Revert to classic gradient

[annaf22082551]

The new Gradient tool is awful please give us the option to use legacy gradient.

[#2]

Agreed. The new Gradient is a mess. Fortunately I kept the earlier Photoshop version so I will return to using that until Adobe responds and makes it work excactly as it did before. Even the "fix" doesn't totally fix it, especially when working with Masks. Very disappointed.

[Trevor.Dennis]

Agreed. The new Gradient is a mess. 

By

What the heck!!!  OK there is a tiny learning curve, but the new tool is way more powerful than the 'classic' tool.  It really isn't complicated, and you will love it when you get to grips with it.  Feel free to ask us if you get stuck, or take a fe minutes to watch a tutorial.  But please don't shoot yourself in the foot by asigning it to the 'too hard basket'.

[ElegantScience]

Adobe messed up something that the entire community relies on, and when you muck around with people's legacy workflow, and make "default" things that they ABSOLUTELY do not need, you create mayhem. Photoshop is becoming a mess. I'm on a very powerful Mac and PS 2023 crashes whenever I have more than 12 files open, the menus stop working, there is a weird jitter whenever I use a slider to change Brightness, Levels etc. It's a total mess. People are at Adobe just trying to prove themselves to management. Did they do ANY user research on these screwed up 'upgrade' ideas? I've been working in Photoshop for 20 years and I've never seen it get so messed up by "upgrades". I'm seriously now reviewing alternatives.

[tiia247]

It's fine if you want to do ugly vignettes. For custom work, this is NOT OK. The previous photoshop gradient tool allowed for sophisticated work. Blending one image subtly into another. That's gone

TS

[246fish]

Wow, the guy in the tut even says once you close the file you can't edit the gradients anymore. I don't think people are throwing this into the "too hard" basket; it's definitely the "too limited/clunky" basket for our more nuanced effects and workflows. I appreciate the demo videos you shared, but those are very specific use cases (and frankly quite basic.) Adobe "fixed" something that wasn't broken.

[Trevor.Dennis]

Wow, the guy in the tut even says once you close the file you can't edit the gradients anymore. 

By 246fish

You had me wondering there.  

I created a new Gradient layer.

Added a text layer, to get me away from the gradient.

Saved to .psd and closed and reopened Photoshop and the file.

And it still lets me edit the gradient.

You must have the gradient tool selected, and set to the new gradient option, and you must have the gradient thumbnail selected, and not its layer mask.  Were you missing some of that, or am I missing something?

[dkwonsk100]

New gradient is awful.

It overlaps onto surrounding storyboards even when creating a clipping mask and has all sorts of export issues.

Please revert or fix the gradient fill overlapping onto other storyboards. (Also not being able to stack is ridiculous)

[Trevor.Dennis]

If by Stack you mean occuping less than the full screen, you can do that by making the gradient layer a Smart Object.

For the overspilling artboards, so long as you drag the gradient layer onto the artboard so you see the blue bounding box, then it clips to that artboard.

If you just see the one blue line instead of the box, then it is not inside the artboard and will fill the document window.

Fill the mask with black

Invert the mask (Ctrl i)

And you'll be good to go.

[Ted23456137q5w5]

This was a terrible change that doesn't work.  Why not leave the original alone and create a new tool if there was a desire for whatever this?  Not an improvement.

[Jeff Arola]

Now that Adobe fixed the Gradient Tool so it works on both layer masks and in the Quick Mask Mode without having to switch to Classic gradient, Adobe stll needs to make it so one can use it on Channels without having to switch to the Classic

gradient.

[Jody28295794hu0l]

Agreed. These new gradients are terrible. Everything is exporting wrong. Adobe, please fix this! I got back to the classic, but do I have to do that regularly? It keeps reverting back. 

[FlynnE]

Thank you! I'm guessing some busybody at Adobe decided to redesign something unnecessarily to make it look like they were hitting some sort of quota. Fixing what isn't broke yet again, Adobe.

[kcroy2011]

I would really like to see the use cases that were used to justify changes. I don't mean that in a snarky way, it just would be really helpful to see how adobe is evolving and the driving force behind those changes. It would help people understand the background for these changes and I think ease adoption.

[MacMikel]

I couldn't agree more.

It is annoying when something used often is deprecated for no apparent reason.

[mattepainter]

New gradient problems: -- doesn't default to the foreground color.
Legacy you could hit G gradient, pull the gradient and it would choose the foreground color.
X to switch foreground background colors.
Now you have to manually go into the graident groups to choose one.
Anyone able to find how to get that functionality back?
Constraining: Also shift would constrain the gradient, and now it is difficult do draw a straight gradient. 

Agree with the frustration. this is a new tool, that took away our fantastic gradient tool! Whyyyyyyy???? Add it as a new tool instead.

[Jeff Arola]

You have to press the Shift key after you start drawing the gradient.

[aidas56174307]

Still it not working like was before

[drevious]

Which Photoshop version is the last one without this new gradient? That's the worst thing happened to Photoshop ever. Even with classic mode you can't use foreground color with it. Just wow.

[Mark.Stope]

Agreed - the new gradient tool is  absolutely unusable in it's current form. Slow, cumbersome and quite frankly useless to my workflow now.  It was so handy for small blends and shading and now its takes me 10x the time to attempt the same process. Seriously Adobe, please revert to old gradient - or at least give us the option. I dont PS tools mimicing AI's. 

[deenas69190555]

Bummer, this option does not exist in any version of illustrator I have. 2019 to 2023. Not there.