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gabrielh11345323
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April 12, 2019
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Stop messing with our workflow

  • April 12, 2019
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In recent updates, you have changed hotkeys and other workflow changes such as "CTRL + ALT + Z" and how the transform tool behaves.  These are not improvements.  They are impediments which throw a wrench in our workflow.  It feels many times, that Adobe doesn't understand their customers.  Meaning, this isn't a toy for many of us... it's one of our primary tools for our professions.  When you make changes which alter our workflow in any way, especially hotkeys or tool behaviors, it cost us time.  Which, cost us money. 

Please, stop making "improvements" to decades old workflows for the sake of "improving" things.  Leave it to the user to change their hotkeys to what they wish and do not force changes through updates.

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    Trevor.Dennis
    Community Expert
    Trevor.DennisCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    April 19, 2019

    gabrielh11345323  How do you cope with new feature updates?  Do you ignore them, or try to incorporate them into your workflow?  How did you get on when the Crop tool behaviour changed in (I think) CS6, and do you think you'd like to go back to the old way now?  Yes, it is initially annoying to have to learn new tools and shortcuts, but it really doesn't take long, and there is usually a good reason for changes.   I routinely change a lot of the shortcuts anyway, because I like to use single key shortcuts using the programmable G-keys on gaming keyboards.  By heck, they are a huge time saver.

    I will say that of all the changes we have seen in recent updates, Free Transform has been the most difficult to get to grips with, because it is inconsistent.   You can't commit it to muscle memory, because you have to stop and think about is it a raster or shape layer, or is a type layer or workpath.  I think I probably make at least one mistake a day with this, and it's been a while since the changes were introduced.

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    Anonymous
    April 12, 2019

    Hi

    This is a user forum and you're not really addressing Adobe here, this is more likely a better place to post your grievance

    Photoshop | Photoshop Family Customer Community

    You can revert the shortcut

    and also revert the way the transform works

    Transform objects in Photoshop

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      gabrielh11345323Author
      Participant
      April 12, 2019

      excellent... however, this isn't helpful for the transform tool changes such as it's behavior when using shift.... which my coworker just came across another issue as I am responding to this... holding alt then clicking anywhere to change the anchor points, not working anymore.

      I'll post to that other location later... as far as not addressing adobe here.. maybe they should "step over" here and see what their customers are saying about these changes. 

      c.pfaffenbichler
      Community Expert
      c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      April 19, 2019
      however, this isn't helpful for the transform tool changes such as it's behavior when using shift....

      Why do people keep referring to a »transform(ation) tool« that does not exist in Photoshop?

      See

      How do I turn off the new proportional scaling by default behavior while transforming layers?

      on this page:

      Use the Free Transform command to apply transformations

      I'll post to that other location later... as far as not addressing adobe here.. maybe they should "step over" here and see what their customers are saying about these changes.

      The change was apparently a reaction to feature requests. (edited)

      Photoshop: Free Transform - ability to set Maintain Aspect Ratio as default | Photoshop Family Customer Community

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