Adobe Photoshop Changelog

What's new in Adobe Photoshop CC 2024 25.7

Apr 23, 2024

Fixes:
Program error when creating layers from applied layer effects to nested groups
Importing Adjustment Presets results in the error "There was a problem with your selected file, and the custom presets did not import" in the beta app

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2024 25.6 (Mar 20, 2024)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2024 25.5.1 (Mar 5, 2024)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2024 25.5 (Feb 22, 2024)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2023 25.4 (Jan 25, 2024)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2023 25.3.1 (Dec 15, 2023)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2023 25.2 (Nov 29, 2023)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2023 25.1 (Oct 26, 2023)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2023 25.0.0 (Sep 13, 2023)

New in Adobe Photoshop 25.0 Beta (Aug 29, 2023)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2023 24.7 (Jul 26, 2023)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2023 24.6 (Jun 21, 2023)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2023 24.5 (May 23, 2023)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2023 24.4.1 (Apr 20, 2023)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2023 24.3.0.376 (Mar 22, 2023)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2023 24.2.1 (Mar 10, 2023)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2023 24.2 (Feb 24, 2023)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2023 24.1.1 (Jan 19, 2023)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2023 24.1 (Dec 14, 2022)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2023 24.0.1.112 (Nov 18, 2022)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2023 24.0.0.59 (Oct 19, 2022)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2022 23.5.1 (Sep 13, 2022)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2022 23.5 (Aug 18, 2022)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2022 23.4.2 (Jul 20, 2022)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2022 23.4.1.547 (Jun 16, 2022)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2022 23.4 (Jun 14, 2022)

Cylindrical Transform Warp:
Time to rejoice, packaging designers! With the Cylindrical Transform Warp capability, you can easily curve flat artwork and even wrap a Text layer around your rounded cylindrical surface.
Preserve your hair details:
Use an improved selection mask obtained by applying the Object Selection tool on human portraits. Also, enjoy enhanced Refine Hair capability to improve results while working on animal images.
Enhancements for Guides:
Make identification and visual isolation of guides easier with the customizable Layout Guides and Guides in Photoshop. Easily color and edit guides and guide layouts; multi-select and move guides together on canvas at an individual document level.
Emoji shorthand support for in-app commenting:
The wait is over! Easily access a list of emojis while adding in-app comments for your cloud documents.
Other enhancements:
Boost your creative workflows with support added for video editing and playback on Apple Silicon M1 machines. Also, use the improved Save As preference and spring-loaded keyboard shortcuts for tools.
Fixed issues:
Several crash reports fixed through Photoshop beta usage
Photoshop crashes when using Replace Color in indexed color mode
Photoshop crashes when pasting text with M1 processors
Photoshop crashes in OpenCL when resizing images
Photoshop crashes when using "TT Norms" font
[Win] Photoshop crashes using Object Selection
Photoshop document window is empty/blank if the Precise Color Management for HDR Display technology preview is enabled on an SDR display
Black, White Gradient Preset and Perceptual Interpolation creates cool/blue cast
Photoshop lagging on large documents when using the Clone tool, especially when sampling an area to clone
macOS: Export for After Effects(.vpe) in Vanishing point filter results in error, "this operation can't be completed"
Spring loaded keyboard shortcuts get stuck and don't return to the previous tool
Sky Replacement: Jagged edges when using Fade Edge
Mixer Brush incorrectly loads foreground color
'Match Fonts' not showing fonts available to activate from Adobe Fonts
macOS: Save button disabled in Save As dialog box
Incorrect z-order after using color picker
Paint bucket paints with wrong color
Gradient fills shift when exporting artboards with shapes and gradient fills
Lag while zooming and painting with Native Canvas Rulers enabled
Keyboard focus is lost when working with individual channels in Curves
‌‌Using tool preset for the Type tool with Kerning set to optical doesn't get applied to new layers
Layers with Drop Shadow content disappears depending on Zoom level and Spread size
‌‌Slow preview performance in Liquify
Photoshop freezes when changing Grid via Actions
Clicking in Artboard with the Move tool causes the document to pan
Artifacts or noise while using Unsharp Mask filter
Keyboard shortcut for hiding/showing guides doesn't work in Photoshop (German version)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2022 23.3.2 (May 10, 2022)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2022 23.3.1 (Apr 21, 2022)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2022 23.3 (Apr 12, 2022)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2022 23.2.2 (Mar 15, 2022)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2022 23.2.0 (Feb 15, 2022)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2022 23.1.1 (Jan 19, 2022)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2022 23.1 (Dec 14, 2021)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2022 23.0.2 (Nov 24, 2021)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2022 23.0.1.68 (Nov 10, 2021)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2021 23.0.0.36 (Oct 26, 2021)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2021 22.5.1 (Sep 14, 2021)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2021 22.5 (Aug 17, 2021)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2021 22.4.3 (Jul 20, 2021)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2021 22.4.2 (Jun 8, 2021)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2021 22.4.1 (May 19, 2021)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2021 22.4 (May 13, 2021)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2021 22.3.1 (Apr 13, 2021)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2021 22.3 (Mar 10, 2021)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2021 22.2 (Feb 9, 2021)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2021 22.1.1.138 (Jan 14, 2021)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2020 22.1.0.94 (Dec 8, 2020)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2020 22.0.1.73 (Nov 17, 2020)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2020 22.0.0.35 (Oct 20, 2020)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2020 21.2.4.323 (Sep 29, 2020)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2020 21.2.3 (Sep 9, 2020)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2020 21.2 (Jun 16, 2020)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2018 20.0 (Oct 15, 2018)

Frame Tool for easy masking:
Easily mask images by placing them into frames Use the Frame Tool (K) to quickly create rectangular or elliptical placeholder frames You can also convert any shape or text into frames and fill it with images
To place an image into a frame, simply drag-and-drop an Adobe Stock asset or a libraries asset from the Libraries panel or from your local disk — the image automatically scales to fit the frame Content placed in frames is always placed as Smart Objects so that it can be scaled non-destructively
Content-Aware Fill reimagined:
Powered by Adobe Sensei
A new, dedicated Content-Aware Fill workspace provides you an interactive editing experience to achieve seamless fill results. You can now choose which source pixels to use and rotate, scale, and mirror the source pixels thanks to Adobe Sensei technology. You also get a live full-resolution preview of the changes and an option to save the result to a new layer.
New multiple undo mode:
You can now use Control + Z (Win) / Command + Z (Mac) to undo multiple steps in your Photoshop document, just like in other Creative Cloud apps. The new multiple undo mode is enabled by default.
Usability improvements:
Reference Point hidden by default:
While transforming items, you can now easily move items on the canvas. The reference point that appeared while transforming items is now hidden by default. You can select the Toggle Reference Point check box in the Options bar if you want the reference point to appear.
Double-click to edit text:
You can now double-click a Type layer with the Move tool to quickly begin editing the text in your document. You do not need to switch tools anymore to edit text.
Auto-commit:
Efficiently crop, transform, and place or enter text with auto-commit. You no longer need to press Enter (Win) / Return (macOS) or click the Commit button in the Options bar to commit your changes.
Transform proportionally by default:
Photoshop now transforms all layer types (such as pixel layers, type layers, shape layers, bitmaps, Placed Smart Objects) proportionally by default.
When transforming a layer, you no longer need to hold down the Shift key while dragging a corner handle to resize a selected layer to constrain its proportions. Anytime you drag a corner handle during transform and move it, the layer resizes proportionally. Holding down the Shift key now resizes non-proportionally when you drag a corner handle during transform.
Prevent accidental panel moves with Lock Workspace:
Use the new Lock Workspace option to prevent accidentally moving workspace panels, particularly when you’re using Photoshop on a tablet/stylus. To access this option, choose Window > Workspace > Lock Workspace.
Live blend mode preview:
You can now scroll over different blend mode options to see how they look on your image. Photoshop displays a live preview of blend modes on the canvas when you scroll over different blend mode options in the Layers panel and the Layer Style dialog.
Symmetry mode:
Paint your brush strokes in a perfectly symmetrical pattern. While using the Paint Brush, Mixer Brush, Pencil, or Eraser tools, click the butterfly icon () in the Options bar. Choose from the several available types of symmetry - Vertical, Horizontal, Dual Axis, Diagonal, Wavy, Circle, Spiral, Parallel Lines, Radial, Mandala. As you paint, the strokes are reflected live across the line of symmetry, allowing you to easily create intricate symmetrical patterns.
Color Wheel to choose colors:
Use the Color Wheel to visualize the color spectrum and easily choose colors based on harmonies such as complementary colors and analogous colors. From the Color panel fly-out menu, choose Color Wheel.
Home screen:
Get started quickly with the Photoshop Home screen. Access it at any time to find out about new features, connect to learning content, and jump right to your open documents. Click the new Home icon in the Options bar to access the Home screen at any point.
Improved in-app learning:
After completing an in-app tutorial (Learn panel), you can now use your own images to get the looks you want in less time.
Top customer-requested features:
You can now distribute the spacing between the objects. Photoshop can already distribute objects by evenly spacing their center points. If your objects are different sizes, you now get an even spacing between them.
Math in number fields:
You can also perform simple math in any input box that accepts numeric values. For example, you can now type in simple math operations like 200/2, which gets calculated as 100 and inputs that final value into the field. This is very useful when trying to quickly get to a multiple of a value, or divide something up.
Ability to see long layer names:
For long layer names, Photoshop now retains the beginning and end of the layer name and puts an ellipses (...) in the middle of the name. Previously, the layer name used to get cut off at the end with ellipses (...).
Match Font now support Japanese fonts:
You can now search Japanese fonts with Match Font. Using Adobe Sensei, Match Font allows you to detect text included in the selected area of an image and match it to licensed fonts on your computer or on Adobe Fonts, suggesting similar fonts.
Preference to increase UI size:
Get more control when scaling the Photoshop UI, and adjust it independent of your other apps to get the font size just right. In the Interface preferences (Edit >Preferences > Interface), a new setting Scale UI To Font has been introduced. When you select this new setting, the entire Photoshop UI scales based on the UI Font Size drop-down value you've chosen - Tiny, Small, Medium, or Large.
Support for South East Asian scripts:
Photoshop now includes the support for five new South East Asian languages, so your documents can include text in these scripts: Thai, Burmese, Lao, Sinhalese, and Khmer.
Other enhancements:
Flip document view
Quickly flip your canvas horizontally. Choose View > Flip Horizontal.
Lorem Ipsum placeholder text
Get 'Lorem Ipsum' as placeholder text while placing new type layers in your document. In Type preferences (Edit > Preferences > Type), select Fill New Type Layers With Placeholder Text.
Customize keyboard shortcuts for Select and Mask
You can now modfy the shortcut keys for Select and Mask workspace. Choose Edit > Keyboards Shortcuts. In the Keyboard Shortcuts And Menus dialog, choose Taskspaces from the Shortcuts For menu. In the Taskspace command column, expand the Select and Mask set to edit the shortcuts as required.

