Thank you so much omg you just saved me hours of frustration! Adobe products stop working if you sneeze in the wrong direction, I'm not sure why the States are so obsessed with them.
Gene's answer is a better fit for just the tool bar being missing, but worth remembering screen modes. Hitting the F key will cycle through the three screen modes. The last of the three Full Screen Mode removes all tools and panels leaving on the Ruler, if it happened to be on. The Tab key will also toggle the toolbar and panels off and on.
Dear ADOBE... would you please stop messing with our tool bars, selection tools, cropping tools, TRANSITION CONTROLS, etc. ???????? You are wasting our work time as we have to go searching for things. I realize that you all need to make it seem like you are upgrading the products, but this is not helping—SO PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, JUST STOP IT!!!!!!!!! UGH
@Grooviee To be fair, you would have to admit that selections are much more accurate and easier to make than they ever used to be. Functions like Remove Background, Replace Sky, and the Object Selection tool are almost like magic tricks. Select & Mask has quietly got better and better in the background in the years since it was introduced. Overal, Photoshop is masively different to the pre-subscription versions, and we are able to work way more quickly because of it.
You mention the Crop tool, and I do remember being annoyed when it's behaviour changed (was that CS6?), but I would HATE to go back to the old way now. AFAIK, there are still legacy options for Free Transform and the Crop tool, Being on a constant learning curve is what makes life interesting, but I accept that sometimes the timing sucks.
I love the new features but there is more than enough real estate in Photoshop for them to leave the tools alone. I do design for a living, and I get paid by the hour. The last thing I want to do is spend a half hour searching the web for a tool that they moved—And, they seem to be doing it with every update. ::shakes head::
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Yes, the new tools are fantastic but I do not understand why you have to take away how the program works. For example, the "show transform control," why did you change the way that looked or functioned? Before it was a simple box and now you have to go to a dropdown to check and uncheck it. It doesn't sound like much but when you have to do a quick update for a client, and you need to turn on the tool but have no clue where it went it can be extremely annoying. Simple things like that. Or Adobe can just have an option for users: <<Do you want your interface to stay the same or be upgraded to allow for the new features >>
By giving users the option to switch, then they are better prepared to explore, as opposed to when they are on a deadline and have to search for everything or watch a 5 minute video so that they can get up to speed.
Hi. Thank you for your response... don't completely understand it... What worked before computer got hacked - then taken down and rebuilt... not everything is back to normal. 1. 1 thing is can't figure out how to lock my windows... color, character & paragraph, etc... won't lock to the R side of the work space... even though reset workspace. Instead they come up as floating like on desktop... and won't attach... so if I close that images I am working on.... they stay floating on the desktop
2. + I can't figure out how to get more than 1 window to open at a time. If I click on 4 images I want to open so I can move things from 3 of them to the 1 main one... it won't let me. It will only open 1 at a time.
If you can please help me with those 2 things = thank you!!!
I am not deleting tools... just trying to get my Photoshop 2024 to work like it did before hacked badly.
(PS... Just letting you know about how I got hacked so you can share with friends and family... the hackers were soooo good!!) A week ago Sunday, they hacked Facebook trying to steal $20K from my bank and when the supposed Facebook Support (which = turns out does not exist)... the 2nd day they said... now go to bank and take out $30,000 and bring home and I am sending an agent who will take it and scan it and return it in 5-10 min... that's when I called police!!! So now my FB is locked up and can't access it to change password or anything... sent overnight to Meta corp. to TRY and get help... hope they will....)
YES! We go to work and all of the sudden our tools are missing. Searching all logical options and Googling everything just to get back to square one is not an Update. Window menu > Workspace > Reset doesn't return the toolbar on my PC.
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