Adobe CC mind-challenging-fun?!

[Xairbusdriver]

I don't use PS/Illustrator/etc. or the subscription model thing, way too expensive for my needs. But I just read a story that may be of help to others: Adobe, are you insane?

The story describes how Adobe changed the use of a shift key when dragging an image/object corner handle. But they only swapped the meaning (decades old!) in PS, in their other apps, it retains its "legacy" behavior. At least there is now a Pref for regaining the "Legacy" meaning. Hopefully, other image editing apps will not "follow-the-leader".

Reminds me of a recent Dilbert cartoon. Dilbert reports to the pointy-haired boss that the recent change in their interface was causing serious complaints from users. The boss replied that users should just read the manual... "Reading the manual does not fix a bad interface."

[Paddy]

I can totally understand changing the behaviour - it IS silly that one has to press the shift key to change the size of a photo without messing up the proportions - it was ALWAYS a silly thing in the interface, because you almost never want to change the proportions of the image.

However, it's equally, or even more silly not to change it in ALL Adobe apps and situations. Yeah - Adobe is insane and I'm peddling away as fast as I can, these days.

BTW - all Affinity applications (Publisher, Photo and AFAIK, Designer) use the more sensible click with no shift required to resize images/objects. But they're consistent about it.