New technology in Content-Aware Fill, Move, and Patch smoothly blends areas containing gradients, like skies, so you can create seamless, realistic results like never before. Focus Mask works great with potraits and other images that have shallow depth of field, and the Mercury Graphics Engine delivers fast performance. Let Photoshop help you start a mask by automatically selecting the in-focus areas of your image. The Mercury Graphics Engine makes all Blur Gallery interactions fast and fluid. Use Path Blur to add blur along any path and Spin Blur to create circular or elliptical blurs. Plus, easily see the attributes of each Layer Comp, and toggle a Layer Comp within a Smart Object. Save time now that you can change the visibility, position, or appearance of one layer in a Layer Comp and then sync that change to all the others. You can also convert your existing embedded Smart Objects to linked Smart Objects. Maintain the links to external files by automatically packaging them in a single directory. Here’s the full list (from Adobe’s site) with a list of what features have been added and when they were added. I did a little digging to see if I could find a running list of which features Adobe had actually added to Photoshop since the initial Creative Cloud version launch back in 2013, and when I found the page on Adobe’s site that listed them all, even I was surprised how many features have been released, and this have all been within just the last year. So what have they added, and when did they add it? I am stepping off the soapbox now (especially since it’s probably too late anyway, but at least I got it off my chest). It should have been “The 2015 version of Photoshop CC” so it feels like we’re using the software of the future, especially when it becomes 2015. That’s why I don’t understand why Adobe chose to back-date this release. Why didn’t Adobe do what car manufacturers do? If you go buy a new car today, you be getting the 2015 Ford Fiesta or the 2015 Toyota Camry. If they wait to do another big launch like this next year around the same time, we’ll spend at least half of 2015 using software that’s already sounds out-of-date. Or February? Will will be in 2015 and Adobe is still offering just the 2014 version of Photoshop CC? Will we all be using “last year’s” Photoshop? What will they call it in January of 2015. There’s only six more months left in 2014. Now, the fact that Adobe chose to call this “The 2014 version of Photoshop CC” isâ¦wellâ¦ummm. So it’s not just the current Creative Cloud subscribers that realize there are a bunch of new Photoshop (and other CC app) features â” now the whole world knows again. This is why I think Adobe did this launch-style event. Now, it’s like the features silently sneak onto your computer at night while you’re sleeping. There was a big launch â” all the sites were talking about it â” it was huge. If you were on Photoshop CS2 and then CS3 came out â” everybody knew it. This didn’t happen back when Adobe had a clear version numbering system It’s one thing not to get them â” it’s another thing not to even know they existed. There’s no big product launch â” no new name â” all the blogs aren’t buzzing about the new features, so for people outside the Creative Cloud, this release of great new set of features is invisible. That’s awesome, right? So they go download the latest version (it’s a free update), and they have all these features and improvements and tweaks.īut if you’re not a Creative Cloud subscriber, not only do you not get the updatesâ¦you don’t even realize that there were updates. It’s great for people who are subscribed to the Creative Cloud they log in one day and they get a little pop-up notice that says something like “Hey, you’ve got new features in Photoshop!” (but in a much more corporate way). I sat in numerous one-on-one meetings with Adobe and I talked frankly about what I saw as the biggest problem with the frequent feature updates idea. I also saw people asking “Well if Adobe has been releasing features regularly, why did they have this big launch event?” I didn’t ask Adobe this question directly, but I can tell you my thoughts on why I think they had to do it. After Adobe’s launch of the latest version of Photoshop CC on Wednesday, I saw some comments (and some grumbling) from folks who were complaining that Adobe hadn’t really been “fulfilling the promise” of the Creative Cloud which was for us not to have to wait 18-24 months for Adobe to release any new Photoshop features, but instead they’d release regular updates to Creative Cloud subscribers as soon as the features were ready.
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