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.

[YAD_Kenton]

You can, but you shouldn't have to.

[YAD_Kenton]

I do a post to my group every Friday called the Friday Funny. Here's this week.

Want to know why all the complaining in the world isn't going to make Adobe care what we don't like about Photoshop...

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Well I have good news on the transform front. I've finally adjusted to not holding Shift when transforming. Unfortunately, that's also the bad news.  Illustrator has other ideas. <g> 

[odobostudio]

Literally the stupidest thing ever ... well done Adobe ... 

[Max Johnson - PlayStudios]

I challenge your use of "literally". I would argue that there are plenty of "Florida Man" news stories that are stupider. 😄

[odobostudio]

In the context of photoshop (which seems to be the conversation) ... and changing something as historical and embedded into the muscle memory of almost every user of the software ... I'll stick with - "Literally the stupidest thing ever ..."

Not sure where Florida comes into it ... ???

[AG_Graphix]

I would just like to know who proposed this, who and why it was approved, and who cheered on it.

[Max Johnson - PlayStudios]

Haha, sorry, the overuse of "literally" is just a pet peeve of mine and I was making a joke. The reference to "Florida Man" is about the running gag that all the craziest news starts with "Florida Man...". Ex. "Florida Man Enters Convenience Store Carrying Live Gator, Chases Customers" 
More exciting news can be found at https://floridaman.com/ (no affiliation... just found on web search)

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

> The reference to "Florida Man" is about the running gag that all the craziest news starts with "Florida Man...". >

Yup, that and all the Darwin awards you can find that cover the whole of the US.<G> Pretty eye-opening.  Some do have Adobe beat by a mile.<G>

[RosaPerry]

I think many people would like to know the same. Alexandra 

[DennisANisbet]

While this is not "For REAL" I love it!

[default9kzo71dsmagv]

I couldn't find this folder/path:

• macOS: //Users/[User Name]/Library/Preferences/Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 Settings/

What am I doing wrong?

[default9kzo71dsmagv]

I couldn't find this folder/path:

• macOS: //Users/[User Name]/Library/Preferences/Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 Settings/

What am I doing wrong?

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

You have made absolutely certain you're in the user Library, and not the Macintosh HD Library? Oh, I forgot. Apple tries to hide this from us. I've unhidden it. You can use Go> Library and it will take you directly to the user Library.

[default9kzo71dsmagv]

I was in the user folder but sure enough, Library was hidden. First time I did try "Go to folder> Library" and it didn't take me directly to user Library...only after I unhide the folder.

Thanks! you saved me!

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

I'm glad you were able to work it out.

Since Adobe never announces its modifying a feature, we won't know if they'll do something to make this more user friendly or not— until they do it or don't.  '-}

I was using Procreate on my iPad with layers of images today—I've only recently begun to use it—and when you click on the Arrow that brings up the Transform and Move/Flip, etc., controls, by default Procreate sets the controls to free transform. It wasn't exactly sticky, either, so here I've trained myself that mobile apps use constrained transform by default, PS uses constrained transform by default, and now I was constantly resizing an image only to have it distort—same problem I'm having in Illustrator.<sigh> In Procreate I had to keep remembering to look at the controls, rather than simply start transforming on the document.

This is truly a mess across all the apps and desktop programs. Anyway, Procreate has been around a donkey's age, too, on mobile devices, so defaults are obviously anything the app designers want them to be.  If there's some standards consortium that they're all moving towards, I haven't seen the results yet with the apps I have.

[AG_Graphix]

I am not using Free Transform anymore. I am only using the crop tool now because I can still use shift and it also gives me the grid, which is something I like to see when I transform something. 

I hope they put it back, because this was really unnecessary. 

[YAD_Kenton]

It was too much for me, I downgraded PhotoShop, Illustrator and InDesign. I have felt through all of this is that no one cares. So I have no more loyalty and will be keeping my eyes open for an alternative that can reduce my monthly cost because after 20 years+ of Adobe products switching products will as hard as learning the new update.

[lonnyc85144968]

I agree Kenton. I no longer feel any loyalty towards Adobe. It’s obvious that they don’t care about their customers and I will be watching for alternatives as well.

[TSTLOFT]

The MacOS hiding thing needs to be a preference if it isn't already. I don't need my own computer hiding files from me. LOL 

[DennisANisbet]

Like many, I have been a loyal Adobe user since Photoshop 2.
I believe I owned every Suite and every upgrade.
I presently have the "full-blown" Creative Cloud".
This last round of changes, the obvious silence on the part of Adobe,  the number of complaints and a new product on the market makes me look long and hard at "Why Stay With Adobe"?
Affinity Photo and other products they make, look better every day. Affinity Photo is the first product and maybe the only product to be a real Photoshop look-a-like!
While much of the interface looks like Photoshop, it does have a learning curve. I am going through that now. 
I've also asked my Daughter who is an Art Director to take a look. She says, for a big company like hers, such a change is difficult but not impossible.

[Warren Heaton]

For anyone having trouble getting to the correct Library folder on macOS, do the following:

1. Select and copy the following line:
~/Library/Preferences/Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 Settings/

2. In the Finder, choose  Go > Go to Folder... to open the Go to Folder window.

3. With the text field in the Go to Folder window active, choose Edit > Paste and then click Go.

Alternatives:
• In the Finder, hold the Option key when choosing the Go pulldown menu to show the User's Library folder in the Go menu list.
• In the Finder, go to Help > Search and enter "Library" and then hover your mouse of the results "Menu Items: Library".  A large blue arrow will reveal the User's Library folder.

[YAD_Kenton]

I've run a number of art departments myself, I can't even imagine making that change in a company or agency, it would be really difficult. Adobe knows this.

[default9kzo71dsmagv]

is there a setting to go back to the legacy version of the Transform Tool?! PLEASE!!!

[SasquatchPatch]

Tim - did you just post here without reading through the entire thread. The answer has been posted over and over and over and over again - and then again. All you have to do is make a small simple text file, save it with a specific name and drop it into a specific folder. Done. That ought to take about two minutes and you'll be exactly where you want to be and it fixes the crop tool too. Yahoo.