From Photoshop to Dreamweaver, we reveal the best features of the new 'CC' versions of 16 Adobe tools.
If you use Adobe products, you've got a big decision to make. The Creative Suite is no more, and the latest versions of Adobe's leading design software packages such as Photoshop, Illustrator and Dreamweaver will instead be released exclusively through its subscription service. Which means these titles will be called not, as we'd expected, Photoshop CS7 or Illustrator CS7 etc but Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC and so on.
In other words you won't be able to buy the new titles in the shops, or even download them for a one-off fee.
So is worth joining the subscription service? We won't go into the rights and wrongs of Adobe's business model here - we're simply going to give you the lowdown on the standout new features in each of the main software titles. Will they be enough to tempt you to pay for the Creative Cloud? We'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments below!
Photoshop is at the core of Adobe's offering, and is the centrepiece of its CC update. There's a ton of new features, with the headline news being that the 3D features and high-end image analysis tools of Photoshop Extended - an existing, pricier version of Photoshop CS6 - will be included in Photoshop CC.
Here are the other big feature updates Adobe hopes will persuade you to upgrade from Photoshop CS6 to Photoshop CC:
If you use Adobe products, you've got a big decision to make. The Creative Suite is no more, and the latest versions of Adobe's leading design software packages such as Photoshop, Illustrator and Dreamweaver will instead be released exclusively through its subscription service. Which means these titles will be called not, as we'd expected, Photoshop CS7 or Illustrator CS7 etc but Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC and so on.
In other words you won't be able to buy the new titles in the shops, or even download them for a one-off fee.
Creative Suite no more
Yes, you'll still be able to buy the CS6 version, and Adobe will continue to provide bug-fixes and the like. But other than that, it's goodbye to boxed products and hello to monthly subscriptions: $19.99/£17.58 for individual titles or $50/£46.88 for the whole suite of tools.So is worth joining the subscription service? We won't go into the rights and wrongs of Adobe's business model here - we're simply going to give you the lowdown on the standout new features in each of the main software titles. Will they be enough to tempt you to pay for the Creative Cloud? We'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments below!
01. Photoshop CC
Photoshop is at the core of Adobe's offering, and is the centrepiece of its CC update. There's a ton of new features, with the headline news being that the 3D features and high-end image analysis tools of Photoshop Extended - an existing, pricier version of Photoshop CS6 - will be included in Photoshop CC.
Here are the other big feature updates Adobe hopes will persuade you to upgrade from Photoshop CS6 to Photoshop CC:
- Camera shake reduction - a feature which, as we revealed last month, helps to reduce motion blur in your photos.
- Smart Sharpen - a feature that analyses images to produce the best possible sharpening, while minimising halos and noises. With 'intelligent upsampling', Adobe says users will be able to increase the size of an image, large enough for a billboard, without pixelation.
- Adobe Camera Raw 8 support means edits can be applied as a filter to any layer or file.
- An Advanced Healing brush enables you to 'heal' or 'patch' images with a brush stroke instead of a circular area.
- Radial Gradient lets you draw attention to the focus of an image without applying a standard vignette.
- A new Upright tool, which automatically straightens horizons and applies perspective corrections without distorting the image.
- The ability to edit rounded rectangles, including the ability to adjust corner radii at any time.
- The ability to select multiple paths, shapes and vectors at once.
- The Behance creative pro social network, as we revealed in March, will be built into all the major CC applications, enabling you to post your projects instantly to Behance for feedback from colleagues and clients.
- A new workflow from Photoshop CC to Edge Reflow CC enables you to build web designs in Photoshop that can easily be turned into responsive websites.
- Generate CSS code for specific design elements to copy and paste into your web editor.
- The Conditional Actions feature means you can put routine processing jobs on autopilot. These commands use if/then statements to automatically choose between different actions based on rules that you define.
- Workflow time-savers: Drag a layer to a tabbed document, create paths more easily with new modifier keys, move a path with the spacebar and include ICC profiles.
- You can now import colour swatches directly from HTML, CSS, or SVG files.
- A realistic preview of how your type will look on the web with an option that closely matches the anti-aliasing of your desktop operating system.
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