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- kind of angry, but definitely bewildered
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To revert to the legacy transform behavior, do the following:
- Use Notepad (Windows) or a text editor on Mac OS to create a plain text file (.txt).
- Type the text below in the text file:
TransformProportionalScale 0
- Save the file as "PSUserConfig.txt" to your Photoshop settings folder:
- Windows: [Installation Drive]:\Users\[User Name]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC 2019\Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 Settings\
- macOS: //Users/[User Name]/Library/Preferences/Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 Settings/
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(did you notice multiple undo is now just command + Z and no longer command + option + Z? I prefer the classic command + Z to quickly undo and redo the last change...oh well.)
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Any idea where to find it?
Thanks
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I did find the folder and created the file as you instructed above, but when I opened PS again, it didn't make any change to the new behavior.
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Maybe recheck the spelling? Make sure it's a .txt file.
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Well, guess I'm doomed to use the new setting until adobe fixes this stupidity.
I'll just have to get used to it.
Thanks anyway :)
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@Ori don't try to get used to it. It's like getting used to reverse driving! It should be all case sensitive so write it exactly as above... Maybe you installed PS / CC for all users? I believe then you need another user folder, right?
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On Macintosh High Sierra 10.13.6, I did exactly as you detailed (copy/pasting the command, so it's case sensitive; checking for invisibles, none except the single space; etc.)
~/Library/Preferences/Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 Settings/PSUserConfig.txt
=> TransformProportionalScale 0
Quit/restart PS and no change.
Any further wisdom to fix this maddening new behavior?
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OK, answering my own question. It took another hour of experimenting (locations, permissions, text file encoding, etc.), but HERE'S THE FIX (for Mac Users): the text file must be saved as a Unicode UTF-8 file.
If it's a UTF-16 file (a more current version which some text editors default to), it won't work.
And, it even supports comments if your start a line with a hashtag (eg, # Revert idiotic removal of shift key for proportional constraint changes by Adobe in PS CC 2019).
...Thanks to our PS internet village for sharing the wisdom. Fingers crossed that before changing a highly used function that is built into the muscle memory of tens (hundreds?) of thousands of experienced users, Adobe will include it as a Preferences checkbox!
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https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/photoshop_6_crop_tool
https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/do-you-plan-to-include-device-preview-back-to...
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Thanks! you saved me!
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Since Adobe never announces its modifying a feature, we won't know if they'll do something to make this more user friendly or not— until they do it or don't. '-}
I was using Procreate on my iPad with layers of images today—I've only recently begun to use it—and when you click on the Arrow that brings up the Transform and Move/Flip, etc., controls, by default Procreate sets the controls to free transform. It wasn't exactly sticky, either, so here I've trained myself that mobile apps use constrained transform by default, PS uses constrained transform by default, and now I was constantly resizing an image only to have it distort—same problem I'm having in Illustrator.<sigh> In Procreate I had to keep remembering to look at the controls, rather than simply start transforming on the document.
This is truly a mess across all the apps and desktop programs. Anyway, Procreate has been around a donkey's age, too, on mobile devices, so defaults are obviously anything the app designers want them to be. If there's some standards consortium that they're all moving towards, I haven't seen the results yet with the apps I have.
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1. Select and copy the following line:
~/Library/Preferences/Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 Settings/
2. In the Finder, choose Go > Go to Folder... to open the Go to Folder window.
3. With the text field in the Go to Folder window active, choose Edit > Paste and then click Go.
Alternatives:
• In the Finder, hold the Option key when choosing the Go pulldown menu to show the User's Library folder in the Go menu list.
• In the Finder, go to Help > Search and enter "Library" and then hover your mouse of the results "Menu Items: Library". A large blue arrow will reveal the User's Library folder.

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I hope this becomes a user preference
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They broke the most basic rule: Never fix what is not broken.
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Even if it's a tiny effort to have the cursor closer, these little things add up and are just annoying.
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It used to be that to maintain proportional scaling, a user would hold the shift key while scaling. In Photoshop CC 2019 the proportional scaling is done without pushing anything, but now when you hold the Shift key it UNLOCKS proportional scaling.
