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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

jane-e
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 5, 2023

 

There is another thread in the Photoshop Beta forum dated 17 March announcing the new panel and staff is asking for user feedback:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-beta-discussions/adjustments-panel-with-presets-is-now-available-in-beta/td-p/13659062

As of today, there are three replies and not one is negative.

 

Jane

 

D Fosse
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 5, 2023

Turn it off in your profile.

dragantomas
Inspiring
June 5, 2023

Hi all, I keep getting emails from the feed here on this topic. Is there a way to disable the notifications?

Inspiring
June 5, 2023

Adding my voice to all the others. Adobe seems on a quest to make PS more "automatic" but besides the new adjustment panel presets taking up space and making the adjustments icons tiny or a list, the presets themselves are useless and even silly in most instances.  What are they thinking??? 

Trevor.Dennis
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 3, 2023

@Pete.Green Can you make sure this feedback gets to the team please Pete?

Participating Frequently
June 3, 2023

Add me to the list of haters.  I just want the gimicky stuff gone and my *real* adjustment icons to be larger.

Jeff Arola
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 2, 2023

More issues with the "new" adjustments panel include:

 

_The order of the icons and flyout menu items has changed from the first iteration of the adjustments
panel in cs4/cs5, which followed the same order as the Image>Adjustments/Layer>New Adjustment Layer

menu items.
 
Starting in photoshop cs6 and lasting until photoshop 2023 (ps ver 24.4.1) the icon order was changed as

well as the flyout list order which are both different from each other as well as different from the

Image>Adjustments/Layer>New Adjustment Layer menu items.
 
Now again in photoshop 2023 (ps ver 24.5) while the icon order has stayed the same. the icon menu

flyout list has yet changed order again.
And still again when one switches to the "new" list mode in the "new" adjustments panel both the list in

the panel and flyout menu order are completely different each other and the icon view.
 
For the sake of consistency, shouldn't all the lists and icons be arranged in the same order as the traditional

Image>Adjustments/Layer>New Adjustment Layer menu items?

 

Photoshop CS4

 

 

 

Photoshop CS6

 

 

 

Photoshop 2023 (24.5) icon view

 

 

 

Photoshop 2023 (24.5) list view

 

Trevor.Dennis
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 1, 2023

Dag, you has eight likes on your post so far, which surely says something.  I absolutely HATE the new look.  Most of my panels are spread over two 24" screens with the UI at 100%.  Those screens are pushed left and right by a 32" 16:9 screen so my panel is 18" from my eyes, and the icons too small for to see comfortably.  I'd move the panel to my main screen if we were able to reduce its width to a single icon column, but that is not possible.

 

List mode does give us back the original sized icons, but I hate how spread out they are.  When you move the cursor to a panel, you don't want to then have to navigate up and down eight inches of screen to locate the icon you need.  It would be better if were able to fine tune the order the icons appear in list mode.  I also begrudge how much screen space I now have to allow the Adjustment Layer panel in list mode, but I have no choice because I can't comfortably see the small icons. Grrr.

My workaround is to move the Image > Adjustment shortcuts to the same Adjustment Layers, although I am not sure where I borrowed Ctrl Shift V from for Vibrance.  I have not yet got around to asigning those shortcuts to single key shortcuts (Function keys or keyboard G-keys) because I am hoping that well see a legacy panel in a future update.

Jeff Arola
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 1, 2023

Other issues with the "new" adjustments panel include:

 

_not being able to adjust the width/height as small as the "old" adjustments panel

  and still see all the icons.

 

 

_Alt/Option clicking on any of the adjustment icons brings up the New Layer properties dialog as in the old adjustments panel, but now after pressing OK the old style non modular adjustment layer dialog opens as opposed to the old adjustments panel where the modular properties panel adjustment panel opens causing other issues like not being able to record the adjustment in actions.

reported here by Signfeld

https://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

 

 

 

 

Inspiring
May 31, 2023

Good points. It would be nice to customize and edit the presets IF we wanted to use them.  A seperate removeable panel is needed.  To be able to customize the individual adjustment icons positioning would be great also, but let's focus on the adjustment presets for now