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2018 19.1.6 (Aug 22, 2018)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2018 19.1.0 (Jan 23, 2018)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2018 19.0 (Oct 19, 2017)

Brush-related features:
Stroke smoothing:
Photoshop can now perform intelligent smoothing on your brush strokes. Simply enter a value (0-100) for Smoothing in the Options bar when you're working with one of the following tools: Brush, Pencil, Mixer Brush, or Eraser. A value of 0 is the same as legacy smoothing in earlier versions of Photoshop. Higher values apply increasing amounts of intelligent smoothing to your strokes.
Streamlined brush management:
Working with brush presets is much easier in this release of Photoshop. You can now organize brush presets into folders—including nested folders—in the greatly-streamlined Brushes panel (renamed from Brush Presets in earlier releases).
You can now choose to work with and manage brush-enabled tool presets and their attributes, accessible only from the Options bar in earlier releases of Photoshop, in the Brushes panel. Any brush-enabled tool preset can be converted into a brush preset; all of its attributes—such as opacity, flow, and blending mode—are preserved. Once you've converted brush-enabled tool presets into brush presets, you can choose to remove them from the tool presets list.
Access your Lightroom photos in Photoshop:
You can now access all of your synced Lightroom photos directly from the Start workspace within Photoshop. In the Start workspace, click the Lr Photos tab. Now, select the images you want to open and click Import Selected. If you've made changes to your photos or albums in any of the Lightroom apps while Photoshop is running, click the Refresh button to see the changes you’ve made. Click See More to view a grid of all of your photos organized by date.
Aside from the Start workspace, you can also find, filter, sort, and import Lightroom photos into Photoshop using the in-app search experience.
Variable fonts:
Photoshop now supports Variable Font, a new OpenType font format supporting custom attributes like weight, width, slant, optical size, etc. This release of Photoshop ships with several variable fonts for which you can adjust weight, width, and slant using convenient slider controls in the Properties panel. As you adjust these sliders, Photoshop automatically chooses the type style closest to the current settings. For example, when you increase the slant for a Regular type style, Photoshop automatically changes it to a variant of Italic.
Quickly share your creations:
You can now email or share your creations to several services directly from within Photoshop. When you share a document by email, Photoshop sends out the original document (.psd file). For certain services and social media channels, Photoshop automatically converts the document to the JPEG format before sharing.
Curvature Pen tool:
The Curvature Pen tool lets you draw smooth curves and straight line segments with equal ease. Create custom shapes in your designs or define precise paths to effortlessly fine-tune your images using this intuitive tool. While doing so, create, toggle, edit, add, or remove smooth or corner points without ever having to switch tools.
Path options:
Path lines and curves are no longer just in black and white! You can now define the color and thickness of path lines to suit your taste and for easier visibility.
While creating a path—using the Pen tool, for example—click the gear icon () in the Options bar. Now specify the color and thickness of path lines. Also, specify whether you want to preview path segments as you move the pointer between clicks (Rubber Band effect).
While using stroke smoothing, you may choose to view the brush leash, which connects the current paint location with the present cursor position. Select Preferences > Cursors > Show Brush Leash While Smoothing. You can also specify a color for the brush leash.
Copy-paste layers:
You can now copy and paste layers in Photoshop—within a document and between documents—using the Copy, Paste, and Paste Into Place commands.
When you paste a layer between documents with different resolutions, the pasted layer retains its pixel dimensions. Depending on your color management settings and the associated color profile, you may be prompted to specify how to handle color information in the imported data.
Rich tooltips:
Figuring out what Photoshop tools do is now easier than ever before! When you hover the pointer over certain tools in the Tools panel, Photoshop displays a description and a short video of the tool in action.
Edit spherical panoramas in Photoshop:
You can now edit equirectangular spherical panoramas, shot using different cameras, in Photoshop. With the panorama asset imported and its layer selected, invoke the panoramic viewer by choosing 3D > Spherical Panorama > New Panorama Layer From Selected Layer. Alternatively, directly load a spherical panorama into the viewer by selecting 3D > Spherical Panorama > Import Panorama. Once you've opened a panorama in the viewer, you can perform a variety of operations on it:
Rotate the camera view around
Adjust the field of view
Paint on the panorama using all relevant Photoshop tools and filters
Properties panel improvements:
You can now adjust leading and tracking for type layers in the Properties panel
You can now adjust settings, such as color, font, and size, for multiple type layers using the Properties panel
Work with Adobe Stock assets in the Properties panel
View the asset on stock.adobe.com by clicking the asset ID
License a preview image directly from the Properties panel
Find stock assets similar to an image on stock.adobe.com
Select & Mask improvements:
Improved algorithm providing more accurate and realistic results when subtracting the foreground in cases where the foreground and background colors are visually similar
Improved blending of original selection and matting results
Transparency view mode settings are now decoupled from the Quick Mask view modes. Transparency settings are no longer shared between Select & Mask and Quick Mask
Overlay view mode transparency settings are now decoupled from On White and On Black transparency settings
Learn panel:
You can now access step-by-step tutorials on basic concepts and tasks directly within Photoshop. These tutorials cover basic photography concepts, retouching and combining images, and graphic design fundamentals.
TECHNOLOGY PREVIEW FEATURES:
Support for Microsoft Surface Dial:
Using Microsoft Surface Dial with Photoshop, you can adjust tool settings without ever looking away from the canvas. Use the Dial to adjust size, opacity, hardness, flow, and smoothing for all brush-like tools. Photoshop supports the Surface Dial on bluetooth-enabled computers running the latest version of Windows 10.
AI Upscale:
Photoshop now features artificial intelligence-assisted upscaling to preserve important details and textures while resizing images without introducing distortions. In addition to skin tones and hair textures, this feature preserves harder-edged details like text and logos. Try it on soups, salads, pizza, and any other subjects that need that extra dash of texture preservation.
Paint Symmetry:
Photoshop now lets you paint symmetrically while using the Brush, Pencil, and Eraser tools. While using these tools, click the butterfly icon () in the Options bar. Choose from the several available types of symmetry. Paint strokes are reflected live across the line of symmetry, allowing for easier sketching of faces, cars, animals, and more.
CAMERA RAW | New features:
Quick selections with Color and Luminance Range Masking:
Using the new Color Luminance Range Masking controls, you can quickly create a precise masking area on your photo for applying local adjustments. These new precision masking tools can detect changes in lighting and contrasting edges based off color and tone. You can make quick initial masking selections with Adjustment Brushes or Radial Filter/Graduated Filter. Then refine your selection with the range masks, located under Auto-Mask in the Adjustment Brush tool options.
Color Range Mask:
After making an initial selection mask on your photo with Adjustment Brushes or Radial Filter/Graduated Filters, use Color Range Masking to refine the selection mask based on the colors sampled within the mask area.
Luminance Range Mask:
After making an initial selection mask on your photo with Adjustment Brushes or Radial Filter/Graduated Filters, use Luminance Range Masking to refine the mask area based on the luminance range of the selection.
OTHER ENHANCEMENTS AND FIXES:
Composer Switching: You can now change the text composer on a per-document basis from the Paragraph panel. This feature makes it easy to reuse assets even across languages that use different composers—for example, Middle Eastern and East Asian languages.
Photoshop now supports Apple's High Efficiency Image Format (HEIF). Photoshop can read depth maps in HEIF image files created by iPhone 7 Plus and later devices into a channel. You can then create a depth-of-field effect in the image using Filter > Blur > Lens Blur.
Improved document creation (Cmd/Ctrl+N) launch performance
Usability improvements to the Properties panel
Improved startup time on Windows
Improved performance of common blending and compositing operations
Improved performance of the Surface Blur filter and the Noise > Median filter
Improved Refine Edge tool accuracy in the Select & Mask workspace
New preference on Windows 10: Preferences > Workspace > Align UI According To OS Settings. Use this preference to prevent contextual UI elements, such as pop-up menus, from displaying beneath your hand when you're drawing directly on the display. This operating system setting is controlled from Ink & Stylus system preferences on Windows. It is available only on devices paired with a stylus.
While pasting text into type layers, you can now use the new Edit > Paste > Paste Without Formatting command. This command strips out style attributes from the source text and adapts it to the style of the destination type layer.
In-app search experience now also lets you find, filter, sort, and import Lightroom photos into Photoshop.
Improved protection of face details for Content-Aware Move, Auto Levels, Curves, Tone, Brightness, Contrast, and skin tone color range
Save As PNG now offers much better compression
Improved quality of Content-Aware Crop and Content-Aware Fill on edges
Collapsed font menus: The font lists in the Options bar and various panels now show all the font faces in a given family collapsed into a pop-up submenu accessible via either the mouse or the keyboard.
Intelligent deep-learning-led face detection for Face-Aware Liquify
Fixed: Select & Mask issue where brushing with soft radius using the Refine Edge brush still produces a hard edge.
What's changed:
The Brush panel in earlier releases of Photoshop is now called Brush Settings.
The Brush Presets panel in earlier versions of Photoshop has been streamlined and renamed as Brushes panel. For more information, see Streamlined brush preset management.
Device Preview is no longer available in this release. Additionally, the Preview CC iOS app is no longer available for download or actively maintained as of October 2017. If you have a previously-downloaded version of Preview CC on your iOS device, you can continue to use it on an as-is basis with earlier versions of Photoshop.
Photoshop no longer prompts you to import assets into Creative Cloud Libraries while opening documents. You can still automatically import all assets from an open document using the Create New Library From Document command in the Libraries panel.
The Preferences > General > Show Recent Files Workspace When Opening A File setting is no longer available.
On macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) and newer, Photoshop uses a dark title bar for floating document windows when UI brightness is set to one of the two dark settings.
MacBook Pro) Touch Bar-related changes:
The Enable History Scrubbing In The Touch Bar preference is no longer available. To suppress history scrubbing, simply remove the corresponding button from the Touch Bar layout.
You can now control brush smoothing using the Touch Bar. Add this control to the Touch Bar using the Customize Touch Bar user interface.
PNG files created using the Save As option are now compressed better. Also, the options for saving images as PNG assets have changed for better user experience

