Transform sticks to cursor

Forum|Forum|7 months ago
June 4, 2025
2 replies
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I am not placing this in BUG form... because it is there already AND STILL NOT FIXED!!!!

Seems that this happens all too often where I click to scale a SO or linked file, the layer sticks to my cursor and I am unable to scale, it just follows my cursor until I click, hereby moving that layer elsewhere.

Windows

Brett N

Adobe Employee

I'm not reproducing on my end, but I'm also not sure what steps you are taking. In the video, I don't see any sort of dialogs appearing and the UI is too blurry to see any detail in the panels. Are you simply copy/pasting in the new layer? And once the new layer is created, the transform handle is just stuck to the cursor?

Looking at other posts from folks reporting similar behavior, I keeps seeing that third-party apps, such as Magnet, add this functionality on purpose. One thing that can determine whether or not this is the cause on your system is to run your computer in a simplified startup mode (see: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-to-perform-a-clean-boot-in-windows-da2f9573-6eec-00ad-2f8a-a97a1807f3dd)

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Aleke

Community Manager

Hi @Todd_Morgan!

Sorry to hear you're running into trouble with Photoshop — that sounds frustrating.

Could you let us know which version of Photoshop you're using, along with your operating system? If you're able to share a quick screen recording showing the issue and how to reproduce it, that would be super helpful for us to take a closer look.

Thanks a lot!
Alek

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Todd_MorganAuthor

Brainiac

Here you go... you will note that when I first click on the top right corner, the whole thing follows my cursor. I hit escape and then try again and no issue. But sometimes it won't, and keep following my cursor.

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Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

Hi Todd. I am not seeing what you describe, unless I am not understanding you. From your wording, I expexted the entire bounding box to move with the cursor, but it looks like you are dragging the top right handle while the opposite handle remains locked in position as you'd expect. Are you seeing something different?

BTW, what is that panel in the bottom right corner of your workspace? It looks interesting.

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