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P: Photoshop 26.10 Selective Color UI Changed

Contributor ,
Aug 04, 2025 Aug 04, 2025

So... one of the best Photoshop tools I've used for decades for color correction has been replaced overnight by a duplicate of "Color Balance." I can't simply no longer correct individual colors as I did intuitively before. Why has a tool that worked perfectly been destroyed? The change has been so disastrous and counterintuitive that I can only think it's a silly programming error!

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Contributor ,
Sep 29, 2025 Sep 29, 2025

"modern user interface"... hehehe.

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Community Expert ,
Sep 29, 2025 Sep 29, 2025

Wasn't "Modern Interface" what Microsoft called Vista?

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New Here ,
Oct 03, 2025 Oct 03, 2025

Thank you

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New Here ,
Oct 06, 2025 Oct 06, 2025

The redesigned Selective Color Correction window no longer displays previews. (MacOS 15.6., PSD 26.11.)

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New Here ,
Oct 09, 2025 Oct 09, 2025

Since they've chenged the interface of the selective color tool, you can't use the shortcuts.

Normally you use Ctrl 1 for red, Crtl 2 for yellow and so on, but since the interface has changed this does not work.
It is a lot of extra work to get to your mouse, go to the second screen and click one of the colored buttons (why???), to select the next color.
So please fix this bug! 
P.S. I am glad the bug with the info pallet (before/after) has been solved, but I really would prefer my older version of Photoshop!

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New Here ,
Oct 09, 2025 Oct 09, 2025

I've been using Photoshop since 1998 and I HATE this new palette. Please, Please change it back. It's unattractive, confusing and throws a wrench into my workflow. It doesn't even make sense. I am so dissappointed by this change. It was simple and straightforward before. Why add more clutter that hinders the simplicity and ease of use. Just my 2 cents. I H.A.T.E it.

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New Here ,
Oct 10, 2025 Oct 10, 2025

I couldn't agree more!

They must have had a trainee that doesn't even understand that this palette was originally invented for correcting CMYK-files.
(I have been using Photoshop ever since version 2.0 - if I'm correct - 1993 or 1994;-)

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New Here ,
Oct 10, 2025 Oct 10, 2025

This is simply not true. I used to use the shortcuts on the keyboard (Crtl1, Ctrl2 and so on) and it doesn't work anymore!

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New Here ,
Oct 10, 2025 Oct 10, 2025

When you have to correct about 250 images, you don't want to use re-editable adjustment layers.
I only make small corrections for fine-tuning and I don't have time for the 'modern way'.

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Community Expert ,
Oct 16, 2025 Oct 16, 2025

FYI, I use 26.6 at work, no choice, and CTRL+3, 4... works to change the colors, in the image>Selective Color. CTRL+1 and CTRL+0 does scale the interface.

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 17, 2025 Oct 17, 2025

Whyyyyy oh why did you mess with my selective color tool? It was beautiful as it was and this new slider is driving me nuts. It most definitely is NOT working the same and I can't simply "ignore it." The results are very different and I find it impossible to get the result I'm trying to see. Is there no way to revert to legacy?

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 29, 2025 Oct 29, 2025

This does not work.

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 29, 2025 Oct 29, 2025

@Semaphoric this does not work. It's still the same after unchecking the "Modern user Interface" and restarting photoshop. Is there any solution?

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Adobe Employee ,
Oct 29, 2025 Oct 29, 2025

Hey, @katres27083183. Photoshop 27.0 is now available via the Creative Cloud desktop app. Please update via the Creative Cloud desktop app, and check how it goes from there. 

 

Thanks!
Sameer K
(Type '@' and type my name to mention me when you reply)

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 29, 2025 Oct 29, 2025

@Sameer K 

I updated, nothing has changed.

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Participant ,
Oct 30, 2025 Oct 30, 2025

I see Davescm defending Adobe's move on this and saying nothing has changed, but in fact it has. I do art reproduction, and selective color has been one of my most used tools. It doesn't behave the way it did before, and the UI is different in two different places, as has been pointed out here. 

 

This was a poor move on Adobe's part. I strongly dislike this change. I would word it stronger if not for the rules of the forums here, if you get my point. This was just a terrible and confusing change that didn't need to happen. 

 

The previous UI mimicked four color printing more than RGB monitor and was very convenient and easy to understand. After some time with the new UI, I still find it confusing. The fact that the UI is different in two different places is just super poor UI management. 

 

Note that the ONLY person on this thread that sees this as OK is Adobe's community expert. Not a single user here has said they like it. 

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Community Expert ,
Oct 31, 2025 Oct 31, 2025

@Scott_BFAR I see no 'defending' in my replies. In fact, if a bug report or idea is seen as attack and defense then it will not go anywhere. What I did do was point out that, despite the UI changes, the functionality behind selective colour which I use every day had not changed, but then invited others to show what functional changes they were seeing. Some did so, and the difference was that I use selective colour as an adjustment layer, those that were pointing out further changes behind the UI were using it from the menu. That is a useful data point for Adobe's developers which did not come out in the original 'idea'.


So please do not accuse me of posting my own experience with the UI for the adjustment layer, which I don't see as OK but which I can ignore, with the wider issues which came to light later in the thread.

Dave

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Community Beginner ,
Nov 03, 2025 Nov 03, 2025

best! Thank you!

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Participant ,
Nov 18, 2025 Nov 18, 2025

The bug it has introduced is worse.

Sliders reset all of a sudden or the changes won't get applied after clicking ok. 

Very annoying.

Version 27.0 btw.

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New Here ,
Nov 26, 2025 Nov 26, 2025

I just can't use these new colored sliders! Please don't tell me they work the same when I can't use the new sliders at all! Many of us want to use the old gray sliders! Please make that possible for us!

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New Here ,
Nov 26, 2025 Nov 26, 2025

I am adding my voice to all that has been said. Selective Color AS IT WAS was a go-to tool for me. Why change it?? You have made my work flow less productive. PLEASE change it back!! What you have now is non-functional.

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Participant ,
Nov 26, 2025 Nov 26, 2025
The changes to selective color are not only confusing but they are wrong.
Previously for example, if you added yellow to the yellow channel, you got
more yellow. Period. But with the RGB slider you get more of one color and
less of another. When I add more yellow I don’t necessarily want less blue.
Each CMYK color change was completely independent of others. I used these
for prints and now it’s just wrong. I could select blue, and independently
control each CMYK value for that color.

Now It doesn’t work the same as before as each color slider affects two
colors, and Adobe has completely broken a long time go to tool for print
proofing.

Again, it’s not just different, it’s wrong and now broken. As a
professional printer for twenty years Adobe broke one if my most used
tools.
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Community Beginner ,
Dec 08, 2025 Dec 08, 2025
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great thanks

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