Adobe Photoshop Changelog

What's new in Adobe Photoshop 2024 25.6

Mar 20, 2024
  • Fixed issues:
  • Spacebar + F key changing canvas when native FS is on.
  • Cannot select a font in a font family in the Contextual Task Bar when FontBrowser is On
  • Adjustment Brush: Add/Subtract from mask disables Workspace dropdown [Win]
  • Bug in symmetry tool - no symmetry at edge
  • Default mouse cursor when selecting color in color picker on mask with gradient
  • Magenta line in Layer mask thumbnail when using Adjustment Brush [Win]
  • Photoshop cannot open PNG and TIFF files due to metadata xmp-xmp: Keywords and xmp-dc: Subject

New in Adobe Photoshop 2024 25.5.1 (Mar 5, 2024)

  • This release includes general performance improvements and bug fixes to the Libraries panel of the Photoshop desktop app.

New in Adobe Photoshop 2024 25.5 (Feb 22, 2024)

  • Do more with custom Adjustment Presets:
  • Create and save your presets for future use or import and export to share inspiration.
  • Work with new Type options in the Contextual Task Bar in Photoshop on the desktop
  • Work with new Type options in the Contextual Task Bar:
  • You can now adjust text alignment, spacing (leading and kerning), and font style (bolding, italicizing, underlining) directly from the Contextual Task Bar.
  • Fixed issues:
  • Program Error when using Eyedropper to select Shape Fill Color
  • "Edit in Photoshop" with multiple images from lightroom doesn't open as layers
  • Expanded brush preset groups close after restarting Photoshop
  • Unable to disable the Photoshop startup tutorial about generative AI

New in Adobe Photoshop 2024 25.4 (Jan 26, 2024)

  • Other changes and enhancements:
  • Photoshop now supports the native full-screen mode in macOS. To enable or disable this support on macOS: Go to Photoshop Preferences > Workspace and check Enable Native Full Screen.
  • Actions are now able to be installed by dragging the .atn file into Photoshop.
  • Fixed issues:
  • Adjustment Brush: Reset state to Add to Mask on startup or new doc open/creation
  • Adjustment brush layer mask thumbnail shows single dot instead of stroke on larger files
  • Adjustment Brush options bar and task bar are not synced
  • Import/Export presets doesn't import presets
  • Program Error encountered when duplicating layer to different document
  • Recent addition of new XYZ to RGB transform in TRGBColorSpec prevents docs with "input only" color profiles from opening
  • [CoolType]Red Hat Display variable font weight mismatches in some glyphs
  • [VQE] [Exploratory] [EPV] [Windows] [Brushing] Smudge tool Mode field is truncated

New in Adobe Photoshop 2023 25.3.1 (Dec 15, 2023)

  • Fixed issues:
  • Crash reports fixed through Photoshop beta usage
  • Color Profile not embedded in Save as PNG action
  • Gradient interpolation - Smoothness issues on midpoints
  • Curves adjustment layer is laggy and unresponsive in Photoshop 24.4.1
  • Batch saving PNGs no longer keep color profile embedded
  • Spot Healing brush tool mode not displaying properly in tool options bar

New in Adobe Photoshop 2023 25.2 (Nov 29, 2023)

  • Improved Layers panel, flyout menu, and right-click options:
  • Streamline your workflows, enhance precision levels, and turbocharge your creativity with the improved Layers panel, flyout menu, and right-click options.
  • Fixed issues:
  • Crash reports fixed through Photoshop beta usage
  • Updated macOS terminology in system requirements alert dialog
  • CMD/CTRL toggle for Move tool not working with Remove tool
  • Remove tool creates black smudge
  • Images incorrectly displaying with horizontally or vertically distortion
  • The colour triangle is broken and doesn't respond to the pipette colour selection
  • Color picker not selecting value when tabbed to
  • Photoshop Preserve Details 2.0 not working as intended
  • Move tool won't select after scaling image

New in Adobe Photoshop 2023 25.1 (Oct 26, 2023)

  • Fixed issues:
  • Crash reports fixed through Photoshop beta usage
  • Tiling open image windows causes display distortion
  • Difficult to select or edit empty vector mask
  • Transparency is misspelled in the Select and Mask dialog
  • Home and End keys don't function correctly in the Generative Fill prompt on Windows
  • Unable to move Photoshop application window
  • Document window turns gray when switching focus between documents
  • Unable to get information about background layer after last update of Photoshop beta version (previous build works fine)
  • Clicking a document that's not in focus doesn't update the info panel

New in Adobe Photoshop 2023 25.0 (Sep 13, 2023)

  • Generative Fill and Generative Expand available in Photoshop:
  • Experience the power of Generative Fill and Generative Expand, Firefly-powered capabilities, when working with Adobe Photoshop—now available for commercial use and with Content Credentials turned on automatically.
  • New interactions in Remove tool:
  • Use the Remove tool to draw a loop around an area you want to remove instead of brushing over it entirely. This interaction is less prone to error and often takes less time.
  • New additions to the Contextual Task Bar now available in masking workflows:
  • More additions to the Contextual Task Bar are now available in Photoshop to help with your masking and generative AI workflows.
  • Other enhancements and changes:
  • Preset sync in Photoshop 25.0 has been discontinued, and the feature will no longer be functional. Work with improved startup performance in Photoshop by optimizing loading behavior.
  • Fixed issues:
  • Crash reports fixed through Photoshop beta usage
  • Brush Circle not showing for Select > Focus Area or Edit > Sky Replacement
  • UXP Imaging API putLayerMask sets 0 to 255
  • UI Issues in PS Beta (value characters should retain current font size)
  • [Mac Intel] Generator Error in Beta 25.0 'node out of memory'
  • Unable to see brush circle when working with Select and Mask
  • Artboards can no longer be collapsed/expanded in the Layers panel
  • Photoshop doesn't remember settings for Remove tool and Refine Edge
  • Remove tool: Brush cursor becomes an arrow cursor in multi-stroke mode
  • Photoshop won't open some files, but there is no error message
  • Content Aware Fill Crop: Error 54 when selected layer doesn't have enough pixels

New in Adobe Photoshop 2023 24.7 (Jul 26, 2023)

  • Fixed issues:
  • Crash reports fixed through Photoshop beta usage
  • Select and Mask settings are not remembered upon relaunch
  • [Mac] Liquify and other filters lagging in Photoshop desktop
  • Open as Smart Object using PDF scale issue

New in Adobe Photoshop 2023 24.6 (Jun 21, 2023)

  • Improvements in the Layers panel:
  • Work faster and easier with more new tooltips and videos in the Tools and Layers panels. Also, deselect layers intentionally and do non-destructive brush painting.
  • Other enhancements and changes:
  • View all your tools in the toolbar, even those that you'd previously hidden, until you hide them to get a customized view.
  • Fixed issues:
  • Crash reports fixed through Photoshop beta usage
  • Changing shape fill color scales path instead
  • Hue selector in "Hue Cube" only goes to 350 degrees
  • Photoshop hangs when using smart objects

New in Adobe Photoshop 2023 24.5 (May 23, 2023)

  • Add drama to your images with Adjustment Presets:
  • Preview and change the appearance of your images with Adjustment Presets. Continue to refine your adjustments in the Layers panel.
  • Remove distractions with Remove Tool:
  • Retouch and remove unwanted areas in your image using the Remove Tool in Photoshop.
  • Find relevant next steps with the Contextual Task Bar:
  • Find the right tool at the right time on your canvas with the Contextual Task Bar.
  • Improved Gradients:
  • Quickly adjust Gradients in your images with the new on-canvas controls and a live preview that gets created automatically.
  • Fixed issues:
  • Crash reports fixed through Photoshop beta usage
  • Program error when using Actions
  • Program error during Batch Edit
  • Modern Gradients on mask create artifacts when changing image bit depth
  • GPU disabling when opening many files with high-end systems
  • Rulers not showing
  • Hand Tool sticks after next tool selection
  • Font selection and attributes reset to default for each creation of type layer
  • Application frame and panel flickers while painting
  • Application frame missing pixels around the edge with OS scaling on Windows 11
  • Moving adjacent points of a shape has unexpected behavior

New in Adobe Photoshop 2023 24.4.1 (Apr 20, 2023)

  • Fixed issues:
  • Unable to access Windows 11 taskbard when set to autohide
  • Toolbar submenus are offscreen with multiple monitors on Windows
  • HUD color picker not working with Gradient tool
  • KBSC to toggle Brush mode to Clear (erase) doesn't work on International Keyboards
  • Liquify result not applying to canvas
  • Program Error when running an action with a Save command

New in Adobe Photoshop 2023 24.3 (Mar 22, 2023)

  • More Share for Review capabilities:
  • Learn to navigate directly to the Share for review dialog box in Photoshop. Use any of the popularly used formats like JPEG or TIFF without re-saving to a supported format.
  • Fixed issues:
  • Crash reports fixed through Photoshop beta usage
  • Prefs dialog is too wide due to Image Processing strings
  • Liquify Filter stops works after 450-500 uses within a Photoshop session
  • Brush movement guide isn't displayed
  • [Mac] Photoshop Save for Web - save dialog position cut-off screen, position not remembered
  • Moving the Reference Point when Free Transforming a Text Layer causes Scale values to change

New in Adobe Photoshop 2023 24.2.1 (Mar 10, 2023)

  • This release includes general performance improvements to the Photoshop desktop app.

New in Adobe Photoshop 2023 24.2 (Feb 24, 2023)

  • Use a password-protected shareable link for your doc:
  • Use a password-protected shareable link to protect your document while ensuring collaboration.
  • Other enhancements and changes:
  • Get faster and improved app performance with better object detection and object refinement. And, snap your app windows on your Windows machine in the main app.
  • Fixed issues:
  • Crash reports fixed through Photoshop beta usage
  • Crash when stepping forward on history panel MGT events
  • Crash when Undoing a noise slider Color model change
  • [Mac] Smoothing leash not show correctly if document is layered
  • Untagged (PNG) converted to another color space, profile not embedded
  • Photoshop closes automatically after freezing for a few minutes
  • Camera Raw opens when PNG is dropped into a Photoshop layered file
  • When using eyedropper with gradient tool, foreground color and color panel don't update
  • [Mac] Maximized app on large external monitor gets wedged and you can resize it on smaller laptop screen
  • Photoshop gude log created when working with files
  • Pulled string circle doesn't show initially when layer is selected
  • Transform Redraw Error on Scrubby Zoom

New in Adobe Photoshop 2023 24.1.1 (Jan 19, 2023)

  • Fixed issues:
  • Crash reports fixed through Photoshop beta usage
  • .DNG and .ARW files, when opened via RAW in photoshop 24.1 will not save
  • Photoshop 24.0.0 crashes whenever 'Decontaminate Colours' is selected in the Select and Mask window
  • Undo reverts multiple changes
  • Layer selection on right-click not working with Gradient tool
  • Photoshop 24.0 green flickers on Mac 12.x
  • Alt+Click/Opt+Click on mask thumbnail switch to quick mask mode
  • [Window > Materials] The materials panel is not opening
  • Delete and Fill missing from context menu
  • Escape key and Learn More button confirm Smart Object rasterization

New in Adobe Photoshop 2022 24.1 (Dec 14, 2022)