To just change the scale tool to be backwards relative to how it has very literally always been without an easy way to change it back or any documentation the first time you use Photoshop CC 2019 is ridiculous. It shows that the people making the software don't actually use the software.
The fix is easy: Instead of making some one line script file, have an in-app toggle switch to allow for legacy scaling proportional.
I've been using Photoshop for 25 years, and this is absolutely 100% perplexing.
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But I do see a couple of significant usability issues. For one thing, the What's New is hardly prominent. It could be so it acted more like a warning than marketing, just in case you were interested.
For another, when I look at the page, the whole new Transform and Auto-commit is under the heading "Usability Improvements." Way to be so boring and technical on that page, no one reads it. The headers, imo, should be the feature names to direct our attention, not "Usability," or "Top Customer Requests." They could even use heads and subheads so they could put Usability Improvements underneath Transform and Auto-Commit. Subheads were invented a while ago, I believe.
But it's not as if they don't tell us—they just do it very quietly. '-}
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Further, Adobe's Whats New Page did not offer a fix there, someone here supplied it.
Most people find these features while working. Whats New Page would just make you frustrated in advance before finding them.
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And I do think that better headers, like having a good index (which we don't have for the online guide), helps people quickly find what interests them. Getting their attention is half the battle in good design.
But yes, to fix Transform—since they didn't intend for us to choose to go back or they'd have given us a legacy setting—you do have to search hard, and in fact, had to wait for someone to supply it. Not that I think it's a genuine "fix" if you have to hack code to do it. <g>
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BUT... The way Adobe implimented this shows their attitude and that they really couldn't care about existing users. They already have our money. They are only interested in getting new clients.
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Shift is widely know as a constrain or multiple selection function. It is a convention. Open up a folder in Windows and click on several items in a list. Would you want to multiply select without shift.
I'm not arguing, I am only discussing this in principle - as it could be a slippery slope.
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* Need to look at this bug also with the constrain link -
When you un-check the Maintain aspect ratio constrain link on the toolbar and then use transform it still maintains aspect ratio. . . un-checking the link should disable maintain aspect ratio shouldn't it? Well it doesn't.
Also shift key + transform disables Maintain aspect ratio but doesn't correspond with the constrain link on the tool bar.
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That said, the decision to flip the default behavior is not a bug. It's an inconvenience to retrain habits, but I know that I and a lot of others transform with constraints on far more (like, 90% of the time for me) than not, so for us, this is a workflow improvement. I will be not have to be constantly holding shift with my pinkey finger! Thanks Adobe!
Let's ask for a preference setting, fix the aspect-ratio button in the tool bar, and cut down on the "I can't believe..."s and "How could they..."s.
Will there be some initial frustration when we hold shift and the transform box goes all wobbly? Sure. What's the solution? Let go of the shift key. There are more disruptive and destructive bugs and changes that we can focus on.
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This is a mess across all the apps and applications. There's no standard. No matter what Adobe does, they're wrong to a whole bunch of people. That's why they should have made it a toggle on the Options bar, or even a Preference, though toggle would let us adapt it freely whatever our workflow.
It isn't that "this" is right, or that "that" is wrong. It's that nothing is consistent everywhere, so don't force a false consistency on us, but let us choose the right behavior for us.
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@everyone Let’s refrain from speculating on why because it leads to negative characterisations of users which quickly decends into arguments that distract from the overall issues:
1. Adobe changed a convention fundamental to almost all graphics apps on one tool, creating jaw-dropping inconsistencies within PS as well as every other app in CC
2. So far, Adobe couldn’t care less
This says so much about Adobe it’s not funny. The tool is still called ‘Free Transform’ for god’s sake, it’s an embarrassment.
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Second, I was a KelbyOne member when Scott Kelby and a lot of his members, who are not professionals in either photography or graphic design, were giving Adobe all sorts of off the wall suggestions as to changes to the interface as well as other suggestions in regards to other tools in PS. Matter of fact, Adobe sends that community forum on Kelby's website surveys as to which tool should change and how without any regard toward professionals and how they use these tools. He bragged on The Grid episode when these features were launched about how his 12 year old is "now being able to use Photoshop better because of the free transform being changed". (Not sure why we have to dumb down 12 years olds). That episode is readily available, no re-search needed.