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2017.1.1 18.1.1 (May 4, 2017)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2017.1 18.1.0 (Apr 6, 2017)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2017.0.1 (Dec 13, 2016)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2017.0.0 (Nov 2, 2016)

Jump-start your creative projects:
Now, when you create a document in Photoshop, instead of beginning with a blank canvas, you can choose from a wide variety of templates from Adobe Stock. Templates include stock assets and illustrations that you can build on to complete your project. When you open a template in Photoshop, you can work with it just as you would work with any other Photoshop document (.psd).
In addition to templates, you can also create a document by selecting one of the numerous presets available in Photoshop or create your custom sizes. You can also save your own presets for reuse.
Comprehensive search:
Photoshop now features powerful search functionality that lets you search across UI elements, documents, Help & learning content, inspiring Stock assets, and much more—all from within a unified dialog. You can search for items right after launching Photoshop or when one or more documents are open
OpenType SVG fonts:
Photoshop supports OpenType SVG fonts and ships with the Trajan Color Concept and the EmojiOne font. OpenType SVG fonts provide multiple colors and gradients in a single glyph. Emoji fonts are an example of OpenType SVG fonts. Using Emoji fonts, you can include various colorful and graphical characters, such as smileys, flags, street signs, animals, people, food, and landmarks in your documents. OpenType SVG emoji fonts, such as the EmojiOne font, let you create certain composite glyphs from one or more other glyphs.
Select And Mask now features the following enhancements:
The Polygonal Lasso tool is now available in the workspace. This tool works just like the corresponding tool in classic Photoshop.
High-quality refined previews on mouse down. Optionally, if necessary, you can switch to low-resolution previews for better interactivity.
Several experience improvements designed for closer alignment with the old, familiar Refine Edge workflow
Face-Aware Liquify:
You can now apply Face-Aware Liquify settings to the eyes independently or symmetrically.
Creative Cloud Libraries:
Archive and restore library elements. For more information, see Archive and delete assets.
Find stock assets similar to a library element using visual search. See Find stock images visually similar to a library element.
Drag and drop Adobe Stock search results into Creative Cloud libraries.
While sharing libraries and library assets, choose to let other users follow them. Whenever you update the library or the library asset, followers automatically get the updates across all supported Creative Cloud apps.
Properties panel improvements:
The Properties panel is now part of the Essentials workspace.
Additional properties are now displayed in the Properties panel for type layers. You can modify some text settings directly from from the Properties panel.
The Properties panel now displays the document properties when no layers or other elements are selected.
The Properties panel now displays bitmap/pixel layer properties.
Work with Adobe Experience Design CC (Preview):
You can now bring your Photoshop CC assets directly into Adobe Experience Design CC (Preview), the new all-in-one tool for designing and prototyping user experiences for websites and mobile apps. Do one of the following:
Right-click a layer in Photoshop and select Copy SVG from the context-menu. Now, paste the SVG asset into your Adobe XD document.
From the canvas in Photoshop, drag and drop an SVG asset into Adobe XD
Some design elements may not be supported when you copy a layer into Adobe XD.
Other enhancements:
Match Font improvements to include more results from locally installed fonts
You can now simply click outside a text box to commit text.
Ability to open PSD files in your Creative Cloud Files directory directly from the Start Screen
The layer count feature now more accurately represents layer and group contents in the document.
Improved marquee selection to only select elements on the active artboard
Preference to select a highlight color in the UI: Blue or Gray. Select Preferences > Interface and, under Appearance, choose a Highlight Color.
Minimum Radius threshold in the UI is now not enforced when Smart Radius is selected.
Surface Blur is now up to 10X faster for 16-bit images.
Improved contrast in the three lightest color themes under Preferences > Interface
New Preview checkbox in the Liquify dialog
Added ability to hide on-screen widgets in Face-Aware Liquify
On computers with AMD graphics processors running Mac OS X 10.11 and later, you can leverage Apple’s Metal graphics acceleration framework for use with the Oil Paint filter. For more information see Oil Paint filter
GPano metadata is now preserved when exporting via Export As
What's changed:
Design Space (Preview) is no longer available in this version of Photoshop.
In earlier releases of Photoshop, Cmd/Ctrl+F used to be the keyboard shortcut for reapplying the last-used filter. Beginning with this release, it invokes the Photoshop search experience. If necessary, you can use Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts to reassign keyboard shortcuts.
Auto-Select is now the default setting for the layer Move tool. You can revert to the default setting in earlier versions of Photoshop: in the Options bar, deselect Auto-Select and choose Group from the pop-up menu.
Fixed customer-reported issues:
Some blendmodes behave differently on layers vs. groups
Batch processing "Source Folder" window cannot be resized (Windows-only)
Improved contrast in the three lightest color themes under Preferences > Interface
Taskbar shows in full screen modes (Windows 10-only)
PDF Import reverses the order of pages
Puppet Warp on Video Smart Object does not render on export
Adaptive Wide Angle dialog flickers when adjusting the angle of a perspective line (Windows 7-only)
Crash when changing the document bit depth with Mixer Tool selected
Script UI slider hangs application
Remove underlines, improve background colors for edit fills and pop-ups to distinguish whether they're clickable or disabled
Active item highlight isn't distinguishable enough (selected layer, history state, channel, etc)
Option Bar toggle for pressure/size does not deselect the option when disabled (Windows-only)
Smart Object rendered with artifacts/cross-hatching
Improve layout/readibility of Character panel (remove divider lines)
If you delete a Libraries panel element, there is no warning and no way to recover the file
Replacing contents for Smart Object with different sized content that has been distorted and warped crashes
Select and Mask: The polygonal lasso tool is available via the 'alt' keyboard shortcut but not from the tool bar
Smudge tool uses pressure strength in addition to size when Strength is set to 100%
Don't open an OS window after "Quick export as PNG"

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2015.5.1 (Aug 9, 2016)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2015.5.0 (Jun 21, 2016)

