This doesn't seem to be the same problem as what we're talking about in this thread. ... View more

jinaz66426079  wrote Shift has always been used to constrain aspect ratio in all things design No. We discussed this above. ... View more

FauxtoGuy  wrote Somehow it has taken until now for me to realize that the new constrain scale by default only applies to pixels - NOT to scaling of a  work path -until it has been saved. That is a glaring defect. Isn't the resolution of defects what we're supposedly paying for with the "rental" model?  If the sink is clogged in my rental apartment, I call them and they scurry over to fix it. So far, Adobe has clogged a lot of toilets and there's not a plunger in sight. ... View more

People aren't asking for the feature because other applications have it, Wade. They're asking for it because the product is a pain in the áss to use without it. We're citing other products (and JET forgot Corel Draw) as evidence that the need for this feature is widely recognized by just about everyone but Adobe. So, to answer your question of "who cares," I say, "quite a few people."  If you don't, then log off and go about your business. Nobody here is requesting that your pet selection method be abolished, destroying your world forever. ... View more

D Fosse wrote   But just out of curiosity - anyone know of any applications that do it the "new Photoshop" way? Yep: Corel Draw, which rules over Illustrator but sadly doesn't run on Macs.   Also, Affinity Designer (and most likely Photo) offers the option (which I agree should be provided by Adobe):   ... View more

but it is consistent shortcut action for ALL applications form EVERY developer period for the past 3 decades. That is just BS. Not to mention that it wasn't a good standard to begin with. Resizing from a corner should maintain aspect ratio; if you want to resize in X or Y, then drag a side handle or the top or bottom handle.  That's totally intuitive.  The most common case should be the default. If you're going to argue that you want to ruin the aspect ratio of the selection in most cases, you're pushing a strawman. Not to mention that Shift never made sense. Control at least would make sense, because you're controlling the scaling to maintain the aspect ratio. The problem here is Adobe's half-assed (inconsistent) changeover. ... View more

That guy claims to have user data showing that every glaring defect in Photoshop is beloved by customers. ... View more

When did I say it was? I'm addressing the caterwauling and propagation of false claims that this is somehow a crazy UI convention that other applications don't use. That's bunk. And it's more intuitive (or, at the very least, discoverable) and allows both types of adjustment with no modifier key. I fully agree that a preference for this behavior would be welcome. But Adobe seems to do what they want, and half-assedly (as many people have pointed out in this thread). How many years have we been asking for a "Paste as new image" command? Talk about a glaring omission that's easy to fix, for a function that exists in other Adobe CC products. ... View more

JJMack  wrote In Fact I can not do it in Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer or  Corel Draw.  I do not have them installed. They do not meet my needs. Normally my Photoshop Scripts do all the scaling.  Scaling is constrained and  Masked to Aspect ratio or shape.   Affinity Photo can not be scripted how  poor is that you need to do it manually. That doesn't make sense. What scripts? And why would scripts be affected by the functionality of on-screen controls? Which leads to your next complaint: Of course you have to do it manually; that's how on-screen controls work! And who said you had anything else installed? Are you the guy who said "IN EVERY OTHER APPLICATION OUT THERE?" No? Then I wasn't responding to you, was I? When I do it manually  I'm useally  distorting my image to add perspective and rotation not  proportionally. There are perspective and rotation functions in Photoshop for that purpose, which are separate from scaling. Not to mention, you should still be able to scale non-proportionally by simply using the handles on the sides instead of the corners. ... View more

nicolek55901278  wrote It's a terrible idea--you have to hold shift to keep proportions when scaling IN EVERY OTHER APPLICATION OUT THERE Not true. You don't have to in Affinity Designer, nor in Corel Draw. What do you do more: scale proportionally, or non-proportionally? The more-common one should be the default, and you should have to hold a special key to do the less-common one. That is how it is now. If you want to scale non-proportionally, just use the side handles instead of the corner handles. No modifier key needed for that, either. ... View more

