Adjustments Panel Fixed in Beta Version

[Trevor.Dennis]

I have not seen any mention of this so sorry if this has been covered, but I have just noticed that the horible new Adjustments panel has been fixed in beta 24.7.0  If you look at the full release panel on the left, and at the Curves icon above the green arrow, you can see that the beta icon I have pasted there is way bigger.  The icons are also individual and will addapt to different panel sizes.

Classic view keeps the larger (legacy) icon sizes, but bunches them up regardless of panel size.  That's still nicer than the microscopic icons in the full release version.

My main complaint with the List view is that the Presets options (Note: there is an additional Your Presets option in 24.7) is that the twirl out presets take a bunch of screen space spoiling your custom workspaces, but the first time you use the panel, you just need to hover above and spin down with the mouse wheel, and the presets options are scrolled up and out of site.  I am guessing that we'll need to do that each time we open Photoshop again.  

If this makes it to the major version full release update in October, I am going to be a happy P'shopper.

A wee, and potentially embarrassing, aside to this, I like to change the Adjustments shortcuts to the Adjustment Layers, which proved to be a  gotcha this week.  I was finding that when I inverted a layer mask (which is what I use Ctrl i for 99 times out of a hundred) Photoshop was adding an invert Adjustment layer.  I _almost_ started a thread asking 'What the actual heck is going on here?' When I remembered that I had included Ctrl i when updating my main workspace in 24.7 beta.  It's like when we do something so many times that it becomes muscle memory, and we forget specifics when forced to think about a single part of a larger process. e.g. I can more or less touch type with my fingers knowing where the keys are, but if asked to describe where each character is on a keyboard, I doubt I'd get more than half of them right.

[D Fosse]

That's all very good, but what I mainly want is to get rid of the presets section. I don't want it, I don't need it, and it's in the way.

Presets belong where adjustment parameters are actually set, which is (still) in the Properties panel. And I make my own presets, thank you very much, I don't need any prefabricated ones.

[Ged_Traynor]

@D Fosse just move this folder to another location and the presets will be gone "com.adobe.photoshop.adjustments-panel" you can find it here "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop 2023\Required\UXP"

[D Fosse]

Oh, ok, thanks - so once again, we're saved by a hack 😉

[Trevor.Dennis]

That gets rid of the Presets Ged, but breaks the UI when first opened.  This is what I see but resetting the workspace fixes it till I close all images and it's broken again.  So no fix.  Where did you find it?

[Ged_Traynor · Accepted solution]

Hi Trevor, the UI loads fine for me, this is the original thread about it

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/solution-how-to-switch-back-to-legacy...

Edit: forgot to mention, I'm using Photoshop 24.6 stable version and not the beta version, so more than likely that's why you're seeing the UI issue.

[Trevor.Dennis]

Thanks Ged. I'll check that out.  For the time being, now the icons are back to their old size, I am happy using list mode with the panel sized as I described.  I am using the beta version by default, although it's a bit of a pain because I am still losing the Adjustments panel icons, and finding a preference reset is the only way to fix it.

Now, I am not 100% about this, but my feeling is that the empty panel happens after I open the full release 24.6 version, and then go back to the beta version.  The timing certainly supports that.  I am only opening 24.6 to test forum answers, so I'll be less inclined to do that going forward.

I have marked your last post correct to close this thread.