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Inspiring
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

alexanderl16240166
Inspiring
June 8, 2023

Agreed that this needs to be an option to turn off. There is no way I'll ever use these presets, I don't want them wasting space on my screen. 
D Fosse, you say we got rid of the blue share button but I still have it? Is there a hidden setting somewhere? 

dragantomas
Inspiring
June 7, 2023

@FionaYu23621646 

 

Please keep the legacy Icons ONLY.  No text or the list view.

 

Keep the size of Legacy icons as large as possible. No adjustments and no scaling bar.

 

And NO custom adjustment presets please.

 

Thank you

D Fosse
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 7, 2023

That's a new twist. For me the icons came up present, but inactive. Nothing could wake them up.

 

What I don't understand is why it looks like the whole panel is loading up from the Adobe servers when it starts up, with all the blinking and reloading before it settles. Don't know if that's actually happening, but it's how it looks.

Trevor.Dennis
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 7, 2023

I have a new angle on the situation.  This is the beta version after a restart in my default workspace

And this is the panel in Essentials.  Both workspaces were reset, but the panel is sans icons.  I am sure it will come back after resetting Preferences, but that is a PITA.

Yes, a Preference reset fixed it.  

 

Zesty_wanderlust15A7
Known Participant
June 7, 2023

re. Legacy Icons View

Tooltips should be sufficient for newcomers too (although the size and long formulation makes it less readable). If not, they can use the two other options to add an adjustment layer.

 

re. Size of Legacy Icons

Perfect on a Legacy 1920 x 1200 monitor.  4K users may have other desires.

 

re Create Custom Presets

We already can by using actions. OTOH, the previews in this new system for our own adjustments would be helpful if quick, but please have an option in the flyout so zero extra space will be taken up if someone doesn't want it. There are tons of cool panels and we need every pixel.

 

Re. "What do you think about creating your own adjustment presets? If we had this feature, would you want to see it with the legacy icons view?"

I'd prefer them in their own panel. If not, please also provide a flyout option to only see the presets (as more and more people will be getting custom panels with custom buttons. I already have adj layer icons on one so I can have more in less space and I can have the functionality mentioned down below).

 

 

Please also confirm this bug and check if it came along with the recent developments...

Alt + click on Curves icon does not record its parameters into action (24.4.1 – 24.6b) http://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-bugs/alt-click-on-curves-icon-does-not-record-its-parameters-into-action-24-4-1-24-6b/idi-p/13827332

 

And while you're in that code, a longstanding wish by some is to make Ctrl + click add the adj layer already clipped.

Participant
June 6, 2023

As others have said, and it cannot be said enough- if one is using Photoshop or any other product in a production environment, you simply do not have time to waste trying to disable unwanted new features or try to find where something you rely on has been hidden or keystrokes changed. So rule #1 when deploying some new idea should be to make it subservient to what is existing and allow the users to easily turn off anything new if they do not find it useful or productive. In the specific case of the Adjustments panel, the previous version worked great. Compact, easy to read, tried and true. Bring it back as it was and leave it alone. Add the presents option below and allow the user to turn this feature off by using the dropdown menu. 

Inspiring
June 6, 2023

From my point of view, just the icons are preferred vs the list view.  This is because I want to see quite a lot of information in the panel such as the histogram, some history, the adjustments, and of course the layers.  Although I’m working on a 27” monitor I run out of real estate as it is, so cannot afford the space for the list view.  Being able to toggle to icon view is fine, but the icons need to be a little larger - it’s hard to tell them apart easily. The “legacy” size was fine I think.  Scalable would not hurt though.

 
Custom presets could be a nice feature but I think the important thing is to be able to toggle them off or move them to a tab like layers, paths, libraries, etc. It’s more important to have the basic tools readily accessible I think.
 
Thank you for listening.
Adobe Employee
June 6, 2023

Hello everyone, thank you so much for your candid feedback. My teammates and I are working on this feature, and I wanted to reach out to you with some followup questions to improve this feature.  

Legacy Icons View

For switching back to the legacy view, do you still find it helpful to see text next to icons (Aka. the list view) OR do you prefer only having the legacy icons view?

Size of Legacy Icons

What do you think of the size of the legacy icons? Should we make any adjustments to it, even providing a scaling bar so that you can slide up or down the icon sizes? 

Create Custom Presets

What do you think about creating your own adjustment presets? Would that be useful for your workflows? If we had this feature, would you want to see it with the legacy icons view? 

Participant
June 6, 2023

It's sad when you have to downgrade a version because the newer one is worse than before, isn't it? 

D Fosse
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 5, 2023

There is an inherent problem with polling that over the beta: people who use Photoshop in a production environment won't use the beta. Those are the users who work high speed and high volumes. I haven't installed it, for the simple reason that I can't risk any problems. I need this thing to work at all times. That includes the one I have at home, since I sometimes need to work from home.

 

As much as I'd like to play around with it for fun, I don't want to risk it.