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?
I do not see anywhere Legacy style. Probably the only way is to roll back to previous version.
By the way, what is sooo anoying? Perhaps because adjustments are presented as list by default? You can click on switcher in the top rifgt corner to display adjustments as icons as they used to be. Above collapsed Adjustments presets are not that destructive and anoying in my opinion.
It's just that some of us try to keep open panels compact and economic. Even if it's just a collapsed section, it's wasted space, and it's distracting.
I agree fully with the OP. I think a moderator should move this to "ideas" so that we can vote on it.
We did manage to get rid of the blue "share" button, right? I think this is just as distracting in its own way.
The major issue for me now, having gone through the start-up and new documents a few times as per my workflow (with some work, saves, PC restarts in between to make sure), is that the new feature resets other panels, completely resizes the panels that remain open and even completely collapses other panels, namely layers and paths. I have to essentially manually adjust my workspace again for each session. Of course, it's not "destructive" but it certainly disrupts my workflow.
I strongly agree with your opinion. Can we call it an evolution of the UI to let fixed presets, which users cannot create or adjust, occupy the top of the panel? This is an extremely ugly design. If they want to implement presets, they should incorporate them into the existing help system, or isolate them as color correction presets in a panel. I really think this is an ugly design.
If you're connected, it makes sense they can do anything they like.
If you block everything with a firewall, you can see it can get somewhat hammered with several Adobe things wanting to make contact.
I also know of one CEP panel (using a cloud) that keeps working, even if you disable it by unchecking...
Adobe is either not strictly checking these panels to conform, or people can easily find a way around it, thereby making this option "useless."
I would also hope this option would be used to learn when a person is "on an island w/o internet," and stop hammering to make contact.
I suspect this thing I encountered might be a "new tech" they're testing and that would make more things (temporarily) dependant on being connected. This may also serve to have less features in pirated versions, but in the end it's often the honest legal user that experiences all the PITA...
My gripe is the use of smaller icons in a larger panel. Not a good UI
Edit to add : Oh and the new smaller icons are blurry - take a screenshot of both and zoom in. The levels icon is sharp as can be on the old version, which it should be given no diagonals to antialias, and it's blurry on the new. Horrible!
Completely agree to most of the replies here, it feels like the 'view as icons' list is a step back rather than step forward.
It comes down to the menu having to be compact, yet still big enough to identify icons and even then if you hover over each icon the name of the specific adjustment being revealed.
Frustrating to say the least but let's just hope a 'view as legacy' option could be easily introduced.
The really weird thing I've seen, is that sometimes when opening an image the panel remains completely dead. The icons are greyed out and nothing happens when you click on them. Here's how that looks and this is with an open image sitting right next to it:
No other panels have ever exhibited anything like this behavior. For some reason it seems to happen mostly when sending images from Lightroom (edit in Photoshop).
It also looks like there's an online component now. When the panel does work, it blinks and reloads quickly a few times before coming to life. Does it actually call home every time? Do I want to know?
The sum of all this - tiny icons, unwanted intrusive presets section, and failure to load - makes the whole panel useless. I've killed it completely now, and have set up keyboard shortcuts/F-key-triggered actions.
Unless something happens to this panel, I don't think I will look back.
Agree 100%. Prefer the old Adjsutments Panel, it fitted so well in my workspace, now with presets its a wasted of space, keeping the window at same side, sometimes working fast it scrool! Is there any way to bring the old Adjustments panel?
I do like that this type of preset picker is introduced in PS itself, ...
* IF it would be its own panel, or an option for the action panel (as they seem to be actions). The day I would like to use them, I would want to click a panel and see most of them, not clicking arrows and digging down to more sections to open, completely messing up the workspace...
* IF we can eventually pick what the presets are, as we can to some degree inside ACR/Lr
- The wider spacing of smaller icons may serve the few people that use large touch screens? Yet, if it's a PITA for all the rest, it's giving priority to a small minority (wokeism in PS? 😉 ) Better to have this layout as an option in the flyout.
I couldn't agree more with the other comments here. It would be fine to have a separate window for these presets that can be turned off, not jut minimized. It would also be great if I could see the individual adjustment icons without my reading glasses. PLEASE change this back.
