New Release of Adobe Photoshop CC 2018

The new features and improvements follow four main themes:

Response to major customer requests

Integration with Adobe Photography eco system

Lowering leaning barriers; notably for new customers

Support for new technologies

Highlights

-          Improved management of brush presets

-          Improved brush stroke smoothing with less need to use plug-ins

-          New curvature pen tool

-          Integration of Lightroom Photos

-          New Learn panel for beginners

-          Rich tool tips

-          Import & edit 360 panoramas

-          Variable font support including width and weight

-          Deep learning (technology preview) available when upscaling images

-          HEIF support

-          24 new free Photoshop templates

-          Improved accuracy of Refine Edge tool in Select & Mask

-          Improved deep learning face detection in Face Aware Liquify

-          Quick Share

-          New Symmetry Painting for repeating patterns and designs

The information above is not an exhaustive list. Please visit the Photoshop blog for more information.

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High Sierra Mac OS & Plug-ins

Generally if your Mac has been running Sierra it will be compatible with the new 10.13 Mac OS – High Sierra which introduces a new file system and a host of other updates.

However some users have found compatibility problems when using software with third party plug-ins such as the popular Nik Collection with Photoshop.

Some users have reported application crashes when rendering images after applying Nik filters or attempting to edit images within smart objects.

The work-around seems to be to launch the Nik software from the Selective Tool interface; not from the Photoshop filters menu.

I don’t know of any work-around for editing smart objects, but perhaps it is necessary to create a new flattened image before applying further Nik Collection filters.

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Adobe Announces DeepFont in London

Photoshop is to use artificial intelligence to help users identify typefaces they have seen elsewhere.

Adobe describes its DeepFont feature as "Shazam for fonts" - a reference to the song-recognising app.

BBC News

External Editing from the Photos App on Mac OSX

When Apple introduced the latest operating system El Capitan OSX 10.11 it came with the new Photos App which seemed to lack some of the features of the earlier iPhoto app and looked pretty much like a copy of the Photos app on iOS devices.

However it appears that Photos on OSX now supports the installation of Extensions which permits third party developers to enhance the basic editing capabilities by delivering apps through the Mac App store.

There is a useful app available for $0.99 which enables external editing in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements, with the edited photo saved back automatically into the Photo Library.

External Editors For Photos by Karsten Bruns

Get it in the AppStore

For those who are accustomed to round-tripping from iPhoto into Photoshop, Pixelmator, Acorn, or other image editors this app which runs via Extensions could be the answer.

The developer has a short video tutorial which demonstrates how the extension works with external editors. 

View on YouTube

Happy Christmas

A very happy Christmas to everyone. Happy Holidays. Un joyeux Noël. Bonnes fêtes.

Adding Snow in Photoshop by Eric Renno

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