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Transform shift constrain proporation change

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October 23, 2018
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So why in all of your wisdom did you change the transform function in Photoshop to be more in line with other programs yet in indesign & Illustrator it functions as it always has - that is you still need to hold down shift to constrain the proportions . I constantly jump between these programs & now im expected to remember to use the opposite transform functionality from one app to another? WHAT THE ACTUAL F*CK - is this just incompetence or are you deliberately piss off long term users?

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Hi

You can revert it back, take a look here

How do I turn off the new proportional scaling by default behavior while transforming layers?

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/whats-new.html

fdacc

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I hate SO this update... I hate so this f.. Photoshop.

Adobe, are you bored? Really?

Now i can resize vector and pixel elements in different ways - ON THE SAME SOFTWARE!

Your Lightroom works so slowly even on the top computer!

Your XD is just a joke.. Glory to the gods there is a sketch!

Glory to the gods there is a affinity photo / designer. In our department, we will abandon your programs and switch to another software. Enough!

Barb Binder

Community Expert

Hi Courtney:

So why in all of your wisdom did you change the transform function in Photoshop

Some of these seemingly-annoying updates are in place to help new users—I regularly watch my students distorting images while transforming them—even as I remind them to hold Shift to maintain the aspect ratio. As per Ged's answer, as an experienced user, you can always edit your preferences to restore the preferred behavior. It's not gone, it's just off as a default.

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

Elrol

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How does it help new users if one tool works inconsistently throughout whole suite and even inside Photoshop there are now some transforms where you have to hold Shift to keep tranform proportional and some where you must not. That is pure madness.

I would totally understand if it got changed everywhere. I understand that people who hadn't been trained for last 20 years to hold the Shift key might expect transform to be proportional by default. That's ok. But right now, implemented with such inconsistency, this is an extremely user hostile change - be it new or old user.

Also, there are million settings inside Photoshop. Why is this one so special and so unusual that it can't have checkbox in settings but you have to create and edit text file inside some obscure Photoshop directory? Is it really so unexpected that some people might not like the change and would want to revert it back to old behaviour? (And thank god for that text file!)

Sorry for the outburst, I'm just angry :]

Barb Binder

Community Expert

Hi Elrol

Sorry for the outburst, I'm just angry :]

No need to apologize, I get it.

I was just trying to provide some context for the change, and while I was surprised to hear at MAX last week that this doesn't impact shapes, I also can tell you that brand new users aren't using shape layers. They are transforming (and distorting) images and text, however from day one. (That's my personal view, of course, shaped by training and supporting Photoshop users since 1992.)

That said, this is a community forum—users helping users—so while we don't mind hearing how frustrating this is, we can't do anything about it. For all of you on the thread who are frustrated with the changes, the constructive place to put your feedback is here: Photoshop Family Customer Community. That site is monitored by the Photoshop team and they do listen to customers.

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

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toms23387127

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What's even better - it seems you still need to hold shift down if you want to resize a shape or vector based object created by PS. So this means, within the same program, they are not even consistent with how this new "feature" is used!!!

KShinabery212

Community Expert

I have a feeling we are going to see this question quite a bit since it changed.

Here are all the answers to all the updates.....

Top 20 NEW Features & Updates EXPLAINED! - Photoshop CC 2019 - YouTube

Let's connect on LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/in/kshinabery/

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Correct answer

Hi

You can revert it back, take a look here

How do I turn off the new proportional scaling by default behavior while transforming layers?

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/whats-new.html

Chuck Uebele

Community Expert

ID and AI might soon follow PS.

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tr1ckpony

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I hope AI doesn't follow suit on this!

I've taught Photoshop in college and continuing ed and agree that new users distort while transforming, but they also don't know how to do much that Photoshop offers – so the idea of making the program more dummy-proof for the basic user is really counter-intuitive.

We have 20 designers on staff here at our agency and every one of them has bitched about this change since the moment it happened. It's super disruptive to productivity and doesn't make sense after ingraining it into our habits. And even more annoying is that placed objects sometimes conform to it and other times require shift. Not to mention when you hop back into AI you start to realize you're becoming accustomed to not holding shift. And to take that one step further – Adobe has set the standard for this interaction and apps like Google Docs - which more and more creatives uses nowadays (sorry Indesign!) also uses the +SHIFT convention.

Please don't mess with stuff that's already good. And definitely don't package it as an upgrade to workflow when you might not understand workflow as clearly as you think you do.

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