Why did Adobe Color change?

Bring back previous UI, the new version is frustrating to use

I understand a simplified version is needed for non professionals, but why oh why would you also remove Adobe Colour? Hang on, oh I get it… are you going to make us pay for that too? It’s the only reason I can think you would purposefully remove it and replace with what you have. Come on Adobe, do better.

OH my! I Completely agree. I opened this today for shades of sky blue to use in a background and was floored. It was amazing. And they BROKE it!  I have used color.adobe every time I needed color inspiration. Except to day… Much to my surpise I got a kindergarten swatch book. I thought I was on the wrong website. I NEVER use Espress because I have design skills. And now I can no longer search fore trending or specific color themes. Seeing the image the colors were exctracted from was so very helpful. Why on earth would they destroy this tool? Sigh… I guess they make more money on the Free Express site for non-pro designers than the paid Created Clound subscribers. No wonder every one is fleeing. I *finally* get that. What a stab in the back. I’m at a loss…  BRING BACK OUR ADOBE COLOR!!!!

Oh my days. I feel the exact same way! I was able to find color inspo easily using their Explore option. What were they thinking :(

I have to say, if someone wanted to make the contrast checker as inscrutable and difficult to use as possible, they definitely succeeded. There is no discoverable way to check contrast on a layout, so the title “Color contrast checker” is more gaslight than tool.

No downloadable swatches file is bizarre. It would be great to know whom the developers had in mind as users, because it wasn’t professional designers. For sure, no one I know was consulted.

This new iteration seems to have had no user testing at all prior to launch: a rookie mistake unworthy of a company that makes tools for professionals. “Don’t Make Me Think” by Steve Krug should be required reading for the entire team, with an exam at the end and a year of wearing woolen mittens while working as the penalty for flunking..

In my opinion, it's a terrible change that undermines an established workflow. In their eagerness to force Adobe Express in at all costs, they're destroying foundations that have worked well and don't hinder the new.

It appears that this decision was not made with input from expert users. We already faced a setback when you ended the partnership with Pantone; please reconsider this change.

My very quick and simple work flow of extract colors from an image and download the newly made Color .Ase file is stunted. I was building a catalog of my favorite swatches this way for years, quickly sharable .ase files for peers.
(Update: Going through CC/ “Libraries” lets me at least use the newly made pallet/theme)

At least add back the option to download the .ase file, and not just a jpeg.

“Other websites had me manually copy/paste hex codes, which was extremely annoying. With the new update, it is no longer possible to upload an image and drag my color choices around to see what works and doesn’t. I have looked for other websites and they are not as good as what Adobe Color Contrast Checker had.”    yes this user said exactly what I was thinking!

I’m begging Adobe to bring back Adobe Color!!!

The changes are terrible! Poor functionality, difficult to undersand how to use it to create a colour scheme. The individual colours seem to be completely independent of the scheme - so switching to a tint then looking to try another tint of the original is wrecked because now the tints are of the newly selected tint and not the original colour.

Create from image has no way to actually apply the colours you pick on the image to the colours in the scheme.

Setting a base colour is awkward - it’s in a different panel to the colour wheel - so you can’t just pick the item in the set of colours you’re working with.

I can’t see why any of these changes came about - they break the workflows of many and make a basic tool that worked very well into something extremely frustrating and limited.