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May 25, 2023
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How to switch back to legacy Adjustments panel?

  • May 25, 2023
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After updating 24.5, the Adjustments panel automatically changed to a new mode after restartup.
For me, these functions are not useful,I want to switch back to the legacy style.
How to do it?

 

---update---

Since there is no restoration option until 24.6, I found someone on the Internet who shared the manual restoration method.
If you want to restore and never want to use the new adjustments panel again,
just delete or move this folder to other place :Adobe Photoshop 2023\Required\UXP\com.adobe.photoshop.adjustments-panel

I do not understand such a simple thing, why the development team refused to provide.

75 replies

Trevor.Dennis
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 30, 2023

Was it just two days ago I was saying that we didn't know when the next full release update would go live?  The irony is that Adobe had already started rolling out V25.2.0 and it has given us back the original Adjustment Layer icon size, and it has the option to turn off Layer Mask badges.  Both these features were there in the 25.3 beta version.

 

Participant
November 30, 2023

When decision maker's in Adobe sit around the table and talk about changes, do you even worry about requring your customers to relearn programs they've already made proficiency in? Sorry to say, but some of us as we age do not have the time to constantly relearn 1-5 programs every few years. As an architect, we're always in fire drill mode getting content made and out the door. It's feeling impossible to constantly relearn tools I already knew. Also, you're charging more too. You're a business before you're a service from my stance. 

Trevor.Dennis
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 28, 2023

Blake, I think it safe to assume that the larger icons will be there in a future full release update.  That's what the pre-release beta version indicates, and Adobe must be well aware that the tiny icons were deeply unpopular.  Mean while, this is what I do:

 

The Adjustment shortcuts are normally associated with the direct to layer adjustments, but I have for many years changed the shortcuts to create Adjustment Layers.  I do still sometimes use the mouse though, and my old eyes have zero chance of making out the tiny icons, so I have to use the list view.  I arrange panel as below.  I have twirlled shut the Adjustment Presets, and Photoshop remembers that after a restart.

 

 

I use the same custom workspaces in the beta version because it would be way to inconvenient otherwise, and right now, the beta version has another preset folder.  Truth be told, I usually just put up with this as I swap between full and beta version several times a day, but I arranged the size of the panel so that one click with the mouse wheel scrolls the presets out of sight.

After scrolling one click with the mouse wheel.

I like to consider context when responding on this forum, so I need to add that I use one 32" and two 24" screens with one of the 24" screens in portrait mode.  I always use 16:10 screens (two are 1920x1200 and the big screen is 2560x1440) because those additional pixels give more room for UI panels, so my workspace approach might not work if you use just the one screen

 

 

 

Participant
November 28, 2023

Adobe Employees. I am reading a lot of simple responses, which give no links to access any versions your talking about. Please provide explanations on how to do the thing we're asking for and not "its in the beta version". Where is the beta version?

Participant
November 28, 2023

Can you post the walk-through for how to get the fomer UI back? This new one is WAY TOO different to work in and especially when our jobs are always fire drills. Come'on Adobe you UI guys need to get realistic.

Earth Oliver
Legend
July 28, 2023

what really is killing me here is that we're getting a mostly useless update to this panel, while the actual adjustments haven't seen any meaningful updates in DECADES. Nearly all the the adjustment types are DECADES old. There's so much that could be done to improve the adjustments, yet Adobe is spending all these resources to rearrange a few icons?
In the meantime, WE STILL CAN'T TELL WHICH HUE HAS BEEN ADJUSTED IN THE HUE/SAT PANEL.
Like, all they'd need to do is add a small dot or something next to the color name.
Adobe, why is this taking DECADES to implement?

davescm
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 21, 2023

@Carson Jones @MarketyMark 

At present, you need to use the Beta to see Classic view

Dave

Carson Jones
Known Participant
July 21, 2023

Yes I'm not seeing it either.  Is it only now in the beta version?

Participating Frequently
July 21, 2023

Not seeing "Classic View" in the flyout.

Yamonov
Legend
July 21, 2023


In the image section of the environment settings, when the "Enlarge/Reduce UI to Match Font" (in Japanese UI) is turned on, the contents of the color correction panel disappear. In classic mode, the UI icons are still small and appear unsightly because they are located at the edge of the panel.

Honestly... I feel very strongly that Adobe should not have meddled with the color correction panel. The presets should have been relocated to a separate panel. The design concept that allows unhelpful forced presets to occupy the top of the panel doesn't seem professional to me. What is Adobe trying to achieve with Photoshop?

In "Classic Mode", it becomes impossible to interact with the presets, but such a measure seems likely to cause even more confusion for beginners. Rather than making makeshift adjustments, the presets should be moved from the color correction panel to a standalone panel.

--Yamonov