P: Transform/Resize is constrained by default - Want ability to go back to legacy behavior

[ClaytonKing]

When selecting a layer and dragging a corner handle with the shift (or alt-shift) key pressed, the resize proportion isn't constrained. This started with this most recent update.

[wlym]

This is a terrible change. I have to relearn a 20+ year reflex for Photoshop only?! ID and AI stay as they were? For what purpose exactly? Does Adobe have any idea how disorienting this is for experienced users? Like so often with Adobe CC, it's back to last year's version or the version before that. I'm surprised holding down Shift doesn't also pop up an ad for Adobe Stock.

[wlym]

This is a terrible change. I have to relearn a 20+ year reflex for Photoshop only?! ID and AI stay as they were? For what purpose exactly? Does Adobe have any idea how disorienting this is for experienced users? Like so often with Adobe CC, it's back to last year's version or the version before that. I'm surprised holding down Shift doesn't also pop up an ad for Adobe Stock.

[Kukurykus]

I guess InDesign and Illustrator are used mostly by professional users while Photoshop is popular amongst amateurs, so people who do fast fun corrections on other devices they can do in Ps too. Now this app is dedicated to them, especially iPad users, where ID and AI versions don't exist on?

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

100% agree: change is inevitable, necessary, and sometimes good. But in a product like this, when you change a core behavior that people rely upon you REALLY need to give an easy way to set the "make it work like before" preference, not force them to create a config file...

[Kukurykus]

Experienced company with hundred of million dollars revenue can't take care of something so tiny!

[SasquatchPatch]

They could if they cared, even a little but all they really care about is locking you in to their monthly subscription. And since the employees are so locked into the b.s. of the company line, they will rarely if ever be involved in corporate self-criticism.

[SasquatchPatch]

jfc, just make the text file and drop it in your preferences folder and be done with it. It works. It takes two minutes and you can stop waiting for Adobe to fix something. If they do, great. If they don't, you already have. 

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Please fix this Adobe. It is maddening. It should be optional. You have thousands of designers pulling their hair out because of a reversal of a standard that exists EVERYWHERE and you aren't even consistent in changing it across your applications. Please put it back and make it optional to turn on rather than require knowledge of coding and digging through preference files to figure out how to revert. That is ridiculous.

[margaretf29644066]

Grateful for the solution but that's two hours of my life I can't get back  😞

[margaretf29644066]

Grateful for the solution but that two hours of my life I can't get back.  😞

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

If Photoshop was the only Adobe CC product I used, I’d grit my teeth and get used to the new way of resizing. However, I spend all day jumping from Illustrator to Photoshop to Indesign and back again (and again) — and the other two programs didn’t change. So I am constantly doing it wrong. It’s beyond frustrating.

[aliciabue]

Jonah, I am having the exact same problem. I switch between Illustrator and Photoshop all day, and it is very frustrating. So much for inter-app workflow.

[donbarrum]

And according to Adobe at Max 2018, multiple undo's was changed for this exact reason, to unify between the programs. ...The irony.   

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

It worked! Thanks a million!

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

I back installed to 2018 because of this. I'm curious who is making these requests that is changing features that are muscle memory for power users who've been using Photoshop for 20 plus years with no obvious way to revert the function.

I saw the PSUserConfig.txt file work-around, but I hope, at a minimum, Adobe adds to their preference file a way to undo the "updates" they've made. 

So disappointed. 

[Kukurykus]

And after so many complaints we still don't know what they plan to do about it!

[RONvanNOORD]

Inconsistency, inconsistency, inconsistency

* Transform Illustrator Indesign Photoshop.
* I wonder. What happens if you trans for a pixel shape and a vector shape simultaneously.
* I've got the feeling this 'feature' has been implemented so PS is easier to use on an Ipad. But professionals don't work directly on Tablets.

Facepalm...

[RONvanNOORD]

Inconsistency, inconsistency, inconsistency

* Transform: Illustrator Indesign Photoshop, not the same.
* I wonder. What happens if you transform a pixel shape and a vector shape simultaneously. My brain has to do a lot of extra work while transforming different type of shapes.
* I've got the feeling this 'feature' has been implemented so PS is easier to use on an Ipad. But professionals don't work directly on Tablets.

I've got a complete team of frustrating designers struggeling en getting slowed down in there workflow.

Facepalm...

FIX THIS ALLREADY!

[RONvanNOORD]

 I've got the feeling this 'feature' has been implemented so PS is easier to use on an Ipad. But professionals don't work directly on Tablets.

[Kukurykus]

One month discussion could be avoided if they released Photoshop that one month later. They could find what is wrong, fix that before official release, and focus on bugs and important stuff!

[Kukurykus]

Now we know that noone has to admit - they use us to test their products for free.

[Kukurykus]

I've got feeling they are lazy and don't have what to do with money. So they start stupid projects to show they do anything to fill the gap and keep rest of money safe. Then they fix bugs - so change back that they screwed up to show they work (while their management deserved to be paid!)

[Doug Millhoff]

My guess is that the "who" that is requesting these, uh, "refinements" is either Adobe themselves.

It has been suggested that this is to make interface consistent across platforms with iPads, iPhones etc, which lack shift keys, but that would leave them with no way to do unconstrained resizing, so if true, it's an even-dumber move.

[DennisANisbet]

If I do this to the 2019 update, will all the other related problems go away?

To
revert to the legacy transform behavior, do the following:

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

2.    Type the text below in
the text file:

TransformProportionalScale 0




3.    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/

[GarethLind]

The bright minds at Adobe have reversed the functioning of the shift key as a modifier for the crop tool, so that instead of making it a fixed ratio, it makes it free-form. I crop far more often using free-form rather than fixed ratio, so for me this increases time needed for making what used to be simple adjustments. I have used Photoshop since the mid-1990s and I see no reason for this change. Please allow me to revert to the 2018 cropping, much as you allow Classic Mode other functions.

All other Adobe products use shift to set not free the proportions. This is a break with standards that have been in place for decades, and I don't see a good reason for it.