A GUIDE TO THE NEW FEATURES OF PHOTOSHOP CC 2015.5
A GUIDE TO THE NEW FEATURES OF PHOTOSHOP CC 2015.5
PHOTOSHOP CC 2015.5 IS HERE ! With each update of Photoshop we get a few new tweaks and updates . This article will cover all the important and useful updates in the latest and greatest version of our favorite photo editing application . This Photoshop article will bring you up to speed in no time with all of the new and important features of Photoshop CC 2015.5
1 . Face-Aware Liquify Brand new to the Liquify feature in Photoshop CC 2015.5 is the Face tool . The Face tool will automatically detect faces in your photo and allow you to adjust individual features on a subject ’ s face simply by pushing or pulling little handles that appear on screen . It ’ s pretty amazing ! This feature will be the calling card for many retouchers very soon to reconstruct faces and change the look of models and photo subjects all around the world .
2 . Select and Mask Workspace The Select and Mask Workspace has replaced the Refine Edge dialog box from older versions of Photoshop . Go Select > Select and Mask and choose the Quick Selection tool in the tool area to the left and simply paint over what you would like to select . There are also lots of ways to refine the edge and other tools you can use to make selections .
3 . Match Font If you need to figure out what this or that font is in an image , all you need to do now is draw a tight selection around one line of type and go Type > Match Font and Photoshop will give a pop up that will suggest similar fonts and even selections from TypeKit that you can choose to use .
4 . Content-Aware Crop The Crop tool now has the option of “ Content Aware ” in the control bar at the top of the screen . Click this on and rotate the crop to straighten your photo , or even extend your photo on a couple of the sides and when you commit the crop , Photoshop will use Content Aware to fill in the areas that would be transparent . It works remarkably well !
5 . Adobe Stock Photo Integration Go File > Search Adobe Stock to open the Adobe Stock Photo website . Simply log in with your Adobe User ID and run a search to find a photo you would want to use in your project . Click on the photo and select “ Open Preview in Photoshop ”. The image will be brought right into your open document in Photoshop and when you decide that you want to license ( buy ) the image simply right-click on that layer and click on “ License Image …” to automatically use one of your image credits on Adobe Stock to buy the image . It ’ s really that fast and easy !
6 . Embed Color Profiles on Export Now when you export a PNG or JPEG image via File > Export > Export As … you can choose to include the color profile from Photoshop as well . This is a great little feature .
7 . On-Canvas Glyph Alternatives When you have placed a glyph in a block of text , you can now simply highlight the glyph and a little pop up will appear and show you additional or alternative glyphs that you could use in that place with that particular typeface . NOTE : You can disable this feature if it gets in the way by going Preferences > Type > Enable Type Layer Glyph Alternates .
8 . Artboards Enhancements There a few new improvements with the artboards in Photoshop . You can now duplicate a layer or layer group into another artboard . You can also change the background color or even give an artboard a transparent background . There are also additional things that you can include if you export an artboard as a PDF .
9 . Photoshop is Faster Adobe claims that Photoshop is much faster , files will open faster and things like Content-Aware move up to 3x faster and the type preview menu will populate up to 4x faster . I haven ’ t compared it to older version of Photoshop , but faster is good !
10 . Adobe Portfolio Go to https :// www . myportfolio . com / and you can setup your very own portfolio website hosted through Adobe . It looks like it is essentially included with your CC subscription . Check out the pricing tab and see both pricing options . This looks pretty nice . The only thing I wonder about is a custom domain name , currently your URL would be “ myWebsiteNameHere . myportfolio . com ” which is fine if you just need to get something online ASAP , but a little less than desirable for a really professional look .
134 NM CliQ Magazine | August 2016