Solved. It's a comeback of the "multiple screens" issues. I moved PS to another screen, repeated the action and suddenly the gradient editor came up again. So basically what happened was that Adobe for some reason thought it's a good idea to spawn the editor window behind the main window, so you can't see it :)

Moving the window around displays solved the issue. The eyedropper comes up because that's what you can do while the gradient editor is opened, likely has been like that before. Just the UI bug is something I haven't had since CC.

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Been using PS 2020 up to this week because I hate running into app changes that may disrupt mission-critical work.

Had to update to 2023 and now and for some reason I cannot edit gradients anymore. So basically my fear went fulfilled again

With PS 2020, I used to be able to do the following:

- Enable the gradient tool

- click the gradient in the top bar

- a new window would open up, letting me adjust the gradient's colors, marker positions etc.

Now what happens with PS 2023 is that when I click the gradient, it opens the eyedropper tool

Tried control-clicking, shift-clicking etc. nothing makes the gradient editor come up. It always gives me this eyedropper tool that I really do not need at all in that case. I don't even know what I'm supposed to do with the eyedropper tool in that instance, clicking anything, selected or unselected, doesn't do anything and doesn't affect the gradient anyway.

Am I doing something wrong? Did that change? Is there some setting to make it go back to the previous behavior or how am I supposed to directly edit gradients now?

Hi, animation student here, I’m pretty experienced in Photoshop, but I’ve recently updated to Photoshop 2024, and I can’t figure out how to attach my own colours to the gradient tool. When I click the tool, I can only see the default options given. Any clue?