Photoshop CC 2019 saw a change to
the way layers were resized: it as no
longer necessary to hold the Shift key to
constrain the proportions - from now on the
default would be to keep proportions, and
the Shift key would allow you to squash or
stretch while resizing instead. Only it wasn’t
consistent: Smart Objects still required the
Shift key. Now things have changed slightly,
and the Constrain Proportions feature can
be turned on or off in the Transform options.
It’s a welcome tweak for those of us who
can’t quite shake the muscle memory of
Shift-dragging to resize.5 FREE TRANSFORM
Adobe fixes the free transform control for consistency across all layer types