  • Fixed issues:
  • Crash reports fixed through Photoshop beta usage
  • Photoshop not working due to crash issues
  • [Win] Myriad Variable Concept missing some glyphs (Umlautes) on Windows 10
  • [Win] Photoshop process remains running after quitting
  • Redraw problems in fullscreen mode
  • Pen Tilt doesn't work correctly with View > Flip Horizontal
  • Text and Vector Shapes outside artboards don't render correctly
  • Filter Gallery error - "The end of data was reached while reading from a container."
  • Ps 23.5 Cycling Screen Modes causes Standard Screen Mode to be off screen at bottom
  • Canvas flickering while painting in Ps 23.5
  • Photoshop gude log created when working with files
  • Match color 16-bit broken
  • Smart Object Accidental Rasterizing
  • Edit Guide dialog doesn't respect units setting

New in Adobe Photoshop 2022 24.0.1 (Nov 18, 2022)

  • Fixed issues:
  • With this release, we fixed an issue where files that reference removed Pantone color books will now render correctly, rather than applying a gray/black background. For more info, see Pantone color books | Photoshop
  • Update Myriad Variable Concept to v1.025 in font bundle
  • Photoshop crashes when applying a Noise > Median filter on file
  • Photoshop 24.0 crashes when opening images (Move tool)
  • Ctrl+0 (fit to screen) margin around the image has disappeared
  • Save, Save a Copy dialog non-functional on macOS 13 Photoshop 24.0
  • Alternate type glyphs not working
  • Crash on macOS 13 Ventura - Photoshop 24.0
  • Median crashing Photoshop

New in Adobe Photoshop 2022 24.0 (Oct 18, 2022)

  • Selection improvements:
  • Create high-quality cutouts with detailed edges more quickly and easily with new enhancements to selection tools.
  • One-click Delete and Fill:
  • Move an object or remove it from your scene entirely, and fill that area using Content-Aware Fill, all with a single click.
  • Invite to edit:
  • Share and edit Photoshop files with collaborators. Easily organize and manage their feedback across web, desktop, and iPad apps without the need for additional tools.
  • Share for review (Beta):
  • Save time by creating links to your work, managing feedback in one place, and pushing updates when ready. Collaborators don't need to sign up or sign in to comment.
  • Photo Restoration Neural Filter (Beta):
  • Try the new Photo Restoration Neural Filter, powered by AI, to restore your old and damaged family photos.
  • Other changes and enhancements:
  • Boost your creative workflows with updates to Content Credentials (Beta), Substance 3D materials support, improvements to preference settings, and more.
  • Fixed issues:
  • Crash reports fixed through Photoshop beta usage
  • Object Selection is very slow to respond in Photoshop 23.5
  • New Document windows are not reflecting correct dimensions from the clipboard
  • Onboarding messages block use of libraries panel
  • Spot channels visibility is turned on automatically when selecting a layer mask
  • Document dimensions in lower left image tip do not update after performing a crop
  • Save for Web no longer prompts before overwriting existing files in Photoshop 23.3.0 and above
  • Layer Duplicated to Incorrect Artboard in Action or ScriptingListener
  • Photoshop 2023 beta has very high power usage and increased CPU consumption after duplicating layer, which is causing performance issues

New in Adobe Photoshop 2022 23.5.1 (Sep 13, 2022)

  • Fixed issues:
  • Unable to scroll Fonts and Font Style with arrow keys
  • Dialog hidden behind main screen - Photoshop hangs when trying to open a file

New in Adobe Photoshop 2022 23.5 (Aug 18, 2022)

  • Select Subject cloud service:
  • Get finer and better quality image selections with our new Select Subject cloud service and push your creative boundaries.
  • Neutral color mode UI settings:
  • Set neutral colors for user interface elements within the Photoshop application frame (such as the Share button).
  • Preferences search for Windows:
  • Type keywords in the search bar available in the Preferences dialog box and find relevant results on your Windows machine just like on Mac.
  • Other enhancements:
  • Boost your creative workflows with improved Harmonization neural filter and precise previews for 16-bit documents.
  • Fixed issues:
  • Several crash reports fixed through Photoshop beta usage
  • Program error when using Content aware fill on 16-bit images
  • Use of Clone stamp or Healing brush tool causes program error
  • 23.4.x may throw error when using Select and Mask workspace for Actions
  • Photoshop is slow to save larger files and disabling compression doesn't increase save performance
  • Rotating type using free transform also scales the type
  • In 32-bit images, Exposure adjustment layer turns unmasked areas black
  • SVG image data does not copy and paste properly
  • Performance fixes when using Curves while zoomed in
  • Type selection frame is not linked to the type being edited
  • On Windows, image file size doesn't change when overwriting files using Export As
  • Changing Mixer Brush size incorrectly loads foreground color
  • Pressing CMD+0 no longer leaves a workspace margin outside the image window
  • Group created by pasting Illustrator content gets renamed when adding new layers to document
  • Shapes change size when duplicated and moved
  • Performance fixes for toggling layer visibility and zooming with Large documents with many layers
  • When saving documents with no assigned color profile, no longer able to Assign color profile using "Embed Color Profile" option

New in Adobe Photoshop 2022 23.4.2 (Jul 19, 2022)

  • Fixed issues:
  • Guide coordinates issue while holding shift
  • Margin guides don't honor chosen color
  • Issue with Guides not snapping to exact position
  • Windows unexpectedly change size when opening files
  • Photoshop crashes when changing a shape with the Direct Selection tool
  • Info panel Guide position doesn't update in real-time while dragging when View > Snap is disabled
  • Artboard guides for existing documents display incorrect color
  • [Mac] Upscaling image layers creates artifacts on M1 systems

New in Adobe Photoshop 2022 23.4.1 (Jun 17, 2022)

  • Fixed issues:
  • Photoshop 23.4 causes file corruption

New in Adobe Photoshop 2022 23.4 (Jun 15, 2022)

  • Cylindrical Transform Warp:
  • Time to rejoice, packaging designers! With the Cylindrical Transform Warp capability, you can easily curve flat artwork and even wrap a Text layer around your rounded cylindrical surface.
  • Preserve your hair details:
  • Use an improved selection mask obtained by applying the Object Selection tool on human portraits. Also, enjoy enhanced Refine Hair capability to improve results while working on animal images.
  • Enhancements for Guides:
  • Make identification and visual isolation of guides easier with the customizable Layout Guides and Guides in Photoshop. Easily color and edit guides and guide layouts; multi-select and move guides together on canvas at an individual document level.
  • Emoji shorthand support for in-app commenting:
  • The wait is over! Easily access a list of emojis while adding in-app comments for your cloud documents.
  • Other enhancements:
  • Boost your creative workflows with support added for video editing and playback on Apple Silicon M1 machines. Also, use the improved Save As preference and spring-loaded keyboard shortcuts for tools.
  • Fixed issues:
  • Several crash reports fixed through Photoshop beta usage
  • Photoshop crashes when using Replace Color in indexed color mode
  • Photoshop crashes when pasting text with M1 processors
  • Photoshop crashes in OpenCL when resizing images
  • Photoshop crashes when using "TT Norms" font
  • [Win] Photoshop crashes using Object Selection
  • Photoshop document window is empty/blank if the Precise Color Management for HDR Display technology preview is enabled on an SDR display
  • Black, White Gradient Preset and Perceptual Interpolation creates cool/blue cast
  • Photoshop lagging on large documents when using the Clone tool, especially when sampling an area to clone
  • macOS: Export for After Effects(.vpe) in Vanishing point filter results in error, "this operation can't be completed"
  • Spring loaded keyboard shortcuts get stuck and don't return to the previous tool
  • Sky Replacement: Jagged edges when using Fade Edge
  • Mixer Brush incorrectly loads foreground color
  • 'Match Fonts' not showing fonts available to activate from Adobe Fonts
  • macOS: Save button disabled in Save As dialog box
  • Incorrect z-order after using color picker
  • Paint bucket paints with wrong color
  • Gradient fills shift when exporting artboards with shapes and gradient fills
  • Lag while zooming and painting with Native Canvas Rulers enabled
  • Keyboard focus is lost when working with individual channels in Curves
  • ‌‌Using tool preset for the Type tool with Kerning set to optical doesn't get applied to new layers
  • Layers with Drop Shadow content disappears depending on Zoom level and Spread size
  • ‌‌Slow preview performance in Liquify
  • Photoshop freezes when changing Grid via Actions
  • Clicking in Artboard with the Move tool causes the document to pan
  • Artifacts or noise while using Unsharp Mask filter
  • Keyboard shortcut for hiding/showing guides doesn't work in Photoshop (German version)

New in Adobe Photoshop 2022 23.3.2 (May 10, 2022)

  • Fixed issues:
  • Photoshop document window is empty/blank if the Precise Color Management for HDR Display technology preview is enabled on an SDR display
  • Background layer shows incorrect layer locking status
  • Using backspace when typing notes in the Notes panel prompts a 'delete this note?' dialog or deletes the active layer.
  • Shortcuts to work between masks do not work as expected

New in Adobe Photoshop 2022 23.3.1 (Apr 21, 2022)

  • Fixed issues:
  • Comp Core GPU Compositing creates white documents
  • Crash Reporter: Crash when opening file 2 (23.3, Intel drivers)

New in Adobe Photoshop 2022 23.3 (Apr 12, 2022)

  • Copy-paste Live Text from Ai:
  • The wait is over! Easily copy and paste Type layers from Illustrator into Photoshop as editable Type layers to maintain both functional and visual fidelity.
  • Edge enhancement in your skies:
  • Enjoy better foreground and background blending and improved masking for thin-line objects in your sky composites. Also, control lighting around object edges.
  • Other enhancements:
  • Boost your creative workflows with improvements to cloud documents, saving files, and performance enhancements related to compositing in Photoshop.
  • Fixed issues:
  • UXP blocks save functions, related to Save to Cloud interstitials
  • Duplicating linked layers does not keep hidden layer status
  • Previously saved files with adjustment layers open with strange colors - MachinePrefs.psp the cause
  • Debug assert on opening a file - on going to Edit > Image Size, you can no longer close the Image Size dialog
  • Placed Linked PNG file doesn't behave correctly with transform and crashes
  • Redo doesn't get the user back to the end point when editing curves adjustment layer
  • When saving a .tif or .jpg as .png, the ICC Profile box gets unchecked
  • Photoshop opens image in a very small window when using an external monitor
  • "Fit on Screen" (Cmd+0) does not work properly when using arranged windows (tiles)
  • Shortcuts to navigate between masks don't work as expected
  • Crash Reporter: Crash in DirectML.dll
  • Silverfast Ai 8.8 plugin gives this message - Could not complete your request because of a program error - in PS
  • Regression > Incorrect Slicing placement and instability
  • Could not complete request because of program error with Silverfast plug-in installed
  • Export As - Scale All adds sequential numbers to the file name
  • Turning off Preserve Edit-ability for PDF flattens layers in subsequent Save As
  • Ps crashes on opening .psd file with version 23.2.0
  • Ps crashes on adjusting a shapes border radius
  • Copying pixels from the file gives JSON error when creating a new document
  • [Win] Slice Select tool overlay drawing problem - issue with slices that appeared to be resolved by flipping the Deactivate Native Canvas option
  • [Mac] Getting vertical lines when using Smart Sharpen and when "Use Graphic Processor" is turned on
  • [Mac] Smart Sharpen preview shifts and doubles a few rows of pixels
  • [Mac] Unable to open/update placed Ai smart object in Photoshop on Mac OS 12.3
  • Vanishing point control points disappear on deleting/undoing added planes
  • Move Tool + Ctrl key + Smart Guides = Slow and laggy
  • Printing: Cannot access print settings using Photoshop Manages Color and Epson color profiles
  • [Win] Crash in ML/stack corruption

New in Adobe Photoshop 2022 23.2.2 (Mar 15, 2022)

