Turning off Free Transform for Move tool?

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Aaron_Cloutier
Feb 26, 2004
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I’m a bit new to Elements, but I was wondering if there was any way to turn off the automatic free transform mode when you select an object with the Move tool? I use the Move tool all the time repositioning things in my documents, but I rarely use the free transform aspects of it. Typically I’m moving things around, then I have to select some other tool in order to get rid of the free transform border and see what my stuff really looks like.

I was hoping that there was some way to just disable that aspect of the move tool. I couldn’t see anything in preferences but was hoping there was another way.

Thanks
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Aaron_Cloutier
Feb 26, 2004
alright.. I’m a dummy…
After spending weeks being annoyed by this feature, I went to the help system and was pointed to the "Show Bounding Box" option in the tool option bar. Not sure why I never bothered looking there before.

Sorry.
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BobHill
Feb 26, 2004
Aaron,

You are not seeing a "transform" border, you are seeing the "Bounding box" which is always there (a rectangle) for any area of selection when you apply the MOVE tool. This is because MOVE is a raster "object" and can be made into it’s own image on a canvas which is ALWAYS a rectangle. It’s also the way you can rotate (about it’s center point, which is some programs, not Elements, can be moved). Just release the tool button and it’s gone.

Bob
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seph
Mar 7, 2013
Very Happy go to move tool and just simply unchecked the show transform control.

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