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Gradients Tool SUCKS

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
September 24, 2023
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When I'm using Photoshop, I'm typically on the clock, under the gun, and nicelely stressed to get the project in front of me done productively, and beautifully. Your app is a production tool. My time for wonder at new functionality passed about 25 years ago.

Why do you obsolete standard features and functionality? Like, the new Gradients tool works in profoundly different ways. After 20 minutes of horsing around online, I found the solution: toggle to Classic.

Meantime, I'm losing time, burning cash, wasting my client's resources.

When Boeing makes a fundamental change on one of their airliners, do they neglect to tell their pilots?

Oh, wait. It just occurred to me: Photoshop 25: Welcome to the Boeing 767 MAX of graphics programs.

macOS

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kerihobo

Participant

Yep, new gradient tools suck. Pretty sure I'm meant to see a gradient on my canvas right now. I was also trying to work out how to simply change the colour distribution of a non-adjustment-layer gradient..... can't for the life of me.

Semaphoric

Community Expert

You are using a Gradient Map, which is different from a regular Gradient.

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cathym11811999

Participant

Where's the flipping' "like" button for Joel MaHarry's post! The changes with the gradiant tool are driving me absolutely [removed by moderator] MAD!

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James33991628lmuz

Participant

That's obvious since Adobe has a tendency to make the most retard3d choices. They even **** up Substance

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

If you find yourself with a spare half hour, have a good look at the new gradient tool. It honestly isn't hard to use, and is a lot more intuitive than a lot of the changes we've seen with Photoshop. I have had my share of irritation for sure, and even started a thread on this forum when I was having a problem opening the gradient editor when using the new tool (double click on the layer icon).

Like so many of the changes with Photoshop, once mastered you wonder how you managed without them. In fact Photoshop is so much faster in so many ways now. Selections are way faster and more accurate. Clean up is way better with the Remove tool.

Colin Smith demonstrated a good use of the new Gradient tool (on his PhotoshopCafe channel) using it to emulate the lighting effect that was recently removed. I know I was annoyed and irritated by the new gradient tool at first, but it took very little effort to get to a stage where I absolutely love it.

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

I meant to add that being a Mac user, you not only have the option of having mutltiple Photoshop versions installed, but I believe you can actually have two version open and running at the same time. I'm thinking of what would be involved in moving a PSD file between versions, and it wouldn't be too hard or take so long as to make it unworkable, so you do have options. Or just switch between the Classic and new gradient tools

mglush

Community Expert

Yes, as a mac user, I often have two versions of Photoshop open at the same time. There is some fuctionality that has been taken away in the newer version of the program that I use frequently and don't want to give up.

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