P: Bring Quick Share back to Photoshop (removed from 23.3)

[Peaceful_experts5FA9]

Adobe, bring back the Quick Share button that was at the top right of Photoshop (it was just removed with the April release of Photoshop 23.3)

The reasoning for removing it is stated as "due to low usage, desire to simplify the options bar UI, and redundant functionality to other export functions."

But there is no other export function (that I am aware of) that allows you to send an image directly to another device via AirDrop -- This was extremely convenient as I didnt have to save/export a file onto my HDD everytime I wanted to send something to my phone or tablet.
Please bring it back and tuck it away somwhere if you have to.

[michal5C0C]

Bring back quickshare button if you think it's low usage then you are out of your mind adobe, this was the most easy way to share it to lightroom mobile and then share wherever you wanted from mobile phone.

I don't want to run circles to find another way this was simple and you just had to break it didn't you.. stop re inventing the wheel people if you need to shine on your meeting with brainstorming ideas then come up with something better and not remove features that work in favour of average user. So typical leaving photoshop and Adobe for good is the only way for me.. brainstorm this 

[Kukurykus]

Low usage sounds very suspicious when looking at the stats. This idea gained 51 votes in 22 days. The rate of growth is very dynamic, seeing other ideas have reached this level after many months.

For all Photoshop users, 51 is obviously not much. Even when it comes to the Macintosh itself. However, we can relate this to other results. So the leading idea now has 248 votes, the 2nd and 3rd have 204 and 201, then the 4th and 5th 175 and 153. The 1st three come from 2011, the next two from 2019 and 2021.

So is 51 not much for less than a month? This is a lot, and if this number soon reaches over 100 votes, it will be right behind THE TEN TOP of the most popular submissions.

Dagger to the heart.

[TheDigitalDog]

Low usage sounds very suspicious when looking at the stats. So is 51 not much for less than a month?

Nice try. 51 votes yes. Less than a month; 2.6K views! 

[Kukurykus]

I don't quite understand which way are you going? Is it like I say according to you or the opposite?

I'd rather hear a sincere confession: 'We are aware of the high use of Quick Share, but due to the plan to impose a "Share button" service on users, we are taking back the ability to export files easily.'

That would be really okay, and in a situation showing how little those offical words are worth, simplifying the menu options implies a falsehood in action.

[billkane77]

The removal of quick share in Photoshop is a total drag! I use it every day to send email images to clients. It was quick and easy and certainly didn't take up much room on the options bar. Adobe - Please bring it back!!!!

[suew88401558]

I posted earlier in this thread about my disappointment over the quick share feature being eliminated with the last update. I used this feature every time I wanted to share a photo. After hours spent on live chat, and on the phone talking to an Adobe rep, I was told to go back to an older version of PS. So.... while I am doing that, I will be looking for a new editing program. My concern is that I have thousands of PS edited photos; will I be able to access them using a different program? Or are they forever held hostage by Adobe? I cannot believe I have paid for a subscription to a service that no longer cares that the average guy/gal does not want to spend even more money to use their cloud. Any suggestions would be appreciated. 

[TheDigitalDog]

My concern is that I have thousands of PS edited photos; will I be able to access them using a different program? Or are they forever held hostage by Adobe?

If the images are in an openly documented format like TIFF and JPEG, no issue. PSD not an issue IF whatever new product support that format. So check. Layers? Most likely not but check. A few try but no guarantee of a match if so, especially with blend modes. Again, a flattened TIFF, lots of options. TIFF is an open source format (controlled by Adobe).

[Becky173433490y51]

Please bring back the quick share. I used this all the time. Why was it taken away on the update! This was one of the best things and now it's gone. 

[defaultujm3w44j34l4]

Please vote on the top of the one and bring this up! Now only 54…keep
commenting but vote too please!

[Stephen_A_Marsh]

159 comments but only 54 votes... Everyone that has commented has to click the main vote button at the top, not upvote comments/replies!

[Kukurykus]

It's because we can't vote twice 😉 Plus there are many non unique replies. 'Merely' 21 of mine to help users or to communicate to them my finds. Then maybe double - triple posts of some others, but still if we end with 100 comments to 50 votes I completely agree to be more consequent 🙂

[TheDigitalDog]

ONE vote per customer is all any customer deserves. 

Fact: thousands of views, page after page, hundreds of posts, not a lot of votes (54 thus far). That's what Adobe is looking at. 

[Kukurykus]

Unless someone uses two accounts, then as one double customer you can trick the system to vote twice ‌‌:P Or if that's detected the other calculation is considered in specific case and you deserve for a half vote: (1/2=0.5) ‌‌:D

Sometimes 5 is more than 10, it's all about benefits from particular feature to find something is enough valuable for company to apply one time combination, thus I would say 500 votes may be still not sufficient amount ‌‌;)

[TheDigitalDog]

Unless someone uses two accounts, then as one double customer you can trick the system to vote twice

Illustrating (potentially) how poor the response so far has been. 

Too much talking/ranting and posting, not enough voting. Those are the facts. 

"thus I would say 500 votes may be still not sufficient amount ‌‌"

What number did Adobe tell you was the right number of votes ???? 😜

[Kukurykus]

The number was random to some degree, it was not about particular result to gain, but the main goal to achieve, that inevitably leads to disregard parallel expectations of others. My basis is an comparison to other polls, where many votes did not guarantee to introduce features, and then less followed ideas, but surprisingly more welcome to implement.

Paraphrasing what I told you in Does anybody else feel like the constant bugs and problems in photoshop are destroying productivity?, as different people we're bent to use other indicators for our conclusion, which with time we can verify, and adapt to reality more accurately. Otherwise we would become disrespectful to each other, and would believe only own expertise is ultimately critical, than also alternate approach to same phenomenon from other side.

