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acrerake
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December 1, 2015
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P: New smallest swatch size is too large, offer smaller size

  • December 1, 2015
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After Photoshop CC 2015.1 update the size of swatches are super huge and fills a large portion of the screen (while viewing all of them...which i do) at the minimum size.
Is this intentional?
Is there a way to get smaller, manageable swatch sizes again?

89 replies

Inspiring
March 20, 2016
Photoshop hasn't had an update since January.
Inspiring
March 20, 2016
It's odd to see a thread this long about this O_O I haven't had an issue at all with this even with a new install of Photoshop just last weekend, up until an update yesterday morning and suddenly BAM, giant swatches.
I'm not sure how I'd avoided this problem up until now but it's really frustrating (made even more so that it's only like that currently on one out of the 3 computers I'm running PS on)
angryf84
Inspiring
March 20, 2016
right? Adobe has given lip service about this but no fix... WTF?
Dukal
Participating Frequently
March 20, 2016
I'm following this thread waiting for some good news... nothing yet?
I'll keep waiting for that thing that I use everyday and actually it's almost a problem:
again: the color swatches smallest size is a giant feet inside my screen!
Please, fix it ASAP!
Thx
junkyardsam
Participant
March 8, 2016
It's a small thing to fix... I feel like they're holding out thinking we'll get used to it. But I'm working at QHD+ resolution and they're still too big. Please, Adobe. It's time to fix this. It's a daily annoyance.
Participating Frequently
March 8, 2016
I have reverted to using 2014 for the time being,   The swatches claim too much of my valuable workspace as they are
Inspiring
March 8, 2016
It's been months, did adobe acknowledge this issue yet? Aren't user front end problems should be higher priority than rare bug fixes? I mean it's there, in-our-face...
Inspiring
March 8, 2016
Same for me. Swatches size is way too big now. Please go back! There is absolutely no need for making them larger. What was the reason they changed it at all?
Inspiring
February 26, 2016
I have the same problem. it's really frustrating.
Participating Frequently
February 20, 2016
Another vote for the smaller swatch palette!   I have a 30 inch monitor set at 2560 x 1600, and the swatches really do take up too much real estate on my display.  It seems counter-intuitive for Adobe (I love Adobe, don't get me wrong) to put so much energy into minimizability of the interface, and then drop tis big swatch palette on us.  Maybe add a third option of mini swatches alongside the large and small?