Scaling Images with shift no longer works after update (20.0)

[NateFromSunnyside]

After updating to CC 2019, I am not longer able to scale images evenly simply by holding shift.

I went to keyboard shortcuts and found a "scale" shortcut that was unassigned, so i assigned it to "S" as it simply wouldn't let me assign shift:

Now it seems to only want to scale evenly and won't let me scale however I want simply by dragging the corner of the image. Sometimes it doesn't go evenly when I transform with Ctrl+T and scales evenly after I press S, but wont let me go back to scaling unevenly.

Any Ideas?

[james_virgen]

Thanks for this! My world is right again.

I'd like to add, if you're on Mac, trigger the "Go" menu dropdown and while it's open, hold down the option key to make your "Library" folder show. Then you can get to the Photoshop settings folder.

Also, if you're using TextEdit to create the file, be sure to convert the document to plain text by going to the "Format" menu and select "Make Plain Text" as the default format is rich text and that won't work.

[vycanismajoris]

This could easily be a checkbox in preferences but we're expected to create text files to revert to the same behaviour we've been used to for the last 2 decades?

[Guest]

This fix:

• Windows: [Installation Drive]:\Users\[User Name]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC 2019\Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 Settings\

isn't working for me, because that file path doesn't exist on my PC. There's no AppData folder in my user folder, and after trying to do a search for individual folders on my computer, there's no roaming folder. I did find an Adobe Photoshop CC folder but there's no settings folder in it, either.

Yes, I tried to copy/paste the file path and it just tells me it doesn't exist.

can anyone help?

[justinm47991011]

Try entering in %AppData% into a Windows Explorer URL bar (not Edge or IE). That should take you directly to the AppData folder where you should see Roaming. If you're copying the text exactly, make sure you're replacing your particular Installation Drive and User Name. Yours may have a space in the username. Make sure that's included.

[mardusmanicus]

first I wanted to say F**K YOU Adobe!!!

Then I wanted to say THANK YOU COMMUNITY!!!!!!

[masoudimo]

Don't know how thank you buddy. You just made my day 😄

[MarcinKrzyzaniak]

Thank You!!!!!! it's save my life. Whole day i just want to throw my computer through the window and then jump out after!

Adobe PLEASE if You changing something that is in your program "20 years" then at least give an option to disable id (change it like it always was) somewhere in options. Like with old new file menu (hate this new one).

[christopherh48566475]

I'm guessing this became the default because of scaling in Photoshop on the iPad. An option to disable it would have been great!

[Jacek_Sawicki]

They would change something in PC/Mac version because of iPad? That would be even more stupid.

[michael_kay_]

Adobe should know better than to change behavior of tools and shortcuts which have cemented themselves in the minds of its users over the last two decades.  There is no reason to change them period.  Why don't they focus on debugging and improving the app instead of toying with its building blocks that sit at its foundation?  I am flabbergasted by the dumbfounded logic displayed in this latest update. 

[brandonl8911795]

Triple like if I could!!! Decades of touch and feel - scrapped by Adobe with no option to go back. Unbelievable.

[JocelynSuzanne]

This is so awful - already slammed working and then Adobe takes my brain and flips it upside with this insane backwards 'transform proportionally without the shift"? After 25 years how are we supposed to just flip our brains and make this change? Not to mention, spending way too long trying to figure this out today.   Lesson learned. Never upgrade versions during a busy work week.

[Poul_G]

Agrees! comon, you make a big change like this you make a box to disable it.. at least for the next version.. Its like crossing your arms and riding a bike..

[Kukurykus]

Re: Photoshop 2019 maintain aspect ratio on SHIFT key inconsistent

[gratyngrogg]

I'm growing more and more aggravated with the 2019 release as I uncover further changes that feel like they're different "just because" but with no real benefit. So many things are simply just the opposite of what they used to be. So frustrating.

[Carola_BHG]

Thank you very much.

[Stephen_Andelo]

uninstalled photoshop 2019. super dumb

[Kukurykus]

Huge wow! You just came, had almost no posts and for one short observation you got 50 likes while 36 people found it helpful!

[merrycalliope]

Thank you for posting a solution for this. I don't think this change is as bizarre as when Adobe decided to make CTRL-Z toggle history states instead of going back up the history tree but it's pretty annoying.

Hopefully they'll change it back like they did with Undo to keep it in line with pretty much every other graphics application out there. I'm adding my 0.02 here in hopes that our discontent will eventually trickle back to the Adobe hindbrain.

[denbykev]

The step-back undo on CTRL / COMMAND - Z is massively infuriating - but I can understand it, as most other apps apply multiple undo in this way…

…however, Photoshop is different as you want to use COMMAND-Z for a before / after switch. Having to now use two different keyboard shortcuts (with more fingers) once again, spoils the fluency of working in Photoshop and ultimately, costs time.

[brandonl8911795]

Good heavens, thank you!

I don't think Adobe understands: we don't click buttons so much as we play an instrument called "the computer keyboard." We move by touch and decades of training means that fundamentally changing buttons ought to come with an option to REVERT IT.

[sdsofficial]

In my 6 years of using photoshop i've almost never not scaled proportionately. They probably did this to remove friction (pressing an extra key) in scaling which every photoshop user has to do on a daily basis. a lot of it.

[David Cardillo]

I think the main issue here is consistency over usability. They've changed keyboard shortcuts before (apply filter is now find).

The issue is A) not every object behaves this way (vector shapes still need shift) and B) _every_other_application_ behaves the old way.

Illustrator and InDesign still require holding shift for proportional scaling.

Quark requires the shift key.

Microsoft Word requires the shift key to scale proportionally.

Muscle memory is a thing. I still hold down the option key along with the space bar in Photoshop when using the page grabber hand, because that's the combo I use in InDesign. There's a reason InDesign still ships with Quark keyboard shortcuts.

Imagine they changed the shortcuts for tracking and kerning type in Illustrator, and Photoshop and InDesign had different commands.

[mardusmanicus]

The "Details and instructions" link is now just "new in the latest", i.e. useless. You could update the link (because "correct answer")... 🙂

Switch to legacy transform: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/transforming-objects.html#transform-scale-proportionally

[Thaysa232784875kaw]

Perfect comment. This is easily one of the most unnecessary and counterintuitive changes Adobe has ever made.