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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
June 30, 2015


(New user on PS CC) "Variations" option is missing from Image > Adjustment menu. not a computer boff so please solution must be point 4 point for dummies. thx
Inspiring
June 25, 2015
no variations command in photoshop CC is a BIIIIIIG letdown. As word of advise Adobe team, do not become the new "Corel Draw" where programmers run-out of things to do in wintertime and ditch features that we designers got accustomed to throughout the years and add new ones that "bloat" the interface....

VERY SAD FACE
:-(
Inspiring
June 21, 2015
I don't have the older version any longer, and work for a company that has everything go through Information Services (even installing a new font!), and it took them forever to schedule and install the new program, which they charge for. Now I don't have a critical element that I use all the time. SOOOO frustrating!!

Thanks for giving a work-around for people who don't have to go through an ISD labyrinth, though.
Inspiring
June 20, 2015
I just signed up for creative cloud year membership, first image I opened and started working in new Photoshop. As usual, I go to my last step: VARIATIONS, and to my horror it is nowhere to be found!! Upon reading the webs...added horror, it no longer exists!!!

Come on ADOBE! Why you do so many people like this?? WTF?

PLEASE BRING IT BACK IN THE NEXT UPGRADE OR I WILL BE CANCELLING MEMBERSHIP AND GO BACK TO CS3.

Makes no sense that it's gone. NONE.
Inspiring
June 8, 2015


What is the name the donkey , which removed from Photoshop plugin Variations . You can put a photo?
Participating Frequently
March 14, 2015
No server found above - I have full paid account Adobe CC & pretty gutted about variations - wishing I had kept my own copies of software as now quite stuck on an idea I am working on . . . sort it out.
Inspiring
August 4, 2014
Put the flippen variations tool back in, you cheap F'ers. This is incorrigible, the tool worked fine for the last 7 versions of photoshop - not you charge me more and give me less with tools that already worked flawlessly? Why take them away?
Inspiring
June 30, 2014
SOLVED: If you have a prior copy of Photoshop running on your system (64bit) and VARIATIONS is working on it (CS5 or 6, say ....) then simply copy the Variations.8BF file from the one version to the same Folder location of the new Photoshop (CC 2014).

So take from here:

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit)\Required\Plug-Ins\Filters

and then drop into here

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC (64 Bit)\Required\Plug-Ins

Otherwise, if you didn't even get that file installed via some earlier 64bit version, then ask someone who successfully had the 64bit CS6 installed to share their VARIATIONS.8BF file with you so you can relocated it into your CC folder.

Cool, huh? 🙂
Participant
April 14, 2014
I'm missing "Variations" BIG TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Inspiring
April 14, 2014
... it is a shame, how ADOBE treat their customers.
I used "Variations" since I’m beginning working with Photoshop (over 20 year ago).

The only thing ADOBE is interested in, is to suck the dollars from its clients ... just like big "M" factory ...