Photoshop CC: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition

What’s New in Photoshop CC 2014

Adobe has added some incredibly useful new features to Photoshop CC 2014, especially where productivity is concerned. Graphic designers will be especially pleased with all the new features and timesaving goodies, although there’s also a lot of good stuff for photographers, too.

Perhaps the first thing you’ll notice is that Adobe redesigned most of the program’s dialog boxes to accommodate Retina displays (Apple’s super-high resolution monitors, called HiDPI on PCs), so they’re noticeably shorter and wider (they’re also a darker gray and the buttons are square, so they look more Windows-like than Mac-like in their design).

Here’s a quick overview of all the new stuff (don’t worry if you don’t yet understand some of the terms used here—you’ll learn them as you read through this book):

• New blur filters. This version of Photoshop CC sports two additions to the Blur Gallery family of filters that let you simulate motion in a photo that doesn’t have any (or that doesn’t have enough). The Path Blur filter lets you create the appearance of motion along a path that you draw—it can be straight or riddled with curves—and then fine-tune the blur’s direction, angle, speed, and even how much blurring occurs at the path’s start and end points. And the Spin Blur filter lets you put an incredibly realistic spin on any object by using a simple set of on-image controls. Both filters let you customize how blurry the object appears.

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