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Transform Shift No Longer Maintains Aspect Ratio in Photoshop

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
November 3, 2018
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I just updated to the latest Photshop CC and now when I transform objects while holding down shift, it doesn't maintain the same ratio- they get all stretched.

Is there a new shortcut to maintain the aspect ratio but increase or decrease the size?

Correct answer hillaryf14430707

It's a reflex !!! After25 years it has become a f***g reflex to press shift while scaling. It happens a hundred times a day! This still get's me so angry in 2023.

First panel of Preferences has an option "Use Legacy Free Transform" - just in case you didn't know 🙂 Yeah, I'm also not undoing 25 years of reflex, hah!!

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CG ?????? YT_Yadav8608

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Syeda26632155ojn3

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help me please i dont know how but my photoshop now resize propotionaly while holding shift its just frustrating how do i turn off this option and get back to normal

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xOgawa

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Go to your Photoshop "Preferences", "General", "Use Legacy Free Transform". Problem solved!!

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pengcognito

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Not anymore. The checkbox does nothing, it's only the legacy behavior. Adobe hates us.

paulac19479105

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yep,the same thing is happening to me. i check the legacy box and id does nothing. so frustrating!

hollys61320158

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I'm used to the new feature of not needing to hold shift key but WHY does it keep randomly switching back between needing and not. It's driving me nuts!!!

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christian a5FC3

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What a wrong decision Adobe.. taking away the shift for transforming.. this is like changing the whole dinamic of how we work on photoshop. Im an old user from the 90s.. and dont tell me this new way works well, because it just doesnt! the worst os when I want to transform text layer!! what a hassle, now I have to change the font size te get it right!! this is soooo frustrating, Im thinking on a new software. This is a basic thing guys.

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kweditrix

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You now use just the alt key without the shift to resize to maintain the aspect ratio.

I've just saved you precious time you don't have trying to figure this out.

You're welcome.

I had to just go figure this out on my own because that Ctrl/Cmd-T mess is wrong--it just resizes the layer without constraining the aspect ratio.

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kweditrix

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To clarify even further: if after placing the layer to be resized into your workspace and you just pull the corner of the picture, it will maintain aspect ratio from the upper left corner.

The alt key will place the anchor point in the center.

The shift key breaks the aspect ratio so you can make the layer any size you want.

You're welcome

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kweditrix

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You will not see the usual anchor point on the layer---for some reason they got rid of it and want you to waste time guessing where it went. When I find out how to find it--because not all images are enlarged from the left corner or the center, I'll let you know.

You're welcome.

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SerraSemi

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so the PSUserConfig.txt file trick worked for a couple of months and now it stopped working!

WTF do I do now? what is the next trick bc this is so freaking annoying. I swear I would use some other app if there was an option to avoid this this.

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DocRock

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Here you go!

FIX Photoshop Free Transform Tool Forever! June 2019 UPDATE of Photoshop CC 2019 - YouTube

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JJSchwartz

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I give up. There are just too may 'things' wrong with new and improved PS and I'm getting tired of figuring out the jargon to explain the problem that I'm (PS2020) having to get either an answer that addresses the problem for 10% of users leaving the 90% without a solution OR no solution at all. PS just isn't worth the hassle and the subscription (YIKES!). (I have an 'old' PS that I actually own and it works wonderfully.) I know that PS2020 probably is a whiz-bang program, but not for me. I don't have enough hair on my head to deal with it's idiosyncrasies. EXAMPLE: When using a tool that defines itself in the work space as a 'circle' it's darn hard to near impossible to see. (No 'near' about it. It just disappears and yuou have to 'feel' your way around.) And 'no' it isn't a cap lock problem / solution.

ThoughtNozzle

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This is, once again, an example of Adobe having no clue about what users really need, and how they work. Or rather, not caring, and simply making ill-considered changes that serve as obstacles to productivity.

This not only applies to those of us who have decades of muscular memory built in – I've been using Photoshop since around 1991 – but it also applies to ALL users. If I'm not mistaken, holding down the Shift key is the default "constrain proportions" method for Mac OS, and has been since, well, probably before Photoshop was first released in 1990.

Alternate methods like these should be offered as an option that is TURNED OFF by default, and can be turned on within a preference pane.

Instead, Adobe is forcing us to engage in digging around in some obscure settings file to tweak a value in order to restore proper (yes, proper) functionality? Seriously? Are your developers still running DOS 1.3?

This is absolutely ridiculous.

Remember who made Adobe great: your users. Especially those of us who a re professional designers and photographers who have been using your applications since the beginning, have served on the MacWorld Expo faculty for years, and have led local User Groups' Special Interest Groups on Adobe products.

Apparently you imagine that Photoshop's original users no longer have influence over the user community.

Rumors of our death are greatly exaggerated.

Stop making idiotic, UI-guidelines-breaking, totally unnecessary changes.