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charlien17463114
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September 22, 2019
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Reverting Back to an Older Version of Photoshop

  • September 22, 2019
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I am honestly at my wits end. I upgraded to Photoshop CC 2019 after using older versions for years, and I am completely floored by how horrific the interface is. I really just do not understand what the designers were thinking. Images are forcibly resized upon "placing" into another file- the transform controls are horrific and incredibly frustrating, the tabs at the top of the screen for the files are inaccesible and a pain for moving files around, etc, etc, etc, etc--- I have now spent over 40 hours trying to find work arounds and solutions for all of these default interface changes and I am done. Whoever approved these changes (without any kind of customization or alternatives) needs to be taken out back and shot. FIN

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    Correct answer Derek Cross

    New Photoshop features can be disconcerting, but once you get used to other ways of doing things they can be more productive and, as mentioned, many features are customisable.

     

    Have a look at this online video tutorial, you can get 30-days free access:

    https://www.linkedin.com/learning/photoshop-cc-2019-new-features

     

    Welcome to the Photoshop forum!

    7 replies

    Legend
    September 23, 2021

    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.

     

    Participant
    September 23, 2021

    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.

    D Fosse
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    September 24, 2019

    "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.

    charlien17463114
    Participant
    September 24, 2019
    Ya I understand that- like I said, going back to an older version of photoshop. It is not unreasonable to hope for customization when a program like photoshop makes drastic changes to function.
    charlien17463114
    Participant
    September 23, 2019

    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.

    Derek Cross
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    September 23, 2019
    Are you producing content for screen or for printing?
    charlien17463114
    Participant
    September 23, 2019
    Being able to move an image into another file without it being resized based on resolution is essential to what I do. I unchecked “resize during place” I try moving a 30 inch by 30 inch image into another file which is 30 inch by 30 inch- AND lo and behold, the image I moved is now 6 inch by 6 inch. There is no way to change this idiotic function. I am an artist, so many of the images I work with have different resolutions, some of them are blurry, some of them sharp. I desperately need to be able to constantly move the images between files without such drastic changes occurring each time.
    Derek Cross
    Community Expert
    Derek CrossCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    September 22, 2019

    New Photoshop features can be disconcerting, but once you get used to other ways of doing things they can be more productive and, as mentioned, many features are customisable.

     

    Have a look at this online video tutorial, you can get 30-days free access:

    https://www.linkedin.com/learning/photoshop-cc-2019-new-features

     

    Welcome to the Photoshop forum!

    D Fosse
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    September 22, 2019

    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.

    Bojan Živković11378569
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    September 22, 2019

    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.