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Yamonov
Yamonov
Legend
September 25, 2025
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P: Photoshop 26.11 Curves UI issues and feedback

  • September 25, 2025
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In the 26.11 release, the Tone Curve UI has become a mess. Inside the curve graph, there is an unnecessary gradient background that professionals don’t need, and there is no option to turn it off. More critically, in CMYK mode the Yellow and Black curves are almost completely invisible, yet this was released publicly. This really needs to be fixed.

 

Yellow channel curve in CMYK mode.

 

Black channel curve in CMYK mode (drawn in white, completely invisible)

  

    24 replies

    francescob39299981
    francescob39299981
    Participant
    February 10, 2026

    The gradient under the histogram is very disturbing and, if you use pigment mode, it is also wrong.
    Is there non way to remove it?

     

      Jeff Arola
      Community Expert
      Jeff ArolaCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      February 10, 2026

      francescob39299981,

       

      In Photoshop 2026 (ps ver 23.7.1) you can remove the gradient background for channels by going to Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Curves and from the fly-out menu under Curves Display Options uncheck Use Channel Backgrounds.

      That setting applies to Image>Adjustments>Curves as well.

       

       

       

        bellevue scott
        bellevue scott
        Inspiring
        February 10, 2026

        Just now seeing this issue. Thanks for the tip on how to remove the gradients. They are confusing and unnecessary. 

        D
        Adobe Employee
        DaveSawyer
        Adobe Employee
        October 29, 2025

        The keyboard arrow keys also needed a fix so that'll be in the next beta build (post-MAX) too. You can use up/down in either input or output fields to increment or decrement the values or select 1 or more points in the graph and move them with up/down/left/right.

        alexanderl16240166
        alexanderl16240166
        Inspiring
        October 22, 2025

        Thank you so much, Dave!

        D
        Adobe Employee
        DaveSawyer
        Adobe Employee
        October 22, 2025

        @Omachi I could get in big trouble for talking about release schedules, so just between us (whispering ... these changes will come out after Adobe MAX when regular beta builds resume starting about November 3). 

          Omachi
          Omachi
          Legend
          October 18, 2025

          I'm happy to hear that it will be fixed in the next beta build, but I wonder if this will be included in beta 27.0.2?
          Will this leave 2025 (26.x) behind?

            D
            Adobe Employee
            DaveSawyer
            Adobe Employee
            October 17, 2025

            @HnerraD That bug with light/pigment will also be fixed in the next build. Thank you for reporting it!

            D
            Adobe Employee
            DaveSawyer
            Adobe Employee
            October 17, 2025

            Good suggestions and thanks @Sameer K for raising this up! I'm putting in 3 changes for this. First - adding an option to turn off the gradient background. Second, adjusting the line and control point color on light themes to be correspondingly dark so there is good contrast. Third, the actual line is always 1 pixel thin and it should be 2 pixels minimum and get thicker when the whole graph is resized larger to stay in proportion. Likewise, with the control points. These changes should be available in the next Beta build.

              Earth Oliver
              Earth Oliver
              Legend
              October 8, 2025

              Wow, just wow. I'm happy to see this implemented, but it was done so poorly. How were so many UX issues brought into the update? It's so incredibly basic and once again, the same story unfolds here: 

              Adobe, if you're going to update a tool with new feature, INCLUDE AN OPTION TO DISABLE THE NEW FEATURE. We've been telling you to do this for decades now and you're still not listening. Why?

                H
                HnerraD
                Participant
                October 8, 2025

                Another issue with the gradient is that if you switch from Light (0-255) to Pigment/Ink % the gradiant doesnt switch along with the change. In CMYK the gradiant for individual channels displays correctly in Pigment/Ink %, but when Light (0-255) is selected, the gradient is now opposite of what the curve does. It's similar in RGB, but Light (0-255) is correct and Pigment is opposite to the gradient. The gradient should flip like the histogram and shadow/highlight do.

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                  Tom Fritz
                  Participant
                  October 6, 2025

                  I  just want to add my voice to the remarks here about the change to the curves interface. Really a bad change and makes curves so much more difficult to use. There at least needs to be an option to turn off the color gradients, they just make things less legible. 

                  --Tom F.

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