My point was that when major changes like this happen, those who depend on Photoshop to do their paid jobs, those who have a 4 year graphic design degree and work in the real world using Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign for 12+ hour a day, those should be asked and sent surveys as to what will make their lives easier, and not those who only use PS occasionally, for fun, and who don't pay their mortgages from working a daily graphic design or photography job.
It was called "FREE Transform" for a reason. I think Mr. Bert Monroy may be able to take us way back when PS first started and tell us all how "FREE Transform" became what it's been for the last 20 years. I can assure you this change did not come from someone such as Bert who is one of the first people to work and make Photoshop what it is today.
I have to use CC19 because in my work I use Content Aware Fill every day, and the new one is excellent. However, I never removed CC18, and for anything else I use CC18 now, because this Free Transform is really messing me up and is wasting my time.
James, were you someone who requested this change? If so why? Were you part of some Adobe Re-search for this tool? Why was this even in question to change? Why does this work for you? How long have you been using Photoshop? Why all of the sudden holding down shift has become a "too hard"? Just curious since you came back quoting my post even though my post wasn't addressing you directly. I still want to know who cheered on this feature being changed, why, and how long have they been using Photoshop as well as are they professionals or weekend users.
Also, there is nothing wrong with being a weekend user, the problem starts when these random/part time users without deadlines make changes that affect those with daily deadlines. That's the problem.
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It is fine to not use the Free Transform, it's not a requirement to use it. I sort and crop in Lightroom too because I like to print, but when I work in Photoshop I use Free Transform on almost any graphic or image I edit/create, and since version 5, so this was a completely necessary move, and I hope Adobe restores the default to "FREE" Transform, and adds a check box on top somewhere, (or in the preferences), so that anyone who wishes to keep it constrained by default can without messing up our workflows.
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When you un-check the Maintain aspect ratio constrain link on the toolbar and then use transform it still maintains aspect ratio. . . un-checking the link should disable maintain aspect ratio shouldn't it? Well it doesn't.
Also shift key + transform disables Maintain aspect ratio but doesn't correspond with the constrain link on the tool bar.
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"...and the Maintain aspect ratio constrain link on the toolbar should function properly. " and "...fix the aspect-ratio button in the tool bar..."
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Bug using the transform tool using CTRL+t.
Bug 1: The default is always ON for the maintain proportions option. Clicking the "locl proportions" button doesnt seem to work . The default used to be OFF.
Bug 2: SHIFT now does the opposite - it unlocks proportions while transforming.
This happens after selecting part of a layer where some pixels are drawn ( it doesnt matter how you select them), when you enter transform mode using CNTRL+t.
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Adobe, you have all the eyes and ears in the world, why do you not just ask your community beforehand??? I can't understand software behemoths like this one... all they have to do is listen! What is this board good for anyways?!
Btw, there is a "back-to-legacy"-setting for every little thing BUT that one! WHY?
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There are now many reviews out on many sites about the new CC2019 features. If you comment there in the open blogs, this reach many more people so there can read about, check it, an discuss about it.
Maybe Adobe would react slightly quicker than.
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And for sure, a toggle button would be really usefull...
I'm always very very happy to work with homothetic transformed text in Affinity Designer...
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I hate that I can't turn off uniform scale. Adobe, if you're listening. Turn free transform back to non-uniform scale! I HATE THAT I HAVE TO PRESS SHIFT!
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Does Adobe actively hate its users? Or is it just a joke to reverse the lock proportion in transforming (shift key)? Actually curious who thought this was a good idea.
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In a month or so you don't even remember that you had to hold that key down in the past.Not true - me and many other users changed this new behaviour back to that how that was for over 20 years. So you'll have 2 group of users, and that would be best option to respect all.
That is not light or dark leading theme of Photoshop users set like they want. But if you allowed us to have even four colours Photoshop is adjusted to, then what is problem to do the same with that what 'shift' should do?
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Old school is probably what Adobe built their fortunes on. Please respect the old school Adobe. You have a lot to learn from us.
Thank you.
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I've lost a lot of billable work time to go back and recheck sizing of graphics, because of Adobe's shift to NOT constrain scaling update. So who may I send my invoice to at Adobe?
