How to lock the Aspect ratio or to check if it is locked: But you do not even need to worry about making sure they are proportionally locked if you always use keys like SHIFT and/or CTRL when you drag from a corner handle: Figure 1: Use the corner resize handles and not the ones mid-way on each sideīy default, some images you have in your projects will be proportionally locked and some won’t be. Avoid using the ones midway on the outer edges. To avoid distortion when resizing an image always use the CORNER handles. To avoid distortion, just drag using SHIFT + CORNER HANDLE– (No need to even check if the image is proportionally locked):