  • Fixed issues:
  • Export As dialog doesn't work if Export As Prefs.txt file is corrupted or blank
  • Photoshop crashes when renaming a layer from the Discover panel [Rename layer]
  • [Mac] Photoshop 23.2 crashes on startup
  • Every brush stroke causes a spinning wheel with the “Enable Content Credentials (Beta)” turned on

New in Adobe Photoshop 2022 23.2.1 (Feb 24, 2022)

  • Fixed issues:
  • Photoshop 23.2 freezes on macOS while changing layer styles/opacity on a PSB file

New in Adobe Photoshop 2022 23.2 (Feb 15, 2022)

  • Full support for WebP:
  • The wait is over! Now open, create, edit, and save WebP files in Photoshop without the help of a plug-in or preference settings.
  • Other enhancements:
  • Boost your creative workflows with the improved OilPaint filter across platforms, and easily spot the Share button in Photoshop.
  • Fixed issues:
  • [Win] Liquify Tool Crashes with Assertion Failed! error
  • [Win] The Divide Slice dialog causes incorrect slicing placement and instability
  • [Win] [KBSC] Brush tip preview on canvas doesn't update while long press bracket keys
  • [Mac] [Using AppleScript] Make new path item command is not working after Photoshop 22.5 update
  • [Mac] Photoshop hangs when switching between selection tools (Select Subject and Quick Subject tools) using Shift W
  • Unable to see active selection when running an action in Photoshop 23.0
  • Marching ants for Select All is not visible for floating document windows
  • Hue slider modifications do not reflect in the bottom-most Hue ramp
  • Layer Effects/Styles not exported with Export As in Photoshop 23.0
  • Export As causes significant color values changes when converting 16-bit to 8-bit Prophoto
  • Export As does not maximize image size values
  • Export As does not generate assets that do not have a preview
  • Ability to preserve the state of the Include ICC profile checkbox for PNG Save As
  • Program Error when attempting to use the Object Selection Tool
  • Program error while trying to save
  • Photoshop crashes while modifying selection on a mask when using Pattern Preview
  • Photoshop 23.1.0 keeps crashing on using Cintiq 22HDT's pen
  • Raw files, when opened from Lightroom Photos in the Photoshop home screen, won't open as a smart object
  • Issues with Zoom and Pan performance in Photoshop when using mouse/stylus
  • Bevel and Emboss effect in Photoshop corrupts Shape Layers with a Feather Effect
  • Slow Curves adjustment layer with Photoshop 23.x
  • Grid behavior changed in Photoshop 23.1
  • ICC Profile Name not correctly handled during color conversions from CIELAB
  • Error in Image Processor after running Crop and Straighten
  • Esc key doesn't cancel a drawn crop in Classic Mode
  • Cursor too light/difficult to see in File Info dialog (UI set to light)
  • Photoshop window flickers when using color picker tool with full screen and ruler on

New in Adobe Photoshop 23.1.1 (Jan 20, 2022)

  • Fixed issues:
  • Layer effects composite incorrectly
  • Program error causes failure in rasterizing layer effects
  • [Win] Brush size animation lags when using keyboard shortcuts

New in Adobe Photoshop 23.1 (Dec 14, 2021)

  • Fixed issues:
  • Rulers display wrong units when set to Percent
  • Esc doesn't dismiss crop in Classic mode
  • Mouse moves by itself when Liquify is opened
  • Crash when Libraries primary representation is null
  • Soft proofing applied and can't be turned off
  • Grid causes performance slowdown
  • (Win) Crash on using Content-Aware Fill
  • (Win) Cursor gets stuck on the Transform handle
  • (Win) Arrow keys change channel selection instead of nudging point
  • (Win) Copy and paste keyboard shortcuts not working for layers
  • Unable to load tiled TIF images generated in other programs
  • (Mac) Crash Reporter: Crash on open in libtbb.dylib
  • (Mac) Clicking and typing in the file name field in Save dialogs on Monterey result in mangled file names
  • Error while creating PDF presentation with Photoshop 23.0
  • Text on a circle comes out wonky when saved to PDF
  • Error Fail to call postmessage as webview is not initialized yet
  • Poor quality gradients in PNG-8 (new Export API)
  • Spring-loaded tool feature has broken experience
  • Severe lag adjusting curves with certain tools selected

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2021 23.0.2 (Nov 23, 2021)

  • Fixed issues:
  • Crash on launch Photoshop v 23.0/23.0.1
  • Crash when trying to open images on the latest Intel CPU

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2021 23.0.1 (Nov 14, 2021)

  • Fixed issues:
  • Gradient layers created in 22.x or earlier appear different in 23.0 due to default behavior changing to Perceptual instead of Classic
  • Proof Colors and rendering intent preview does not work (HDR display works)
  • Crash when trying to select with Windows Pen on Surface Studio
  • (Win only) The cursor gets stuck on the Transform handle
  • The Nearest Neighbor image size resample method exports Bicubic results causing blurry image export
  • Tiff Files open in 22.5.1 and earlier but don't in Photoshop 23.0
  • (Win only) Delay while zooming in or out with a scroll wheel in Photoshop 23.0
  • Export As incorrectly displays error on exports of layers with '#' character
  • Crash while using the Object Selection tool
  • Error when trying to use Neural Filter

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2021 23.0 (Oct 26, 2021)

  • Automatic selections on hover:
  • Automatically select a portion of your image as you hover over it and click. Saves time while making complex edits and delivers faster results.
  • Share for commenting:
  • Quickly share your designs with your fellow collaborators for viewing and receiving feedback right within Photoshop without having to leave the app.​
  • Improved interop with Illustrator:
  • It’s easier than ever to move between Illustrator and Photoshop! Easily import vector content with color, stroke, and properties as well as import layer structure and vector masks.
  • New and improved Neural Filters:
  • Explore a range of creative ideas with the new Neural Filters (Beta) — Landscape Mixer, Color Transfer, and Harmonization, powered by Adobe Sensei.
  • Other changes and enhancements:
  • Boost your creative workflows with improved Gradients, improved Export As workflows, and others.
  • Fixed issues:
  • Photoshop crashes when using the Smart Sharpen filter
  • Photoshop crashes when using Select and Mask
  • Photoshop crashes when using Polygonal Lasso
  • Photoshop crashes while starting up
  • Unknown error using Save for web
  • (Win only) Arrow keys change channel selection instead of nudging point when using Curves adjustments
  • Transforming a selection for your background layer via the Properties panel results in an endless loop of dialogs
  • (Win only) Brush cursor flips to mouse pointer when painting on a layer with a mask enabled
  • Photoshop 2021 shipping with an end of support version of NodeJS
  • Guides not snapping at some zoom levels and causing fuzziness
  • Rounding of corners not proportionate when using Export As to scale
  • (Win only) Error opening and editing embedded smart objects in a cloud document
  • Document window resizes when a file is opened in Photoshop
  • Unable to select two strings right-to-left if numbers are involved
  • (Win only) Panning mid-selection results in unwanted selection additions

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2021 22.5.1 (Sep 14, 2021)

  • Fixed issues:
  • Photoshop crashes while running Sky Replacement
  • Unable to play Actions while performing Add to selection with the Magic Wand tool
  • Photoshop crashes when you try to save a linked smart object
  • Unable to invoke the 'Rasterize EPS format' dialog when opening an eps file in Photoshop
  • Photoshop displays artifacts behind the canvas in the workspace
  • Photoshop deletes masks and layers when using the backspace key
  • (Win only) Error opening smart object in a cloud document

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2021 22.5 (Aug 17, 2021)

  • Pick your perfect sky with 'Get More Skies':
  • With the improved Sky Replacement feature, choose from additional high-quality sky presets available on the Adobe Discover website and download them for free. Import your own images in bulk.
  • New Transform Warp options:
  • Apply more control to Bezier handles when using Transform Warp. Choose guideline options for more accurate warp transforms. Easily apply transformations inside a split warp grid.
  • Improved in-app Discover:
  • Learn more about the new Photoshop features that are now browseable through the What's New section in the Discover panel. Simplify your editing with more Quick Actions.
  • Other changes and enhancements:
  • Learn more about other important Photoshop updates — Photoshop Beta program, use legacy "Export As" option, improved Neural Filters, and more resolved customer-reported issues.
  • Fixed issues:
  • Loading an action pack crashes Photoshop.
  • Unexpected warp with the Transform tool.
  • Inconsistent display of multi-channel images with huge color shifts.
  • Text shifts position when you update the Text layer.
  • Custom RGB values in color settings aren't behaving correctly.
  • Save for Web (Legacy) removes the extension if you don't type it while saving.
  • Vector paths appear pixelated.
  • Photoshop 22.0.1 does not support rvrn/rclt conditional substitutions in variable fonts.
  • Clipping Japanese pathname does not save correctly when using the Japanese user interface of Photoshop.

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2021 22.4.3 (Jul 20, 2021)

  • With the July 2021 release of Photoshop 22.4.3, we updated the way Photoshop detects certain AMD cards, allowing for more AMD cards to be recognized and used by Photoshop.
  • Fixed issues:
  • Unable to access various filter options using Remote Desktop Protocol with Photoshop 2021.

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2021 22.4.2 (Jun 13, 2021)

  • Fixed issues:
  • Save As actions improperly treated as Save a Copy actions with Insert Menu Item.
  • Preset Sync crashes when checking for the Creative Cloud Library process.
  • Unable to adjust the Warp tool.
  • Custom Shape coordinates are incorrect with the Path Selection tool.
  • Select and Mask does not preview in some preview modes.
  • (Win) Panning while the Navigator panel in view results in severe stuttering.
  • (Mac) Navigator doesn't update while painting.
  • Files lost after deleting a custom sky preset in Sky Replacement.
  • (Win) UXP & CEP panel thumbnails are empty (Libraries, Color Themes, etc).
  • (Win) A crash occurs when using the Eyedropper tool to draw on an image without the sky after clicking the sky preset thumbnail button.
  • Zooming ignores the "zoom clicked point to center" preference setting.

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2021 22.4.1 (May 19, 2021)

  • Crash when dragging between windows
  • Brush cursor disappears after dragging from Libraries panel using a Wacom stylus
  • Zooming ignores the "zoom clicked point to center" preference setting
  • Scrubby Zoom Jumping when Overscroll is off
  • Performance issue selecting different Layer Comps
  • Crash opening HEIC files
  • Program error dragging asset from Libraries to Artboard
  • Crash during File > Close All

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2021 22.4 (May 14, 2021)

  • Save a Copy:
  • Need to save a copy of your work with a different name or file format? Use File > Save a Copy option and save a version in the format of your choice.
  • Improved Neural Filters:
  • Neural Filters got even better! Easily use Colorize to effortlessly bring life to gray images, or Depth Blur to realistically blur backgrounds in a snap.
  • Fixed issues:
  • Perspective warp broken in Photoshop 22.3.1
  • Pen tool not working properly in Photoshop 22.3
  • Photoshop erroneously shows Postscript error on launch
  • Preset Sync causes memory issues syncing SVG based assets
  • Histogram behaves differently on low resolution monitors
  • Keyboard shortcut not working for Fit in Window operation
  • When opening video files, 'Media Server is not available' error gets displayed
  • Page order reversed when using PDF Presentation to export files
  • Photoshop lags when using any filter or image adjustment operation
  • Photoshop crashes when applying Lens Flare or Shear filters
  • Missing file extension in Image processor
  • Issue with Liquify filter with GPU enabled (macOS only)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2021 22.3.1 (Apr 14, 2021)

  • Fixed issues:
  • Auto-Select Targeted Adjustment tool keeps moving even after mouse release
  • Photoshop lags when dragging Guides between the ruler and the destination
  • Marquee tool slows down when selection goes out of canvas (macOS only)
  • Unable to complete Save For Web operation
  • Transform/Warp action on background layer leads to program error

