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.

[Kukurykus]

Maybe something will be chnaged for better. I see there are other popular topics from past with many likes however noticably less than this one. They had no any impact though, but maybe now there is little more chance for some kind of reversion:

https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/photoshop_6_crop_tool

https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/do-you-plan-to-include-device-preview-back-to...

[blastframe]

Adobe,
Please read what you're users are saying about your Transform Tool changes:
https://forums.adobe.com/message/10682827

These changes have made the user experience much worse. There have been several updates to Photoshop, but no address of how to make the changes optional in Preferences. How long will it take you to respond to the issues you've caused many of your users?

We appreciate the new features, but PLEASE do not mess with your core functionality. People use this software for their living!

[Kukurykus]

One polite observation to start and finish this discussion. I hope someone prominent will read it 😉

[Warren Heaton]

Reposting this to this thread from above:


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/

This was posted by an MVP, but I can’t find the original post.

It works!

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

I don't disagree that this gets the functionality back.  But we shouldn't need a hack to fix this.  And how long will this "fix" work?  Will we have to wait for an MVP to publish another workaround with the next release?  Or the one after that?

[GarethLind]

This is from the actual Photoshop what's new site: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/whats-new.html. But your point stands: we should be able to opt out of any new interface or functionality enhancements that have no reason for being there except some coder woke up on the wrong side of bed one morning.

[RosaPerry]

We shouldn't have to do this. This is Adobe's responsibility. We don't get paid the big bucks to code Adobe software.

Come on Adobe engineers, listen to us, your long term loyal users.  . . . Then again why would you Adobe, when you probably get thousands of 'new' customers a week, who wouldn't know about the dramas we 'old school' had to put up with your buggy software.

Old school is probably what Adobe built their fortunes on. Please respect the old school Adobe. You have a lot to learn from us. 

[RosaPerry]

One can only wish!

[DennisANisbet]

Lisa, I do hope that Adobe respect you enough to reply.
That would be refreshing!

[Joosst]

The most annoying thing is that it isn't consistent. On shape layers it does still work the old way. At least make everything the same. Now transforming a shape needs shift, transforming an image doesn't. Different key commands, for essentially the same action? That's just really confusing.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

As I was just watching a photographer's video who was raving about this change I was struck with this additional observation: It's call the Free Transform tool NOT the scale tool. So the original behavior made more sense because it was Free Transforming. If it was called the Scale Transform or simply the scale tool, then, well, I might expect it to act proportionally. So in essence the engineers and managers at Adobe in their infinite poor wisdom on this decision, have screwed up the very definition of what the tool is all about. Scaling proportionally has it's place but in my world non-proportional scaling is more my need as I'm doing photo illustration and compositing in an architectural environment. And as anyone knows walls are not built plumb and square and very, very rarely do we have a straight on view that would allow proportional scaling. And once again this should be a user-settable preference on how the tool works and not through some text file preferences setting "hack".

[Kukurykus]

Very well said. Click Me-Too as most of us did 😉

[Doug Millhoff]

FREE TRANSFORM.
THAT was my grievance in the first place, and I wasn't happy that Adobe talked me into letting them "upgrade" to 2019 as a "bug fix". 

Cost me a deadline and a client!

And several hours scrubbing that 2019 turd off my Mac and tweaking preferences so I could open the damn files in 2018.

NOW, I'm reluctant to try the new version of Illustrator because I don't know what they might have screwed-up.

[TangCanada]

@ Scott Souchock
Pls dont give them any bright ideas they may just change the name to "Scale Transform" and keep this backward idiocy they call a "New and Enhanced Feature"

We want this nonsensical change gone forever never to come back period.

The people who make a living with this software wont be using the mobile version so it doesnt make sense to burden us with this childish nonsense.

[Doug Millhoff]

"Pls dont give them any bright ideas they may just change the name to 'Scale Transform' and keep this backward idiocy they call a 'New and Enhanced Feature'"

Well, if they do that, we should immediately request they add a Free Transform feature like they had in previous versions.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

I was like what is wrong with shift+alt or shift not constraining for like minutes and googled and came to this topic.. This change was a LOL! 

[Kapture benoit]

I was waiting for that modification since a long time...
This change (No using shift as default for constraint), make more sense for me and it become as most of other software do.
It will be nice do, if the default setting(not using shift for constraint) was the same for "Vector''.

[Doug Millhoff]

That would be OK if it were s "scale" instead of "free transform".
But you're praising removal of "free" part.

[davidp53340147]

I have worked in Photoshop longer than almost everyone. I started with PS3 beta release and have been a professional user ever since. In the 90's I beta tested quite often. In all that time, I have to say this is the dumbest idea ever. At least have a simple selection to turn it off. PS The chain link is supposed to turn it on and off, but Adobe didn't bother to make it actually work. Click it and see. It does nothing but change selection color. I just need a product that works. All these useless updates with tools for the ignorant masses has made PS a shadow of what really made it great. Ask someone who started using PS in 1993. 

[Warren Heaton]

I started in Photoshop 2.5 before it had layers and I’d say that while the application isn’t perfect, it is close to brilliant.

The change in the bahavior for Free Transorm is out of character flr Adobe. How long time users use the product is often well considered. Maybe it’s new people on the team? I am sure that the feedback is being heard and that we’ll have something in the preferences for this and it working as expected as set by the user.

I am still doing the bulk of my work in version 19 (CC2018),b but I typically hold off three to four months before mograting to major releases. Proir to the subscription model, I always held off until the .1 or .5 version shipped.

If anything, I jump up to 2019 for the content-aware fill improvments and then jump back to 2018 (both open at the same time). That’s certainly not ideal.

Also, basic math in the value text fields is almost worth all the other hassles. (Almost.)

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

This is sooooooo annoying Adobe. I have been using Photoshop for 19 years.... and now you change the 'shift' key around. Give is the option to change it back please so we can just get on with our work..... 

[TangCanada]

Did you "Me Too" ?

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Tried photoshop 2019 - scaling behaviour broken - deleted & rolled back to 2018. It wasn't broken, Adobe - why did you break it? People who know this tool to the point of not having to think about it now have to think about it, thus impinging on their productivity - did you consider that?

[RosaPerry]

It's a stupid unfair move. Adobe updated 20.0.1 and in that update they didn't even bother to look at the transform tool.

I'm beginning to think that Adobe is going to ignore the complaints in this forum about the scaling behaviour.

I'm hoping that more of our friends add their woes about the transform tool here and vote by clicking 'ME TOO' on top of this page. Hopefully Adobe will get the message that we want to go back to the existing behaviour of the transform tool that was in Photoshop V19.

Spread the word so that Adobe gets the message.

I refuse to use the buggy Photoshop V20. I wasted so much valuable time and expense trialling the new version and it's not worth it to me to keep using V20

[RosaPerry]

It's a stupid unfair move. Adobe updated 20.0.1 and in that update they didn't even bother to look at the transform tool. 

I'm beginning to think that Adobe is going to ignore the complaints in this forum about the scaling behaviour.

I'm hoping that more of our friends add their woes about the transform tool here and vote by clicking 'ME TOO' on top of this page. Hopefully Adobe will get the message that we want to go back to the existing behaviour of the transform tool that was in Photoshop V19.

Spread the word so that Adobe gets the message.

I refuse to use the buggy Photoshop V20. I wasted so much valuable time and expense trialling the new version and it's not worth it to me to keep using V20