Face-Aware Liquify:
The Liquify filter now features advanced face-aware functionality that automatically identifies eyes, noses, mouths, and other facial features, making it easy for you to adjust them. Face-Aware Liquify is great for retouching portrait photos, creating caricatures, and doing much more.
You can use Face-Aware Liquify as a smart filter for non-destructive editing. Select Filter > Liquify and then choose the Face () tool in the Liquify dialog.
Creating accurate selections and masks in Photoshop is now quicker and easier than ever before. A dedicated new workspace now helps you make precise selections and masks. Use tools like Refine Edge Brush to cleanly separate foreground and background elements and do much more.
To invoke the workspace, click Select And Mask in the Options bar when a selection tool is enabled. Alternatively, press Ctrl+Alt+R (Windows) or Cmd+Option+R (Mac).
Match Font:
Take the guesswork out of identifying certain fonts and let Photoshop CC do the hard work for you. Thanks to the magic of intelligent imaging analysis, using just a picture of a Latin font, Photoshop CC can use machine learning to detect which font it is and match it to licensed fonts on your computer or on Typekit, suggesting similar fonts.
Simply select the area of the image containing the text whose font you want to analyze. Now, select Type > Match Font.
Find fonts matching the font in an image
Content-Aware Crop:
Photoshop CC now uses content-aware technology to intelligently fill in the gaps when you use the Crop tool for rotating or straightening an image, or expanding your canvas beyond the image's original size.
While using the Crop () tool, select Content-Aware in the Options bar.
In action: Content-Aware Crop
Improvements to Adobe Stock integration:
Enhanced in this release of Photoshop CC:
You can now open assets in Photoshop directly from the Adobe Stock website. Also, licensing watermarked previews while working in Photostop is now easier than ever before. License previews from the Layers panel, the Properties panel, or from the canvas; simply right-click the stock asset and then select License Image.
Finding the right stock asset for your project is now also a breeze. Use the new filtered search on the Adobe Stock website and within your libraries. Licensed Adobe Stock assets are badged for easy identification; video assets now have linked previews.
Embed color profiles into exported assets:
Embed color profiles into PNG or JPG files using the Export As dialog. Select File > Export > Export As or right-click a layer in the Layers panel and then select Export As.
Export As dialog | Embed Color Profile:
On-canvas glyph alternatives:
When you select a glyph in a Type layer, Photoshop now displays the available glyph alternatives right on the canvas. Clicking the icon in the alternatives grid opens the Glyphs panel.
If necessary, you can turn off this behavior. To do so, deselect Preferences > Type > Enable Type Layer Glyph Alternates.
3D printing:
You can now print 3D models as 3D Manufacturing Format (3MF) files. While specifying the 3D Print Settings, select Print To: Local and Printer: 3MF File.
Print 3D objects as 3MF files:
Ability to read Product Representation Compact (PRC) format data embedded in PDF files
Support for new online 3D printing services
More improvements to artboards:
You can now duplicate a layer or layer group into other artboards, quickly change artboard backgrounds, and view artboards with transparent backgrounds.
If you've specified an artboard background, you can now also include it while exporting the artboard as PDF or supported image formats. While exporting the artboard as PDF, you can also include the artboard name and set custom font size, font color, canvas extension color, etc.
Faster everyday tasks:
Photoshop CC now opens documents faster and delivers great responsiveness. Content-Aware Fill is now up to 3X faster with even better results. The Font menu loads up the list of fonts up to 4X faster.
Enhancements to Creative Cloud Libraries:
You can now share libraries with anyone who has a Creative Cloud account. While adding collaborators to a library, choose what level of permissions you want to give them. For example, you can allow others on your team to use shared assets in their designs but not modify those assets.
Creative Cloud Libraries:
Collaborate on Creative Cloud Libraries and folders
Work with Adobe Experience Design CC (Preview):
Copy and paste your Photoshop CC assets directly into Adobe XD, the new all-in-one tool for designing and prototyping user experiences for websites and mobile apps.
Adobe Portfolio:
Use Adobe Portfolio to quickly and easily create a beautiful portfolio site to show off your Photoshop images. And now when you use Portfolio, you can create custom landing and contact pages to better connect with viewers.
Other enhancements:
Up to 65% improvement in the Photoshop app download speed
Option to revert to the legacy Photoshop CC 2014 behavior for the Healing Brush tool. Select Preferences > Tools > Use Legacy Healing Algorithm For Healing Brush.
For easier navigation, variants of a font—such as Bold and Italics—are now grouped under the same item in font lists. You can expand the item and select the desired variant. While navigating the fonts, you can even expand more than one item in the list.
Fonts are now grouped by font family. The Show Similar Fonts option now also displays fonts from Typekit.
Improved performance while exporting artboards to PDF; ability to include artboard names and artboard backgrounds
3D imaging: Improvements to UV repacking algorithms
The document layer count is now displayed in the status box and the Info palette.
Help > System Info now shows the full file path for optional and disabled plug-ins.
Info panel option to always show composite (all layers) values
Reduced chances of metadata loss due to external metadata editing
Improved compatibility with some third-party Mac OS tools for resizing the application frame
The Oil Paint filter now works on lower-end graphics cards (GPUs)
Support for graphics card (GPU)-accelerated features over remote desktop connections
The Spot Channel dialog now includes names of colors selected from the Swatches palette.
Overall improvements to all content-aware features:
Better preservation of image details
Reduced blurs and smudges
Improved color adaptation handling for Content-Aware Fill
Up to 3X speed improvements for large images
3D printing enhancements:
You can now print 3D models as 3D Manufacturing Format (3MF) files. While specifying the 3D Print Settings, select Print To: Local and Printer: 3MF File.
Support for new Stratasys online and local printer profiles
Ability to read Product Representation Compact (PRC) format data embedded in PDF files
Updated OpenEXR file format support includes newer variants of the format
Small color swatch size available again in the Swatches palette
Divide Slices command limits increased; performance improved
Improved brush performance
General Text layer optimizations
Improved detection of problematic graphics card drivers and crash prevention
Name or color value is now displayed in the tooltip for recently-used colors in the Swatches palette.
Ability to add keyboard shortcuts to toggle the brush pressure controls size and opacity
Ability to add keyboard shortcuts to toggle Airbrush mode
What's changed:
For better user experience, the following gestures are now performed using three fingers instead of two fingers
The Color Adaptation setting is now enabled by default in the Fill dialog (Edit > Fill). Also, the color adaptation feature has been optimized for better results in this release.
3D, 3D Printing, and some other features in Photoshop are no longer supported on 32-bit platforms. See Features unsupported on 32-bit platforms.
The Photoshop-Behance integration has been removed in this version. When you select File > Share On Behance, you are taken to https://www.behance.net, where you can click Add Work to post your creative work.
The Select and Mask workspace replaces the Refine Edge dialog in earlier versions of Photoshop, offering the same functionality in a streamlined way.
Known issues
On Mac OS X, printing documents on inkjet printers results in unexpected color output. See this knowledge-base article.
Audio issues while playing clips encoded with Dolby Audio. See this knowledge-base article.

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2015.1.2 (Apr 7, 2016)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2015.1.1 (Jan 4, 2016)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2015.1 (Dec 1, 2015)

New Creative Cloud Libraries capabilities:
Find content faster by searching across your libraries and across Adobe Stock. Drag and drop assets to and from the Layers panel, add your favorite brushes and share your library with others. And get content into libraries faster with a new bulk import dialog box.
Design Space (Preview) enhancements:
This dedicated mode further streamlines and optimizes design workflows with a unified sampling experience, efficient masking, robust app and cross-document search and integrated layer and batch export. Design Space (Preview) offers access to Creative Cloud Libraries as well as seamless movement to and from standard Photoshop CC.
Do more with artboards:
Use artboard guides and grids to precisely place elements, sort layers by artboard for easier visualization and quickly add new artboards to documents. Use artboard preferences to customize the look and feel of your documents.
Modern user experience on desktop and touch devices:
The updated UI delivers a clean and consistent look throughout Photoshop, and you can quickly perform common tasks using a new set of gestures on touch-enabled devices like Microsoft Surface Pro.
Customizable toolbar and workspaces:
Make Photoshop yours by customizing your toolbar and saving multiple toolbar configurations as parts of different workspaces. Included workspaces have been streamlined to give you quick access to only the tools you need.
Bring 3D characters into your 2D designs
Create beautiful compositions that feature 3D models and easily adjust camera angles and lighting. Start with a model created in Adobe Fuse CC (Preview), and then apply poses and animations from the Creative Cloud 3D Animation (Preview) area within the Properties panel. Composite characters into any Photoshop project from a layout to a video, or print them with a 3D printer. (Available in English only.)
Find fonts faster:
Quickly find the font you need by starring individual fonts as favorites. Narrow down your search by filtering fonts by classification, like serif or sans serif, or by similarity.
Export faster with more control:
The exporting experience introduced in June now delivers faster performance and better compression for all file formats, especially JPEG; the ability to export the same assets at multiple sizes; support for sRGB export; and options to embed metadata such as copyright into your files during export.
More creative options with SVG import:
Open and place native SVG files — which can rescale for any size device or any resolution — in your Photoshop designs. Just double-click the object to edit it in Adobe Illustrator.
Quickly find the right glyph:
The Glyph panel now lets you see and insert your most recently used glyphs and sort glyphs for faster browsing.
More control with Adobe Camera Raw 9 enhancements:
Remove or add atmospheric haze in specific areas of your photos using the Local Adjustment Brush, Radial Filter and Graduated Filter. Plus, use the new Bird’s Eye View feature to navigate zoomed-in images, and get support for more cameras and lenses.
And so much more:
Also includes: The ability to see and edit type layer position in the Properties panel; reintroduction of the Oil Paint filter; the ability to resize the Export dialog; Device Preview connectivity improvements; a preset value of 16pt in the Font Size dropdown menu; and more.