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2021 22.3 (Mar 10, 2021)

  • With the March 2021 release, Photoshop runs natively on Apple Silicon devices, bringing speedier selections, filters, and performance boosts. For now, some features including Invite to edit and Synced presets, are available under emulation mode only.
  • Fixed issues:
  • Pixel mode and Weight are missing from Line tool
  • Slow performance while animating with embedded smart objects
  • Several save-related issues when saving a copy in macOS
  • Intersection line not displaying in Curves panel
  • Shake Reduction is slow on some systems
  • Unable to import multiple sky presets
  • Disk error when importing sky presets
  • Paths are not copied when using Actions
  • Crash when using Lens Blur

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2021 22.2 (Feb 9, 2021)

  • Invite others to edit:
  • Collaborate seamlessly by inviting others to edit your cloud documents. Easily find the cloud documents you have been invited to under the Shared with you tab on the home screen.
  • Sync your presets :
  • Automatically sync your favorite presets such as brushes, swatches, gradients, patterns, styles, and shapes across desktop devices where you work with Photoshop.
  • Fixed issues:
  • Clipped and hidden adjustment layers do not export correctly with Export As
  • Clicking on a filename in the Save As dialog incorrectly replaces the file extension
  • Images display as black when switching tabs
  • Plugins are unable to interact with Apple Events
  • Layer badges don't display correctly in Layers panel
  • Some shape presets don't work correctly
  • Crash while rendering a video with Liquify applied
  • Canvas crashes after using Adaptive Wide Angle
  • Unable to pan documents using the Spacebar key with Wacom tablets

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2021 22.1.1 (Jan 12, 2021)

  • Fixed issues:
  • Program errors saving and while using different tools and commands
  • Stroke appears in properties panel after file saved and opened without stroke
  • Crash when opening files with type layers or using type features
  • Drawing mode not available in Advanced settings for GPU in Photoshop 22.1 preferences
  • Boxes/blocky artifacts on images when flattening or exporting
  • Unexpected stroke on text when converting to a shape
  • Shift key doesn't disable 3rd party plug-ins
  • Stroke appears in properties panel after file saved and opened without stroke
  • Crash when opening files with type layers or using type features
  • Artifacts/incorrect appearance after flattening
  • Brush preview overly for hardness/opacity is not working
  • Unknown error using Export As
  • Eyedropper sampling ring missing

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2020 22.1.0 (Dec 8, 2020)

  • Support for new cameras, lenses, and bug fixes.
  • Ability to cancel cloud document download.
  • Fixed issues:
  • Inside Stroke not displaying for Shape Layers
  • Assertion Failed! error when using Liquify
  • Freeze with Save for Web when replacing existing file on macOS BigSur
  • Pressing the delete key deletes only the Layer Mask
  • Sliders don't move with rulers shown on macOS
  • Freeze when adding some images for Sky Replacement
  • "An unknown error occurred" when using Export As
  • Unable to delete image scale suffix from filenames when using Export As
  • Crash when using Neural Filters
  • Save for Web - Unknown Operating Error with # in the file name (macOS)
  • XMP Presets aren't in alphabetical order on macOS

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2020 22.0.1 (Nov 17, 2020)

  • Fixed issues:
  • Sky preset files lost when a sky replacement action is replayed right after launch
  • Unable to download Neural Filters under a SDL license
  • While using the Lasso tool, spacebar to pan does not work with Stylus
  • Stroke appears in Properties panel after file saved without stroke
  • Shift-dragging Live Shape points moves entire path, not just selected points
  • Crash opening and editing files with CoolTyple fonts
  • Text selecting/editing UI not displaying in CMYK, LAB modes
  • Crashing when running Neural Filters
  • Freeze when applying Neural Filters to Grayscale Images without ICC Profile
  • Neural Filters error “There was an issue running filters”
  • Selecting multiple images for sky presets only loads one - Changed to only allow you to select one. We're looking at adding the ability to load more than one at a time.
  • Can't edit shape anchor points in some scenarios
  • Program Error creating or opening documents; exiting the app - Note: Program errors can still occur with unsupported graphics cards.
  • Histogram artifacts converting color profile

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2020 22.0.0 (Oct 19, 2020)

  • Neural Filters:
  • Explore a range of creative ideas with new re-imagined filters powered by Adobe Sensei. Colorize your old black and white photos, alter facial expressions, or drastically edit your portraits.
  • Sky Replacement:
  • Quickly select and replace the sky in a photo, automatically adjusting your scenery colors to match the new sky. Get the mood you want in your photos even if the shooting conditions weren’t perfect.
  • Learn more directly in the app:
  • With the brand new in-app Discover panel, you can search and discover new Photoshop tools, hands-on tutorials, articles, and quick actions to help you level-up and take on new challenges in Photoshop.
  • Enhanced cloud documents:
  • Access previously saved versions of cloud documents directly within Photoshop. It's now easier than ever to preview, mark, and revert to earlier versions of your creative documents.
  • Pattern Preview:
  • Envision how your design will come to life as a pattern. You can now quickly visualize and create seamlessly repeating patterns in real-time with Pattern Preview.
  • Fixed issues:
  • Rotated pattern settings can damage a file
  • Issue with image quality scaling patterns
  • Performance issues with Grid showing
  • Keyboard shortcuts don't work correctly in the Save Optimized As dialog for Save for Web
  • Crash running Image Processor
  • Crash using Blend If on a layer group
  • P doesn't toggle preview for Curves
  • Crash using Refine Edge
  • Modifying a smart objects bounds gives unexpected results
  • Open dialog stuck in front when switching to finder or another app (macOS)
  • Keyboard shortcuts for zoom jumps to center with floating docs and overscroll enabled
  • Cloning with dual brush gives unexpected results
  • Grey Point Tool error "Could not use the gray point tool because the settings in the file are invalid" is any channel's curve is inverted
  • Artboard contents disappear when tabbing to another app and back
  • Full pressure blob while painting when returning focus to Photoshop
  • Blend mode doesn't work with Clipping Group and nested layers
  • Brush tool on group (passthrough or isolated) mask creates artifacts
  • Eye Dropper tool switches focus to sampled doc with floating windows (Windows)
  • Tool Tips not showing in Camera Raw dialogs with macOS Dark Mode
  • Artboards get messed up when dragging multiple artboards
  • Switching between documents in Full Screen Mode displays black areas (macOS)
  • Hue/Saturation not updating real-time
  • Layer thumbnails draw incorrectly when UI scaling is set to odd percentage on Windows (e.g. 125%)
  • Unable to copy/paste vector mask path to another clipping path
  • Dragging layer styles on canvas stops working after dragging once
  • Full screen mode canvas gets stuck top left of app frame toggling between docs
  • Crop handles are too large
  • Make saving files larger than 2GB to PSB format more discoverable
  • Export As does not scale artboard correctly
  • Cloning lag with rulers shown
  • Generator offsets and crops images randomly when resizing to a pixel dimension
  • Wrong size with Export As/Quick Export
  • Video layers are not getting selected when clicking them in Timeline panel
  • English unit “mm” doesn't work in dimension input box for CHS locale
  • New Document dialog background color not sticky/predictable
  • Black areas toggling between docs in full screen
  • Crash on launch in certain cases

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2020 21.2.3 (Sep 9, 2020)

  • Fixed issues:
  • Resizing proportionally while holding down the Shift key, disables snapping to smart guides even when the View > Snap To > Guides option is active

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2020 21.2.2 (Aug 18, 2020)

  • Unable to drag a duplicate layer from one document to another
  • Advance Blending mode causes crash
  • Unable to apply lock functionality by double-clicking modifier keys (Shift, Ctrl, Alt) in the Modifier Keys panel.

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2020 21.2.1 (Jul 21, 2020)

  • Grid lines become too thick when zooming out while the Show Grid option is enabled
  • Layer leaves a duplicate when moving to adjust position on the canvas
  • Modifying a smart object leads to unexpected size of the object on saving
  • Brush spots created at the beginning of a stroke when using Wacom
  • Resolution doesn't show in the quick information pop-up in the image window
  • Some Hebrew fonts do not work after update to the latest version of Photoshop
  • Interface lags and becomes unresponsive when working with layers and layer groups (Windows 10)
  • Crop action doesn't snap to the edges of the active layer
  • Recording Duplicate Image action plays back incorrectly
  • Photoshop crashes on unchecking layer effect
  • Photoshop crashes or freezes when working with Select Subject/Quick Select/Refine Edge
  • Photoshop slows down or freezes in long sessions (macOS Catalina)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2020 21.2 (Jun 16, 2020)

  • Better, faster portrait selection:
  • A completely new code of Select Subject, just for portraits. Create precise selections of people with just one click.
  • Adobe Camera Raw improvements:
  • The updated Adobe Camera Raw workspace puts your tools right where you need them so you can edit more easily and efficiently.
  • Auto-activate Adobe Fonts:
  • Photoshop now automatically finds and adds all available Adobe Fonts to your libraries when you open a Photoshop document.
  • Add rotatable patterns:
  • Easily change the orientation and add a rotation to any pattern in Pattern Overlays and Pattern Fill layers.
  • Improved Match Font:
  • Experience better accuracy with improved Match Font that supports vertical text, multiple-line detection, and more fonts.
  • Fixed issues:
  • Converting a 16-bit file to 8-bit results in corruption
  • Pen Pressure doesn't work when recording an action
  • Photoshop freezes when using adjustments with rulers enabled
  • Document canvas displays black areas with GPU enabled
  • Error when switching tools with Content-Aware Crop active
  • Unknown error when saving files with special characters in the file name or file path
  • Crash when copying/pasting adjustment layers from RGB to CMYK document
  • Inconsistent Default and Reset setting behavior in filters
  • Photoshop doesn't remember Crop To setting when placing multiple PDFs
  • Snapping issue when moving layer groups and smart object layers
  • Crash Report form says 'invalid email address' if the address contains special characters
  • Paste in Place doesn't work correctly when copy and pasting Frames
  • Eyedropper tool switches window focus (Windows 10)
  • Double-click using the Wacom pen button doesn't work

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2020 21.1.3 (May 19, 2020)

  • Fixed issues:
  • Brush panel keeps resetting to default
  • Adobe Save for Web Error: Could not complete this operation. An unknown error has occurred (macOS Catalina)
  • Brush projection doesn't change cursor shape
  • Jitter in brush strokes with Wacom

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2020 21.1.2 (Apr 14, 2020)

  • Fixed issues:
  • Tilt doesn't work with Wacom tablet and certain brush tips
  • Legacy Swatches get rendered incorrectly
  • Transforming text doesn't live preview changes
  • Buttons on Layers panel get stuck in down state

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2020 21.1.1 (Mar 18, 2020)

  • Security fixes.
  • Crash using Shadow/Highlights adjustment with Histogram panel showing. (macOS)
  • Right-clicking on the Paths and Channels panel doesn't show the context menu. (Windows)
  • Lighting Effects doesn't work and renders black when Show Transform Controls is enabled.
  • Zoom keyboard shortcuts no longer work to resize a floating document window.
  • Moving the layer opacity slider doesn't update the canvas until the mouse button is released. (Windows)
  • Select & Mask workspace shortcuts don't work when custom keyboard shortcuts are loaded.
  • Problem playing an action that saves over an existing file. (Windows)
  • Alt-click/Option-click to set transform axis point doesn't work correctly.
  • Cloning from a small document to a larger document doesn't work correctly.
  • Can't open tiff files from ACDSee or Faststone.
  • Helvetica Regular doesn't appear in the fonts list. (macOS Catalina)
  • Crash when using the Type tool.
  • Selecting key frames for a duplicated layer selects keyframes for the previous layer in Timeline.
  • Unable to copy/paste a vector mask path to another clipping path.
  • Problem using Color Picker for Solid Color Fill from an action.
  • Clicking on a mask doesn't update it's properties in the Properties panel. (macOS)
  • Crash at launch. (macOS Catalina)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2020 21.1.0 (Feb 20, 2020)

