Reverting Back to an Older Version of Photoshop

I've been using Photoshop since version 2.5 and yeah, its changed. We didn't have them new-fangled layers way back when and we liked it. Text? Text was meant to be typed into a little box and then placed on the image, not typed directly on.

Orrrrrrrr..... maybeeeeee.... it really hasn't changed all that much. Yes some things have moved and there are a boatload of new features but the learning curve isn't that steep once you know the basics.

As for not caring about resolution, Photoshop is the wrong tool as has been mentioned. Most features are pixel-based and inches are irrelevant. You'll be a lot happier if you start paying attention to pixels.

And funny enough, there is a whole print-based world where inches aren't used as much either, measurements are mostly in points and picas.

Photoshop 2021 has a lot of glitches. I get too frustrated with the errors it makes. I am going to try 2020 to see if it has been fined tuned. I can't stand the frustration I have with 2021. I am experienced so I know a glitch from an operator performance.

Sometimes a function will work and sometime it doesn't. So darn frustrating. It's a shame.

"Images still resize when placing them into another file with different resolution. I am an artist. I do not care about resolution. I care about size."

Then you'll have constant trouble in Photoshop. You'll be working uphill all the way. Photoshop is a pixel editor. It works with pixels only. Size is metadata in a pixel editor, not a property of the file.

You may care about size, but Photoshop doesn't. Size is a product of the entered resolution number, according to the formula pixels per inch. Yes, that's the resolution number, ppi. Break it down and read that literally: pixels per inch. That's your size.

Thank you for your input- but I have already spent many many hours trying to solve these problems to no avail. I have already unchecked "resize image during place." It did absolutely nothing. Images still resize when placing them into another file with different resolution. I am an artist. I do not care about resolution. I care about size. There are hundreds of other forums with people dealing with the same ludicrous problem. I would love to be proved wrong, but at this point, I am just tired of this.

All of these things are customizable in Preferences.

The one thing I would tend to agree with is that crop handles are now on the outside of a floating-window image.

You can unforce resize during place from Preferences > General > uncheck Resize Image During Place. Transform controls changed and now for most of layer types constrain proportions is by default so you do not need to hold Shift key for that purpose. Shift will actually allow you to transform freely without maintained proportions https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/free-transformations-images-shapes-paths.html.