P: New user interface lacks contrast and many usability cues, lots of other problems

The New document dialog is so ugly and fuzzy that I can hardly read the text in there. What's going on here? Fuzzy text in a dialog? Are we going back to the '90s?

I hear that I can get rid of it... temporarily. Not sure that I understand that twist. Come on, guys,  I've no time to lose on this. You cannot expect that such an ugly and fuzzy and confusing dialog (at least on a mac pro) will go unnoticed? You're not trying to tell me that you put out this horror and didn't know it was an absolute no go?

Guys, the scare the bejesus out of me.

> Since I update using the Creative Cloud desktop app, I would expect the option to be found there, but I do not see it in the preferences>

The ACC has absolutely nothing to do with the various application preferences. So I don't know why you'd expect to find them there??? It WILL, however, protect your old version if you click on Advanced and choose not to uninstall it. It will also keep your old preferences, which do NOT cover new features, if you ask it to, but enough people have been seeing odd things, those old preferences in the NEW version may be corrupt enough to generate some issues.

Perhaps you meant something different?

Since I update using the Creative Cloud desktop app, I would expect the option to be found there, but I do not see it in the preferences and I won't risk pressing the UPDATE button unless I know I'll be asked because I hate surprises.   It's unclear to me what purpose it serves as a Photoshop option unless it will protect my old version the NEXT time I update, assuming  Creative Cloud checks the Photoshop option.

Hi John and Jared,
The new "New Document" dialog is new to Photoshop 2017.0 (18.0) so the preference is only present in that version. It might be easier if we move discussions around that dialog to a different thread specifically for that dialog: https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/new-image-dialog-is-sluggish-would-love-to-sw...

Thanks,
Jeff

I looked for the option in Preferences > General but I do not see it.  

Photoshop 2015.1

I had checked under the UI settings, since this was a change to the UI.

My hero. Now that I see this, I recall this isn't the first time Adobe has given me a new dialog I had to turn off. But in the past there was at least an option in dialog itself.

I'll leave my comments for the changes in the stuff I brought up in the last version for another day.

Maybe do us all a favor and play around with the preferences before you post another novel.   Just sayin'.  😄

Preferences > General... and check "Use Legacy New Document Dialog"

@jeff Sass

I'm one of the people who left long, and detailed criticism explaining all of the terrible UX decisions that had befallen poor defenseless Photoshop.

So today I just updated to the latest versions of all this CC junk.

And behold! Most of the stuff I pointed out has been changed.

It's like you guys actually listen or something.

And though this IS an improvement. It feels more like doing the bare minimum. I'll get more into that stuff later, but first... there is a wayyyy bigger issue that needs attention, pronto. This is "uninstall and go back to old version" level of broken. I bitched a lot about how terrible PS had gotten, but I still used it... but this...

This NEEDS to be fixed. For almost 20 years every time I open Photoshop I press CTRL+N,Enter. And I have a new document. This is is done everytime I open the application. Hundreds of thousands of times a year. And now it's broken. How do you break "New File"? You have to go out of your way to break this. Why? Is this new window that great to make it worth 10 seconds of waiting for it to load?

This is unacceptable. Flat out broken and needs hotfix patch. Either give me an option in the settings to go to the "classic" way of creating a new file, or fix this so that it loads instantaneously.

CTRL+N,Enter should instantaneously give me a new file with the size of the clipboard.

Currently I can press the Enter key over 50 times after hitting CTRL+N before the stupid UI is responsive. What freaking decade is this? Does Photoshop have to go to space on a dial-up modem to load the New File dialog?

I don't think my laptop got 50 times slower over the course of 10 mintues while installing the latest version. I'm pretty sure Photoshop just got worse.

On to design. Seriously though, fix that, you just took the premier Photo Editing application of the world and made it not worth paying for.

The new file window design:

So these new tabs and thumbnails are better than the dropdowns we had before, but they make the overall experience of the New File menu much worse. They are not, and absolutely never will be my primary focus. I want my actual settings front and CENTER. I'm going to repeat that. The settings should be centered on the screen. and I shouldn't have to scroll to see them. I never had to before, why do I have to now? Why are you making what was easy, now harder and slower?

I understand that most newbies don't understand DPI, or screen resolution, or pixel density, or have all the common dimensions for print and screen devices memorized. I get that, I empathize with them. They need a better option, and this is it. And it is very good for them (I won't say great, because the icons on the thumbnails are completely pointless and could have been done much better to supply some actual utility). But it's good. It's not bad at all, and I see what you were going for.

But they are of no use to me. Do you know how often I use the templates in Photoshop? Like maybe once a year? and even then I go through and make sure the actual settings it gave me are what I want, and even then they aren't and I modify them based on the original supplied suggestion.

I want a little divider/separator with a little arrow on it. And when I click on it, alllllllll that template bullshit goes far far away where I won't ever have to look at it agian. And THEN the dialog can be centered! So I can look directly at the settings, which are what I actually care about, and not have any of them needlessly obscured because the size of the settings can adjust to put everything in view, so I don't need to interact. I can just observe the settings all in one quick glance, and then press enter to confirm, OR if I need to change something, then interact with it. This should be a very low effort, passive task. There should be no reason to introduce scrolling into this.

Example: (clicking on the "Clipboard" dropdown would cause the giant "newbie" mode to show)



But again, most importantly... I don't even want to see this screen at all 99% of the time. I just want to hit the keyboard shortcut and within less than second I should have a document.

Note, I changed the Close/Create buttons. Despite the rounded corners just being flat out ugly, they are also completely unreadable in the current version. Here is a comparison between CC on the left and mine on the right



If I can't do the following, you have failed.

Print Screen,Ctrl+N,Enter,Ctrl+V

I should have a new document with a screenshot in it. And I shouldn't have to wait to input those commands. I should be able to do all of them as fast as I possibly can, and when the program catches up, I can see it did what I told it. Create a macro for it. That is your new benchmark. This isn't "can we make it better than the previous version" it's "can we at least not make it worse".

I'm still waiting on a version that is better than CS6. Please make it.

I'll leave my comments for the changes in the stuff I brought up in the last version for another day.