  • Incorrect stroke appearance with Bristle Tip brush preset
  • Image unexpectedly shifts when using Paste In Place
  • Crash when applying Color Lookup adjustment layer
  • Group Vector mask renders incorrectly
  • Crash in CoolType when opening file with type layers
  • Sample All Layers not remembered in Select and Mask dialog
  • Smart Sharpen Radius 0.1 not working with OpenCL enabled
  • The state of folders in Presets panels is not remembered between sessions
  • Crop Tool moves guides unexpectedly when trying to crop to guides
  • Can't insert menu item for "Fit Layer(s) on Screen" in action
  • Keyboard shortcuts to play actions that use the Shift Key don't work with Home Screen active
  • Batch removes part of name after second to the last period in a name
  • Save as PNG incorrectly removes certain metadata
  • Selection shortcut incorrectly zooms-in to layer bounds
  • Warp Grid Options aren't sticky
  • Smart Objects in Frames get out of sync
  • Smart Sharpen edit fields go blank when choosing legacy
  • Tool Presets incorrectly reset on relaunch
  • PSB preview broken for Mac Spotlight and Quick Look plugins
  • Crop tool has no side handles in Classic Mode
  • Program error when working in Timeline
  • Using the keyboard shortcut to zoom doesn't do smooth animation
  • macOS menus/dialogs from Photoshop now support Dark Mode
  • Listener events clogged with idMRUFileListChanged events
  • Lighting Effects broken when on canvas "Transform Controls" are invoked
  • Preferences > Performance > Advanced Settings... incorrectly includes an option to "Use Updated GPU Canvas" - which states that Manta needs to be turned on under technology previews
  • Clone stamp source crosshair doesn't show on white background
  • Panels can't be resized to fit new screen resolution
  • SDK - PSD File Format documentation updated
  • Active selection on canvas disables Auto Select Layer
  • Editing a corner radius for current layer is applied to newly selected layer
  • Single path points aren't displayed properly with 'Use GPU' turned on

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 21.0.3 (Jan 22, 2020)

  • Enabled the Hardened Runtime capability to support Apple's notarization requirements for macOS apps.

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 21.0.2 (Dec 10, 2019)

  • Fixed lag with many slices visible
  • Fixed issue that prevented using Save for Web if a background save was in progress (Note: Save for Web is still disabled if a GIF background save is in progress)
  • Fixed crash with overlays
  • Fixed Program Error when running Open commands run via Insert Menu Item
  • Fixed compositing issue with drop shadow/layer effects
  • Fixed issue with Blend If not recording correctly in actions
  • Fixed redraw issue with Vanishing Point
  • Fixed issue where zooming doesn't zoom to the correct area if canvas is rotated
  • Fixed crash when opening password protected protected PDF
  • Fixed issue issue where user permissions are altered/changed unexpectedly after saving a file
  • Security fix.
  • Fixed Program Error when editing adjustment layer in an action
  • Fixed issue with Measure Tool protractor feature
  • Fixed issue where Import from iPhone or iPad does not work correctly
  • Fixed issue where tags field was unexpectedly pre-populated (macOS)
  • Fixed issue where crop tool overlays don't rotate correctly
  • Fixed issue where Advanecd Blending options aren't rendering correctly
  • Fixed issue where strokes/layer effects aren't rendering correctly
  • Tightened hit area for Zoom to Layer Contents so groups aren't also expanded
  • Fixed issue where a folder named "Photoshop" is created when saving file to a network drive
  • Fixed issue where temp files fill the scratch disk when working with large documents
  • Fixed issue where clicking on a Smart Object with a tool no longer offered to rasterize

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 21.0.1 (Nov 12, 2019)

  • Fixed freeze that would occur when accessing a second dialog from within a dialog on macOS
  • Fixed program error while trying to apply perspective warp
  • Fixed error dragging presets to document canvas
  • Fixed for several customer reported crashing issues
  • Fixed performance issues and freezing issue if Home or New Document dialog is left open too long

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 21.0 (Nov 5, 2019)

  • New:
  • Cloud documents:
  • With Photoshop now on the iPad, use cloud documents to work seamelessly across Mac, Windows, and your iPad. Your documents are saved to Adobe's cloud as you work.
  • Improvements to presets:
  • Explore new swatches, gradients, patterns, shapes, and styles effortlessly. Presets are now more intuitive to use and easier to organize.
  • New Object Selection tool:
  • Use the new Object Selection tool to better automate complex selections. Simply define a region and Photoshop does the rest.
  • Consistent transform behavior:
  • Proportionally transform multiple layers, regardless of the layer type, without using the Shift key.
  • Improved properties panel:
  • Find even more of the controls you need in one central location. Easily change document settings, access all type layer settings, and conveniently use Quick Actions.
  • Smart Object to layers:
  • Easily convert your Smart Objects back into component layers to fine-tune your designs—all in one place, without having to switch between document windows.
  • Enhanced Transform Warp:
  • Get more control with the Warp tool. Add control points anywhere or divide your image with a customizable grid to transform by individual nodes, or a larger selection.
  • Other enhancements:
  • Check out all the new enhancements to Photoshop and learn how you can simplify and accelerate your workflow.
  • Fixed:
  • Number keys not working with tutorials
  • Banding with Merge to HDR
  • 3D crash if a material value is moved
  • Various reported crashes
  • 3D render with Fuse character causes crash
  • Crash while rendering 3D
  • Crash with Finder Tags (macOS only)
  • Unable to "Export As"with selection active
  • Print Preview shifts on second print when printing large image than paper
  • Changing layer style stroke opacity renders differently from prior versions
  • Crash in OpenGL
  • Image Processor starts automatically
  • Various crashes saving or editing using perspective warp or select and mask
  • Blend modes are not displayed on the entire image
  • Changing transform units using context menu inconsistent
  • ScriptUI: click event triggered on active element when app receives focus (Windows Only)
  • Gradients with alpha transparency behaving inconsistently
  • Crash using Shake Reduction
  • Enter key should confirm "Export as" dialog
  • Translation error (German) in Timeline panel
  • Action to record and playback preference for Background Transparency doesn't work
  • Labels don't print correctly
  • Error editing text unit edit field on persian OS language
  • Colors change and start pixelating when painting
  • Select Subject edges pixelated
  • Shift-resizing a corner handle disables "Smart Guides" snapping
  • "Color" blending works incorrectly with semitransparent layer
  • Generator crash when document is opened and imediately closed
  • I-beam cursor and text selection are not visible when typing in CMYK, Lab, Grayscale documents
  • Crop or transform is accidentally committed while rotating
  • Failure to import some valid scanned TIFFs created by Image Capture (macOS)
  • Surface Pro 4: Crash when using Refine Edge brush in Selection and Mask
  • BMP file not displayed correctly
  • Can't create guides while transforming a layer
  • Single path points aren't displayed properly with 'Use Graphics Processor' turned on
  • Export As preview is blurry at certain zoom levels
  • Export As has browser right-click and drag and drop behavior
  • Can't select text under File > File Info > Photoshop panel
  • Copying and pasting layers and groups moves them to another artboard
  • Hiding 3D lights causes crash
  • Crash when using Timeline panel to animate a mask
  • Memory error using Spot Healing Brush
  • App is unresponsive after several days open
  • Export As cannot scale image below 10%
  • Incorrect translation for Height in French Export As dialog
  • Render Video JPEG Matte not working
  • Group with layer mask does not render properly in Illustrator or InDesign
  • Window does not have focus after opening until click on Photoshop - shortcuts don't work
  • Cannot navigate multiline text in File Info dialog
  • Pressing arrows in text entry field in "Export As" dialog while holding down shift adjusts in 5s rather than 10s.
  • Aspect ratio remains fixed even when Maintain Aspect Ratio is unticked

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 20.0.7 (Oct 23, 2019)

  • Notarized application for macOS 10.15 (Catalina)
  • Fixed issue where changing the file format does not change the extension of the file in Save As dialog macOS 10.15 (Catalina)
  • Fixed issue with droplets not working on macOS 10.15 (Catalina)
  • Fixed issue with crashing while using the Apple Color Picker on macOS 10.15 (Catalina)
  • Fixed issue where saving presets didn't work or gave a "Program Error" on macOS 10.15 (Catalina)
  • Fixed issue where Export Layer to Files, Layer Comps to Files, and Layer Comps to PDF did not work on macOS 10.15 (Catalina)

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 20.0.6 (Aug 14, 2019)

  • Security fix.

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 20.0.5 (Jun 19, 2019)

  • Added preference to use legacy free transform

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 20.0.4 (Mar 12, 2019)

  • Photoshop crashes when trying to use Perspective Warp
  • Select and Mask workspace freezes while making a selection or painting on an image while zoomed in
  • Program error when pasting over a selection in the Timeline panel
  • When working on a layer with the mask disabled, using Undo enables the mask
  • Photoshop crashing frequently

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 20.0.3 (Feb 20, 2019)

  • Strange color shift in photos when filter adjustment layers are packaged into a Smart Object
  • Undoing painting in a mask selects the art layer
  • (Windows-only) Dragging multiple files onto a droplet not working
  • Photoshop crashes when trying to use Perspective Warp
  • When working on a document in 16-bit mode, the new layer fill option 'Fill with Soft-Light-neutral color (50% gray)' results in an incorrect RGB value
  • Program error when pasting over a selection in the Timeline panel
  • Slow performance and lag in Photoshop
  • Cannot apply feather radius values greater than 250 px via scripting
  • Cannot save keyboard shortcut for a custom measurement scale
  • Photoshop crashing frequently
  • Cannot resize an image within the vanishing point mesh area

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 20.0.2 (Jan 28, 2019)

  • The raw metadata for some Photoshop files has excessive number of entries of 'photoshop:DocumentAncestors'
  • Dragging certain corner handles transforms the image non-proportionally when the reference point for the transformation is changed
  • (macOS 10.14) Photoshop displays busy cursor while painting
  • (macOS 10.14 and 10.13) Photoshop crashes frequently on macOS
  • (Windows 10) Slow performance and lag with the Polygonal Lasso Tool
  • Unable to export Artboards to PSD
  • (Windows) When opening an image from Lightroom Classic for editing in Photoshop (Edit In > Adobe Photoshop CC 2019), the menus and commands in Photoshop CC are disabled
  • In the Free Transform mode, dragging the corner handle of a selection with the Ctrl/Cmd key pressed moves it horizontally or vertically only
  • (Windows 10) Photoshop freezing during sleep
  • Type layer appears clipped or truncated at the edges
  • Clipped layer disappears when the when the adjustment layer is altered
  • Export As does not save the exported file in the same location as the source image
  • Masks not applying to Smart Filters
  • Drop Shadow is partially sliced off when zooming out to less than 50%
  • The Export As dialog does not remember the last used export settings
  • Layer turns black when moved after applying Lighting Effects
  • The object does not update to show changes from moving the sliders in Filter > Create 3D Normal Map
  • Ctrl/Cmd-clicking Create A New Group in the Layers panel creates a new parent folder above the selected folder/layer
  • Rendering problem with the Move Tool when in a masked group layer
  • Can't adjust the Lens Blur setting by dragging the cursor over the image
  • (Windows) Automatically Create New Snapshot When Saving in History Options is not working
  • Deleting a value in the Duotone Curve options gives incorrect results
  • Applying a stroke in the Layer styles and setting it to any Blending mode with the Overprint setting ticked displays glitches around the stroke area