One made by us comment producess notifications (unless disabled) each time other users come with new content. As result it increases number of views by number of visits (including switching pages) without any activity. Although we can't know whether one user is equivalent one site refreshment, or 100 I agree views are imporant along with other elements, but we can't forget of the rest factors my post was about. I would continue and say at least some of them, but as respect to you I finish here to not be recognized as rants creator. That's not my aim, but friendly disscusion if someting 😉

[TheDigitalDog]

The number was random to some degree, it was not about particular result to gain, but the main goal to achieve, that inevitably leads to disregard parallel expectations of others.

IOW a factitious number, hence why my question was not answered. 

The signal to noise ratio, thanks in part to both of us posting after voting keeps creeping higher. Making the low number of votes (signal to Adobe) further drowned in noise (number of posts). Do consider that ratio. 

As to the thread you reference: a rant in a forum designed for tech (user to user) support. More noise (rant). No signal (support). Locked for that reason.

[Kukurykus]

I couldn't reply for your question because I have no information you ask me for. I don't think you'd like me to fabricate something to satisfy you? Instead I told you the number is irrelevant in my post, that was nothing I would focus on. You have misread its importance. I could use whatever, like 'a high number' saying 😉 Read preceding part of that sentence you quoted from the half. There's its sense I'm referring to, not the quoted ending itself.

Regarding the above the quotation you used in (not last but) previous post was part of joke, an introduction to next sentence. That wasn't any argument to take seriously, simply kind response. Again, read the whole if you're interested to grasp the sense 😉

I wouldn't underestimate Adobe folks. I can't say for everyone, but I find many reasonable people amid them. They may fail sometimes at some harder tasks, but differentiating 'signal' from 'noise' when collecting infos for further use wouldn't be something that stress me. With dedicated web tools they may check page activity during different phases of its existence, or simply skip anything that potentially yields false results.

[TheDigitalDog]

I couldn't reply for your question because I have no information you ask me for.

I was aware of that just after reading the values of votes you made up. 🤔

"thus I would say 500 votes may be still not sufficient amount ‌‌"

More noise. And:

Regarding the above the quotation you used in (not last but) previous post was part of joke, an introduction to next sentence.

Moving on, leaving from this noise making (but by all means continue the noise):

I wouldn't underestimate Adobe folks. I can't say for everyone, but I find many reasonable people amid them. They may fail sometimes at some harder tasks, but differentiating 'signal' from 'noise' when collecting informations for further use wouldn't be something that stress me. With dedicated web tools they may check page activity during different phases of its existence, or simply skip anything that potentially yields false results.

No need to complicate this process: it's about the upvotes!

[davescm]

As a slight aside - and I don't want to hijack this thread or take away from a valid request for the return of a function, it amazes me when I see folk attempting to disconnect analytics on their systems (not just for Adobe applications but operating systems and other applications), then some complain when features they use are removed because they are little used. There are threads full of this in these forums. Analytics can have a positive side....... just saying 🙂

As for the quick share feature, I never used it - but support those that did.

Dave

[Kukurykus]

Loll you still split in a half my sayings and ask for answer to something I can't have idea about. I already twice sent you to entire thought you ignore. I can admit, as separate part of sentence it has no sense. I wouldn't say anything like it without broad context, therefore I can ask you the same question what that does mean...

I'm replying to you as I'm having educational lesson thanks to you, and that's somehow nice chat after all 😉 But if you are unhappy by making 'more noise' why are you part of it for so long? It wasn't me first replying to you. I answered to my fellow scripting mate Stephen_A_Marsh. Then you joined the dialogue, and the conversation has started. As respectful person I'm trying to be I accompanied to you, but I have feeling you're doing it against yourself. At one hand you want to be here, then you feel remorse you shouldn't continue it (speaking of 'noise').

I'm not trying to hold you, you're free to go - but any time you need me to talk don't hesitate to drop by 🙂

Remember, there are not same people - there are differences between us, some share their views with passion, others can't deal with. The problem starts when you can't take it as fact - instead of leading discussion you start to argue as someone doesn't naturally see the things the same way you do. It leads to intolerance, with which I believe Adobe sometimes worse, but usually quite very well handle, to be beyond.

I'm not your foe - anytime you meet me remember we both are valuable folks of this community - each of us serves his help own way. That doesn't mean some of them are better. They better fits to each of us individually, whilst using other methods we wouldn't be so good at what we're offering.

[oversampled]

Super annoying. I use this daily. As other commenters have posted, there is now no way to directly export via Airdrop or Mail, which I used to use multiple times a day. The creative cloud sharing option is of no use to me whatsoever.

Please fix this Adobe, if we were builders, we'd be pretty pissed off if once a month, someone snuck into our toolkits and replaced our hammers with tubes of glue 'because we noticed you haven't used the hammer much recently'...

[slydigital]

I used this all the time when working on design remotely and sending iMessages to my buddy for review. Going to back to screen captures and that feels kinda lame. Bring Back Share! 

[professorfrey]

Quick Share was one of the only useful "new" features in YEARS.  There's no way that low usage was an issue.  And if you want to clean up the UI, delete literally 75% of everything on every dropdown bar - on one uses any of it.  

Bring back quick share.  It's the only way to quickly airdrop files from desktop to phone to ipad for various types of editing and eventual posting.  Completely insane. 

[minusplus]

What is mental is that they have this huge blue share button, which is completely useless, but they removed quick share, airdropping to my phone as a designer was one of the most useful tools photoshop had.

As someone else mentioned it was a super quick way to send to clients and post on social media.

Why on earth did they remove this?

[Lumigraphics]

Yeah not the brightest choice. Have one share button, fine. But don't make it bright blue and don't limit it to cloud files. Most of us will NEVER use cloud storage.