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CC equivalent to Image>adjustments>variations

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August 1, 2014
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Is there an Photoshop CC equivalent to the Image > Adjustments > Variations tool available in earlier versions?

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Correct answer Brett N

Levels, Curves, Hue/Saturation. These will all allow you to do the same thing, but the UI is quite different. And these aren't even the only options, there are lots of ways to shift the color balance of an image.

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dkurtycz

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I think you have to go back to Photoshop 5 or so... but I have learned to love The Camera Raw Filter with all the sliders.. I have published books with the tool... Variations was loved for a long time, but we have to move on.

PECourtejoie

Community Expert

Speaking of ACR, the preview of the image with the various presets is maybe the closest we can get to variations...

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

@PECourtejoie wrote:

Speaking of ACR, the preview of the image with the various presets is maybe the closest we can get to variations...

I'm pretty sure somebody developed a range of presets for either ACR or Lr to mimic variations, I'll see if I dig up the link.

PECourtejoie

Community Expert

Hello, users of this thread can vote on this Feature Request: https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-ideas/p-want-variations-tool-adjustment-returned/idi-p/12249550

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

I think that it is telling that it is 2021 and no "enterprising" developer has written a replacement plug-in or standalone application that recreates variations.

spiders_here

Participant

YOU CAN USE VARIATIONS IN ANY VERSION, you just need to use a plug-in.

Simply download the file from the link, (Variations.8BF file), place is in "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC 2015\Required\Plug-Ins\Filters "

Idk who uploaded it, or whether it's legal or not, but " Dropbox - Adobe CC2015 " here is the link I downloaded it from.

Its a few kB file.

I pasted the url, it automatically generated a link.

If the link above doesn't work, copy the following to notepad, Replace every * \ * with * / *

" https:\\www.dropbox.com\sh\xktlhyvd1oiffz5\AADqfhZJ9iuMTfp48P933-fVa?dl=0 "

p.s. - you don't need to create an account on Dropbox, find an option to download anyway on the page.

Claus833

Participant

In CC 2017 this doesn't work T.T
Could you help me?

JJMack

Community Expert

Use CC 2014

JJMack

dapperJAD

Participant

Hey,

I found a solution, simple and easy to variations work well on Photoshop CC 2015.

See TechGame Reviews: Photoshop - Plugin Variations (Variações)

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distriller

Known Participant

The copy old plugin trick doesn't work anymore. I have tried now two different copied old plugins:

Variations.8bf - 82,080 bytes

Variations.8bf - 82,824 bytes

and neither of them work. Both say "Could not complete the Variations command because of a disk error:" This probably occurred after some update of Photoshop CC 2015. Any ideas how to fix that 8bf file for CC 2015?

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

It's an old thread, but I'm going to add my two cents worth, and give a big up for the Color Balance adjustment layer. It is so intuitive. If the image looks too yellow, move the appropriate slider away from the yellow towards the blue. What could be easier? What I always notice after using this feature, is that after a minute tweaking, how incredibly wrong the image looks when you turn the Color Balance layer off. It is just about perfectly weighted as well IMO. The right half of my hero Bert Monroy, is masked out, so we can see what difference a hefty -50 makes with the yellow/blue slider.

Or you could spend ages with a curves layer, or convert to LAB mode, but for a quick fix, this is my go to solution.

tomg56799619

Participant

Where is "image>adjustments>'variations' " in Photoshop cc ????

spiders_here

Participant

YOU CAN USE VARIATIONS IN ANY VERSION, you just need to use a plug-in.

Simply download the file from the link, (Variations.8BF file), place is in "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC 2015\Required\Plug-Ins\Filters "

Idk who uploaded it, or whether it's legal or not, but " Dropbox - Adobe CC2015 " here is the link I downloaded it from.

Its a few kB file.

I pasted the url, it automatically generated a link.

If the link above doesn't work, copy the following to notepad, Replace every * \ * with * / *

" https:\\www.dropbox.com\sh\xktlhyvd1oiffz5\AADqfhZJ9iuMTfp48P933-fVa?dl=0 "

p.s. - you don't need to create an account on Dropbox, find an option to download anyway on the page.

minh phuoc2022

Participant

AD có thể cho thêm phần ( Vaviations) vào photoshop cc 2021 để cho chúng tôi cùng sử dụng đến , xin cảm ơn .

station_two

Inspiring

I wasn't even aware that they had re-introduced Variations in CC, a feature that I thought was deprecated as of CS5.

I had even totally forgotten about that feature until this thread. I normally work in ProPhoto RGB and 16 bit images for greater latitude when adjusting my images. I found Variations most unsubtle.

It's very interesting to read that other users miss them. Thank you for everyone's contributions.

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PBArtattack

Inspiring

All things considered, I think it's understandable why the powers that be have quietly decided to relegate Variations to the attic but still, that's a cool bit of info. I went ahead and put a link to the CC plug-in in my CC2014 plug-in folder — more because I could than because I actually needed to — and lo and behold, it works.

It's scary that I remember this, but the last time I used Variations was for a project back in 2008. As Brett N said above, there's lots of subtler ways to play with the color balance.

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Dyscrasia

Participant

On the other hand,,, those of us who used to work in a darkroom with a

dicroic enlarger were used to the photographer's exposure box and the

color wheel. It was easy to use and since I have to do a lot of

photomicrographs, I needed the speed if afforded. I get the subtlety

aspect, but I don't need to pull up curves for every image.

DK

JJMack

Community Expert

Variations Plug-in is in Photoshop CC Adobe seems to have removed it from CC 2014. However when I copied then cc variations plug-in into my Photoshop Plugin tree which I link into all versions of Photoshop plug-in tree. When I use CC 2014 the variation plun-in seems to work so I don't know why Adobe removed it from CC 2014 the support needed seems to still be there. Right click on image and click view the link in a new tab or window. You can scale it and read it then.

JJMack

nedzter

Participant

How can get the "Variations" plug in for CC?

Thanks in advance for your assistance,

Ned

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Dyscrasia

Participant

I wish it were possible. After CS 5 Adobe stopped putting variations in the program. You have to use the Color balance tool.

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Brett NCorrect answer

Adobe Employee

Levels, Curves, Hue/Saturation. These will all allow you to do the same thing, but the UI is quite different. And these aren't even the only options, there are lots of ways to shift the color balance of an image.