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2015.0.1 (Aug 19, 2015)

Crash when Be3D printer profile is present in presets (win only)
Unable to read key state in JavaScript
BlackMagicDesign ATEM Switcher plugin crashes in Photoshop CC 2015 when documents have more than one layer
Crashes when extension uses script UI
Crash on zoom (win only)
Fixed drawing for borders of white artboards drawn on a white background
Fixed drawing of borders while dragging and aligning artboards
Fixed artboard matte color extending inside artboard 1 pixel
Fixed typo in Artboards to PDF dialog
Duplicate Layer command puts new layers at top of artboard stack, not above source layer like it should
Properly disable the artboard canvas color context menu when it does not work with the current GPU and color mode settings
Crash on launch due to “librarylookupfile” (win only)
English text copied from Acrobat to Photoshop is in Chinese
Application hang while opening certain JPEG2000 files
Canvas/document area draws partially or completely black in a Retina/standard display config after disconnect/reconnect 2nd display
Crash when closing an image (win only)
Artifacts using Healing Brush tool on transparent layer with “Current & Below” enabled with soft brush
Healing brush failing on individual channel
Some customers prefer the texture and color rendition of the old healing brush algorithm compared to the new real-time algorithm
Welcome… menu item was unintentionally removed if user selects “Do Not Show…” checkbox, closes and re-launches
Filter Gallery gives error on Mac OS X 10.10.3 and 10.11 in Chinese Languages
Create Layer (from effect) reverses layer z-order
Fixed issue where customers in the UK, Canada and Mexico may not be able to purchase images form Adobe Stock if they accessed Stock through Photoshop’s Search on Adobe Stock menu
Move too set to Auto Select not releasing layers selected during drag
Layers panel incorrectly scrolling when adding or deleting layers
Crash when adding a spot color channel after adding an asset from the Libraries panel
Crash PlugPlug crash in [HtmlEngineMonitor closeWindow]
Crash copy and pasting a shape (esp the Line tool)
Direct Selection & Path Selection Tool +/- shortcuts not working correctly
Crash on Scroll while using Pen Tool (win only)
Performance problems zooming and panning while rulers are showing
Selection disappearing at different zoom levels (win only)
Selection redraw issue when dragging (win only)
Converting a video layer, generated by image sequence import, to Smart Object crashes
Fixed issue where Welcome dialog would be empty in some cases

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2015.0.0 (Jun 16, 2015)

ARTBOARDS:
If you are a web or UX designer, you increasingly find yourself designing websites or apps for multiple devices. Artboards, new in the 2015 release of Photoshop CC, help streamline your design process by giving you an infinite canvas on which you can lay out designs for different devices and screens. While creating artboards, you can choose from a wide variety of preset sizes or define your own custom artboard size.
Artboards are useful even if you normally design for just one screen size. For example, while designing a website, you can use artboards to view designs for different pages side-by-side and in context.
CREATIVE CLOUD LIBRARIES:
Library-linked assets:
When you use a graphic from the Libraries panel, a library-linked asset is created. This asset behaves in much the same way as a locally-linked smart object, but with the benefit of the asset being in the cloud. Also, when you create a new library graphic from a smart object, the corresponding layer is converted to a library-linked asset.
Adobe Stock integration with Libraries:
You can now add a watermarked stock image to any of your libraries directly using the Adobe Stock website. You can then use the watermarked image in your Photoshop documents as a library-linked asset. When you choose to license the image—which you can do directly from within the Libraries panel—all instances of the watermarked asset in your open documents are updated to the high-resolution licensed image.
Performance improvements:
Libraries integration with Photoshop now offers reduced disk usage, more efficient bandwidth utilization, and faster propagation of library changes between Creative Cloud applications.
ADOBE STOCK:
Adobe Stock is a new service that provides designers and businesses with access to 40 million high-quality, curated, royalty-free images, illustrations, and vector graphics for all their creative projects. You can search for Adobe Stock content directly from within Photoshop. Select File > Search Adobe Stock.
Adobe Stock is also deeply integrated with Creative Cloud Libraries. You can now add a watermarked stock image to any of your libraries directly using the Adobe Stock website. You can then use the watermarked image in your Photoshop documents as a library-linked asset. When you choose to license the image—which you can do directly from within the Libraries panel—all instances of the watermarked asset in your open documents are updated to the high-resolution licensed image.
DESIGN SPACE (PREVIEW):
Design Space (Preview) is aimed at becoming a modern design experience inside Photoshop streamlined for the requirements of web, UX and mobile app designers. It's an HMTL5/CSS/JS layer built on top of Photoshop. We’ve separated out standard Photoshop from the interface so that we can use this layer to create new UI, smarter interactions, and top-requested features. This release is a Technology Preview, which means it's an early look at this new direction. It's rough and there is a limited feature set but we want to get this out early so that we can start hearing from you.
To enable Design Space (Preview), select Preferences > Technology Previews and then choose Enable Design Space (Preview).
EXPORT ARTBOARDS, LAYERS, AND MORE:
You can now export artboards, layers, layer groups, or Photoshop documents as JPEG, GIF, PNG, PNG-8, or SVG image assets.
Select the artboards, layers, and layer groups in the Layers panel; right-click the selection, and then select one of the following from the context menu:
Quick Export As [image_format]
Export As...
To export the current Photoshop document or all artboards in it, select File > Export As [image_format] or File > Export > Export As...
LAYER STYLES:
The Layer Style dialog now lets you apply multiple effects—strokes, inner shadows, color overlays, gradient overlays, drop shadows, etc—to a single layer style. Also, more than one instance of some effects can now be applied to a layer style.
In Photoshop, select an option from the Layer > Layer Style submenu.
Select the effects that you want to add to the layer style. Notice that some effects have a icon, indicating that they can be applied more than once in the layer style.
Adjust the settings for the effects. For example, adjust the size and opacity of a stroke.
Click OK to apply the effects to the layer style.
UI changes to the Layer Style dialog:
The left pane of the Layer Style dialog now lets you perform the following operations:
Change the effect stacking order
Delete effects
Through a new flyout menu, accessible by clicking the icon:
Manage what effects are displayed in the section
Delete hidden effects
Reset any changes you’ve made to the default state of the left pane
DEVICE PREVIEW AND THE PREVIEW CC COMPANION APP:
Get real-time previews of your Photoshop designs on multiple iOS devices with the new Device Preview feature in Photoshop and the Adobe Preview CC mobile app. Changes you make in Photoshop CC are displayed in Preview CC in real time. You can reliably connect multiple iOS devices to Photoshop using USB or over Wi-Fi.
If you have a document with artboards, Device Preview attempts to show you the correct artboard by matching the size and position of the artboard with the size of the connected device. You can also use the navigation bar to preview a specific artboard on the device or swipe through artboards that have matching widths.
BLUR GALLERY:
Sometimes, after applying a Blur Gallery effect, the blurred area of the image looks synthetic or unnatural. You can now restore noise/grain to such a blurred image area to give it a more realistic appearance. Set the options on the Noise tab in the blur Effects panel.
GLYPHS PANEL:
Photoshop now has a new panel that lets you work more efficiently with glyphs. Do one of the following to access the Glyphs panel:
Select Type > Panels > Glyphs Panels.
Select Windows > Glyphs.
3D PRINTING:
Export as PDF or SVX files. You can now export 3D models as PDF or SVX files
While specifying the 3D Print Settings, select Print To: Local. Now, select PDF File or SVX File as the Printer
Control bump map depth. You can now control the depth or height of bump maps for printing.
Updated PLA profile for Makerbot. The Makerbot PLA profile has been updated for more reliable print outs.
3D IMAGING:
The 3D menu now has a new command (3D > Simplify Meshes) that lets you reduce the number of triangles in a mesh to a more manageable number. The command algorithmically reduces the number of triangles to the number you specify while attempting to maintain the fidelity of the model. This enhancement is useful for reducing the complexity of a file in preparation for 3D printing. You can view a live preview of mesh simplification changes before they're implemented.
Improved export UI. The UI for exporting 3D layers as Collada DAE, Flash 3D, Google Earth KMZ, 3D PDF, STL, U3D, VRML, and OBJ formats is now improved.
Export a single mesh. A 3D scene typically comprises many elements or meshes. You can now right-click a mesh in the overall scene and export it individually. Right-click the mesh in the 3D Panel and then choose Export Mesh from the context menu. This functionality currently exports meshes only in Collada or KMZ formats.
Generate better bump maps and normal maps. Photoshop now lets you tweak your bump or normal maps using tools like Blur, Detail Scale, and High/Medium/Low Frequency.
Create bump maps or normal maps from diffuse textures. You can now create bump maps or normal maps from diffuse textures. The texture attached to the diffuse texture is automatically loaded as filters for the purpose of creating bump maps or normal maps. Once you're satisfied with the way your map is looking, Photoshop applies the generated bump map or normal map to those textures.
Convert a vertex color to a texture color. 3D-scanned PLY files typically have vertex colors and no textures. You can convert a vertex color to a texture color.
UI TOOLKIT FOR PLUGINS AND SCRIPTS:
The UI toolkit for building Photoshop plug-ins and scripts has been enhanced to support HiDPI/Retina displays. Also, plug-ins built using the toolkit now look more consistent with the overall Photoshop UI.
OTHER ENHANCEMENTS:
In earlier releases of Photoshop, while painting with the Healing Brush, you'd see a semi-transparent gray area and a progress bar before the healed content became visible. In the 2015 release of Photoshop CC, Healing Brush changes render in real time as you paint
The Content-Aware Move tool now has a Transform On Drop option. When this option is enabled, you can scale the part of the image that you've just moved to its new location.
Preference panels have been reworked for better organization.
Reduced energy usage by up to 80% while idling
Reduced loading time for the Welcome screen
New command to release all RAM and scratch disk use; hold down the Option/Alt key and select About Photoshop. Alternatively, select Edit > Purge > All.
The Photomerge dialog now has a Content Aware Fill Transparent Areas option. Use this option to give your panoramas that picture-perfect finish.
Most adjustments (Image > Adjustments) can now be applied as smart filters. Convert the layer to a smart object and then apply an adjustment to it.
Improved syncing performance for Creative Cloud Libraries
Moving a layer to a group now moves it to the top of the Z-order instead of the bottom.
Step backward/forward operations no longer change the layer selection.
New preference to revert Esc behavior while entering text
WHAT'S CHANGED:
Experimental Features are now called Technology Previews.
Scale the UI 200 percent for high-density displays is no longer a technology preview feature. It is now part of standard Photoshop functionality. To enable this feature in Photoshop CC 2015 release, select Preferences > Interface > UI Scaling: 200
The File > Save For Web option has been moved as File > Export > Save For Web (Legacy)
The following options have now moved to the File > Export submenu:
Export Layers To Files
Export Layer Comps To PDF
Export Layer Comps To Files
Extract assets functionality has been replaced in this release with more intuitive options to export artboards, layers, layer groups, and documents as image assets. See Export artboards, layers, and more for information about these newer export options
The Digimarc plug-in is no longer installed by default