Change it back! I'm not able to justify this ridiculous hinderance of my workflow and I don't have time to get our IT department's approval to mess with the code of the Photoshop application.
We're mad. We're frustrated. We're YOUR customers!
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After the new release (CC 20), scaling proportionally using the Shift key no longer works. When scaling you need to click "Maintain Aspect Ratio" button now, which is NOT good as some of the time you want to be able to transform freely and other times you want to keep the ratio - the Shift key was a nice feature that avoided having to hit that "Maintain Aspect Ratio" button every time you need to switch between free transform and keep ratio transform. PLEASE bring it back!!
And also when in the transform mode, the "center" is no longer visible. So when hitting the alt key to move the "rotation center" to another spot, it's no longer visible, so you don't know what you're rotating around...
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So I wish Adobe would put more of those preferences on the Options bar. They gave us the narrow bar option, and that leaves plenty of room even with my laptop. If they'd do what others do and put all those align and distribute icons into a simple drop down with the icons, they'd even have a ton of room left over when the Move tool is active.
I want more prefs, not less, but having more of them in my workspace is better than having to hunt for them. I think the majority of users don't even look at their preferences, so it should be obvious by now that's a terrific backup, but more exposure for the ones we commonly need in a context-sensitive setting like the Options bar or even the Properties panel would be even better.
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Also the new "feature" auto-commit should have the option to switch back to the previous version: if I am transforming a selection with narrow opaque areas, if I click on it in order to drag it on the canvas, it’s very likely to click on a transparent pixel and to accidentally commit the transformation.
It can be a problem if it was an unfinished complex transformation, as I need to undo it and to start again.
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Adobe killed themselves with this different objects transformation feature. You said something important. If we want to transofrm multiple (different) objects at once how we know should we hold 'shift' or not? Loll the most funniest comedy I was 'watching' ever!
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this whole thing has infected the Crop Tool as well
I think I need to write down everything you users find that doesn't work because of this one change. I simply can't remember everything to list it at once.
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I paid over $400.00 to have it made into a Photoshop Script.
It is dependent on being able to move the center point to an appropriate pivot position and use the top-center of the DISTORT box to move it where you want it.
At the time, I didn't make it for sale. I did give it to a few people and now, if I want to sell it or give it away, I need 2 sets of instructions so people that want to use with the new version of Photoshop. Even that would be OK if there had been a good reason for the change.
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I paid over $400.00 to have it made into a Photoshop Script.Photoshop develeopers make their scripts for all releses starting by CS6 EXTENDED. Why if there is subscription letting us upgrade to newest release, so not like in Creative Suite times everyone got different Photoshop still? Because people don't want to have latest 'FREE' version as there is not only new stuff but often old removed or changed the way they don't like anymore.
We talk here of too small amount of money. I assume milion dollars were involved into new Ps that it could look the way as it is now. So why inconvenient for users? Probably because Macintosh paid Adobe huge sum to favour their own devices. It will make high sale of Apple products becuase their iPads(?) will be recognised as best to work with Photoshop.
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To revert to the legacy transform behavior, do the following:
1. Use Notepad (Windows) or a text editor on Mac OS to create a plain text file (.txt).
2. Type the text below in the text file:
TransformProportionalScale
0
3. Save the file as "PSUserConfig.txt" to your Photoshop settings folder:
· Windows: [Installation Drive]:\Users\[User Name]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC 2019\Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 Settings\
· macOS: //Users/[User Name]/Library/Preferences/Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 Settings/
This was posted by an MVP, but I can’t find the original post.
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I can't hide that stupid grid without hiding guides.
Best I can do is view the grid lines as dots to make them less distracting, but better if we can simply hide the damn grids by default.
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I have never had a reason to complain about Photoshop but Im wishing I would have kept my 2018 version until the bugs are worked out. The new command T transform options are not working as advertised, the image size options don't work half of the time, the save options don't work half of the time...as a matter of fact, almost every feature just is not working correctly. One feature or another is freezing up or not working in the middle of every project and is forcing me to restart the application.I honestly don't like the way the updated transform tool works and would like an option to return the tool to its previous form as well.