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2018 20.0.1 (Jan 28, 2019)

  • In the Content-Aware Fill workspace, the sampling area is not fully drawn with some images
  • Healing brush and clone stamp tools lagging
  • Layer blend modes produce artifacts or incorrect color
  • Render video image sequence only renders the first image
  • (Windows 10) Color Blend Mode causes a crash
  • Duplicated layers get repositioned on the canvas
  • Clicking the View Previous State icon in the Adjustments panel or pressing key doesn't show the previous state
  • (Windows 10) System Info reports incorrect CPU speed
  • Photoshop crashes when using the filter Lighting Effects
  • Copying layers (and groups) moves them to another Artboard
  • (macOS Mojave 10.14) Photoshop crashes during launch
  • Intermittent problems using the brush tool painting on a mask
  • GIF opens with incorrect number of layers/frames
  • Lighting Effects does not work on Smart Objects

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2018 20.0 (Oct 16, 2018)

  • Frame Tool for easy masking:
  • Easily mask images by placing them into frames Use the Frame Tool (K) to quickly create rectangular or elliptical placeholder frames You can also convert any shape or text into frames and fill it with images
  • To place an image into a frame, simply drag-and-drop an Adobe Stock asset or a libraries asset from the Libraries panel or from your local disk — the image automatically scales to fit the frame Content placed in frames is always placed as Smart Objects so that it can be scaled non-destructively
  • Content-Aware Fill reimagined:
  • Powered by Adobe Sensei
  • A new, dedicated Content-Aware Fill workspace provides you an interactive editing experience to achieve seamless fill results. You can now choose which source pixels to use and rotate, scale, and mirror the source pixels thanks to Adobe Sensei technology. You also get a live full-resolution preview of the changes and an option to save the result to a new layer.
  • New multiple undo mode:
  • You can now use Control + Z (Win) / Command + Z (Mac) to undo multiple steps in your Photoshop document, just like in other Creative Cloud apps. The new multiple undo mode is enabled by default.
  • Usability improvements:
  • Reference Point hidden by default:
  • While transforming items, you can now easily move items on the canvas. The reference point that appeared while transforming items is now hidden by default. You can select the Toggle Reference Point check box in the Options bar if you want the reference point to appear.
  • Double-click to edit text:
  • You can now double-click a Type layer with the Move tool to quickly begin editing the text in your document. You do not need to switch tools anymore to edit text.
  • Auto-commit:
  • Efficiently crop, transform, and place or enter text with auto-commit. You no longer need to press Enter (Win) / Return (macOS) or click the Commit button in the Options bar to commit your changes.
  • Transform proportionally by default:
  • Photoshop now transforms all layer types (such as pixel layers, type layers, shape layers, bitmaps, Placed Smart Objects) proportionally by default.
  • When transforming a layer, you no longer need to hold down the Shift key while dragging a corner handle to resize a selected layer to constrain its proportions. Anytime you drag a corner handle during transform and move it, the layer resizes proportionally. Holding down the Shift key now resizes non-proportionally when you drag a corner handle during transform.
  • Prevent accidental panel moves with Lock Workspace:
  • Use the new Lock Workspace option to prevent accidentally moving workspace panels, particularly when you’re using Photoshop on a tablet/stylus. To access this option, choose Window > Workspace > Lock Workspace.
  • Live blend mode preview:
  • You can now scroll over different blend mode options to see how they look on your image. Photoshop displays a live preview of blend modes on the canvas when you scroll over different blend mode options in the Layers panel and the Layer Style dialog.
  • Symmetry mode:
  • Paint your brush strokes in a perfectly symmetrical pattern. While using the Paint Brush, Mixer Brush, Pencil, or Eraser tools, click the butterfly icon () in the Options bar. Choose from the several available types of symmetry - Vertical, Horizontal, Dual Axis, Diagonal, Wavy, Circle, Spiral, Parallel Lines, Radial, Mandala. As you paint, the strokes are reflected live across the line of symmetry, allowing you to easily create intricate symmetrical patterns.
  • Color Wheel to choose colors:
  • Use the Color Wheel to visualize the color spectrum and easily choose colors based on harmonies such as complementary colors and analogous colors. From the Color panel fly-out menu, choose Color Wheel.
  • Home screen:
  • Get started quickly with the Photoshop Home screen. Access it at any time to find out about new features, connect to learning content, and jump right to your open documents. Click the new Home icon in the Options bar to access the Home screen at any point.
  • Improved in-app learning:
  • After completing an in-app tutorial (Learn panel), you can now use your own images to get the looks you want in less time.
  • Top customer-requested features:
  • You can now distribute the spacing between the objects. Photoshop can already distribute objects by evenly spacing their center points. If your objects are different sizes, you now get an even spacing between them.
  • Math in number fields:
  • You can also perform simple math in any input box that accepts numeric values. For example, you can now type in simple math operations like 200/2, which gets calculated as 100 and inputs that final value into the field. This is very useful when trying to quickly get to a multiple of a value, or divide something up.
  • Ability to see long layer names:
  • For long layer names, Photoshop now retains the beginning and end of the layer name and puts an ellipses (...) in the middle of the name. Previously, the layer name used to get cut off at the end with ellipses (...).
  • Match Font now support Japanese fonts:
  • You can now search Japanese fonts with Match Font. Using Adobe Sensei, Match Font allows you to detect text included in the selected area of an image and match it to licensed fonts on your computer or on Adobe Fonts, suggesting similar fonts.
  • Preference to increase UI size:
  • Get more control when scaling the Photoshop UI, and adjust it independent of your other apps to get the font size just right. In the Interface preferences (Edit >Preferences > Interface), a new setting Scale UI To Font has been introduced. When you select this new setting, the entire Photoshop UI scales based on the UI Font Size drop-down value you've chosen - Tiny, Small, Medium, or Large.
  • Support for South East Asian scripts:
  • Photoshop now includes the support for five new South East Asian languages, so your documents can include text in these scripts: Thai, Burmese, Lao, Sinhalese, and Khmer.
  • Other enhancements:
  • Flip document view
  • Quickly flip your canvas horizontally. Choose View > Flip Horizontal.
  • Lorem Ipsum placeholder text
  • Get 'Lorem Ipsum' as placeholder text while placing new type layers in your document. In Type preferences (Edit > Preferences > Type), select Fill New Type Layers With Placeholder Text.
  • Customize keyboard shortcuts for Select and Mask
  • You can now modfy the shortcut keys for Select and Mask workspace. Choose Edit > Keyboards Shortcuts. In the Keyboard Shortcuts And Menus dialog, choose Taskspaces from the Shortcuts For menu. In the Taskspace command column, expand the Select and Mask set to edit the shortcuts as required.

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2018 19.1.6 (Aug 22, 2018)

  • Security fix for a memory corruption issue when opening .tga and .pct files. See the article at https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/photoshop/apsb18-28.html for more information.

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2018 19.1.5 (Aug 22, 2018)

  • Invalid numeric entry - An integer between 96 and 8 is required. Closest value inserted. Could not complete your request because there is not enough memory (RAM). See this article for more information.
  • Crash when editing - Clone stamp, copying/pasting a layer mask, painting

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2018 19.1.4 (Aug 22, 2018)

  • Error 'Could not complete your request because the file-format module cannot parse the file' when opening image files
  • Relative checkbox state in the Canvas Size dialog no longer saved across sessions
  • Eyedropper tool can't sample colors from outside the Photoshop app on Windows computer with NVIDIA drivers

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2018 19.1.3 (Aug 22, 2018)

  • Images are zoomed in unexpectedly when opened
  • Right-click/contextual menus don't work correctly in Full Screen Mode
  • Crash when creating a pin on non-contiguous puppet warp mesh
  • Export to SVG gets stuck in processing loop
  • Copy SVG from text layer results in error

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2018 19.1.2 (Aug 22, 2018)

  • The Print dialog box settings revert to default on launch.
  • PNG images open with distortion.
  • Unlinked layer mask does not resize with image.
  • Wrong selection with a hidden layer in clipping mask.
  • Smallest swatch size fills large space on screen.
  • Mac stylus interaction with panels gets stuck in down state.
  • Legacy smoothing re-enables on launch when disabled.

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2018 19.1.1 (Aug 22, 2018)

  • Crash while using the Artboard tool after Width or Height is changed to 100%.
  • Issues while using the Pen tool with Photoshop CC version 19.1
  • (macOS-only) Hidden panel not rendering properly when the user hovers to reveal them
  • Crash while running distortion filters against large-sized 16-bit RGB images
  • On certain hardware configurations, the canvas draws at the wrong size in floating document frames.
  • Crash while changing the Other cursor to Precise when the Magnetic Lasso tool is selected
  • TIFF files are written with unaligned tag data.
  • Issue while using the Properties panel: The default tracking value is 1 and negative values don't work.
  • (Windows-only) Lens Flare preview repeats at 175% and 225%.
  • Vanishing Point pixel data distorted while hovering over with brush tools
  • Issue while finding the path specified for the CanoScan 9000F Mark II scanner
  • (Windows-only) Old font name flashing in the Font Name field of the Character panel when arrowing through the fonts

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2018 19.1 (Jan 25, 2018)

  • Select Subject:
  • Select Subject lets you select the most prominent subject in an image in a single click. Powered by advanced machine learning technology, Select Subject is trained to identify a variety of objects in an image—people, animals, vehicles, toys, and more.

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2018 19.0 (Oct 19, 2017)

  • Better brush organization:
  • Organize and save your brushes in the order you want. Drag and drop to reorder, create folders and sub-folders, scale the brush stroke preview, toggle new view modes, and save brush presets with opacity, flow, blend mode, and color.
  • Brush performance improvements:
  • Don't be slowed down by lagging brushes. New, faster reaction time is especially noticeable when working on large documents with large brushes.
  • Access Lightroom Photos:
  • Get your photos from Lightroom Cloud Services right inside Photoshop via Search or the Start Screen. With deeper integration between all the Creative Cloud photography desktop and mobile apps, all your photos are synced and accessible everywhere.
  • Brush stroke smoothing:
  • Get a more polished look faster with a new smoothing algorithm. Vary the amount of smoothing for cleaner lines, even when using a mouse. Available in the Tool Options bar, along with Flow and Opacity.
  • Exclusive brushes from Kyle T. Webster:
  • Access over 1,000 digital brushes from award-winning illustrator Kyle T. Webster, now available exclusively inside Photoshop.
  • Variable fonts:
  • With new font technology from Adobe, Apple, Google, and Microsoft, you can define variations within each supported font for weight, height, slant, and more.
  • Quick Share menu:
  • Share a flattened copy of your work via email, text, social networks, and more. This feature uses native OS sharing mechanisms, including already authenticated services.
  • Curvature Pen tool:
  • Create paths more quickly, intuitively, and precisely. Push and pull segments directly instead of having to modify Bezier handles, similar to the Curvature tool in Illustrator. Simply double-click to switch between point types.
  • Path improvements:
  • Improve the look and feel of your paths. Choose the color and line thickness to make them easier to see.
  • Copy and paste layers:
  • Copy and paste multiple layers in groups, keeping the same order and location instead of having to drag them to reorder. Copy layers onto your clipboard and paste them at the desired specific spot in your panel, within and between documents in Photoshop.
  • Enhanced tooltips:
  • Learn about the different tools in Photoshop without leaving the app. With enhanced tooltips, dynamic information surfaces when you hover over a tool.
  • 360 panorama workflow:
  • Edit and export 360 panoramas. Photoshop will maintain important metadata to work with third-party viewers. You can also pan and zoom around your image inside a spherical workspace for a realistic preview experience.
  • Properties panel improvements:
  • Keep better track of details for Adobe Stock assets by viewing title and license state. View an image and find similar images on the Adobe Stock site. Edit type properties with multiple layers selected, change the leading, and more.
  • Support for Microsoft Dial:
  • Native support for Microsoft Dial gives you quick access to important controls without having to use your mouse. Control brush parameters including size, hardness, opacity, flow, and smoothing.
  • Paste as plain text:
  • Now you can paste text without the styling. No need to spend the time reformatting text after pasting.
  • Support for HEIF:
  • Photoshop now supports High Efficiency Image File (HEIF) format, promoted by Apple in macOS 10.13 and iOS 11.0. With depth information provided by the iPhone 7 Plus and future devices, you can create a depth-of-field effect using the Lens Blur filter.
  • Select and Mask improvements:
  • Get more accurate and realistic results with algorithm and performance improvements, especially in cases where the foreground and background color are similar. Other usability and performance improvements include faster Quick Mask and more intuitive view mode settings.
  • And so much more:
  • Also includes: Performance and stability improvements, ability to save large files faster, better face detection for Face-Aware Liquify, better Content-Aware Crop and Content-Aware Fill on edges, and more.

