Photoshop 2024, hate it!

[michaelm19779626]

I just bought, upgraded, and downloaded Photoshop 2024.  When I open it I see the usual Photoshop tool bars but I also see my MacBook Pro desktop in the work area!  The tool bars just ring around my desktop icons.  Very fustrating.

How do I get the normal Photoshop background back?

Thx...

[michaelm19779626]

Also, how can I make .jpg my default extension when I go to "Save As"?  The only option I get is the standard Photoshop extension.  If I want to post my photos on a fourm somewhere most only take .jpg.

[Trevor.Dennis]

Go to the Window menu, and right at the bottom uncheck Application Frame.  Or maybe the other way round (I am a Windows kind of a guy.)

[Trevor.Dennis · Accepted solution]

Photoshop Preferences > File Handling

[michaelm19779626]

This looks pretty good for one of my problems.  

However, in Photoshop 2024 I can't find "Perferences".

[Jeff Arola]

On the Mac side on Ventura and Sonoma it's Photoshop 2024>Settings

Big Sur and Monterey it's Photoshop 2024>Preferences

[leannewhatever]

I hate it, I hate it, I hate it

It seems to take twice as long to do anything and they have ruined all my favourite tools. The gradient tool, I mean WTH have they done to it. I keep going back to older and older versions, but it seems I can't go back far enough. 

What else is out there? Is it time to start looking for something else.

[Stephen Marsh · Accepted solution]

The gradient tool, I mean WTH have they done to it.

By @leannewhatever

You can use the classic gradient mode, check the toolbar options as below:

[leannewhatever]

thank you

[debrap43858119]

Today Windows did an  update and photoshop jumped on board and updated. I lost everything, presents, brushes, textures, everything. May leave and throw in the towel.

[cristinaroseg]

You can go back to 2023, i am doing it right now, 2024 really really [removed]

[tiia247]

The whole app is messed up! When adding a type layer, It keeps adding previous deleted type overlays to my file,  at a mouseclick, that I cannot delete.. So, each time I have to start with a new file over and over again!