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fluoreszentB
fluoreszentB
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June 3, 2026
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Please revert the "Actions Menu", it’s terrible

  • June 3, 2026
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Who had the great idea of Gen-Z-ing this? With the new Photoshop-Update it is terrible to “act” on my actions. IT IS OVERBLOWN!!! WHO THOUGHT THIS IS A GOOD IDEA??? It used to be easy to click on/off parts of my actions that I’ve programmed (which is such a cool feature from you guys! Love it!) . Now you’ve made it very hard to “on/off” parts of my actions.

Do you really need to “stupify” your software? The new “Actions” interface is honestly terrible, it looks like a bad “beta”. Please revert to the old UI. What I hate: the new UI design structure itself is very hard to read – “what’s active in my action, what’s deactivated”… it used to be really easy to change a programmed action within, now … it’s not. Many more steps are involved now. I was much, much faster before the new implementation. Honestly, who thought this is a good idea/update? It is not.

You do create fantastic things for us and I love you for it, but this is not one of them.

If you need more … please contact me, this need’s to change for the better. I am sure, I’m not alone in this.

All the best and thank you,

Bernhard

    Correct answer D Fosse

    You can revert yourself. 

     

    Go to the flyout menu in the panel and check “Classic Actions”.

     

    Yes, it does require quite a bit of muscle memory reprogramming. But I don’t see a lot of extra steps once you get used to it, they’re just not where you expect them. 

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    fluoreszentB
    fluoreszentBAuthor
    Participant
    June 3, 2026

    Yes, it does require quite a bit of muscle memory reprogramming. But I don’t see a lot of extra steps once you get used to it, they’re just not where you expect them. 

    First of all, you helped me immensely … thank you again :)

    My problem with the new implementation is that it is hard to read what’s activated/deactivated in the programmed action. It’s just so much more of visual clutter. Now, you need to click into a deeper hierarcy to achieve the same (and what I‘ve experienced – with not the wanted outcome) because it becomes error prone. The old actions panel is there, but the new one is not up to par yet.

    Maybe a “red/green” activation light/thingy would help? You should think that UI improvements make stuff easier not harder. The current UI is really not good. Adobe should know better, they are industry leading experts. Or am I missing something?

    D Fosse
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    D FosseCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    June 3, 2026

    You can revert yourself. 

     

    Go to the flyout menu in the panel and check “Classic Actions”.

     

    Yes, it does require quite a bit of muscle memory reprogramming. But I don’t see a lot of extra steps once you get used to it, they’re just not where you expect them. 

    fluoreszentB
    fluoreszentBAuthor
    Participant
    June 3, 2026

    OMG you’re so right … it’s there! I am so sorry. But I really was “sooooooooooo” aggravated by this change. I am sure that this wasn’t announced in the update (“… you always can go back to the old ways”) … I really felt terrible that actions I used and programmed myself now took so much longer to adjust.

    But here’s my question for you, dear D Fosse: Do you think this new implementation is better? What are the improvements? Does this really help people in their work? 

    I am not sure.

    Thanks anyway for your help! And YOU did help me a lot! THANK YOU!

     

    D Fosse
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    D FosseCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 3, 2026

    If I was totally new to Photoshop, and was presented with these two options, which would I choose? I honestly don’t know ;-) I suspect it would have been a toss-up. Learn it and move on.

     

    But I get it. Any experienced Photoshop user works on 80% muscle memory without thinking. Getting that disrupted can be incredibly frustrating, and I do think - just for that reason - that they should have tried to conform a bit more to the old functionality.

     

    This is all part of something they call “Modern User Interface”, which they’re rolling out in bits and pieces, one panel and one dialog at a time. This one seems like the most controversial yet.

     

    Based on past practices, any new function will retain the legacy function in parallel for a long time, so the old classic actions will likely stick around for the foreseeable future.

     

     

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