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2017.1.1 18.1.1 (May 3, 2017)

  • Issues fixed:
  • Scratch Disk size error
  • Nik Dfine 2 freezes on macOS Sierra
  • Error: Can't save changes to the Adobe Photoshop document before quitting
  • The last-used grouped tool is forgotten after using the Move tool (V)
  • AppleScript: Open options error while launching Photoshop
  • Patches for some vulnerabilities and various other bug fixes

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2017.1 18.1 (Apr 6, 2017)

  • Fixed customer issues:
  • Program error when converting to bitmap using pattern dither with a selection
  • Performance issues with TrueType and OpenType fonts
  • Blank menu entry in the context menu for 3D type
  • 3D show or hide polygons issue with Reveal All
  • Touch bar sliders are too big
  • Can't write file when you have group ACL for the file on macOS
  • Layer groups with changed blend modes corrupt files

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2017.0.1 18.0.1 (Dec 13, 2016)

  • Touch Bar Support for MacBook Pro:
  • Get instant access to your favorite tools on the new MacBook Pro. Choose Photoshop commands, change blend modes and colors, and even access commands with just a touch.

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 (Nov 2, 2016)

  • In-app search:
  • Quickly search Photoshop tools, panels, menus, Adobe Stock assets, help content, and tutorials from within the app using a new search panel that’s right at your fingertips.
  • Tighter integration with Adobe XD:
  • Now you can copy SVG elements to your clipboard to easily paste Photoshop design assets into Adobe XD.
  • Get started faster:
  • Jumpstart design projects with easy access to presets as well as free Adobe Stock templates that you can access right from File > New.
  • Stock templates, 3D objects, and search:
  • Adobe Stock marketplace now includes design templates and 3D objects, plus you can drag and drop Stock search results from your Library panel right into your canvas and start using them right away. Right-click on a stock image to do a visual search for similar images.
  • Enhanced Properties panel:
  • The Properties panel now displays information about common layer types as well as the document, so it’s easier to make precise adjustments.
  • Support for SVG color fonts:
  • Access any SVG font installed on your system from the Photoshop Font menu. Great for responsive design, SVG fonts support multiple colors and gradients, and they can be raster or vector.
  • New Creative Cloud Libraries capabilities:
  • Libraries in Photoshop now support Adobe Stock templates. Plus, Send Link has been updated so you can share read-only access to a public library. When you follow a library, it appears in your Library panel and updates automatically.
  • Creative Cloud Assets improvements:
  • Archive and restore all your assets stored in Creative Cloud, including the ones in your Creative Cloud Libraries, assets created with CC desktop products, and mobile projects.
  • Introducing Typekit Marketplace:
  • Now you can buy fonts from some of the industry's biggest names and use them in your Photoshop projects. Typekit uses its font sync and web technologies to deliver your Marketplace fonts anywhere you need them.
  • Better overall performance:
  • Photoshop now works more efficiently thanks to performance improvements, including a faster Liquify tool.
  • And so much more:
  • Also includes: The ability to adjust the eyes independently in Face-Aware Liquify, an improved user experience for Match Font, and more.

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2015.5.1 (Aug 9, 2016)

  • RESOLVED ISSUES:
  • Fixed customer submitted crashing issues
  • Subtool reverts to primary tool after using keyboard shortcut
  • Unable to Export individual layers that are nested in Artboard > Group
  • “Rasterize EPS Format” dialogue box doesn’t remember Mode setting
  • Embed color profile result reflects whatever it was set last time
  • Print color is off when using App Manage Color (Mac only)
  • Error: “Could not apply the workspace because the file was not found” when opening a file
  • Text accidentally commits when try to transform Paragraph text using bounding box transform handles:
  • Cursor doesn’t correctly change to Commit cursor to differentiate from Rotate and Move cursor
  • Several fixes and improvements for Select and Mask:
  • Select and Mask: Command not available on non-pixel layer masks
  • Select and Mask: Refine Edge Brush Tool creating artifacts along the brush stroke in mask
  • Select and Mask: Redraw corruption (RGB 16bit/32 bit) with Show Original in certain zoom levels (preview mode “black and white”)
  • Select and Mask: Using the Refine edge brush on one area of a pre-existing selection may cause certain hard edges in another area to change a few pixel values, especially when the image is in very high resolution
  • Select and Mask: Using brush tool with feather 8 or more and zoom level 50 or lower get redraw issue
  • Select and Mask: With a selection, the output defaults to selection, even if the previous output setting was a mask
  • Select and Mask: Inverting a selection outputs the original selection
  • Select and Mask: Crash when double-clicking adjustment mask
  • Select and Mask: Program error when image is multi-channel

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2015.5.0 (Jun 21, 2016)

  • Face-Aware Liquify:
  • New in this release of Photoshop CC
  • The Liquify filter now features advanced face-aware functionality that automatically identifies eyes, noses, mouths, and other facial features, making it easy for you to adjust them. Face-Aware Liquify is great for retouching portrait photos, creating caricatures, and doing much more.
  • You can use Face-Aware Liquify as a smart filter for non-destructive editing. Select Filter > Liquify and then choose the Face () tool in the Liquify dialog.
  • Select and Mask workspace:
  • New in this release of Photoshop CC
  • Creating accurate selections and masks in Photoshop is now quicker and easier than ever before. A dedicated new workspace now helps you make precise selections and masks. Use tools like Refine Edge Brush to cleanly separate foreground and background elements and do much more.
  • To invoke the workspace, click Select And Mask in the Options bar when a selection tool is enabled. Alternatively, press Ctrl+Alt+R (Windows) or Cmd+Option+R (Mac).
  • Note: The Select and Mask workspace replaces the Refine Edge dialog in earlier versions of Photoshop, offering the same functionality in a streamlined way.
  • Match Font:
  • New in this release of Photoshop CC
  • Take the guesswork out of identifying certain fonts and let Photoshop CC do the hard work for you. Thanks to the magic of intelligent imaging analysis, using just a picture of a Latin font, Photoshop CC can use machine learning to detect which font it is and match it to licensed fonts on your computer or on Typekit, suggesting similar fonts.
  • Simply select the area of the image containing the text whose font you want to analyze. Now, select Type > Match Font.
  • Note: Match Font, font classification, and font similarity features currently work only for Roman/Latin characters.
  • Content-Aware Crop:
  • Enhanced in this release of Photoshop CC
  • Photoshop CC now uses content-aware technology to intelligently fill in the gaps when you use the Crop tool for rotating or straightening an image, or expanding your canvas beyond the image's original size.
  • While using the Crop () tool, select Content-Aware in the Options bar.
  • Improvements to Adobe Stock integration:
  • Enhanced in this release of Photoshop CC
  • You can now open assets in Photoshop directly from the Adobe Stock website. Also, licensing watermarked previews while working in Photostop is now easier than ever before. License previews from the Layers panel, the Properties panel, or from the canvas; simply right-click the stock asset and then select License Image.
  • Finding the right stock asset for your project is now also a breeze. Use the new filtered search on the Adobe Stock website and within your libraries. Licensed Adobe Stock assets are badged for easy identification; video assets now have linked previews.
  • For more information, see:
  • Using Adobe Stock
  • Photoshop and Adobe Stock.
  • Embed color profiles into exported assets:
  • Enhanced in this release of Photoshop CC
  • Embed color profiles into PNG or JPG files using the Export As dialog. Select File > Export > Export As or right-click a layer in the Layers panel and then select Export As.
  • On-canvas glyph alternatives:
  • New in this release of Photoshop CC
  • When you select a glyph in a Type layer, Photoshop now displays the available glyph alternatives right on the canvas. Clicking the icon in the alternatives grid opens the Glyphs panel.
  • If necessary, you can turn off this behavior. To do so, deselect Preferences > Type > Enable Type Layer Glyph Alternates.
  • 3D printing:
  • Enhanced in this release of Photoshop CC
  • You can now print 3D models as 3D Manufacturing Format (3MF) files. While specifying the 3D Print Settings, select Print To: Local and Printer: 3MF File.
  • Ability to read Product Representation Compact (PRC) format data embedded in PDF files
  • Support for new online 3D printing services
  • For more information, see Print 3D objects.
  • More improvements to artboards:
  • Enhanced in this release of Photoshop CC
  • You can now duplicate a layer or layer group into other artboards, quickly change artboard backgrounds, and view artboards with transparent backgrounds.
  • If you've specified an artboard background, you can now also include it while exporting the artboard as PDF or supported image formats. While exporting the artboard as PDF, you can also include the artboard name and set custom font size, font color, canvas extension color, etc.
  • Faster everyday tasks:
  • Enhanced in this release of Photoshop CC
  • Photoshop CC now opens documents faster and delivers great responsiveness. Content-Aware Fill is now up to 3X faster with even better results. The Font menu loads up the list of fonts up to 4X faster.
  • Enhancements to Creative Cloud Libraries:
  • Enhanced in this release of Photoshop CC
  • You can now share libraries with anyone who has a Creative Cloud account. While adding collaborators to a library, choose what level of permissions you want to give them. For example, you can allow others on your team to use shared assets in their designs but not modify those assets.
  • For more information, see these resources:
  • Creative Cloud Libraries
  • Collaborate on Creative Cloud Libraries and folders
  • Work with Adobe Experience Design CC (Preview):
  • Copy and paste your Photoshop CC assets directly into Adobe XD, the new all-in-one tool for designing and prototyping user experiences for websites and mobile apps.
  • Adobe Portfolio:
  • Use Adobe Portfolio to quickly and easily create a beautiful portfolio site to show off your Photoshop images. And now when you use Portfolio, you can create custom landing and contact pages to better connect with viewers.
  • Other enhancements:
  • Up to 65% improvement in the Photoshop app download speed
  • Option to revert to the legacy Photoshop CC 2014 behavior for the Healing Brush tool. Select Preferences > Tools > Use Legacy Healing Algorithm For Healing Brush.
  • For easier navigation, variants of a font—such as Bold and Italics—are now grouped under the same item in font lists. You can expand the item and select the desired variant. While navigating the fonts, you can even expand more than one item in the list.
  • Fonts are now grouped by font family. The Show Similar Fonts option now also displays fonts from Typekit.
  • Improved performance while exporting artboards to PDF; ability to include artboard names and artboard backgrounds
  • 3D imaging: Improvements to UV repacking algorithms
  • The document layer count is now displayed in the status box and the Info palette.
  • Help > System Info now shows the full file path for optional and disabled plug-ins.
  • Info panel option to always show composite (all layers) values
  • Reduced chances of metadata loss due to external metadata editing
  • Improved compatibility with some third-party Mac OS tools for resizing the application frame
  • The Oil Paint filter now works on lower-end graphics cards (GPUs)
  • Support for graphics card (GPU)-accelerated features over remote desktop connections
  • The Spot Channel dialog now includes names of colors selected from the Swatches palette.
  • Overall improvements to all content-aware features:
  • Better preservation of image details
  • Reduced blurs and smudges
  • Improved color adaptation handling for Content-Aware Fill
  • Up to 3X speed improvements for large images
  • 3D printing enhancements:
  • You can now print 3D models as 3D Manufacturing Format (3MF) files. While specifying the 3D Print Settings, select Print To: Local and Printer: 3MF File.
  • Support for new Stratasys online and local printer profiles
  • Ability to read Product Representation Compact (PRC) format data embedded in PDF files
  • Updated OpenEXR file format support includes newer variants of the format
  • Small color swatch size available again in the Swatches palette
  • Divide Slices command limits increased; performance improved
  • Improved brush performance
  • General Text layer optimizations
  • Improved detection of problematic graphics card drivers and crash prevention
  • Name or color value is now displayed in the tooltip for recently-used colors in the Swatches palette.
  • Ability to add keyboard shortcuts to toggle the brush pressure controls size and opacity
  • Ability to add keyboard shortcuts to toggle Airbrush mode
  • What's changed:
  • For better user experience, the following gestures are now performed using three fingers instead of two fingers:
  • The Color Adaptation setting is now enabled by default in the Fill dialog (Edit > Fill). Also, the color adaptation feature has been optimized for better results in this release.
  • 3D, 3D Printing, and some other features in Photoshop are no longer supported on 32-bit platforms. See Features unsupported on 32-bit platforms.
  • The Photoshop-Behance integration has been removed in this version. When you select File > Share On Behance, you are taken to https://www.behance.net, where you can click Add Work to post your creative work.
  • The Select and Mask workspace replaces the Refine Edge dialog in earlier versions of Photoshop, offering the same functionality in a streamlined way.