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2014.2.2 (Dec 17, 2014)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2014.2.0 (Oct 7, 2014)

Creative Cloud Libraries:
Creative Cloud Libraries is a powerful new feature that lets you create, categorize, and store your favorite colors, brushes, text styles, graphics, and vector images in one easily accessible place. Then you can access them anywhere: Assets you create under the same Adobe ID will be visible across different computers—in a variety of applications like Photoshop CC—wherever you sign in.
Extract Assets:
The 2014.2 release of Photoshop CC introduces Extract Assets, a brand new user interface that lets you easily extract optimized image assets from layers and save them to various formats and resolutions, including SVG, JPG, PNG, or GIF. Using the simple visual Extract Assets interface built on top of Adobe Generator, you may extract content either on-demand or in real-time with auto-updated extractions tailored to your workflow.
This feature is particularly useful for web and screen designers who frequently create assets in multiple resolutions for use in websites and mobile apps.
Improved Guides:
Quickly create multiple guides at one time. Accurately set the width and margins of multiple columns or rows, and even save guides as presets.
You can also create guides that align with the edges of the selected layers or selected shapes within a shape layer.
New Welcome experience:
A new Welcome screen in Photoshop CC helps you discover, learn, and use the many features in Photoshop. The Welcome screen greets you each time you launch Photoshop and displays content that is personalized and relevant to you.
A tab-based interface helps you discover new features, how to get started, and tips and techniques.
The new Welcome experience is only available in the English version of Photoshop at this time.
UI improvements to the Fill dialog:
A number of UI improvements make the Fill dialog more intuitive and easier to use. The enhancements are focused on the logical grouping of options in the dialog.
Support for Windows touch devices:
Photoshop CC now supports Windows 8.1 touch devices like the Microsoft Surface Pro, so you can use pinch, zoom, pan, and rotate. In Photoshop, two-finger touch gestures are used to control the location, rotation, and scaling of the Image > Canvas view. Users may alternate between touch view control and other interactions using the mouse or stylus, but touch may not be used simultaneously with other input. Touch control is convenient when painting on large touchscreen monitors, which are difficult to rotate physically, and on tablets to avoid constantly shifting the device.
Additional updates:
Performance improvements to Mercury Graphics Engine to speed up Content-Aware technologies and the Focus Area selection feature
Select > Modify command improvements; Also, a new edge padding option is now available for these commands
Improved default values for Layer Styles
Improved object selections on the canvas
Improved layer locking behavior
New menu item to collapse all layer groups
Improved Gradient and Pattern presets
Improved new document presets and default document size
Document save operations are now recorded in the History panel
New preference to enable overscrolling when a document does not fit the window
When you create a new layer group while some layers are selected, the layers are automatically added to the layer group
New Flame scripted pattern
Transparency support for Copy/Paste from Photoshop to other applications in OS X
UI improvements for Adaptation parameters in Content-Aware Patch and Move operations
Improved display of Properties panel for Live Shapes
Improved enterprise compliance for cloud-based features
The Adobe Color Themes panel (Window > Extensions > Adobe Color Themes) is now shipped with Photoshop
3D printing support for rigging for figurine posing and animations
3D PDF support and new 3D printer profiles
Several dialogs are now optimized for wide-screen displays
Adobe Camera Raw interface now supports High DPI displays
New keyboard shortcuts for locking layers (Cmd/Ctrl+"/") and hiding layers (Cmd/Ctrl+",")
New preference to enable overscrolling when the document doesn't fill the window

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2014 15.1 (Aug 6, 2014)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2014 15.0 (Jun 19, 2014)

