Preferences > Memory Usage


Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast


Filters


Blur (note the rendering of the thumb arrow)


Layer Blending


Layer Style


Threshold


Color Balance

Things to keep in mind:

  1. These can be found in just Photoshop; I can’t imagine what I’d find elsewhere in the suite. Actually, fine, here’s the first one I found in Illustrator CS5:
  2. The most common out of all these seems to be second one, Brightness Adjustment.
  3. They’re all ugly. The only near-acceptable one is the Layer Style slider.
  4. None of these looks like the standard OS X slider:

UPDATE: Some clarification here.

Notes on this post

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    consistency wha?
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    Check out this assessment of the insane variety of UI inconsistencies in Photoshop CS4.
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    think they just prefer thumbs-up.
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    world’s premier graphics suite have such a god-awful interface? (Cosmetically and functionally, IMO.)
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    post that inspired me to start this tumblr. Inconsistent controls are an automatic fail.
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    Frightful. Whatever...Photoshop UI folks are smoking over there at Adobe headquarters, it...
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    In fact, there’s nothing acceptable about...Layer Style slider either. The entire...
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    special function ones like...Blending, however blur takes
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    and hanging it over my desk at work under...heading “What Not To Do.”
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