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You don't have to stick with 2019 if you don't want to. If you uninistalled 2018, open the ACC app, click on the down pointing arrow beside Open, choose Manage, then choose to install 2018. You don't even have to uninstall 2019 to do that. You can have both installed, with 2019 waiting for updates that match your needs.
I always keep the last version installed until I'm satisfied I won't have to return to it to run extensions, plug-ins, workaround bugs, etc.
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But finally they learned how destructive it was for unwary users to uninstall by default.
But they hid access to previous versions under "Manage" because "older versions" or "previous versions" or something obvious like that was too confusing or something? <sigh>
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I saw the PSUserConfig.txt file work-around, but I hope, at a minimum, Adobe adds to their preference file a way to undo the "updates" they've made.
So disappointed.
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It has been suggested that this is to make interface consistent across platforms with iPads, iPhones etc, which lack shift keys, but that would leave them with no way to do unconstrained resizing, so if true, it's an even-dumber move.
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I was thinking for a moment I was seeing Illustrator's ability to draw replicating versions of a geometric shape when you hold down the option/alt key as you drag it out.<G> So I was kinda hoping I could make it happen too. '-} On a Mac with High Sierra.
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I hope they put it back, because this was really unnecessary.
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I believe I owned every Suite and every upgrade.
I presently have the "full-blown" Creative Cloud".
This last round of changes, the obvious silence on the part of Adobe, the number of complaints and a new product on the market makes me look long and hard at "Why Stay With Adobe"?
Affinity Photo and other products they make, look better every day. Affinity Photo is the first product and maybe the only product to be a real Photoshop look-a-like!
While much of the interface looks like Photoshop, it does have a learning curve. I am going through that now.
I've also asked my Daughter who is an Art Director to take a look. She says, for a big company like hers, such a change is difficult but not impossible.
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I'd go along with Auto-commit for text and transform if it only worked when you clicked on the interface, not the document. And it's not impossible to do. There's code that knows you've clicked on the interface, not on your image. Then it would be more convenient, instead of a major inconvenience.
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If I am annoyed about this transform thing, certainly learning a entire new program is going to have it's curves. How effective can you be with brand new software? Can you trust it's technically efficient?
This was the worse mistake Adobe had made, ever. But they have a relatively decent track record. I think they have their tail between the legs on this one, and eventually they will revert back. I hope.
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Heres what I am not getting... is it that important to use v20 that you need to put up with all the aggravation?
As soon as v20 aggravated me I dumped it.
I know sweat shops in India who do retouching still using pirated copies of CS6 and do darn good work... why would anyone need to put up with Adobe's insults to its long time users in favour of some old Kelby fogies and a ton of broke school kids on iPads.
Adobe is heading down the wrong road by pissing us off with bad software and they will find out much sooner than later.
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The longer Adobe goes without saying a thing, the worse it looks for them. But they've already got our money and that's all that really counts in the end.
Maybe this was their long term plan all along. Force everyone into a mandatory monthly payment, choke the life out of the program, then laugh all the way to the bank.
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-Option to use legacy transform behavior is still not provided.
-The 'Maintain Aspect Ratio' button in the transform toolbar is still ineffectual.
-The work around .txt file fix is still working. phew
-The Ctrl + Corner drag transform is fixed. yay
-Auto commit is improved by touching outside the doc area only.
I can live with this free transform. But there is still another bug with layer thumbnails turning black. So I will revert to CC2018.
Better, but please keep trying adobe.
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Today, I think that just about the time it looks like Adobe is getting their head on straight again, their head falls off!
By the way, when you look at the long list of fixes an update like this addresses, you have got to wonder why.
Our engineers would tell us that they can put a product on the market with at least 80% of the problems solved. The other 20% of the problems had to be identified by the end user.
Many time we had to delay a release in order to reach that goal.
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I sound like an old man yelling at the clouds, but I can't help to feel that this new iPad, phone generation is just too lazy to hit shift. If I'm hiring, I would ask how you feel about the new transform and judge you by it.
If you do not yell at me about it, you are not getting hired.
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I would come, but I’m in Florida! There’s always Skype though.
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I noticed there is an update for photoshop, however, when I click the "What's New" link it takes me to this page: https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/features.html?mv=product&mv2=accc#!
which doesn't seem to have been updated since 2018!
