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How to switch back to legacy Adjustments panel?

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
May 25, 2023
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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.

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Yamonov

Legend

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.

--Yamonov

carynorton

Inspiring

Cannot agree more. They keep "fixing" things. The adjustment panel has looked the same as long as I've used it (so nearly 20 years).

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jacob todd

Participating Frequently

It gets in the way and I have no use for it now it's been added to a panel I use every day and I cant remove it?

C33Fernandez

Participant

No idea why they added it to the same panel. Takes up twice as much GUI real estate, makes navigating other panels half as effective. The alternative is to pop the panel out of the side bar and relocate it, keep it expanded, but that reduces visibility of the canvas. Extremely frustrating.

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

I'll add my voice to the list of people who HATE the change. We can reduce the preset screen space by twirling it shut, but the Adjustment layer icons are half the size they were.

I use three screens (on 32" and two 24") and have enough space to work with all of the panels I use open and with LOTS of room, so I have been showing the Adjustment Layers in list mode, but that makes them too spread out and slows your workflow. It's only a moment, but it feels like you've hit a brick wall and it glitches your process.

The answer is probably to move the Image > Adjustment shortcuts — that edit the layer destructively — to the relevant Adjustmet Layers. I'd like to add a shortcut to Vibrance, but I use the various Paste options so don't want to use V with modifiers. So does anyone have any clever workflows they'd like to share?

Bojan Živković11378569

Community Expert

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.

D Fosse

Community Expert

By the way, what is sooo anoying?

By @Bojan Živković11378569

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.

C33Fernandez

Participant

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.