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gaphiker
gaphiker
Participant
February 13, 2019
Question

Smart guides and Transformations? What happened?

  • February 13, 2019
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What happened with the latest version of photoshop?  The smartguides are no longer linked to the results of a transformation move.  Does anyone know how to get this ability back.  I use this feature all the time to take a square two dimensional image of say, a building facade, expand the canvas by the size of the square and then distort the square on a new layer to make it look like the inside of a box.  I do this for all four sides to get the effect I want.  Alignment is critical and now the distorted layer no longer aligns to the expanded canvas.  Help, I need to get this ability back!!!

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Akash Sharma
Akash Sharma
Legend
April 18, 2019

Hi gaphiker,

Sorry that you're no longer able to see the smart guides in Photoshop matching the results of your proportionate transformation.

When transforming most layer types such as pixel layers, type layers, bitmaps, Placed Smart Objects, simply drag a corner handle to scale these layer types proportionally. Holding down the Shift key while dragging a corner handle during transform, scales these layer types non-proportionally.

However, shapes and paths (that is vectors) scale non-proportionally by default when you drag a corner handle during transform.

For detailed instructions, see Scale, rotate, skew, distort, apply perspective, or warp.

You may turn off the new proportional scaling by default behavior while transforming layers. To revert to the legacy transform behavior, do the following:

Use Notepad (Windows) or a text editor on Mac OS to create a plain text file (.txt).

Type the text below in the text file:

TransformProportionalScale 0

  • (Windows) Save the file as "PSUserConfig.txt" to your Photoshop settings folder.

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

  • (macOS) Do the following:
  • Save the file as "PSUserConfig.txt" to the desktop.

Control-click PSUserConfig.txt saved at the desktop and choose Copy from the pop-up menu.

In the Finder, choose Go > Go To Folder.

In the Go To Folder dialog box, type ~/Library/Preferences/Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 Settings/

Paste the copied file at this location.

  • Restart Photoshop.

Let us know if that helps.

Thanks,

Akash

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