Adding a Stroke in Photoshop Elements

Adding a frame in Photoshop Elements is simple using one of the available templates from the graphics tab. Sometimes users wish to add a key light or a fine outline to an image or to surround a shape. This can be done using the Stroke command. 

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Adobe Releases Update For Photoshop CC

A new version of Photoshop CC was released in July (CC 2015.5) with a host of new features.

Update CC 2015.5.1 addresses a number of identified bugs and provides a fix, notably in the new Select & Mask feature.

More Details Here

Adobe Releases Lightroom CC 2015.6.1 & Lightroom 6.6.1

Lightroom CC 2015.6.1 and Lightroom 6.6.1 are now available.  This release has a number of bug fixes  and adds raw file support for the latest Fujifilm model.


New Camera Support in Lightroom CC 2015.6.1 / 6.6.1

Fujifilm X-T2 

More details at:

Lightroom Journal

Lightroom Mobile Updates - July 2016

Adobe has announced Lightroom Mobile 2.4 iOS for iPhone, iPad and iPad Pro

New features include 

Linear and Radial Selections
Raw Technology Previews

The selective adjustments are similar to the graduated filter and radial filter in the Lightroom desktop application.

The only drawback importing large raw files is that they must first be imported to the Photos App. At present Apple does not permit this to be bypassed meaning more storage space is utilised, until files are deleted from the Photos App.  

But it's good to see Adobe continuing to focus on a full photography workflow from mobile devices. More details here:

Lightroom for iOS 2.4



Android

Lightroom for Android 2.1 continues to enhance DNG raw capture for Android supported devices. The built-in camera has a new Pro mode that lets you control the shutter speed, ISO, white balance, and focus all manually, in a brand new interface.

The selective adjustment tools introduced in the iOS version are expected to become available shortly. More details here:

Lightroom for Android 2.1

Adobe Releases Camera Raw 9.6.1

Bugs Fixed in Camera Raw 9.6.1

-          Uncompressed DNGs files converted from Fuji X-E2 RAF source images were are unable to be read

-          Errors that prevented customers from creating a panorama from two HDR DNG source images.

New Camera Support in Camera Raw 9.6.1

Fujifilm XT-2

Installation Instructions

Launch Creative Cloud Desktop and from the Apps tab update Camera Raw

Or from Photoshop choose  Help >> Updates

You will need to quit Photoshop after starting the updater.

Adobe Announces the Release of Photoshop CC 2015.5

Adobe has announced today the release a new version of Photoshop which is being called Photoshop CC 2015.5

This is a full program release following the last update (Photoshop CC 2015.1.2) in January 2016 but your saved preferences can be transferred during installation. The update will remove the previous version. Adobe says that app download speeds have been improved by 65% on average and overall performance improvements should be noticeable. It’s basically doing a lot more in parallel (instead of serial) plus general speed improvements to workflow.

Headline New Features

Selection & Masking Space with a new onion skin view as well as the usual backgrounds in white, black etc. and a transparency tolerance slider. The Selection & Masking Space incorporates the previous refine edge feature. The new dialog will do everything that was possible with refine edge and more, notably the ability to extract really fine detail.

Content Aware Crop – with a new algorithm to replace pixels that would otherwise be discarded; producing much better results than the manual content aware fill.

Match Font – is a great aid to design. Drag the rectangular marquee over any font in any image to find similar fonts installed on the system or available from Adobe Typekit.

Face Aware Liquify – a touch friendly feature for portrait re-touching. With a dialog similar to some of the filters like Iris Blur this tool will automatically recognize facial features.

Here is a cool YouTube video by Colin Smith on the new Select & Mask Space

Workflow Improvements

Improvements to some of the best loved recent features; to make them even more powerful and intuitive to use including:

-          Export As

-          CC Libraries

-          Artboards

Other Improvements

Greater integration with Adobe Stock.

New preference to use the legacy Healing Brush.

Improved brush performance.

Plugins - no need to re-install most 3^rd party plugins following Adobe’s collaboration with developers to establish a new database single location. However I had to run the installer again for Nik Collection; so this is obviously work in progress for Adobe.

Many other tweaks and improvements, too many to list here – visit the Creative Cloud Blog to find out more and watch other videos.

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