P: New smallest swatch size is too large, offer smaller size

[acrerake]

After Photoshop CC 2015.1 update the size of swatches are super huge and fills a large portion of the screen (while viewing all of them...which i do) at the minimum size.
Is this intentional?
Is there a way to get smaller, manageable swatch sizes again?

[J453]

No. We've never been able to provide specific dates. I will update this topic once it's fixed so you will get a notification

[Dukal]

Many thanks.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Yeah this was only in a recent update. If you guys want to do small, medium, large, then cool. There's no reason someone might not want the bigger one. Or, better yet, give us a slider for these things. yes, I understand this might be a slightly bigger deal than I'm making it sound like, but frankly it'd be really nice with the range of setups and screens out there to not be locked into a narrow set of options for things like this.

[J453]

Chris added back in the smallest swatch option in the CC 2015.5 upgrade released today: https://blogs.adobe.com/photoshop/2016/06/adobe-releases-major-photoshop-cc-update-today-and-announc...

[Dukal]

Applause! Thx

[808ster]

Oh well Trolled Adobe, played indeed! we asked for the swatch to be resized back to the original size, and you give us this!?!

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

I want to say "Thank you," and I will for the effort, but I have a very specific way of using the swatch palette and "most recent swatches" row, and this arrangement does not restore us back to where we were before the huge swatches made their appearance. I'll be staying in 2014 for palette work. If there's any way to fix the recent swatches row to "tiny" as an option in the future, that would be lovely. Thanks, anyway.

[Guest]

It also looks like the swatches panel doesn't resize as small in CC 2015.5 as cc 2014 did and therefore throws off any custom swatch arrangements in the Tiny Thumbnail setting.

[dtristram]

Hi Everyone.  Thanks for your comments and descriptions on the swatch size problem.  I just checked in a fix so now...   TINY THUMBS EVERYWHERE!   That is, I added a Tiny Thumbnail menu selection when editing colors on the tool options bar, in the preset manager, and in the swatch flyout when editing paths.  The fix is *not* part of the 19.1 release we just did and I can't really tell you when we will next push from mainline, but I wanted to let you all know the problem has been addressed.  Also, I got a lot of satisfaction fixing a "small" problem that for some people means so much, so thanks for helping make it a priority.  

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Thank you, David. We graphic designers appreciate acknowledgment that we are designing on desktop computers, not tablets!

[Pete.Green]

This issue should be fixed with the Photoshop CC 2018 (19.1.2) update which is now available. 
Please install the update and let us know if you still see this issue.

To update, click Update next to Photoshop CC in the Creative Cloud desktop application.
If you don't see the update right away, click the 3 dots in the upper right and choose Check for App Updates.

Regards
Pete

[Guest]

I don't see any difference between photoshop cc 19.1.2 and 19.1 or photoshop  cc 2017.

Shown below are screenshots using the Default swatches at the smallest size for the relevant photoshop versions.

Photoshop CC 2018.1.2




Photoshop CC 2017




If the person or persons working on the swatches sizes wants to know how the smallest swatch size is supposed to be arranged and size of the swatches panel., just have them look at photoshop cc 2014 and older.

Photoshop CC 2014

[dtristram]

Pete and Monica,

If I understand you, the problem is when Tiny Thumbnails is selected for swatch size, then at the narrowest possible size of the swatches panel, there are 18 swatches in each row, so that similar colors are not aligned vertically.  In Ps CC 2014, with swatch size set to "Small Thumbnails" the panel could accommodate as few as 16 swatches in a row, and vertical alignment was correct.  

The problem seems to be the minimum width of the swatches panel is too large now.  I'll enter a new bug for this problem specifically.  

David

[Nahum Reduta]

Smaller panels would be nice, at least for the basic palette's sake.

As an alternative, it would be nice to be able to arrange the swatches arbitrarily (having blanks where needed).