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MountaineerMatt
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October 17, 2018
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Perspective Keyboard Shortcuts Completely Changed in Photoshop 20.0

  • October 17, 2018
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Why in the world would Adobe get rid of certain keyboard shortcuts that I have used for the past 3 years in their new update?

I do a lot of signage mock-ups in Photoshop, so I need to be able to place logos and manipulate perspective on grass, walls, billboards, etc. Using a Mac, I used to be able to hold the command key and manipulate corners of the particular logo while free transforming an object. Now, they have completely done away with the way this keyboard shortcut used work. They even changed up the free transform tool so that you no longer hold down the shift key to ensure sizing stays the same. I talked with an Adobe rep on the phone and it seems nothing can be done.

Does anyone know a way to revert keyboard shortcuts to the old Photoshop settings? This is really messing up my workflow and causing unnecessary headaches! Please fix this Adobe.

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Correct answer c.pfaffenbichler

cmd-alt and cmd-shift in Transformation seem to work fine here for perspectival transformations.

That pressing shift now allows non-proportional transformations while transformational by default proportional now should be obvious from browsing the »What’s New«-section of the reference.

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numeriquem56721307
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May 7, 2019

I'm sorry @c.pfaffenbichler but changing "holding Shift to constraint proportion" which has been one of the BASIC default behaviour since Photoshop exist (and that has been/still is the default behaviour with Indesign, Illustrator, Annotate, After Effect, Premiere Pro) WITHOUT making it optional in preferences is not OBVIOUS, it's simply stupid (especially when you add that it ONLY works on pixel and text and NOT with a vector).

But again, this is unfortunatly typical of Adobe (not)user-centered design approach. They often only consider one group of users (or their "young" team of developers, having limited experience themselves, have no clue what that means).

c.pfaffenbichler
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c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
Community Expert
May 8, 2019

The old transformation default behaviour can be restored (see »How do I turn off the new proportional scaling by default behavior while transforming layers?« in below link), so to me your post seems like venting.

Use the Free Transform command to apply transformations

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    tillh81967041
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    June 18, 2019

    "ShOuLd bE oBvIoUs fRoM brOwSiNg thE wHaTsNeW sEcTiOn, yOuR pOsT sEeMs liKe vEnTinG"

    Are you listening to yourself?


    Hell yeah we're allowed to vent, especially when crucial shortcuts established over years are suddenly overwritten by default, that's obviously annoying! The assumption that every user is required to read up on (possibly tons of mostly irrelevant) changes in some "What's New?" section is insane. If something works just fine, you don't change it. Simple as that. At least we have legacy settings now.

      Britney407
      Britney407
      Participant
      December 18, 2018

      Does anyone know how to zoom in and out with hotkeys? It seems to have changed as well, also how to deselect using hotkeys.

      HWCHilary
      HWCHilary
      Participant
      December 2, 2018

      I too have used Photoshop from it's very first windows version in the early 1990's. To move core keybindings like transform constrain is BAD. Really bad, my wife just left the room as I was screaming at my PC... Come on guys really?

      Now I have an issue and this is a real bug. Using the windows command key to transform constrain I get the Windows Start menu popping up all the time... So now I don't just have to use a new "stupid" key binding I get an painful second action from that key push. FFS

      Photoshop coders..... Please fix this as it's a total fail. How big a fail.... think of what Microsoft did to Skype.... ok you should get the picture.

      Bad Adobe, bad!

      c.pfaffenbichler
      Community Expert
      c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
      Community Expert
      October 17, 2018

      cmd-alt and cmd-shift in Transformation seem to work fine here for perspectival transformations.

      That pressing shift now allows non-proportional transformations while transformational by default proportional now should be obvious from browsing the »What’s New«-section of the reference.

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        MountaineerMattAuthor
        Participant
        October 17, 2018

        THANK YOU! So now I will have to hold cmd+shift instead of just cmd. That works.

          Muqqarib Hassan
          Muqqarib Hassan
          Inspiring
          October 17, 2018

          Hi, Check this Video new feature of photoshop. It may help you.

          Thanks.

          JJMack
          Community Expert
          JJMackCommunity Expert
          Community Expert
          October 17, 2018

          You can has transform work the way it should  the way it always worked in the past. Edit your Preferences tool section check show reference point transforming and adding a PSUserConfig.txt to your user ID CC 2019 preferences folder.

          JJMack
          Muqqarib Hassan
          Muqqarib Hassan
          Inspiring
          October 17, 2018

          Thank You so much!

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