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Scaling proportionally with shift doesn't work in CC

aleksandra krawczycka
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Dec 17, 2016 Dec 17, 2016

Normally holding the shift key down to resize an image or object constrains its proportions. But in my recently installed Photoshop CC on my brand new iMac , the shift key doesn't work to resize proportionally.  Is there a way to fix this problem or is there a new tool that replaces the shift key shortcut?

Please help me, I already tried resetting preferences and restarting.. Nothing works. It's a new iMac and Photoshop is also just installed.

I always work with photoshop, so I know how to use the shortcuts, never had problems with it, this never happened before.

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Trevor.Dennis Community Expert
Community Expert , Dec 17, 2016 Dec 17, 2016

What is the aspect ratio of the object you are Transforming?  Holding down the Shift key forces height and width to change as a percentage of the initial value, so with a stretched out object like below, you do not get an equal linear reduction.

There any number of ways to get an equal gap top and sides.

Enter values in the Options bar adding the Px to change from percentage to pixels:

But I think my preferred method would to use View > New Guide Layout and with the upper fields empty, add margins

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This thread was started in 2016 when there was a different answer. Please post in a new thread.

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