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

It's still a turd, I agree completely. I'm working with it right now. True, they're repaired a few really stupid things like the fields and such. But by Jove, this UI is so drab, so hard to read that I can hardly stand it.

Pray tell me: why is the Preferences window so small that they have to put ultra small text in it? Why is it so drab? Why no colour like a decent interface? Why the charades that are supposed to be OK, Cancel and other buttons? Why not give me my preferred interface which is built in the computer OS anyway and available to every programmer, even not very good ones?

I could mention about any dialog window except, quite miraculously, the Save As window that seems to come out right from my Mac OS! Oops, I just made a mistake. I should not have mentioned that one, they probably simply did not think of it.

OK OK, maybe the word "turd" is a bit vulgar, I don't know. But the idea behind the comment is right on.

If I may, I will shout it: STOP TRYING TO REINVENT THE WHEEL.

Because, you see, your wheels are kinda squarish.

Just a reminder, all they have done is fix features that were ruined by the new UI design that nobody asked for.
Keep up the pretence of "listening", your not fooling anyone.

Fortunately I use PS mainly for 3D texture work and dds, I can't see me needing the "new features" for a long time coming.
I'd happily pay and upgrade was it not for this enforced UI "following the trend" 2D bland drab nonsense.
Nobody asked for this, and you could have a legacy checkbox that overrides all the new grey dysfunctional fluff.
As Adobe only seem capable of following the latest trend, ruining the UI and making things more difficult for the end user, I hope it's a trend that dies out sooner than later, or a viable alternative appears in the meantime.
Adobe have clearly and cynically taken away the choice, that just makes me want to dig my heals in 😉
Enforced renting means they can do what they will, as and when they please, employ their entire user base as paid beta testers.
I wish they'd drop the pretence of "listening" they clearly have a roadmap and everyone's on it.

What I'm seeing now is just a massive slowdown with a file opening, even a small one. Makes it unusable at the moment.
Will go back to the previous version until I have time to beta-test the new version for you. 😉

I would start a different thread if you're still seeing this issue. A video to show what you're seeing would be helpful as well.

> Anyone else having this issue? Mac 10.11.6>

I've updated PS on El Capitan now, and I'm not seeing images open off center or slowly. Sometimes trashing prefs helps when you change full versions, if you didn't do that already.

> most of us were very happy with the original UI.>

I think so, too. But it would appear that someone at the top of Adobe wanted even more similarity between touch apps that have gone flat, and our desktop apps. Probably in the name of consistency because people, myself included, do find too many differences between interface elements in different apps difficult to adjust to. It's unfortunate that their first choice of "consistent interface" wasn't very usable, to say the least about that. "Consistent" can be achieved without being "identical."

 At the same time that Adobe wanted this new look, the PS team had been trying to get it all on the same page, dialogs and main window, so they took what they were handed and have really tried to compromise between the CC "look" and what makes us happy enough. From being around this long, I know that almost every change is met with "WTF?" often followed by people getting used to it, so they don't leap to fix everything. They wait for public response, and good for this site keeping at it to get the changes we needed most.

I still think the difference between OK and Cancel could be better enhanced so I didn't have to look. I think they've improved the contrast, but we have the nice dull blue highlight option, so couldn't they use that to indicate the command that has focus?

Other than that, the main purpose of an interface is to get out of our way visually without impeding our ability to identify the elements we're working with, and I think they've just about achieved that. It may not be as aesthetically pleasing, but it serves some company purpose that we've got no say in, and we can probably get used to it now until the next WTF? UI comes down the line.

At least they didn't bring back those horrible sideways-tabbed docking systems they loved briefly. Something to celebrate.<G>

The problem is that most of us were very happy with the original UI. Form followed function and it worked extremely well. Then the flat trend came alone and Adobe went crazy with it. All we are seeing now is repair to the flat UI to try and get it semi-functional again. If that is "many problems being resolved", with respect to the inferior flat UI trend, I might agree. Adobe is trying to throw us a few bones, but they still don't seem to understand what made the original UI so good. If they do, it's because of management directive to be trendy to "keep up" with what Google is doing, and still figure out how to make it work. I'd be having a hard time as staff caught in the middle on this, too. 

I'm having display issues when I first open a file. Image opens (slowly) off-center and out of window visibility.
Very wonky.

Anyone else having this issue? Mac 10.11.6

Yes totally out of line, a turd has uses beyond being a turd, you can fertilise plants with it, PS UI on the other hand.....