How to switch back to legacy Adjustments panel?

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After updating 24.5, the Adjustments panel automatically changed to a new mode after restartup.
For me, these functions are not useful,I want to switch back to the legacy style.
How to do it?

---update---

Since there is no restoration option until 24.6, I found someone on the Internet who shared the manual restoration method.
If you want to restore and never want to use the new adjustments panel again,
just delete or move this folder to other place :Adobe Photoshop 2023\Required\UXP\com.adobe.photoshop.adjustments-panel

I do not understand such a simple thing, why the development team refused to provide.

[davescm]

@FionaYu 

Legacy Icons View

For switching back to the legacy view, do you still find it helpful to see text next to icons (Aka. the list view) OR do you prefer only having the legacy icons view?

My preference would be to have the ability to switch back to the old icons panel - it was compact but clear.

Size of Legacy Icons

What do you think of the size of the legacy icons? Should we make any adjustments to it, even providing a scaling bar so that you can slide up or down the icon sizes? 

The legacy icons were fine in size. Slightly larger than the new icons and most importantly they were sharp and clear whereas the new icons are both smaller and blurred.

Create Custom Presets

What do you think about creating your own adjustment presets? Would that be useful for your workflows? If we had this feature, would you want to see it with the legacy icons view? 

This partly exists within the properties panel for individual items. What of course that does not do is add several adjustment layers together for a combined effect. However, we can achieve that with actions (combined with the aforementioned adjustment presets).

If there is to be a preset panel, I would prefer it to be separate so users can make it visible, or not, as they choose.

With some of the changes I have recently, I feel like we  need Photoshop to run in two modes. One, for newcomers, with simple adjustments and presets. The second for more seasoned users running with the controls we need. This is not unusual in applications and the panel/ options/button set up could be associated with the saved workspace. That way everyone can be happy new or old.

Dave

[FionaYu]

Thanks for your input, everyone! We have discussed this as a team and will be working on this panel option for you to only see the legacy adjustments panel. 

[FionaYu]

For those of you who think creating custom adjustment presets on the panel might be useful for your workflows, please head on over to this thread and let us know your ideas! 

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-ideas/are-you-interested-in-creating-custom-adjus... 

[davescm]

Thank you for listening and responding 🙂

Dave

[Zesty_wanderlust15A7]

@FionaYu

I just replied to that thread, but two times my reply didn't show up. I don't know if this is on purpose or an error on someone's end...  If it's on purpose, please mention it in the OP 🙂

[D Fosse]

@FionaYu 

I use Photoshop for a living, 8 hours a day. And then some when I get off work. This is a pretty big part of my life.

What I need is an Adjustments panel that is just that, nothing more. I need the Adjustments panel to be compact and efficient, and not take up more space than necessary.

The only presets I have ever used are those I make myself. They belong in the Properties panel where the adjustment parameters are actually set. If there has to be a range of ready-made presets, put them in its own presets panel. I'm fine with that, as long as I have a way to hide it.

The thing is, what I strongly feel here, is that this was a solution in search of a problem. This just worked. There was no need to change it in the first place. This feels like a change for change's own sake.

The only change I would welcome is the ability to change the order of the icons. There are some adjustments I never use, and some I use very rarely. It would be nice to be able to put those last, and those I do use at the front.

Thank you for listening 🙂

[alexanderl16240166]

@FionaYu Thank you!

[carynorton]

@D Fosse I'm with you. It would take some time to retrain my brain if I could move the icons around but there are definitely some I never use (I'm never going to use a Threshold layer, at this point, but I use Selective Color all the time).

I'd truly be happy with the previous view though, even if I couldn't change anything, because I have years of muscle memory taking me to the right place. The other part of muscle memory I have is looking at the text area that says what layer type it is when my mouse is over the icon. That text being there IMMEDIATELY is really important to me, as opposed to waiting what feels like ages for the Tool Tip text to show up. My hand goes to the icon I need and my eyes go to the text area to reinforce that I'm in the right spot. That's what my brain wants, you know?

So, cool if we could move them, but I'm super happy with just the same thing I have known (and removing the Preset stuff to its own panel—certainly not ABOVE the tools I actually use, such that I have to scroll down or be forced to have that panel a size and shape I don't want nor am I used to). 

[WRB22]

Thank you!  Great to see that you're willing to listen and respond and actually care about users.

[Doug22312530wjwc]

Thanks for listening. I hope that you fully restore the panel to the previous compact and legible form. In other words, restore it exactly as it was. I am noticing that the new icons are not only smaller and blurry but the entire panel sometimes reverses out so that the header type is black instead of white and the icons are white.  

[Trevor.Dennis]

Doug, I have found the new Adjustment panel completely empty on two occassions now.  Both times with the beta version.  Both times a Preferences reset fixed it, but the second time was within hours of resetting Preferences!  I have turned Deactivate Native Canvas now, because it seems to fix anything remotely display related, and 24 hours later, all is still well.  Although it feels a bit of a stretch to be happy about a panel full of icons going missing.

