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

I don't know who the test audience is, but I'll tell you who it isn't - it isn't anyone who has to actually use the bloody thing every day. And what is this "touch screen" nonsense - what pro in their right mind would work with Photoshop on a touch screen device?

Anyway, they seem to have the message now so maybe something might be done about it. That doesn't matter to me as I've rolled-back to 16.0.1, but they will have to make major changes - and I mean major - for me to ever use it again.

What an absolute shambles and it's such a shame.

That's what I'm wondering too.

Every colleague I have spoken to wonders who is the test audience you are using ?

After working for the last days with the new UI, there are two things that need to be changed or improved.
First
The visibility of quickmask layers
Second the two steps it takes to change numeric values with sliders.

Nothing will EVER convince me this current PS interface is anything but a grand failure.

The flat style is what Win10 has for it's system icons. The advantage Windows has over Photoshop is color. If PS had lots of colored icons it'd distract from the image being edited, so the monochrome flat is it.

As for the lines under instead of boxes around, yeah, that's different, but really is it that bad? The drop-down selections don't allow clicking on the item text, anyway, just the little arrow at the right, so the graphic, earlier, about confidence isn't really applicable to DDLs, to type-ins, yes.

All I can tell you is that we are listening.

Thanks for the info Chris. I now have the feeling that you guys are really listening to what we have to say. I also understand that Adobe's employees like you are between a rock and a hard place. Your team has worked hard on this but we reject the result... not easy.

At the same time, I will never stress the point too much: all in all, over the years Adobe has come up with a very good, very solid piece of software. Most of us I'm sure like Photoshop very much and want to keep on using it. Most off us have used it for a very long time, in my case more than twenty years. That's one loyal customer. I write this to put things into perspective. It's not Photoshop per se. I like the steady progress Photoshop is making on many fronts, it's important to say this.

The only thing really wrong is this interface, I will never use it, over my dead body.

You know what would make me, and probably most of this raucous bunch that we are, very happy? Simply tell us: "OK guys, we got the point, we'll do it".

Dear Adobe, you have to admit that when Microsoft Paint looks better you guys got it wrong.

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