So, how do I know what precisely was updated?
Thank you.
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https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/fixed-issues.html
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Graphic Designer
Tim
This wastes time in retraining muscle memory for millions of users, and by the looks of things, you've failed to provide an easy way to turn this off.
It is baffling when these kinds of decisions are made.
Daniel
Clayton King
Cameron Rad
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/whats-new.html
Clayton King
Daniel
Ken Friberg
Tracy Hoots Hoexter
Ken Friberg
Olivia James
Also, why on earth did they not send a notification in the product to tell us this?! ;)
THANK YOU!!!!
joachim barrum
Kukurykus
Hin Lam
So that they are changing something to "pretend" they are improving the software?
So that they can justify the monthly fee?
Ridiculous, the "shift" key function was there for more than ten years and everyone is so familiar with this. For what reason the developers have to change it?
Similarly the "link" button between "H" and "W" is not working; even if I have disassociate the width and height, the transformation is still in the aspect ratio.
This update seriously sucks!
Hin Lam
So that they are changing something to "pretend" they are improving the software?
So that they can justify the monthly fee?
Ridiculous, the "shift" key function was there for more than ten years and everyone is so familiar with this. For what reason the developers have to change it?
Similarly the "link" button between "H" and "W" is not working; even if I have disassociate the width and height, the transformation is still in the aspect ratio.
This update seriously sucks!
Paul
Paul
Stefano Bonfanti
David Converse
David Converse
Kukurykus
Dennis Nisbet
Most of the time, updates had value and few if any were just plain unnecessary.
Changing how a selected layer is constrained has no apparent value.
Did it bring value to something else in the program? Probably not!
Two weeks ago David Tristram, an Adobe employee, wrote the following:
"new feature, use Shift to *un* constrain. Constrain to fixed aspect is now on by default"
What he wrote could be easily interpreted as:
You guys are all stupid and I am the Photoshop God. Therefore, we made this change and you will have to get used to it!
Just imagine how nice it would have been if he had written a great explanation as to why this change was made!
joachim barrum
To me, I still sit with a question mark above my head of exactly what Photoshop CC 2019 brought to the table that has made it a better than it was. Multiple Undos - all ready there (just forced changed the shortcut on us). Uniform scale was all ready there (just forced changed the shortcut). Color wheel is nice but too little and too late - we all ready got way better plugins for that. and any optimizations made to the program, I really cannot notice, in fact for me everything is just slightly more laggy (layers in particular). If the adobe team need ideas on where to continue the development they should announce that...or was this just a good way to save a few bucks this year?
Kukurykus
They act like Europe Union that introduces plenty of unthought and unresonable stupid changes to old as world good working natural regulations. Of course they know what they do. So no matter they have no logic answer for that - as far as they can say people what to do they are going to use it to 'enslave' them, rule the world and have more money, managing those they not belong to them.
Kukurykus
Scott Souchock
Lonny Cloud
Phillip Chodorowski
Kukurykus
Doug Millhoff
"new feature, use Shift to *un* constrain. Constrain to fixed aspect is now on by default. "
New feature on Camry, use right pedal for brakes, use left pedal for accelerator, and turn signal is now shift lever.
Mark Payne
Mike Berson
Mike Berson
Kukurykus
Jonah Levenberg
Alicia Buelow
joachim barrum
Colin Browne
MJP Eckhardt
* Transform Illustrator Indesign Photoshop.
* I wonder. What happens if you trans for a pixel shape and a vector shape simultaneously.
* I've got the feeling this 'feature' has been implemented so PS is easier to use on an Ipad. But professionals don't work directly on Tablets.
Facepalm...
Kukurykus
Alan Donnelly
Jingyi Liang
Brandon Adams
Brandon Adams
Cameron Jennings
Por Fe Rio
Benoit Fortier
This change (No using shift as default for constraint), make more sense for me and it become as most of other software do.
It will be nice do, if the default setting(not using shift for constraint) was the same for "Vector''.
Doug Millhoff
But you're praising removal of "free" part.
