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brilliant_Echo16B6
Participant
September 7, 2012
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P: Want Variations tool/adjustment returned

  • September 7, 2012
  • 67 replies
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I've been using the Variations tool for as long as I can remember. I know it only worked with 32-bit but I used it all the the time for color corrections and would like a new version for 64-bit. Sometimes it's just the only thing that will tweak that color just right.

67 replies

Inspiring
May 28, 2019


Please make the "Variations" function available again!
ISD-MacMan
Inspiring
May 28, 2019


Why did adobe ever drop the "Variations" option... :-(
I know it's been gone a long time now but I still miss it... I thought for sure by now it would be reincorporated new and improved as an adjustment layer...

One can hope...
Inspiring
May 28, 2019


REQUEST: Put "Variations" back into Photoshop CC. I need to add more red, or green, or blue into a raster image with with ONE CLICK, and not have to go to Curves or Levels. I am not a retoucher, I just need that simple Variations feature back again. It's insane that it was taken out in the first place. Thank you.
Participating Frequently
July 7, 2018
Also, miss Variations but am or have been a sucker or suckered into an upgrade - so thought I would join the petition 😉 - Always good (I Imagine to keep an old machine offline for CS3 -CS4 for variations & many other favourite tools that sure we all loved) Keep the Faith, Respect to All x
Inspiring
July 7, 2018
Keeping my old laptop just so I can have my Adobe 4 with color variations.  I tried installing 4 in my new computer, but it won't install. 
Inspiring
October 20, 2017
I too greatly miss the variations tool. I'm more visual than technical, I loved the ability to see the changes offered from so many separate options. If I really want to tweek something I'll use curves, but I REALLY miss the ease of use of Variations! 
Inspiring
August 15, 2017
Dear friend,
There is CS6 64bit providing Variation plug-in and I also like that but now The new CC series is not providing Variation plug-in so, I also disappoint with this..
Known Participant
April 12, 2017
Edie I was just thinking the same thing!  Perhaps someone from Adobe can weigh in  and explain why they have not tried to accommodate us.  I imagine many of us would be happy to just use  an optional plug-in.
Inspiring
April 12, 2017
This thread has been going on for years from the people who felt strongly enough to write, I'm sure there are others who posted somewhere else, or hated losing Variations, but didn't (for whatever reason) bother to make a comment.
Bottom line: Adobe knows, but has no intention of responding to their customers.
Known Participant
April 12, 2017
There are other ways to achieve similar results however those ways are not  as easy  to work with like  variations. With variations you  can compare different color spaces at the same time. I never understood why Adobe did not offer some kind of plug-in option.   I would pay a happy to pay  A reasonable amount of money if  a third-party  was to offer such a plug-in. I've never found anything exactly like it or even similar.