How to switch back to legacy Adjustments panel?

Having a very old PC, I have now also noticed it takes much longer to draw, probably fetching thumbs if that section is opened. We're not in 1990 anymore. Any dialog should *explode* onto the screen — even in 1991 😉

Opening the Layer Styles dialog by double-clicking on a layer takes more than a second here — a very tedious wait 😞

For all those who almost always use the adjustment panel, it needs to be visible, practical.

This means : having its options one click away without hiding your workplace.

This is exactly what the newly updated panel gets away from.

Before : 

After :

1.  Why adding a blank space between each pictogram? This takes way more space without bringing anything, therefore this is a horrible idea.
2. Why making it mandatory to display those newbie features??

Honestly, I am shocked by how ridiculous this is. Those presets are not even browsable, they are not described effectively, and more than anything, they are useless. If you know how to use the adjustment panel this is exactly what you don't want to see. It takes too much space on your screen, it brings absolutely nothing but an amateur "hey! this is what you can doo 😎 soo fresh dayuum" 2011-web-early-SoMe editor.

I think this update is a total nonsense.

I would expect at least to be able to hide these useless features ; and to reduce the space in order to make a viable UI. If your screen is just filled with a flock of gadgets that tell you "yahhhooo look at this sunshine effect", then you just can't work.

Even with the "old" panel, too much space was used. I think there should just be a simple floating window, containing absolutely nothing more than what is below :

Thank you for understanding.

I updated photoshop to its latest version. However I miss old Adjustments panel layout. In  the previous version I found the Icons to be quite a bit bigger and also the layout to be better and more concise. Now every time I open the new panel I dont know where to look at. Find it difficult to find what I am looking for. Its time consuming. I vote to bring abck the old Adjustment panel.

I couldn't agree more with the other comments here. It would be fine to have a separate window for these presets that can be turned off, not jut minimized. It would also be great if I could see the individual adjustment icons without my reading glasses. PLEASE change this back.

Thinking some more about this...

I do like that this type of preset picker is introduced in PS itself, ...

* IF it would be its own panel, or an option for the action panel (as they seem to be actions). The day I would like to use them, I would want to click a panel and see most of them, not clicking arrows and digging down to more sections to open, completely messing up the workspace...

* IF we can eventually pick what the presets are, as we can to some degree inside ACR/Lr

- The wider spacing of smaller icons may serve the few people that use large touch screens? Yet, if it's a PITA for all the rest, it's giving priority to a small minority (wokeism in PS? 😉 )  Better to have this layout as an option in the flyout.

Agree 100%. Prefer the old Adjsutments Panel, it fitted so well in my workspace, now with presets its a wasted of space, keeping the window at same side, sometimes working fast it scrool! Is there any way to bring the old Adjustments panel?

The really weird thing I've seen, is that sometimes when opening an image the panel remains completely dead. The icons are greyed out and nothing happens when you click on them. Here's how that looks and this is with an open image sitting right next to it:

No other panels have ever exhibited anything like this behavior. For some reason it seems to happen mostly when sending images from Lightroom (edit in Photoshop).

It also looks like there's an online component now. When the panel does work, it blinks and reloads quickly a few times before coming to life. Does it actually call home every time? Do I want to know?

The sum of all this - tiny icons, unwanted intrusive presets section, and failure to load - makes the whole panel useless. I've killed it completely now, and have set up keyboard shortcuts/F-key-triggered actions.

Unless something happens to this panel, I don't think I will look back.

Completely agree to most of the replies here, it feels like the 'view as icons' list is a step back rather than step forward.

It comes down to the menu having to be compact, yet still big enough to identify icons and even then if you hover over each icon the name of the specific adjustment being revealed.

Frustrating to say the least but let's just hope a 'view as legacy' option could be easily introduced.

My gripe is the use of smaller icons in a larger panel. Not a good UI

Edit to add : Oh and the new smaller icons are blurry - take a screenshot of both and zoom in. The levels icon is sharp as can be on the old version, which it should be given no diagonals to antialias, and it's blurry on the new. Horrible!

Dave

(to D Fosse)

If you're connected, it makes sense they can do anything they like.

If you block everything with a firewall, you can see it can get somewhat hammered with several Adobe things wanting to make contact.

I also know of one CEP panel (using a cloud) that keeps working, even if you disable it by unchecking...

Adobe is either not strictly checking these panels to conform, or people can easily find a way around it, thereby making this option "useless."

I would also hope this option would be used to learn when a person is "on an island w/o internet," and stop hammering to make contact.

I suspect this thing I encountered might be a "new tech" they're testing and that would make more things (temporarily) dependant on being connected. This may also serve to have less features in pirated versions, but in the end it's often the honest legal user that experiences all the PITA...