every time I do this.

Report · Mar 05, 2019

You guys (as in photoshop devs) we are into you trying to think of ways to make the product better. But you HAVE to respect the people that have been using your product for decades and not change things in ways without given options to turn them on/off. I have years of muscle memory built up and it basically migraine inducing having to re-think about some of these daily tasks.
Double click is one of these. Great in theory but def slows me down when trying to move a text layer. Would be GREAT (dare I say vital?) to be able to turn this off.

Report · Mar 19, 2019

Very annoying. And this is supposed to be a usability improvement?!?!

Can't even drag in guides while transforming (have to use ⌘-drag from Rulers now).

Adobe, please stop messing around and stop adding so called imoprovements like this without the option to turn it off.

How am I supposed to correct a transform when I click accidentally click outside the transform area? Redo it from start? Make every layer Smart Object first? Come on!

Report · Mar 19, 2019

This is considered a usability improvement? More efficient? Really? In
what universe?

This makes the process of transforming objects extremely
frustrating. Clicking anywhere outside the transform area commits the transform, even dragging in guides.

How about having an option in preferences or in Tool preferences to turn off Auto-commit?

Report · Apr 18, 2019

Can any of the coding geniuses behind the terminal command for killing the shift key requirement for transform (and others) find one to kill the rotate commit click blunder?

Report · Apr 18, 2019

Remember guys, whether or not you uninstall 2019 and use a more functional version, just be sure to keep paying that monthly fee!

Report · Apr 22, 2019

These new feature is annoying advanced Photoshop users since it hinders our workflow because it's too easy to activate it accidentally when moving things around, specially if you work with a graphic tablet.
Please include a way to disable it in the next update. =(

Report · May 29, 2019

Still no option in preferences, but at least now you can turn off auto-commit the same way they addressed the changes to free transform, with a PSUserConfig.txt file

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/enable-optional-extensions-photoshop-cc.html

Report · May 29, 2019

Still no option in preferences, but at least now you can turn off auto-commit the same way they addressed the changes to free transform, with a PSUserConfig.txt file

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/enable-optional-extensions-photoshop-cc.html

Report · May 29, 2019

I held back from using the 2019 version until recently, when I found out I could at least revert to legacy transform creating the “PSUserConfig.txt” file BUT (!!!) that weird auto-commit function is really a pain for long-time PS users messing with their muscle memory!

I constantly commit my transformation without having even transformed anything, because I'm trying to rotate from far away the element like I'm used to for years and years.

Please at least incorporate an option to disable in the prefs to not unnecessarily irritate old users..... it totally interrupts the workflow.

Thank you!

Report · May 29, 2019

They (more or less secretly) added the ability to cancel auto-commit via PSUserConfig a week or so ago. If there was an announcement, I didn't see it. I found out about it here, by accident.

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/enable-optional-extensions-photoshop-cc.html

Report · May 29, 2019

This feels like typical passive-aggressive behavior and the dismissive attitude Adobe seems to have for its long-time, dedicated (or captive) and apparently not-vocal-enough users. Frankly, I'm sick of it. We are not worthy of checkbox preferences, and are so undervalued, they won't even send out a notification of a begrudged afterthought hack fix of a callous change in user preferences.

Report · May 29, 2019

Maybe. I thought it was possible that developers were making a back-door solution to solve poor upper management decisions. But that’s just conjecture

Report · May 29, 2019

Maybe I got a little heated in my venting, but it does deserve a radio check box, acknowledgement and notification.

Report · May 29, 2019

Agree100%

Report · May 29, 2019

They still have not fixed this? Omg. Agree 100%!

Report · May 29, 2019

Here it is - the solution:
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/enable-optional-extensions-photoshop-cc.html#disable_click_to_c...

^ This page was recently updated apparently.

Add a new line to your PSUserConfig.txt -

OnCanvasClickToCommit 0

P: Preferences to turn off auto-commit and double click to edit text

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