For a few years, Adobe has offered a way to sync content across multiple installations of the Creative Cloud apps, but the current Libraries feature takes this a step farther. Libraries not only sync documents, but also brushes, font styles, and color themes. And they can be created and accessed not only on the full Photoshop application, but also in mobile apps such as Capture CC, Hue CC, Photoshop Fix, Premiere Clip, Photoshop Mix, and Comp CC. In all, there are a baker's dozen of Adobe mobile apps that can make use of Libraries, either for creating or making use of content. They're all free downloads, but most require a Creative Cloud account.
New Font Tricks
You can now filter searches for fonts with attributes like serif, script, and blackletter, and you can even tell the program to show you similar fonts to one you've selected. You can also designate fonts as Favorites, which seems really handy. Another nifty touch is the ability to hover over a font choice to see it previewed in your document. As you hover the mouse cursor over typefaces in the search panel, your selected text instantly switches to that typeface. In a less drastic update, the font size dropdown menu now offers a 16-point option, a size commonly used for Web content.
Behance
Behance is a social network for creative professionals, offering online portfolios and connections. It's built into all the Creative Cloud applications, letting users post projects for feedback from colleagues and clients. Users can post their files directly from Photoshop CC via a one-click share button at the lower left. From Behance they can share and discuss the work and even connect with potential and existing clients and freelancers.
Behance's ProSites are customizable online portfolios, which Creative Cloud subscribers can use with their own URLs. I found Behance's presentation elegant, clean, and incorporating all the essential social features du jour. I especially like that it offers statistics of your page activity. You can also export photos in Zoomify format—a cool viewer that lets viewers zoom deep into large images—but I'd like to see more sharing options, like built-in email and Flickr sharing. Of course, you can do all this from Photoshop's ancillary Bridge image organizer app.
Cool Tools for Photography
Let's not forget that Photoshop got its start as a photo editing and printing application, and it remains the most powerful photo editing software there is. In addition to the newer tricks below, it, and with its completely photography-focused sibling, Lightroom, offers the most support for raw camera files, and the most in correction and effects. From removing or adding objects with content-aware tools to lens-profile-based geometry correction to histogram adjustments to stained-glass effect filters, Photoshop has it all. Now for the cool newer stuff.
Camera-Shake Reduction. One of the hottest features of Photoshop CC is camera-shake reduction. The tool analyzes the photo to find the path of shake motion, and then aligns the shifted pixels. Sounds simple, but it's harder to get right than it may seem. This is because the path won't be the same everywhere in the photo unless you shook it exactly along a single plane—highly unlikely. You can use the tool's best guess, or select a region (or regions) in which you want the blur trace to be estimated.
You can also adjust Blur Trace Bounds, Smoothing, and Artifact Suppression—the last two let me create a less sharpened-looking result. I'd love to see a simple effect-strength adjustment like you get with Smart Sharpen (which, by the way, gets a new Reduce Noise slider with this latest release). Shake Reduction is not a panacea, but it's definitely a finer effect than even the Smart Sharpen tool. If the subject is simply out of focus, it won't help you; a simply blurry subject won't be fixed.
Camera Shake Reduction
Camera Raw Features. Photoshop CC benefits from several Camera Raw capabilities. The latter include a new geometry correction tool, Upright. This lets you fix parallel vertical and horizontal lines. Its Auto setting attempts to fix perspective errors, but you can choose only to align verticals or only horizontals, or mess with the perspective to taste with transforming sliders for pincushion/barrel distortion, vertical, horizontal, and aspect ratio.
You can even use Camera Raw as a filter, applying all its manifold photo adjustments—color temperature, exposure, geometry, all of it—to any image layer. You can apply Camera Raw adjustments to video, too, and use a non-circular healing brush. As in Lightroom, you also get a radial filter that lets you apply the adjustments to an oval shape, such as a person's head—very useful for highlighting that bit of anatomy.
The latest Camera Raw tool is also shared by Lightroom—the Dehaze tool. Open any photo, even if it's not in raw file format (I tried it on a mobile-phone JPG image), and this new slider in the FX toolset does a pretty impressive job of removing—or adding—haze. Below, you can see the before and after (left to right) on a sample that's actually more glare than haze, but it still gives you an idea of what the tool does.
