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

[Hannes Drexl]

There used to be a Pull Down Menu in the Font Tool bar that lets you select the anti-aliasing type. I noticed it is gone since Photoshop 26.10 on Windows. Has it moved somewhere else or is this a bug?

 

Using Windows 10.

[Ged_Traynor]

@Hannes Drexl hadn't noticed that until you mentioned it, you can still access it from the character panel

[gener7]

Same change in the 26.10 Mac version of Photoshop. Seems more like a change than a bug. Has this been listed in the changelog?

[Hannes Drexl]

The change log doesn't mention this.

[adobecloud6_depauli]

I've noticed this as well just now, followed by 10 minutes of questioning my sanity because I knew for a fact the dropdown was there a few days ago … thanks for confirming it. I'd agree it seems more like a deliberate change on Adobe’s part rather than a bug but who the f… knows what the thinking behind their updates is anymore. This menu has been part of the horizontal font menu for >10 years so why change it now, without notice. I don't understand it. 

[Sameer K]

Hey, All! I've shared this with the team to review and confirm if this is an intended change. Thanks! 

Sameer K
(Type '@' and type my name to mention me when you reply)

[Pete.Green]

@Hannes Drexl and all, keen eye! Thanks for bringing this up.

This was an intentional change since there has been a bit of UI creep in the tool options bar from both the left and right sides and some options were starting to overlap. We made a decision to remove the anti-aliasing dropdown from tool options to reduce this overlap for folks with lower monitor resolution according to minimum system requirements. 

As some have mentioned, these options are still available in Character panel, Properties panel, Right click context menu, and Type menu. 

So my question I'd love to ask the group posting here,

       how important is the anti-aliasing options in the Tool Options bar to you and your workflows?

Regards,

Pete

[Hannes Drexl]

@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.

[adobecloud6_depauli]

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!

[Ged_Traynor]

@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

[spidamyst]

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. 

[jane-e]

@Ged_Traynor wrote: 

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

Great idea, Ged! 

Jane

[Hannes Drexl]

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.

[Hannes Drexl]

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.

[Pete.Green]

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.