Smart Guides:
Alt (Win) + Drag a Layer: When you drag a layer while keeping the Alt (Windows) key pressed, Photoshop displays reference measurement guides showing the distance between the original layer and the duplicate layer. This feature works with both the Move and Path Selection tools.
Path measurements:
Photoshop displays measurement guides while you're working with paths.
Ctrl (Win) + Hover Over a Layer: You can view measurement guides while working with layers. With one layer selected, hover over another layer with the Ctrl (Windows) key pressed. You can use arrow keys in conjunction with this feature to nudge the selected layer.
Distances from the canvas:
When you hold down the Ctrl (Windows) key while hovering outside a shape, Photoshop displays distances from the canvas.
Matched Spacing:
When you duplicate or move an object, Photoshop displays measurement guides to visually indicate spacing between other objects that match the spacing between the selected object and its immediate neighbors.
Linked smart object improvements:
You can package the linked smart objects in a Photoshop document, such that their source files are saved to a folder on your computer. A copy of the Photoshop document is saved along with the source files in the folder. Select File > Package.
You can convert an embedded smart object to a linked smart object. Transforms, filters, and other effects applied to the embedded smart object are preserved when it is converted. Select Layer > Smart Objects > Convert To Linked.
Workflow improvement - When you try to perform an operation on a linked smart object whose source file is missing, you are prompted that the smart objects must be rasterized or resolved.
Layer comps in smart objects:
This feature lets you change the state of the smart object at a layer level without editing the smart object.
Work with fonts from Typekit:
Through integration with Typekit, Photoshop brings a world of typographic possibilities to your creative projects. You can use fonts from Typekit that are synchronized with your computer.
Search for fonts:
You can now quickly search for fonts in the Text tool options bar and Character panel font lists.
Blur Gallery motion effects:
Path blur
Using the Path Blur effects (Filter > Blur Gallery > Path Blur), you can create motion blurs along paths. You can also control the shape and amount of blurring. Photoshop automatically composites the effects of multiple path blurs applied to an image.
Spin blur
Using the Spin Blur effect (Filter > Blur Gallery > Spin Blur), you can rotate and blur the image around one or more points. The spin blur is a radial blur measured in degrees.
Select the image areas in focus:
Photoshop CC 2014 lets you select the areas/pixels in an image that are in focus (Select > Focus Area). You can broaden or narrow down the default selection.
Content-aware features with color blending:
With Photoshop CC 2014, touching up images and removing unwanted elements from images is easier than ever before.
Enhancements to Photoshop Generator:
You can choose to save image assets generated from particular layers/layer groups in a subfolder directly under the document's asset folder. Include the subfolder name in the layer/layer group name;
You can specify document-wide default settings for the generated assets. Create an empty layer, begin its name with the keyword default, and then specify the default settings.
3D printing
Photoshop CC 2014 features exciting enhancements to 3D printing capability:
he Print Preview dialog now indicates what surfaces have been repaired. In the Print Preview dialog, select Show Repair. Photoshop displays the Original Mesh, Wall Thickness, and Closed Hole repairs using appropriate color coding
New rendering engine for the Print Preview dialog, resulting in more accurate previews with realistic lighting. The new rendering engine ray traces the 3D object better.
New remeshing algorithm that greatly reduces the triangle count in your 3D object files
Better support for high-resolution textures when printing to Mcor and Zcorp printers
Enable experimental features:
Photoshop now ships with the following experimental features that you can enable and try out:
Scale the UI 200% for high-density displays
Enable multitone 3D printing
Touch gestures
Sync settings improvements:
Photoshop CC 2014 provides an improved Sync Settings experience featuring a simplified workflow and other useful enhancements:
You can now specify the direction of sync.
You can upload or download settings directly from the Preferences > Sync Settings tab.
You can now synchronize workspaces, keyboard shortcuts, and menu customizations
The Sync Settings log on the Preferences > Sync Settings tab displays the files being uploaded/downloaded, their sizes, and the timestamps for the upload/download operation.
3D imaging:
OBJ group mesh import/export
Beginning Photoshop CC 2014, the structure of the meshes and groups is preserved during import and export operations.
Texture Properties dialog box enhancements
Photoshop CC 2014 features useful enhancements to the Texture Properties dialog:
You can modify the name of the texture from directly within the dialog
The dialog features a new Apply To Matching Textures option. Using this option, you can apply the current UV settings to similar textures.
Improved convergence for emissive surfaces
Scenes with surfaces emitting light for example, self-illuminating textures or colors converge faster in Photoshop CC 2014.
Export color lookup tables:
You can now export color lookup tables from Photoshop in multiple formats. The exported files can then be applied in Photoshop, After Effects, SpeedGrade, and other image/video editing applications.
You can export color lookup tables only from images that have a background layer as well as additional layers to modify colors.
Adobe Camera Raw enhancements
Other enhancements:
Layer Copy CSS now supports Inner Shadow Layer effects
Smart Guides are now enabled by default
Brush highlights now show the currently-selected brush and brush changes
You can now access the most recently-used brush presets in the Brush context menu and the Brush Presets panel
New Hue and Brightness color picker cubes in the Color panel
Ability to specify transparency dithering in gradients
Ability to create gradients with a single stop. Saved single-stop gradients don't work with previous versions of Photoshop.
The new narrow Options bar lets you work more efficiently on devices having small screens. Select Preferences > Interface > Enable Narrow Options Bar.
Ability to create new gradient stops sampled from the current gradient preview
Import-only native support for MPEG-2 and Dolby audio
Support for new video formats, including Sony RAW and Canon RAW
Pin Edges To Liquify for warping in from the image edges
Reset All Tools now resets the tools displayed in the Tools panel slots to the default choices
Support for very large PNG files (up to Photoshop maximum and 2 GB limit)
Improved UI content for the New Document preset dialog
The Spectrum color picker in the Color Panel is now resizeable

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 14.2 (Jan 16, 2014)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 14.1.2 (Oct 31, 2013)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 14.1.1 (Oct 31, 2013)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 14.0 (Jun 19, 2013)

A more connected Photoshop:
Photoshop CC is part of Creative Cloud. That means you have access to all the latest updates and future releases the moment they're available. Use Save to Cloud to keep your files organized across multiple computers. And with Behance integration, you can share your projects straight from Photoshop CC and get immediate feedback from creatives around the world.
All-new Smart Sharpen:
Rich textures, crisp edges, and distinct details. All-new Smart Sharpen is the most advanced sharpening technology available today. It analyzes images to maximize clarity and minimize noise and halos, and it lets you fine-tune for high-quality, natural-looking results.
Intelligent upsampling:
Enlarge a low-res image so it looks great in print, or start with a larger image and blow it up to poster or billboard size. New upsampling preserves detail and sharpness without introducing noise.
Extended features included:
As part of Creative Cloud, Photoshop gives you all the powerful image and video editing features you've come to expect — and it includes the advanced 3D editing and image analysis tools that were previously in Photoshop Extended.
Camera Raw 8 and layer support:
Apply Camera Raw edits as a filter to any layer or file inside Photoshop, and then enhance them any way you want. And with new Adobe Camera Raw 8, you get more precise ways to heal images, fix perspective distortions, and create vignettes.
Editable rounded rectangles:
One of your most requested features is here. Now you can resize shapes, edit them, and re-edit them — before or after they're created. Even edit individual corner radiuses in rounded rectangles. If a shape is bound for the web, export CSS data from the file to save time.
Multi- shape and path selection:
Get more done in fewer clicks by selecting multiple paths, shapes, and vector masks at once. Even in multilayered documents with lots of paths, you can easily target the path (and any layer) you want right on canvas using a new filter mode.
Camera Shake Reduction:
Save shots you thought were lost due to camera motion. Whether your blur was caused by slow shutter speed or a long focal length, Camera Shake Reduction analyzes its trajectory and helps restore sharpness.
Expanded Smart Object support:
Apply Blur Gallery and liquify effects nondestructively thanks to Smart Object support. Your original file stays intact as you add blur effects or push, pull, pucker, or bloat the image or video. Edit or remove the effects at any time — even after saving your file.
Improved 3D painting:
Live previews are now up to 100x faster and more responsive when you paint on 3D objects and texture maps. With the powerful Photoshop painting engine, you can make any 3D model look terrific.
Improved type styles:
You spend hours getting text to look just right. Type styles let you save your formatting as a preset that you can then apply with just a click. You can even define type styles to use across all your Photoshop documents.
Copying of CSS attributes:
When you hand-code a web design, you can't always get elements like rounded corners and colors to match your original. Now, let Photoshop generate CSS code for specific design elements, and simply copy and paste the code into your web editor to get the results you want.
Conditional Actions:
Put routine processing jobs on autopilot with Conditional Actions. These commands use if/then statements to automatically choose between different actions based on rules you set up.
Improved 3D Scene panel:
Make a smoother transition from 2D to 3D editing with a 3D Scene panel that has many of the options you already know from the Layers panel, like Duplicate, Instance, Groups, and Delete.
Workflow time-savers:
Save time on common tasks, thanks to small but frequently requested features from users like you. Create paths more easily with new modifier keys, move a path with the spacebar, include ICC profiles in PNG formats, and more.
Improved 3D effects:
Shadows and reflections can make or break your 3D artwork, and higher quality live previews help you get great looks faster. Plus, easily create better glow effects, scene illumination, and lighting for bumps and textures.
Color import from web files:
Import color swatches directly from HTML, CSS, or SVG files — for inspiration, or to easily match the color schemes of existing web content.
System anti-aliasing for type:
Get a realistic preview of how your type will look on the web with an option that closely matches the anti-aliasing of your Windows system.
Improved Min and Max filters:
Create more precise masks and selections with more powerful Minimum and Maximum filters, which now include options to preserve squareness or roundness.

New in Adobe Photoshop CS6 13.0.1.2 (Jun 4, 2013)

New in Adobe Photoshop CS6 13.0.1 (Aug 31, 2012)

New in Adobe Photoshop CS6 13.0 (May 7, 2012)