No idea. I shitcanned all Adobe software since this. ... View more

OK, I was wondering how you achieved anything by copying the file to your desktop. I would still like an explanation of why Adobe thought it made sense to provide a Save function without a Load function. ... View more

How? There's no "load" function. ... View more

Making things consistent across applications would mean actually doing something to Illustrator. It has been abandoned for years. I wonder if they can even compile it anymore. ... View more

timf30635073  wrote I agree that the new method is counter-intuitive. SHIFT is universally used to CONSTRAIN (no?) No. Some applications use the more-sensible Ctrl, to control (constrain) resizing. While I like the change to the default when resizing from a corner, it should not apply when resizing from edges; and I agree with the complaints here: All of the resizing should work the same way throughout the application. What is going on at Adobe that results in such shoddy attention to detail? MAKE BEHAVIOR CONSISTENT. ... View more

Oh, wow, that's not what I expected. I thought the change was simply that corner-dragging always maintained aspect ratio, unlike before (where you had to hold Shift, which never made sense because Ctrl should "control" the aspect ratio, but I digress...) But I expected dragging a vertical or horizontal edge to allow you to scale in one dimension. So I agree with you Hairbrain54  wrote In the old system if I wanted to maintain the aspect ration - I just grabbed a corner of the frame. You sure about that? I'm pretty sure you had to hold Shift. ... View more

How are they taking away functionality? Can't you still do a non-constrained scale by grabbing the relevant side and dragging it? I think Adobe should be commended for finally admitting that other applications or standards are actually better than what they've been doing. It's just too bad they've abandoned Illustrator, because it desperately needs this realization in a few functions (like being able to select only objects that are fully enclosed by the selection rectangle). ... View more

No, because this problem has come and gone twice with no discernible pattern. If it ​stays ​broken, I will consider it. ... View more

Thanks for the replies. This is on Mac OS 10.14 There was nothing going on in the application that would have left the document in a pending state. I opened a bitmap (photo) and it was sitting there. I could draw a selection rectangle, but Command-X didn't copy and Command-D didn't deselect. I imagine there were lots of other hotkeys that didn't work. Later, after I made the original post, I went back and these functions magically worked. But a short time later, Quit was disabled as were lots of other menu items; again, I hadn't done anything to invoke a pending state in the document. Photoshop was probably in the same state I experienced the first time. You mentioned having the program become unresponsive, and I thought I'd document these issues in case they're related. There's no further information at this point. There was no identifiable impetus for the failure or the recovery. ... View more

Which brings us back to the baffling lack of a way to load keyboard shortcuts... ... View more

Interesting historical note, thanks. But I still think it's flawed, because Redo already existed. I got tired of remapping Ctrl/Command-Z to be "step backward." I wonder if they fixed the longstanding (and long-ago-reported) bug where stepping backward inexplicably deselects the layer you're working on, in addition to stepping backward... Yes, it appears that they did! I also can't find any way to map "step backward" to a keystroke anymore, not that it matters. ... View more

Meanwhile, I too am having problems with the application getting into an unusable state. A wide variety of menu items will suddenly be disabled, including Quit. I reported this in another post. ... View more

How is it "incomplete?" ... View more

This is a good change, but I agree with Patrick: It needs to be consistent across the board. Isn't that obvious? ... View more

Thanks for the reply, Kevin. I did. Re-reading it, it sounds a bit pissier than I intended, but hey I was pissy.  I appreciate that you guys have lots on your plates. Hopefully there's a quick fix you can throw in with minimal development effort to at least let us enter precise values. ... View more

Thanks, guys. I like Audition and use it a lot, but I didn't want to have it create a bunch of new audio tracks. But if I can edit the sequence directly and then just come back and have the levels set, I'll try it. You can't use the asinine dials in this puny square to adjust channel balance; you have to drag the dot. ... View more