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Photoshop - holding shift not constraining proportions when resizing [2018]

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
October 16, 2018
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I updated my CC today and now my shift button is not constraining proportions.

I have tried it with no other programs open so I don't think that key commends in other apps are affecting it.

This is a big problem! Is this a setting now? Am I missing something? Help!

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Correct answer jane-e

“For example, for years and years Control + D was used for "duplicate" in every Adobe program of the suite.”

Hi

I’ve been using Adobe products for several decades and Ctrl+D (Cmd+D on Mac) is the one I use most often to show inconsistencies. Here’s how it works in the four programs I use. I have no problems keeping it straight and it’s never an issue for me.

Photoshop: Select > Deselect

Illustrator : Edit > Duplicate last transformation

InDesign: File > Place

Acrobat: File > Properties

I’m curious, though, as to how you are using Adobe products without paying for them?

Also, this is a user forum, and we are professionals who volunteer to assist users who have questions. We do not work for Adobe.

There are two ways to go back to the old behavior:

Preferences > General > Use Legacy Free Transform (lower left)
Click the Link button in the options bar for Free Transform to disable it

We are always here when you have a question, Makinsky.

~ Jane

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defaultrbgfjasw69zw

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It's certainly not an improvement.

jane-e

Community Expert

It's certainly not an improvement.
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@defaultrbgfjasw69zw

This thread is from 2018. Are you aware that you can change the behavior so it works as you would like it to?

Prefs > General > Use Legacy Free Transform
After you do Cmd+T, look at the link widget inbetween the Width and Height. Click it to toggle it to the opposite.

~ Jane

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cassied29671829

Participant

Hi, I tried this in PS 2021 v22.4.2 and it didn't work, anyone else find this or have I done something wrong?

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AIUserWO

Participant

Came here to say that I rarely use Photoshop (mostly Illustrator) and today was given a time sensitive, EASY project and instead spent 30 min trying to google what the heck happened to the scaling in the Transform tool.

This is BEYOND frustrating and unacceptable. Can't believe you have to CHECK a setting to make this happen. You should have to UNCHECK the regular setting because I bet 95% of users do not want their images scaling in wacky ways. It just makes no sense.

Also - it's 2020 and this is still an issue they don't care about and haven't bothered to revert back to the original ways.

Beginning to hate all Adobe products - it's just a "let's update you every 6 months and move all of the buttons around just for fun to keep you engaged" mentality. I'm sick of these programs!!

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Csaki0D44

Participant

Nah, mostly we are using it with constraining the resizing. There should be an invert function and everyone would be happy.

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Anonymous

Not only a brainless action from Adobe regardless Photoshop and this stupid intent to supposedly facilitate working with the program, but there is much more. The keyboard shortcuts differ a lot from Adobe applications. For example, for years and years Control + D was used for "duplicate" in every Adobe program of the suite. And it's been many versions that in InDesign to duplicate anything one's got to hold Control+Shift+Alt+V. Or When paste in front or paste in back.... or when you use the programs in different language. If the language is spanish, then, for example, Control + A is not SelectAll any more but Open, because in spanish Open is Abrir. Multiple annoyances because they have a lot of programmers that do whatever they want, changing the commands and the tools... puting a lot of unnecesary functions and removing the useful ones. I just have one word for all of you, Adobe geniouses: YOU ARE SO DAMN IDIOTS. No respect for the professional designers. Sadly, these are the standard tools in this industry and we are slave of you. Thanks God I didn't pay for your mediocre products.

jane-e

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Community Expert

“For example, for years and years Control + D was used for "duplicate" in every Adobe program of the suite.”

Hi

I’ve been using Adobe products for several decades and Ctrl+D (Cmd+D on Mac) is the one I use most often to show inconsistencies. Here’s how it works in the four programs I use. I have no problems keeping it straight and it’s never an issue for me.

Photoshop: Select > Deselect

Illustrator : Edit > Duplicate last transformation

InDesign: File > Place

Acrobat: File > Properties

I’m curious, though, as to how you are using Adobe products without paying for them?

Also, this is a user forum, and we are professionals who volunteer to assist users who have questions. We do not work for Adobe.

There are two ways to go back to the old behavior:

Preferences > General > Use Legacy Free Transform (lower left)
Click the Link button in the options bar for Free Transform to disable it

We are always here when you have a question, Makinsky.

~ Jane

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Chad11111111

Inspiring

Thank you Jane. This will resolve everyones issue with this. I know it has been driving me crazy since the first day Adobe pushed this update and I finally had enough.

The only problem with the solution is it's on page 3. Hopefully Adobe moves this to the first page as a Fixed resolution.

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LauraWasHere

Participant

Why would you do this Adobe? This is so stupid!

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Li_Shi

Participant

This new feature makes me very sad/mad.

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

Good news for people who don't like the new Free Transform behaviour. V20.0.05 now has a Preference setting to return to the old Shift key constrains aspect ratio behaviour.

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Li_Shi

Participant

Excellent, thanks!!

I'd been using the older PSUserConfig.txt solution and it looks like the recent update broke that. Checking Use Legacy Free Transform is exactly what I needed though. Resizing raster images and shapes behave in the same manner once again.

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doubletrouble7776

Participant

I got your feedback right here: this new "feature" SUCKS. Seriously, why would you do this?

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davidp158

Known Participant

+1 for this absolutely unnecessary "enhancement". I see this as a solution looking for a problem. As someone who has actively used Photoshop since version 2.0, this change makes no sense whatsoever. Long time users develop muscle memory for certain tools, and a change like this show zero regard for end users. If it ain't broke, PLEASE don't fix it.

Drew_Gray

Participant

Gotta chime in here myself - Takes a lot for me to actually complain, but it is indeed very very frustrating to have to work and retrain what was a perfectly efficient workflow habit. Especially with the inability to at least revert to the standard or traditional way of doing things. I thought I was going crazy when it switched over.

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al4527

Participant

WHY DO YOU HATE ME? You understand it's been 20 years of Photoshop since the first and my ring finger will automatically hit the shift key anyway, right? And now instead of working I'm yelling on a forum trying to figure this out and OH MY GOD WHY WOULD YOU CHANGE THIS ON ME NOW???? Fire whoever decided this. I'm not kidding. They clearly don't understand your users. I can't stand updates anymore. I wait until it's forced on me and then I hold my breath for this jackassery to start.

Petr Holusa

Inspiring

I agree! It's really [cursing removed]? Heads come to the meeting, hitting the bong and they say: 'today we are gonna change transform from shift to alt but we keep other application as it is!'

And seriously. Ai is different, Ae is different, Ps is different? Why for fack sake they pointlessly change something when no needed?

Not sure if this is kind of conspiracy against user to find out how they will react. Because looks like I'm getting old for changes for something what really works absolutely fine. Imagine gov is going to change traffic directions?

chanaart

Community Expert

Please be nice to us! we volunteer and try to help!

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