Rich Palmer
Warren Heaton
The change in the bahavior for Free Transorm is out of character flr Adobe. How long time users use the product is often well considered. Maybe it’s new people on the team? I am sure that the feedback is being heard and that we’ll have something in the preferences for this and it working as expected as set by the user.
I am still doing the bulk of my work in version 19 (CC2018),b but I typically hold off three to four months before mograting to major releases. Proir to the subscription model, I always held off until the .1 or .5 version shipped.
If anything, I jump up to 2019 for the content-aware fill improvments and then jump back to 2018 (both open at the same time). That’s certainly not ideal.
Also, basic math in the value text fields is almost worth all the other hassles. (Almost.)
Thomas Joynt
TangCanada
Rosa
I'm beginning to think that Adobe is going to ignore the complaints in this forum about the scaling behaviour.
I'm hoping that more of our friends add their woes about the transform tool here and vote by clicking 'ME TOO' on top of this page. Hopefully Adobe will get the message that we want to go back to the existing behaviour of the transform tool that was in Photoshop V19.
Spread the word so that Adobe gets the message.
I refuse to use the buggy Photoshop V20. I wasted so much valuable time and expense trialling the new version and it's not worth it to me to keep using V20
Peter Figen
Kevin Burke
Rosa
Adobe is not going to listen to us.
I read online 'The Verge' which reported that "Bringing a program like Photoshop to the iPad is a monumental task. The project started 18 months ago when two Adobe engineers asked to carve out time to bring the Photoshop codebase to the iPad. “There was just a lot of doubt until what we call the “proof of life” moment,” says Scott Belsky, Adobe’s chief product officer. Senior director Pam Clark agrees: “We fully admit we were surprised when the engineers showed up, and it was quite powerful and smooth.” That “proof of life” product inspired the design team to start focusing on the app’s user experience, with each new build focusing on a different Photoshop workflow."
Nolan Conley
Adobe has no real competition so they do as they please without regard to their clients. Adobe of late has been making more changes that hurt professional users and woo novices.
Adobe, I plead with you to LEAVE THE BASIC OPERATION OF PHOTOSHOP ALONE! Make your product perform better and give us a way in the prefs to "opt out" of any major changes. Change all you want in Photoshop Elements for the novices and kids. If you want Photoshop for the iPad... call it Photoshop iPad, making it a separate application. You are in the process of screwing yourself royally and don't seem to realize it. Listen to your professional users. They pay your salaries.
Remember, Rome fell and you can too!
Cristen Gillespie
It's going to be a confusing world out there. I still want the option to constrain or not on the Options bar, so if we click on the link, it's constrained AND a sticky setting. Unlinked, unconstrained, AND a sticky setting. We can have a preference, too, but the Options bar lets us choose on the fly. As for the iPad, I'll probably click my way through it all, ignoring gestures as much as I possibly can, and hope menus and icons work as well on the iPad as they do on the desktop for apps where I don't remember all the shortcuts. It's not as if I'm using the iPad to be highly productive.
Buckle up for this brave new world.
Jeremy Pinson
Matt Cerra
use 2018....lol
Doug Barry-Martin
Lonny Cloud
Kit Kerner
Laura Hompus
coyoteD
Nick Caville
Tabor Carlton
martin sanders
rouzbeh
Tim Wright
P.S. Who thought this was a good idea?
Doug Sooley
bobotron50
Michael Stephenson
Nolan Conley
Gregg Peterson
Lonny Cloud
David Bleja
Hyperbolic....but actually, it might just be right. I can't really think of a worse one. Not the idea itself, which is is inherently sound (most times users want to maintain aspect ratio, so why indeed should that take an extra step for the user?) But the implementation is just awful.
At the near-certain risk of repeating things that have been already said repeatedly on this thread and others:
-This would have been a great idea back in 1993. In 2018, where it's contending with years or decades of muscle memory for the vast majority of users, it's an uphill battle at best.
-At least make it consistent within the same program, for God's sake! Transforming a vector layer in Photoshop now works the exact reverse of transforming a raster layer in Photoshop. How could anything good possibly come of that?
-it seems a no-brainer to implement an option for those who want to revert it. You've supplied legacy options for much less controversial features like the new and improved Brightness & Contrast setting - why not for this one?
Sarah Peller
Hi Adobe people,
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