P: Want Variations tool/adjustment returned

​@Merlin3 
There is a Primary Thread that started eleven years ago asking for Image > Adustments > Variations to be returned. It’s been gone for a long time.

As I recall, it was destructive editing and did not work with the 64-bit versions of Photoshop. You might try non-destructive the Adjustment Layers including Levels, Curves, and Hue & Saturation. 
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/desktop/create-manage-layers/color-adjustment-fill-layers/work-with-adjustment-and-fill-layers.html

Jane

@Michele32981070kkhk 

"It sounds like the focus of taking this tool away was that it was not precise for realistic photographic adjustments."

I believe that the issue was 32-bit code and that there was no plan to remake it for 64-bit.

The other issues were just sideline discussion points.

Please bring back the variations tool.

It sounds like the focus of taking this tool away was that it was not precise for realistic photographic adjustments.

Some of us use photoshop for image adjustments that for various reasons are not precisely realistic (for example, I'm adjusting bitmap colors to look eventually correct in rendering software that alters the color- this requires me to create an image that looks wrong in photoshop but eventually looks right in the rendering software. And, yes, I understand that color matching software exists, but it's not something my company is willing to pay for so the next best option is adjusting colors so they look correct eventually in the end once another software package makes color adjustments that I do not have easy control over.)

Indeed, the reality is brutal, but I do still think that an interface showing alternate renders has its merits, as we can see in Firefly, for instance. It would be a tool that would help creating, showing other settings for most filters/plugins/adjustments...

Here we are, 10 years on, Adobe has not created a 64-bit version of this tool and no enterprising third-party developer has seized the "opportunity" either... To me, this speaks volumes.

I miss this feature too. It was useful, because you immediately saw the result you'd get at the end.

Variations was such a fantastic tool and i can see so many more uses for it beyond the original implementation. Such a shame that this tool was abandoned.

I've used "variations" for as long as I've been using Photoshop, and I recently upgraded to CC 2020, and am very disappointed to discover that "variations" has been discontinued. Please bring it back. I used it in almost all of the work that I've done. It was such a great feature. Thank you.