Content-Aware Patch:
Patch images with greater control using Content-Aware Patch, which allows you to choose the area that Content-Aware will use to create your patch.
Mercury Graphics Engine:
See near-instant results when editing with key tools such as Liquify and Puppet Warp. The new Adobe Mercury Graphics Engine delivers unprecedented responsiveness for a fluid feel as you work.
New and reengineered design tools:
Create superior designs faster. Get consistent formatting with type styles, use vector layers to apply strokes and add gradients to vector objects, easily create custom strokes and dashed lines, quickly search layers, and more.
New Blur Gallery:
Quickly create photographic blur effects using a simple new interface with on-image controls. Create tilt-shift effects, blur everything and then sharpen one focal point, or vary the blurriness between multiple focal points. The Mercury Graphics Engine delivers immediate results.
All-new Crop tool:
Crop images faster and with greater precision using the all-new, nondestructive Crop tool. Rapidly manipulate your images on canvas and see your adjustments happen live thanks to the Mercury Graphics Engine.
Modern user interface:
Work with a fresh, elegant interface featuring dark background options that make your images pop, and benefit from hundreds of design touches that create a smoother, more consistent editing experience.
Intuitive video creation:
Bring Photoshop editing power to your video footage. Easily enhance any clip using the full range of familiar Photoshop tools, and then create movies using an intuitive set of video tools.
Preset migration and sharing:
Easily migrate your presets, workspaces, preferences, and settings so you can experience Photoshop in the same way on all your computers, share your setup, and bring your customizations from past versions into Photoshop CS6.
Adaptive Wide Angle:
Easily straighten objects that appear curved in panoramas or photos shot with fisheye or wide-angle lenses. New on-canvas tools use the physical characteristics of individual lenses to automatically correct curvatures, and the Mercury Graphics Engine gives you near-instant results.
Background Save:
Keep working even while saving the largest of Photoshop files in the background - a performance improvement that can help your productivity soar.
Auto-recovery:
Let the auto-recovery option work behind the scenes to save your edits without interrupting your progress. A copy of your work is saved every 10 minutes and recovered in the event of an unexpected shutdown.
Improved auto corrections:
Quickly enhance your images with improved Auto Curves, Levels, and Brightness/Contrast controls. Intelligence from thousands of hand-retouched images is built in to give you a better starting point for making adjustments.
Adobe Camera Raw 7:
Bring out the best in your JPEG and raw files with improved processing and an enhanced control set; reveal every detail in the highlights of an image while still retaining rich detail in the shadows; and much more.
Skin tone–aware selections and masking:
Create precise selections and masks, enabling you to easily adjust or preserve skin tones; easily select intricate image elements, such as hair or faces; and more.
Revolutionary erodible brushes:
Draw more naturally and realistically using drawing tips that erode as you work. Endlessly wear down and sharpen a charcoal pencil or pastel to create different effects, and save favorite blunted tips as presets.
Content-Aware Move:
Move or extend a selected object to another area of your image, and then watch as Content-Aware Move magically recomposes and blends the object for a stunning visual result.
Scripted Patterns:
Generate geometric pattern fills faster with new Scripted Patterns.
Support for more camera models:
Use the Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 7 plug-in with images from just about any camera. The plug-in supports more than 350 camera models.
10-bit deep color support:
Get a more accurate representation of how your images will appear in film with 10-bit monitor support. See just the pixels you've captured, reduce or eliminate the need for dithering, and reduce contouring or banding.
Support for 3D LUTs:
Retouch images for film more easily with 3D look-up tables (LUTs) — including Adobe SpeedGrade. Look color LUTs — that you can turn on when you need to tweak raw color data.
Type styles:
Save time and help ensure a consistent look with type styles, which let you apply formatting to selected characters, lines, or paragraphs of text with a single click.
Vector layers:
Use vector layers to apply strokes and even add gradients to vector objects.
Sharper vector rendering:
Get sharper rendering by clicking once to snap the edges of vector objects to pixels.
Custom strokes and dashed lines:
Easily create custom strokes and dashed lines.
Layer search:
Use layer search capabilities to quickly zero in on the layer you need.
Lighting Effects Gallery:
Get better performance and results with the new, 64-bit Lighting Effects Gallery. The plug-in is powered by the Mercury Graphics Engine and offers on-canvas controls and previews that make it easier to visualize your lighting enhancements.
Oil Painting filter:
Quickly give your work the look of a fine painting with the Oil Painting filter powered by the Mercury Graphics Engine. Control the style of your brush as well as the direction and shine of your lighting for a superior look.
Airbrush tips:
Create realistic airbrush effects using fluid, lifelike controls and granular paint particles.
New painting presets:
Simplify painting with new presets that offer a good starting point for creating realistic painting effects.
Properties panel:
Save time with a context-sensitive Properties panel that lets you make quick updates to the properties of your masks, adjustments, and video layers.
Adobe Bridge CS6:
Organize and manage your media visually using Adobe Bridge CS6 software. This integrated application delivers fast performance with cross-platform 64-bit support.
Redesigned Adobe Mini Bridge:
Access your images and documents more quickly and easily in Adobe Mini Bridge, redesigned as an elegant filmstrip.
Enhanced TIFF support:
Work with a larger range of TIFF files. Enhanced TIFF support allows for greater bit depths and larger file sizes.
Automatic resampling:
Get great results when resizing an image — the best resample method is automatically selected.
Filler text:
Save time with the ability to insert "Lorem ipsum" filler text when working with type.
Increased maximum brush sizes:
Edit and paint with brush sizes all the way up to 5000px.

New in Adobe Photoshop CS6 13.0 Beta (Mar 22, 2012)

New in Adobe Photoshop 12.0.3 (Jan 8, 2011)

New in Adobe Photoshop 12.0.2 (Dec 7, 2010)

New in Adobe Photoshop 12.0.1 (Jul 1, 2010)

New in Adobe Photoshop CS5 12.0 (Apr 30, 2010)

Complex selections made easy:
Select specific areas within an image in fewer clicks. Easily select intricate image elements, such as hair; eliminate background color around selection edges; and automatically vary selection edges and perfect masks using new refinement tools.
Content-Aware Fill:
Remove any image detail or object and watch as Content-Aware Fill magically fills in the space left behind. This breakthrough technology matches lighting, tone, and noise so it looks as if the removed content never existed.
Superior HDR imaging:
Create photo-realistic or surreal HDR images with unprecedented speed, control, and accuracy. Get better-than-ever results thanks to automatic ghost removal and greater control with tone mapping and adjustments, and even give single-exposure photos the look of HDR.
Extraordinary painting effects:
Easily change a photograph into a painting or create unique artistic effects with the Mixer Brush, which offers on-canvas color blending, and Bristle Tips, which let you create lifelike, textured brush strokes.
Automatic lens correction:
Save time with automatic correction of lens distortions, chromatic aberration, and vignetting. Photoshop CS5 uses an image file's EXIF data to make precise adjustments based on the type of camera and lens you used.
Better media management:
Easily manage media with more flexible batch renaming, and access your assets in the context of what you're working on by using the customizable Adobe Mini Bridge panel in Photoshop.
Streamlined creative reviews:
Use Adobe CS Review, part of new Adobe CS Live online services, to initiate a more secure review without leaving Photoshop. Reviewers can add comments to your images from their browsers, and you see the comments appear automatically on your screen. CS Live services are complimentary for a limited time.
Easier UI management:
Use the collapsible Workspace Switcher to quickly navigate and choose among favorite UI configurations. Live workspaces automatically record your UI changes so panels will remain in place even if you switch away for a while.
State-of-the-art raw image processingL
Use the Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 6 plug-in to nondestructively remove image noise while preserving color and detail; add grain to make digital photos look more organic; enjoy more control as you perform post-crop vignetting; and more.
Puppet Warp:
Precisely reposition any image element to create a more visually appealing photo. For example, easily straighten an arm that's bent at an awkward angle.
Efficient workflow:
Enjoy productivity and creativity boosts thanks to dozens of features and enhancements requested by Photoshop users. Straighten images automatically, pick colors from an onscreen color picker, adjust the opacity of many layers at once, and more.
Faster performance across platforms:
Speed up day-to-day imaging tasks and process very large images up to ten times faster by taking advantage of cross-platform 64-bit support. (Requires a 64-bit-capable computer with a 64-bit version of Mac OS, Microsoft Windows 7, or Windows Vista. Actual performance varies depending on amount of RAM, driver types, and other factors.)
New GPU-accelerated features:
Take advantage of GPU-enabled enhancements to everyday tools. Crop with the Rule of Thirds grid; zoom with click-and-scrub functionality; and sample colors with better visualization and the onscreen color picker.
Superior black-and-white conversion:
Explore an endless variety of black-and-white looks. Use the integrated Lab B&W Action to interactively color images, create gorgeous HDR black-and-whites with greater ease and speed, and experiment with new presets.
Extraordinary painting effects:
Achieve natural and realistic painting effects with the Mixer Brush, which offers on-canvas color blending, and Bristle Tips, which let you create lifelike, textured brush strokes.
Content-Aware Fill:
Remove any image detail or object and watch as Content-Aware Fill magically fills in the space left behind. This breakthrough technology matches lighting, tone, and noise so it looks as if the removed content never existed.
Puppet Warp:
Precisely warp or stretch graphics, text, or image elements to create unique new looks for your designs.
Superior HDR imaging:
Create photo-realistic or surreal HDR images with unprecedented speed, control, and accuracy. Get better-than-ever results thanks to automatic ghost removal and greater control with tone mapping and adjustments, and even give single-exposure photos the look of HDR.
Faster performance across platforms:
Speed up day-to-day imaging tasks and process very large images up to ten times faster by taking advantage of cross-platform 64-bit support. (Requires a 64-bit-capable computer with a 64-bit version of Mac OS, Microsoft Windows 7, or Windows Vista. Actual performance varies depending on amount of RAM, driver types, and other factors.)
More powerful printing options:
Get outstanding prints in less time with automation, scripting, and a print dialog box that's easier to navigate.
State-of-the-art raw image processing:
Use the Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 6 plug-in to remove image noise while preserving color and detail; add grain to make digital photos look more organic; enjoy more control as you perform post-crop vignetting; and more.
Efficient workflow:
Enjoy productivity and creativity boosts thanks to dozens of features and enhancements requested by Photoshop users. Straighten images automatically, pick colors from an onscreen color picker, adjust the opacity of many layers at once, and more.
Better media management:
Easily manage media with more flexible batch renaming, and access your assets in the context of what you're working on by using the customizable Adobe Mini Bridge panel in Photoshop.
Streamlined creative reviews:
Use Adobe CS Review, part of new Adobe CS Live online services, to initiate a more secure review without leaving Photoshop. Reviewers can add comments to your images from their browsers, and you see the comments appear automatically on your screen. CS Live services are complimentary for a limited time.