Adobe Photoshop CC review
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Photoshop CC review
Creative Cloud changes everything. Well, maybe not
everything: Adobe Photoshop CC looks nearly identical to its CS6 predecessor,
but it packs several powerful new features, including a revolutionary photo
motion blur corrector, more effective image upscaling (capable of getting those
low-def images looking good on a Retina display), new photo geometry
corrections, and multiple shape and path selections.
Since it's part of
the cloud subscription, as long as you pay �17.58 a month for Photoshop alone,
or �46.88 for the full creative suite (�27.34 for upgraders from CS3 or later,
�15.88 for the Student and Teacher edition), you'll always have access to any
new features that come along. That sounds more palatable to me than the old
�650 or �950 up front, though I realise that some long-time users have
expressed displeasure at having to continue paying to use the software. However,
with the subscription, it would take you at least 3 years to spend the previous
up front money, and by then, you'd probably want to upgrade anyway.
Another way that Creative Cloud affects new Photoshop users is that
they'll now get all the Photoshop tools, including features that used to be
available only in the Photoshop Extended edition, such as 3D modelling and image
analysis. Extended costs �950, so this is quite a perk, not to mention the fact
that it simplifies your product choice.
You should only consider
installing Photoshop on a fairly powerful PC or Mac. You also need to sign in
with your Adobe ID before the installer will let you start. I installed it on a
Windows 8 PC (Photoshop CC runs on Windows 7 with Service Pack 1, but not on
earlier Windows OS versions) with a 3.4GHz quad-core processor and 4GB of RAM.
It took about 20 minutes, and, right off the bat, I got a message saying that 3D
editing wouldn't be available because of my video card or its driver. Mac users
will need OS X 10.7 or 10.8.
The Photoshop UI remains largely unchanged
from that of Photoshop CS6, which was a big advance over CS5. All your left-side
tools and right-side panels are still available, in a choice of workspaces
suited to standard image editing, 3D, motion, painting, photography, and
typography. It's incredibly customisable, and you can save presets for all your
customisations. The new cloud connectivity also means that you can log into a
copy of Photoshop at a different location and have all your interface
customisation show up.
Another helpful aspect of the interface is that,
for most updated features, you can check a "Use legacy" box to get the old tool
you're used to. Plenty of other little conveniences (which Adobe likes to call
JDIs, for "just do it") have been added to the world's premiere photo editing
software. For example, you can now nudge a path with the spacebar. Actions can
now be conditional, using if/then expressions.
Behance
Behance is a
social network for creative professionals, offering online portfolios and
connections. It will be built into all the Creative Cloud applications, and will
let 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. They can share their work from within Behance, and discuss the work and
even connect with potential and existing clients and freelancers.
Behance's ProSites are customisable online portfolios which Creative
Cloud subscribers can use with their own URLs. I found Behance's presentation
elegant, clean, and it incorporated all the essential social features du jour. I
especially like the fact 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 organiser app.
The hottest, most anticipated new
feature of Photoshop CC is the modestly named Camera Shake Reduction. This was
first shown by Adobe two years ago at its Max conference, and it was met with a
very positive reaction. The tool analyses a photo to find the path of shake
motion, and then aligns the shifted pixels. It sounds simple enough, 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) where 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 that you get with Smart Sharpen (which, by the way,
with this release gets a new Reduce Noise slider). 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.
Photoshop CC also benefits from several new Camera Raw
capabilities, some of which we've already seen in the Lightroom 5 beta. The
latter includes a new geometry correction tool, Upright (see the above image).
This lets you fix parallel vertical and horizontal lines. Its Auto setting
attempts to fix perspective, but you can choose only to align verticals or only
horizontals, or mess with the perspective to taste with transforming sliders for
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A couple more new capabilities
designers will be thrilled to take advantage of are rounded rectangles and the
ability to select multiple paths and shapes when applying effects. You can now
save formatting of type as styles that can be easily applied to other text
later. Type can also now be viewed in a way that previews system antialiasing
used in web browsers. For web designers, Photoshop CC now can generate CSS code
that produces the exact look designed in the software. Going in the other
direction, they can also now import colour from a website's HTML or CSS code.
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