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Free Transform tool not working

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November 12, 2018
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I cant get the Free Transform tool to work in new 2019 Photoshop. cannot just stretch or squash an image. No control over unlocking ratio tool in top toolbar. 2018 works 2019 doesnt.

Please any suggestion. So far update has been very, very disappointing

Carl Rainer

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Correct answer jane-e

Totally stupid change. Change it back please.
By @goatskull

You replied to a thread from 2018 and things changed several years ago.

You can change the behavior back yourself in one of two ways:

Preferences > General > Use Legacy Free Transform
or
After you choose Edit > Free Transform, click the Link icon inbetween the Width and Height controls. If the Link is enabled, the controls work in tandem. If it is off, they work separately.

Details here:

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/free-transformations-images-shapes-paths.html

Jane

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John Waller

Community Expert

There is a workaround provided by Adobe to revert the behaviour of Transform to be the same as previous versions of Photoshop. I use it and it works fine.

Refer the Help document link provided by jane-e above for exact steps.

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JoyceOdell

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Have followed the instructions, but the tool still does not work satisfactorily. It does not work smoothly, it flashes between too large and too small, covering the area that I'm trying to fit things into, to the point of not being able to see how it is fitting into the space.

I am not going to deal with this kind of botched performance. I've deinstalled 2019 and am going to continue to use 2018 where the tool *behaves itself*.

I seriously doubt that I am the only user being disobliged by this kind of high-handed diminished functionality on the part of the developers (or the marketing wonks). With any luck there will be a sufficient amount of protest for the next version to at the very least have a toggle built in where we can choose which settings we wish to use. Or the crippled 2019 "default" version will be the one that's accessible by an extra key command.

I will quite happily skip a crippled version of a key program, thank you.

jane-e

Community Expert

They have changed the way it works. It’s proportional by default and you use the Shift key to distort. Read Help about how it works now: Use the Free Transform command to apply transformations

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Balsonauta

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how can they be so dumb to change such a setting stone of this software? they don't know what to change it anymore! and they start to change the good stuff!

nealbridgens

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I totally agree. Seems like they have young kids working at Adobe now that have no idea how things work. A bit of advice for you youngsters at Adobe - "Don't no change your core applications like you did with Photoshop, just because you have nothing better to do". There was absolutely no good reason for this change.

DRAY1510 wrote
I totally agree. Seems like they have young kids working at Adobe now that have no idea how things work. A bit of advice for you youngsters at Adobe - "Don't no change your core applications like you did with Photoshop, just because you have nothing better to do". There was absolutely no good reason for this change.

I'd actually be okay with them changing the transform behaviours if they made them the same across all the applications. But to just change this one to a whole new and unexpected paradigm? If you work with PS/Illustrator/Indesign transform has become a mash the keyboard and see what happens experience.

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