More Tools for Artists and Designers
With higher resolutions such as those found Apple's Retina displays becoming more common, your old images sometimes aren't good enough anymore. Photoshop CC's upsampling algorithm could be a lifesaver. The upscaler shows up when you resize an image, in the form of the Preserve Details resample setting. This also offers a Reduce Noise option, since the sharpened large image may introduce noise. It's definitely clearer than the old bicubic algorithm.
Smart Objects make for non-destructive, reusable raster and vector images that update throughout your project. You can save formatting of type as styles that can be easily applied to other text later. You can also view type in a way that previews the antialiasing used in Web browsers. For Web designers, Photoshop CC can generate CSS code that produces the exact look designed in the software. Going in the other direction, the software can also import color from a website's HTML or CSS code.
3D Tools and Fuse
You no longer need to drop a cool grand to get Photoshop's 3D image editing capabilities in an Extended Edition, as it comes with all Creative Cloud or Photography subscription plans. Adobe has also improved Photoshop's 3D tools, with faster performance and more realistic shadow rendering. Thankfully, Adobe now offers downloadable sample 3D documents to get you started.
Working in the program's 3D mode is not for the faint of heart: It's practically rocket science, and indeed, you could design an actual rocket with it! The 3D Scene panel eases using it somewhat, though, as it consolidates many typical 3D design functions. You can now create instances and duplicate 3D objects, which reflect any edits that you perform on the mother object.
3D printing has become a hot topic these days, and Photoshop's support for it continues to improve. The software can produce support beams and repair surfaces that wouldn't print correctly without them. Photoshop even shows color-coded 3D print previews. The latest version adds the ability to export 3D models as PDF or SVX files, to control bump-map depth, and to automatically simplify 3D meshes.
Adding to Adobe's 3D arsenal is the new Fuse CC application, which, though a separate program, ties in neatly with Photoshop. Like a 3D game's avatar creator, Fuse lets you craft human forms and faces in minute 3D detail. In fact, it lets you customize a whopping 380 attributes of the human figure. Not only does it let you create faces and body shapes of infinite variety, but you can also apply clothing and texturing options. And once you create your faux human, you can change the facial expression and posture, and then insert him or her into a Photoshop layer, animate them, and even 3D print them.
Video Editing
You can apply all of Photoshop's still image adjustments to video clips—including exposure, cropping, and filters. Photoshop is even capable of multitrack and keyframing, using the same fast rendering engine that powers Adobe's Premiere pro video editor. But only a few transition options are available—all variants of fades. Each video track you add becomes a Photoshop layer that can be individually adjusted.
You also get all the standard digital, video-editing tools, joining, splitting, and trimming clips. Audio tools are minimal, but you can set an audio track's volume percent, fade it in, fade it out, or mute it. Movie files are saved as .PSDs, but by choosing File/Export/Render Video you can create a video file with H.264, QuickTime, or DPX encoding. You also get a decent choice of resolutions targeting both big screens and mobile devices, including 720p, 1080p, and 4K options.
New Export
Export options have been beefed up in the latest Photoshop release. Performance has been improved in the new Export experience, which replaces the tried-and-true Save for Web option (though you can still use that if you prefer). The new export is faster while delivering smaller file sizes, especially for JPGs. You can also now export and import SVG (scalable vector graphics) files, commonly used on websites. But the export options are vastly augmented, letting you export at multiple sizes simultaneously, convert to the sRGB color space, and export a single layer or Artboard. You can also set up a Quick Export choice from the File menu to use the format of your choice. Finally, you can now add metadata such as copyright info at export.
Beyond More Photoshopping
There's a reason "Photoshop" has become a verb in the English language: The software does things to images that approach the unbelievable. With Photoshop CC 2015, Adobe has maintained and increased the program's position as the preeminent image editing tool on the planet. And the company understands the move toward mobile and Web-focused design, along with the need for 3D tools. Integrated stock photography and organizational and syncing features such as libraries and smart objects go beyond what any other imaging software offers. There's no real competition for Photoshop CC 2014. It gets a rare 5-star rating and is our hands-down Editors' Choice for image editing software.
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