Taluyaq Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 The adjustments gallery is a nice gimmick and some of the shortcuts are even quite handy. But for some tools there are no previews because of their complex nature and for others the previews carry no useful information at all. No serious photographer takes on photo editing by tapping together random modifications by thumbnails. The gallery approach also sacrifices swiftness by focusing on misguiding optical stimuli. It took me ages to find the tool for selective colour correction (“HSL adjust”, which lacks orange and purple, by the way) from that messy gallery because the thumbnail did not nearly look like something I would like to do with the image in question. But maybe it's just me. Any thougths on that? InnerPeace and Tschens 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stanley Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 Yes, I agree that the thumbnails just get in the way for me. InnerPeace 1 Quote Stan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Andy Somerfield Posted June 18, 2017 Staff Share Posted June 18, 2017 Hi, The lack of thumbnails in some categories is not because they are complicated - its just that we don't ship any presets for those adjustments. The main "adjustments" list allows adding of all adjustments in their default state. The other lists allow adding of adjustment presets - which you can create from each adjustment tool. That said, I agree to an extent.. I have created my own adjustment presets for the adjustments which I use frequently - and removed the default ones. Now I get useful thumbnails everywhere - including the main list (which uses the first preset if available). Soon, we will add the ability to switch to a simple list of adjustment names instead of thumbnails - as well as the ability to sort the list by most-frequently-used, as opposed to alphabetically - which at times I do find frustrating. Hope this helps, A InnerPeace, RIO XL, donka and 6 others 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taluyaq Posted June 23, 2017 Author Share Posted June 23, 2017 Andy, thanks for the clarification. I have now a better understanding of the gallery. Your preview of the changes is exciting and should make this feature enjoyable for everyone. Maybe you could consider switching on and off thumbnails on an item by item basis since some of the more frequent used presets would be nice to have as visual cues while others can go without … Soon, we will add the ability to switch to a simple list of adjustment names instead of thumbnails - as well as the ability to sort the list by most-frequently-used, as opposed to alphabetically - which at times I do find frustrating. Yay! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yusha Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 Having the choice is great, but from time to time I rely on thumbnails to swift through the extensive presets (I'm not an advanced designer). On that note, I would like to see accurate thumbnails, please refer to the attached video. The initial state of the image is a non-flipped one, and thumbnails doesn't seem to take any modification into consideration. Granted, that would involve having small snapshots generated for the thumbnail preview (using resources), but rather have such accurate thumbnail previews, or none at all. 0C6F12A8-1CBF-49D3-BCD7-3036913DF0BB.MOV Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nighternet Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 A choice is great. Customization is superior. AP is an app loaded with features, most of which some user would never use. Being able to customize the UI would be very welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InnerPeace Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 I do agree with OP that the current behaviour is a bit confusing using previews for both presets and regular ajustment layers. I think the distinction should be more pronounced and also the previews take up a lot of screen real estate. I like PS' ajustment layer panel using icons. No need to scroll and I know what the icons mean and do. The previews should only be present for presets and ajustmentlayers with presets should be sepperated in the interface. Now it's confusing and annoying for people who are already familiar with On 18-6-2017 at 0:06 PM, Andy Somerfield said: [...] Soon, we will add the ability to switch to a simple list of adjustment names instead of thumbnails - as well as the ability to sort the list by most-frequently-used, as opposed to alphabetically - which at times I do find frustrating. That's great to hear. Can't wait! I like the categorization, but (again) I would like this with the presets separately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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