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

Here is an example of the last remaining color in the new User Interface. I think it could be elegantly expanded throughout the menus and still look modern.

Brown mentions that his software tools are Photoshop, Lightroom Mobile, and Adobe Photoshop Mix, and that he works on an iPad pro. What can you do on an iPad pro? It's certainly not suitable for running Photoshop (a Surface Pro would be a minimum for that). So I doubt he's spending much time working in Photoshop on that couch of his. It's a pity. Brown is a true Photoshop wizard, who has moved to the dark side.

So the exception proves the rule?

Thanks for the link, it's an interesting read. Especially the fact that Brown's drone copter is his favorite tool and that he eschews "all the fancy cameras in the world" for an iPhone.

So, you haven't given me "a clue as to 'what professional retoucher, photographer, or designer would use touch.'" so much as an example of a fringe case, "evangelist for Adobe’s creative suite", who's current computer is an iPad Pro (a device /meant for/ touch input as opposed to a laptop or desktop computer) and who's workspace is a couch.

Some of us professionals sit at a desk, work in front of a vertical monitor, and lunge with the ferocity of an angry tiger if anyone, /anyone/, tries to touch our screens.

Huh? That interview doesn't mention retouching at all. The word touch doesn't appear once. And the IPad Pro doesn't run Photoshop CC.

On a side note, I'm sure glad I don't work with that guy.

From the interview...

What’s the best advice you’ve ever received?

1. Never complain, explain or apologize. If you do any of these things then you didn’t do your job correctly.

Never explain? What? As a lead retoucher at a commercial retouching studio, I complain, explain and apologize on a daily basis. That's how stuff gets done.

Never explain and never apologize seems to be Adobe's stance on this new interface.

The blog post linked to below may give you a clue as to "what professional retoucher, photographer, or designer would use touch."

http://lifehacker.com/im-russell-brow...

Russell Brown is one of the founding fathers of Photoshop and currently Adobe's Senior Creative Director. Notice that he claims to do most of his work on a touch screen and his photography with an iPhone.

Hilarious! Make sure to design the card in Affinity Designer to really get the message across.

I'm late to the CC 2015 game because I waited until the holidays (and a lack of ongoing projects) to "upgrade" from CC 2014 just in case there were issues.

2 minutes into using Photoshop 2015 and I was scratching my head is disbelief. How did this flat grey mush of a UI make it past the Adobe creative team? It's neither an aesthetic improvement or a usability improvement. It's bad enough that I've already gone back to CC 2014.

I see comments in this forum about touch interface considerations. What professional retoucher, photographer, or designer would use touch on their desktop computer screen? Reach up and over your mouse and keyboard, trackpad and tablet to get fingerprints on your screen is a "convenience" that justifies this step backwards in usability?

Essential tools for professionals should look and work like they were designed for, and by, professionals.

Latest version CC uses gray on gray interface. Subtle yes, easy to read for me? No. Why not make typeface 'color' selectable? Background color has limited selection (though it should be user selectable as well). Consistancy would allow user to select or adjust interface text size and color in greater increments.

The fact that Adobe barely defends these changes or even explains why the new UI is erratic and difficult to read speaks volumes for the haste of the release. A few bugs were addressed in the latest release but not the major ones. A roll back choice (to an OS based interface) in Preferences would be the best 2016 update.

Fully agree Nathan. The fact that the latest UI was designed for touch screens alienates all the pros and serious users that have REAL monitors. Even the removal of a hover state on buttons is such a backward step. Nothing about this UI is an aid to workflow, in fact quite the reverse is true. Please fix it early in 2016 Adobe.