Chapter 5

What’s New in Photoshop CC?

IN THIS CHAPTER

check Checking out new features

check Looking at Camera Raw’s new features

check Finding out what’s coming next to Photoshop

If this is your first version of Photoshop, this chapter isn’t as important as it is for those upgrading from an earlier version. However, that doesn’t mean you should skip it — you find lots of useful information here. Many of these features are also discussed in other chapters, but some explanations you find only here.

Improvements and New Features

Adobe is always making improvements to Photoshop, some you’ll find indispensable; some are just useful to know.

The new features you’re most likely to love

Since the last version of Photoshop CC was released, new features and improvements (so-called “bug fixes”) have been introduced regularly. Many of them you’ll never even notice, but some of them add significant and powerful capabilities to Photoshop. Here is a look at some big and little changes since the introduction of Photoshop CC:

  • Learn Panel and Rich Tooltips: Okay, newbie, Adobe has made it much simpler to figure out which feature does what. In the default Essentials workspace, you’ll find a new panel named Learn. (In ...

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