![]() To cancel the transformation, press the Esc key. When you're done resizing, reshaping and/or moving the image or selection, press Enter (Win) / Return (Mac) to accept the transformation and exit out of the transform mode. You can apply transformations to a selection, an entire layer, multiple layers, or a layer mask. Apply transformations Transforming scales, rotates, skews, stretches, or warps an image. Releasing the keys switches you back to the standard Free Transform mode. From the menu bar, choose Edit (Win)/ Photoshop (Mac) > Preferences > General, then select Legacy Free Transform. To switch to Perspective mode, hold down Shift Ctrl Alt (Win) / Shift Command Option (Mac) while dragging a corner handle. To switch to either the Skew or Distort mode, just hold down your Ctrl (Win) / Command (Mac) key as you drag a side or corner handle. With Free Transform active, you can temporarily switch to the Skew, Distort or Perspective modes directly from the keyboard without having to select them from any menu. Selecting Skew, Distort And Perspective From The Keyboard Perspective mode can create some simple 3D-style effects. Just as we've seen a couple of times already, if you include the Alt (Win) / Option (Mac) key as well, you'll resize it from its center: To resize something with Free Transform, hold down your Shift key, which will constrain the aspect ratio and prevent you from distorting the original shape, as you drag any of the corner handles. You don't want the person in the photo to suddenly appear tall and skinny or short and fat because you've reshaped the image. For example, you may need to make a photo smaller so it fits better in a collage or other design layout. ![]() Sometimes that's what we want, but more often, we just want to resize something, making it smaller or larger overall but keeping the original shape intact. They may be wider, thinner, taller or shorter, but they no longer look the way they did originally. One potential problem when reshaping things with Free Transform is that, well, we've reshaped them. OK, that’s all there is to it, and your Shift-key holding days are back.Drag any of the corner handles to adjust the width and height together. ![]() MacOS: //Users//Library/Preferences/Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 Settings/ Windows: :\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC 2019\Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 Settings\ Save the file as “PSUserConfig.txt” to your Photoshop settings folder: Type the text below in the text file: TransformProportionalScale 0 Use Notepad (Windows) or a text editor on Mac OS to create a plain text file (.txt). Here’s how to “go back in time” and add the Shift Key back into your workflow (these are the official steps, according to Adobe): Now, it would have been awesome if Adobe simply had added a preference setting with a checkbox for “Use legacy Free Transform proportional resize shortcut” (or some other hard-t0-decipher Adobe-like phase), but this is, at least, the next best thing - you get your shift key back without a lot of hassle. ![]() ![]() So, Adobe has released a way for those folks to create a simple one-line script which you place in Photoshop’s scripts folder, and it makes you hold the Shift key again to resize proportionally. This seems like it would be good news - but there are some folks out there who are mightily pi$›%#! We’ve been waiting for this for 20 years, and it’s finally here (Photoshop is one of the only applications on the planet that requires you to hold Shift to resize an object proportionally - in fact, it’s just about InDesign and Illustrator left on earth that still make you do that, but they too are scheduled to lose the extra key needed to resize proportionally). There have been many cheers that in the most-recent Photoshop CC update, you no longer have to hold the Shift key to keeps things proportional when using Free Transform to resize an object or type. ![]()
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