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January 17, 2019
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Resizing without restrictions

  • January 17, 2019
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I've been using Photoshop for years and have never had a problem with resizing an image. I may have a photo that's 2000 x 2200 but want to change it to 1500 x 1800 (not to scale obviously) and knew that if I clicked on the side handles and stretched or moved it I could. If I wanted to maintain the ratio, you can click on the lock/chain to do that. However, even with that deselected, my images are maintaining the aspect ratio. This is a big problem for me. Is there a setting to undo this auto ratio?

Thank you,

Denise

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    Hi

    What version of Photoshop are you using, if it's CC 2019 the way the transform works has changed you need to hold the shift key while dragging the handles, if that's not your version please provide more info

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    JJMack
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    JJMackCommunity Expert
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    January 17, 2019

    It sound like you have installed cc 2019 and don net read about the change mad to transform most layer type  constrained by default press shift while  you transform pr add the PsUserConfig.txt file to  use the old behavior.

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    wererich2Author
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    January 17, 2019

    Your response was actually quite rude "and don't read about the change." No I didn't see the change. But I don't need someone coming along and trying to berate me either.

    JJMack
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    JJMackCommunity Expert
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    January 18, 2019

    You really would be better off reading about updated befor you install them.  Don't be the first to install then. See if other think they are good.  Many felt CC 2019 was not good. Also Adobe release many bugs always keep a working older version installed for when Adobe  in case the current version is buggy..  

    JJMack
    davescm
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    davescmCommunity Expert
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    January 17, 2019

    Hold down shift whilst dragging the handles (the behaviour changed in CC2019 - it used to be hold down shift to maintain the aspect ratio)

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    wererich2Author
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    January 17, 2019

    Thank you so much Dave! This was perfect!

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    Anonymous
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    January 17, 2019

    Hi

    What version of Photoshop are you using, if it's CC 2019 the way the transform works has changed you need to hold the shift key while dragging the handles, if that's not your version please provide more info

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    wererich2Author
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    January 17, 2019

    Thank you Ged, this was perfect. I didn't realize it had changed. I haven't been using it for about 5 months other than to do screenshots. Your answer helped a lot.

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    Anonymous
    January 17, 2019

    No worries

    A lot of people aren't to happy about the change but it can be reverted back to the old way if you need to, more info here

    Transform objects in Photoshop

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