[Meredith29246632y18a]

Here to strongly agree and be updated when there is a fix, thanks.

[Meredith29246632y18a]

Responding to agree, and to bring more attention to this thread. I spend more than 40hr/wk in Photoshop too, and the Adjustments panel is critical. It used to work and I feel like I had the rug pulled out from under me.

[Doug22312530wjwc]

Thanks for the tip, Trevor. In the instance of the Adjustments panel reversing to black type and white icons, I'm finding that simply clicking on any icon in the panel reverses the panel back to "normal." I did try Deactivate Native Canvas, and when restarting Photoshop, the Adjustments panel was reversed momentarily on startup and then self-corrected. Haven't run it enough to see if this prevents the panel from reversing during a session. Entertaining, I guess, but more evidence that this is a pretty half-baked effort. (running OSX Ventura, PS 24.5.0)

[FionaYu]

@Zesty_wanderlust15A7 Hmm, super weird! That was not intentional at all, perhaps a server issue?

[FionaYu]

Hi @Trevor.Dennis, sorry you are experiencing that. We'll look into that. Can you file a bug report with reproducible steps and a video recording of your screen? 

[Doug22312530wjwc]

It gets weirder. When I checked Turn Off Native Canvas and restarted Photoshop, my computer went completely berserk. It started with the Layers dropdown menu flickering (literally turning on and off rapidly), then random Photoshop windows opening and closing and then other random apps opening. I had to manually shut down. Restarted Photoshop and noting else, enabled Native Canvas and all is calm. BUT, when I restarted Photoshop, the Adjustment panel was once again reversed with black type and white icons until I clicked on one of the icons (Levels) and it revereted to normal.

[Teire]

You lions of the Photoshop menu! Thank you all -- everyone posting about this and especially those of you posting screenshots! Without you, I'd still be sitting in frustration trying to get around the new 'adjustment' presets, not a one of which does a single practical thing I need to enhance oil paintings. Thanks to you, I can now find my way around well enough to (with a tonne of clicking) sort out how to use the app as I always have. You are my heroes! I can't thank you enough!

Tracy Eire

[StudioGDigital]

Thank you FionaYu for considering adding back a Legacy Icons View. I’m glad I’m not the only one who misses the large icons and does not welcome the intrusion of “presets” into our adjustment layers palette. To answer your questions,

Legacy Icons View

No text needed, just the palette with simple icons. I just hover a bit if I need labels.

Size of Legacy Icons

No need for a scaling bar if they are the same size as they were before the v24.5 change.

Create Custom Presets

If there are going to be presets available (in an entirely separate palette, of course) then custom presets are a natural extension to that. Users are going to want to tweak the built-in ones or create their own (that would be me). Custom presets could be added to the presets palette, but definitely not in the legacy icons view.

[davidK]

Hello Adobe --- This sucks!  These AI motivated "Adjustments Presets" might be fine for someone who wants to make crappy interpretations of their pictures, but for serious printmaking having these appear as a default simply sucks.  Distracting, takes up real estate -- just garbage.  Make an option to hide Adjustment Presents for the Adjustment interface and do it ASAP.    

[Carson Jones]

Really can't stand the wasted space.  I'll never use the presets and want the UI space back.  Not sure who thought it would be a good idea to force this on users without a way of removing it but please don't let them make any future UI decisions.

[K Russell]

Eagerly awaiting a fix for this so just adding my voice to the chorus. As others have said, the previous Adjustments panel was absolutely fine. The "presets" are for beginners and get in the way, the new icons waste more space, and who would ever use list view. This reminds me of so many other infamous UI 'enhancements' that nobody wanted and that impeded workflow. Please can we just revert? The old joke has never been more true: "What's the most useful feature of Photoshop? Enable Legacy..."

[StudioGDigital]

Looking at the June 30 version of the 24.7.0 beta I think we've got a workable solution. They've given us a "Classic view" and "Modern view" (nice jab at us oldies, haha). The icons are back to the original size in Classic and even bigger in the new Modern view. I can live with this! Thanks!

[Carson Jones]

Adobe could avoid the UI problems and user backlash if they simply opened up the UI customization similar to how Cinema 4D handles things (i.e. fully customizeable with included default layouts).  Now that would be modern.

[FionaYu]

Hello everyone! Thank you all for patiently waiting. We have built the "Classic view" into the adjustments panel. You can access it via the flyout menu of the adjustment panel. This will switch it back to the original layout with only the adjustments icons. Hope you enjoy this addition.

We have also released in Beta the functionality for you to save your own adjustments presets on the panel, but it is only accessible via the "Modern View". If you find yourself always applying the same effects to your images, feel free to give this feature a try via the Beta app. No more creating actions for adjustments!

Please let me know what else we can improve for you.

Thank you,

Fiona Yu