Adobe have provided a sneak peek of the newest update to Photoshop for Creative Cloud subscribers.
In this video Adobe's Russell Brown discusses some of his favourite features in Photoshop CC.
Along with a cute sharpening feature to deal with blur caused by camera shake, there is a range of new functionality related to Camera Raw.
In fact Camera Raw now has a listing in Photoshop's filters menu.
Photoshop CC comes with a complete update to Camera Raw.
In the following video Adobe's Julieanne Kost describes some of these features.
As for the meaning of CC, it seems that it is the official replacement for CS. The Creative Suite line comes to an end with CS6.
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Adobe have dropped their first update to Photoshop CS6 for Creative Cloud subscribers.
The update is currently limited to Creative Cloud subscribers only.
This shouldn't come as a surprise - Adobe promised they would be doing this when the Cloud was launched.
The new features provide for a more flexible way of working with a range of tools.
Among the key announcements is the extension of smart objects to the new blur gallery and also to the liquify tool. Smart objects make life easier in Photoshop, by enabling greater ease of non-destructive editing, but also by making things that would otherwise not be possible, possible. The ability to apply smart objects to the tilt shift blur effect, for instance, will make it possible now to create the 'miniature world' illusion using videos.
Another key area of improvement is the use of Photoshop in hard core web design. Here, designers will be able to create CSS from Photoshop documents and also to collect colour schemes from HTML and CSS and SVG files.
There are several other new features in this release. A pretty cool array just eight months after the launch of CS6.
Conclusion: Adobe seem to be taking this Creative Cloud thing seriously.
Adobe have also introduced a few improvements to 3D workspace to keep the users of the extended version of Photoshop happy.
In this first rate featured video from Lyndapodcast the powerful Refine Edge command is explained.
Refine Edge or Refine Mask is a powerful tool for obtaining a professional finish to complex selections. A complex tool for a difficult task.
This video helps you to evaluate the right approach to take for one of the most challenging selection tasks: extracting a model from one background and transferring her to another.
Not all of the choices are obvious.
Refine Edge is not magic, and this command is very much one of those Practice makes Perfect situations. Neither can it be used as the sole means of improving selections: other techniques need to be employed when all of the advanced digital wizardry of Refine Edge no longer cuts into the problem.
If you still need extra input, and for a slightly different approach to Refine Edge, the following video from Lynda.com has some useful hints. The materials mentioned in the video can be accessed at Adobe TV.
In this featured video from Lynda a technique for taking pictures for a panorama is explained.
The video shows how to take the perfect shots to create the right mix for use with the Photomerge command in Photoshop.
Whether its panning method, amount of overlap or picture aspect what you need to take into account and the best approach to take is explored.
Finally you'll have detailed instructions for using Photoshop and Bridge to stitch it all together.