Adobe Photoshop Announces Major Updates: 5,000 Importable Skies, iPad Magic Wand
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Adobe has just announced major updates to Photoshop on both desktop and the iPad, including the new Discover Panel. This new feature will allow users to access tutorials, one-click actions, and other functions from just one place. Here’s what else is new.
Discover Panel
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Photoshop has added a brand-new Discover Panel to its arsenal of features. Users can use the panel to find content more easily, from inside the app itself. They’ll be able to search for tools, menu items, workflows, and can narrow down the options when searching. It also comes with tutorials that can guide designers through various workflows.
Photoshop Beta
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Adobe is introducing Photoshop Beta this month, a new way for Creative Cloud members to provide feedback to the team. Users will be able to test and report back on stability, performance, and sometimes even gain access to new features before they’re officially released.
For Desktop:
Sky Replacement
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Users will now have the ability to choose from “many new, spectacular skies,” and import up to 5,000 skies at once. The ‘Get More Skies’ link, which is also located within the dialog in Photoshop, will take users to Adobe’s site, where they can download different groups of high-quality presets. From sunrises to night skies and even fireworks, designers have tons to pick from.
‘Transform Warp’ Tool
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Designers know the warp tool is one of the most useful features of Photoshop, albeit a little frustrating. Now, there’s independent Bezier handle movement, which Adobe said will allow “people, like packaging designers, who need to stretch and bend images onto bottles, boxes, and others, the ability to create previously-impossible transformations.”
For iPad:
Healing Brush
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Artists who use Photoshop on your iPads, rejoice. The full range of the famed Healing Brush’s capabilities on desktop are finally available on the iPad app. Users will now be able to correct any imperfections just by painting with sampled pixels from another image. The update comes with all the bells and whistles, including diffusion, blend modes, and the brush angle.
Magic Wand
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The essential, highly-requested feature helps designers to quickly extract objects from a flat background, select an organically shaped area, or distinctly colored element. Users are now able to select areas of images based on tone and color, and can adjust for tolerance and other characteristics for more seamless blends and precise results.
Canvas Projection
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As designers, most of us are familiar with working from two or more screens. Now, upon connecting the iPad to an external monitor or television screen, users’ projects will immediately be projected full-screen without the Photoshop UI. This allows users to present their images, even as they’re being edited live.
To learn more about the latest update, Adobe will be holding a virtual lesson on August 18 and August 19 respectively. Head over here to find out more.
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