P: Bring back Font Anti Aliasing Pulldown in the Type tool bar

Rather than implementing a layout for low-res monitors for everyone, it'd be great if you made the UI more responsive so that those of us who don't have small / low res displays don't need to be negatively impacted. On a 27" monitor (which is pretty standard at this point, it's not like it's a 40" ultrawide) most of the toolbar is empty for me. I think about the most that's ever used is about 45% on the Magic Wand tool, which doesn't even come to the midway point of the title bar where it says "Photoshop 2025." Meanwhile many useful options like the type antialiasing or the move tool's distribute options are hidden behind three dot menus or in other panels. Please consider making it more flexible so professionals working on full size monitors are not handicapped. 

I would also like to see the anti-aliasing pulldown returned to its previous location.  I used it somewhat frequently.

Thanks to you all for the feedback on removal of anti-alias dropdown to tool options, bringing this dropdown back is definitely under consideration. In the meantime, locations like right clicking on text on canvas (which hopefully can help with the second monitor scenario), the Properties and Character panels, and Type menu are places these settings can still be accessed.

Regarding the Share button -- if you have the Photoshop beta, you'll see the share button has changed to an icon rather than the larger button as part of the effort to bring quick share options back. So things are changing there as well!

Also appreciate the feedback on, and want to apologize for, not mentioning this in documentation, that is an oversight on our part. 

Stay tuned.

And I'd also like to mention that it would be really helpful to explain if a feature like this one has been removed in the change log. Instead, the changelog for 26.10 even contains the same bullet point twice for some reason.

I agree in regards to the Share button. Nobody in our team uses this function ever.

If you at Adobe are feeling this share functionality is important, maybe a solution would be to give it less priority when displaying the UI on a smaller resolution. So that when the resolution is too small, less important features like the Share button disappear. This way, you don't have to remove any features altogether from the quick access bar that are practical.

@Ged_Traynor wrote: 

 

@Pete.Green  Maybe remove the Share button that nobody really uses instead.

Great idea, Ged! 

Jane

I just wasted a boatload of time trying to figure out wtf happened to my anti-aliasing drop down only to find that Adobe did this ON PURPOSE?!  PUT IT BACK WHERE IT WAS! What a stupid change. 

@Pete.Green I just tested with a screen resolution of 1280 x 800 which is the minimum recommended by Adobe and there still seems to be room for the anti-aliasing dropdown in the options bar

Maybe remove the Share button that nobody really uses instead

I've been using it for years, I use the character window for finetuning text but it's on a 2nd monitor so having the anti aliasing options center screen was always very convenient when evaluating fonts and the way they're being rendered – they behave so differently between the differen aliasing methods and often changing fontsize warrants playing around with anti aliasing as well to get the best result.

UI creep sure but the horizontal menu for the text tool could hardly be called crowded, I'd really appreciate the dropdown making a return. Thanks!

@Pete.Green I use this pull-down all the time. We work on video games, and depending on the project and context I have to set type with anti-aliasing on or off. I rarely use the character panel.

Also, it would have been a good move to mention this change in the change log.