Photoshop 2019 rotation transform: cursor proximity changed

[aaronb84683913]

Hi everyone!

I just updated to the 2019 version and immediately noticed a nasty change:

When trying to free transform an object and rotate it, the proximity of the cursor to rotate has changed for the worst!

Before it didn't matter, where you would click/hold to rotate outside the object. Now the cursor has to be very close or else a click too far away only confirms the transformation and the object gets unselected. Does this make sense?

Anyway, I was wondering if anyone already found a way to disable or change this behavior?

Cheers!

[evejweinberg]

i agree!!

[Organic Metal]

Yeah. Its ridiculous. At least give users the option to have it like it used to be. Can't think of a single advantage to this new way of rotaing

[AndreaFryer]

This change drives me NUTS!!! Why did they reduce the area!? Now you're forced to actually look at your cursor to see when it changes to the rotation icon. How is that a usability improvement, I must ask. 

I tried the TransformProportionalScale 0 thing mentioned in this thread and it didn't make any difference. Will just have to start pressing CTRL down when rotating from now on. :(((

[Lukas Kawalec]

For anyone else having this issue, assuming you are using a late enough Photoshop version, just put this in PSUserConfig (C:\Users\{UserName}\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop {20xx}\Adobe Photoshop {20xx} Settings):

# Disable click to commit
OnCanvasClickToCommit 0

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