I updated photoshop to its latest version. However I miss old Adjustments panel layout. In the previous version I found the Icons to be quite a bit bigger and also the layout to be better and more concise. Now every time I open the new panel I dont know where to look at. Find it difficult to find what I am looking for. Its time consuming. I vote to bring abck the old Adjustment panel.
For all those who almost always use the adjustment panel, it needs to be visible, practical.
This means : having its options one click away without hiding your workplace.
This is exactly what the newly updated panel gets away from.
Before :
After :
Why adding a blank space between each pictogram? This takes way more space without bringing anything, therefore this is a horrible idea.
Why making it mandatory to display those newbie features??
Honestly, I am shocked by how ridiculous this is. Those presets are not even browsable, they are not described effectively, and more than anything, they are useless. If you know how to use the adjustment panel this is exactly what you don't want to see. It takes too much space on your screen, it brings absolutely nothing but an amateur "hey! this is what you can doo 8) soo fresh dayuum" 2011-web-early-SoMe editor.
I think this update is a total nonsense.
I would expect at least to be able to hide these useless features ; and to reduce the space in order to make a viable UI. If your screen is just filled with a flock of gadgets that tell you "yahhhooo look at this sunshine effect", then you just can't work.
Even with the "old" panel, too much space was used. I think there should just be a simple floating window, containing absolutely nothing more than what is below :
Having a very old PC, I have now also noticed it takes much longer to draw, probably fetching thumbs if that section is opened. We're not in 1990 anymore. Any dialog should *explode* onto the screen — even in 1991 😉
Opening the Layer Styles dialog by double-clicking on a layer takes more than a second here — a very tedious wait 😞
Good points. It would be nice to customize and edit the presets IF we wanted to use them. A seperate removeable panel is needed. To be able to customize the individual adjustment icons positioning would be great also, but let's focus on the adjustment presets for now
Other issues with the "new" adjustments panel include:
_not being able to adjust the width/height as small as the "old" adjustments panel
and still see all the icons.
_Alt/Option clicking on any of the adjustment icons brings up the New Layer properties dialog as in the old adjustments panel, but now after pressing OK the old style non modular adjustment layer dialog opens as opposed to the old adjustments panel where the modular properties panel adjustment panel opens causing other issues like not being able to record the adjustment in actions.
Dag, you has eight likes on your post so far, which surely says something. I absolutely HATE the new look. Most of my panels are spread over two 24" screens with the UI at 100%. Those screens are pushed left and right by a 32" 16:9 screen so my panel is 18" from my eyes, and the icons too small for to see comfortably. I'd move the panel to my main screen if we were able to reduce its width to a single icon column, but that is not possible.
List mode does give us back the original sized icons, but I hate how spread out they are. When you move the cursor to a panel, you don't want to then have to navigate up and down eight inches of screen to locate the icon you need. It would be better if were able to fine tune the order the icons appear in list mode. I also begrudge how much screen space I now have to allow the Adjustment Layer panel in list mode, but I have no choice because I can't comfortably see the small icons. Grrr.
My workaround is to move the Image > Adjustment shortcuts to the same Adjustment Layers, although I am not sure where I borrowed Ctrl Shift V from for Vibrance. I have not yet got around to asigning those shortcuts to single key shortcuts (Function keys or keyboard G-keys) because I am hoping that well see a legacy panel in a future update.
More issues with the "new" adjustments panel include:
_The order of the icons and flyout menu items has changed from the first iteration of the adjustments panel in cs4/cs5, which followed the same order as the Image>Adjustments/Layer>New Adjustment Layer
menu items.
Starting in photoshop cs6 and lasting until photoshop 2023 (ps ver 24.4.1) the icon order was changed as
well as the flyout list order which are both different from each other as well as different from the
Image>Adjustments/Layer>New Adjustment Layer menu items.
Now again in photoshop 2023 (ps ver 24.5) while the icon order has stayed the same. the icon menu
flyout list has yet changed order again. And still again when one switches to the "new" list mode in the "new" adjustments panel both the list in
the panel and flyout menu order are completely different each other and the icon view.
For the sake of consistency, shouldn't all the lists and icons be arranged in the same order as the traditional
Image>Adjustments/Layer>New Adjustment Layer menu items?
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