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2015.1.2 (Jan 22, 2016)

  • This update addresses a number of issues discovered after the previous Adobe Photoshop CC update was released.

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2015.1.1 (Jan 4, 2016)

  • Addresses a number of issues discovered after Adobe Photoshop CC (2015.1.0) software was released.

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2015.1 (Dec 1, 2015)

  • New Creative Cloud Libraries capabilities:
  • Find content faster by searching across your libraries and across Adobe Stock. Drag and drop assets to and from the Layers panel, add your favorite brushes and share your library with others. And get content into libraries faster with a new bulk import dialog box.
  • Design Space (Preview) enhancements:
  • This dedicated mode further streamlines and optimizes design workflows with a unified sampling experience, efficient masking, robust app and cross-document search and integrated layer and batch export. Design Space (Preview) offers access to Creative Cloud Libraries as well as seamless movement to and from standard Photoshop CC.
  • Do more with artboards:
  • Use artboard guides and grids to precisely place elements, sort layers by artboard for easier visualization and quickly add new artboards to documents. Use artboard preferences to customize the look and feel of your documents.
  • Modern user experience on desktop and touch devices:
  • The updated UI delivers a clean and consistent look throughout Photoshop, and you can quickly perform common tasks using a new set of gestures on touch-enabled devices like Microsoft Surface Pro.
  • Customizable toolbar and workspaces:
  • Make Photoshop yours by customizing your toolbar and saving multiple toolbar configurations as parts of different workspaces. Included workspaces have been streamlined to give you quick access to only the tools you need.
  • Bring 3D characters into your 2D designs
  • Create beautiful compositions that feature 3D models and easily adjust camera angles and lighting. Start with a model created in Adobe Fuse CC (Preview), and then apply poses and animations from the Creative Cloud 3D Animation (Preview) area within the Properties panel. Composite characters into any Photoshop project from a layout to a video, or print them with a 3D printer. (Available in English only.)
  • Find fonts faster:
  • Quickly find the font you need by starring individual fonts as favorites. Narrow down your search by filtering fonts by classification, like serif or sans serif, or by similarity.
  • Export faster with more control:
  • The exporting experience introduced in June now delivers faster performance and better compression for all file formats, especially JPEG; the ability to export the same assets at multiple sizes; support for sRGB export; and options to embed metadata such as copyright into your files during export.
  • More creative options with SVG import:
  • Open and place native SVG files — which can rescale for any size device or any resolution — in your Photoshop designs. Just double-click the object to edit it in Adobe Illustrator.
  • Quickly find the right glyph:
  • The Glyph panel now lets you see and insert your most recently used glyphs and sort glyphs for faster browsing.
  • More control with Adobe Camera Raw 9 enhancements:
  • Remove or add atmospheric haze in specific areas of your photos using the Local Adjustment Brush, Radial Filter and Graduated Filter. Plus, use the new Bird’s Eye View feature to navigate zoomed-in images, and get support for more cameras and lenses.
  • And so much more:
  • Also includes: The ability to see and edit type layer position in the Properties panel; reintroduction of the Oil Paint filter; the ability to resize the Export dialog; Device Preview connectivity improvements; a preset value of 16pt in the Font Size dropdown menu; and more.

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2015.0.1 (Aug 4, 2015)

  • Crash when Be3D printer profile is present in presets (win only)
  • Crash on launch “VulcanControl dylib” (mac only)
  • Unable to read key state in JavaScript
  • BlackMagicDesign ATEM Switcher plugin crashes in Photoshop CC 2015 when documents have more than one layer
  • Crashes when extension uses script UI
  • Crash in specific cases when Open window is invoked (mac only)
  • Crash on zoom (win only)
  • Fixed drawing for borders of white artboards drawn on a white background
  • Fixed drawing of borders while dragging and aligning artboards
  • Fixed artboard matte color extending inside artboard 1 pixel
  • Fixed typo in Artboards to PDF dialog
  • Duplicate Layer command puts new layers at top of artboard stack, not above source layer like it should
  • Properly disable the artboard canvas color context menu when it does not work with the current GPU and color mode settings
  • Crash on launch due to “librarylookupfile” (win only)
  • English text copied from Acrobat to Photoshop is in Chinese
  • Application hang while opening certain JPEG2000 files
  • Canvas/document area draws partially or completely black in a Retina/standard display config after disconnect/reconnect 2nd display
  • Crash when closing an image (win only)
  • Artifacts using Healing Brush tool on transparent layer with “Current & Below” enabled with soft brush
  • Healing brush failing on individual channel
  • Some customers prefer the texture and color rendition of the old healing brush algorithm compared to the new real-time algorithm
  • Welcome… menu item was unintentionally removed if user selects “Do Not Show…” checkbox, closes and re-launches
  • Filter Gallery gives error on Mac OS X 10.10.3 and 10.11 in Chinese Languages
  • Create Layer (from effect) reverses layer z-order
  • Fixed issue where customers in the UK, Canada and Mexico may not be able to purchase images form Adobe Stock if they accessed Stock through Photoshop’s Search on Adobe Stock menu
  • Move too set to Auto Select not releasing layers selected during drag
  • Layers panel incorrectly scrolling when adding or deleting layers
  • Crash when adding a spot color channel after adding an asset from the Libraries panel
  • Crash PlugPlug crash in [HtmlEngineMonitor closeWindow]
  • Crash copy and pasting a shape (esp the Line tool)
  • Direct Selection & Path Selection Tool +/- shortcuts not working correctly
  • Crash on Scroll while using Pen Tool (win only)
  • Performance problems zooming and panning while rulers are showing
  • Selection disappearing at different zoom levels (win only)
  • Selection redraw issue when dragging (win only)
  • Converting a video layer, generated by image sequence import, to Smart Object crashes
  • Fixed issue where Welcome dialog would be empty in some cases

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 (Jun 16, 2015)

  • Edit once, update everywhere with Linked Assets:
  • Assets in Creative Cloud Libraries can now be linked so that when a change is made to an asset, you and your team members have the option of updating it across any Photoshop, Illustrator or InDesign projects where it’s used.
  • Artboards for efficient design:
  • Ideal for responsive and multi-screen design, artboards let you create multiple layouts in different sizes, lay them out within a single document and see them all at once. Copy and share content between artboards, and export them individually or several at a time.
  • Find the perfect image or graphic, fast:
  • The new Adobe Stock marketplace lets you find, license and manage royalty-free images and videos from right within Photoshop CC. Select from 40 million assets, save your selection to your Creative Cloud Libraries and then drag it into your project to use.
  • Streamlined and optimized experience for designers:
  • A sleek new Photoshop CC experience that’s currently in development, Design Space (Preview) offers a designated mode with new interactions and design-focused features that reduce clicks, mouse movements and clutter for designers working on mobile apps and websites.
  • Faster, easier image export:
  • A redesigned exporting experience lets you export a single layer, artboard or entire document with one click. Plus, get better compression, advanced preview options that include canvas size and enhanced asset extraction. It’s a modernized Save for Web experience.
  • Add more layer styles to get the look you want:
  • Easily add up to 10 instances of select layer styles — including drop shadow, gradient overlay, color overlay, inner shadow and stroke — to a layer or layer group, and re-edit any style at any time. No more rasterizing effects or stacking in different layer groups.
  • Be sure your Photoshop designs look good on iOS devices:
  • Get precise, in-context, real-time previews of your mobile app and responsive web designs on actual iOS devices. Adobe Preview CC is a native iOS companion app that lets you seamlessly connect your devices to Photoshop over USB or Wi-Fi to view your designs as you work on them.
  • Get more realistic blurs with additive noise:
  • Add monochromatic or color noise to your Blur Gallery effects to better match your original image — and to reduce banding when viewing and printing.
  • Heal and patch images faster than ever:
  • The Healing Brush, Spot Healing Brush and Patch tools have been turbocharged with Mercury Graphics Engine enhancements. See your Healing Brush results in real time, and get Spot Healing Brush and Patch Tool results that are up to 120X faster than they were in CS6.
  • Glyph panel for better access to glyphs in all your designs:
  • Designed much like the Glyph panels in Illustrator CC and InDesign CC, the new Photoshop CC Glyph panel allows you to browse all the available glyphs in a font, view alternatives for currently selected glyphs and access commonly used glyphs.
  • Move and extend objects with more control:
  • Adjust the scale and rotation of the object you’re moving or the area you’re extending thanks to Content-Aware Move and Content-Aware Extend improvements. Precisely position your final object to match the scale and position of your image using Transform on Drop.
  • Better panoramas with Content-Aware Fill:
  • Check one box to have Content-Aware Fill automatically fill in the edges of your stitched panoramas.
  • Adobe Camera Raw 9.1 enhancements:
  • Remove or add atmospheric haze to your photos, and get more precise control over white and black levels when making local adjustments.
  • Better viewing experience on Windows HiDPI displays:
  • Photoshop CC for Windows now supports HiDPI screens, so you get more pixels and sharper image displays. Previously released as a technology preview, HiDPI support now turns on automatically when the app detects a HiDPI screen.
  • Simplify complex 3D models:
  • Easily reduce the resolution of 3D models to boost Photoshop performance and to extend the reach of your high-quality 3D content to tablets, smartphones and other devices.
  • Automatically generate bump maps from images:
  • Automatically generate more accurate bump/normal maps from textures in photographs. Also, easily control the height and depth of the emboss/deboss generated from the bump/normal maps you add to the surface of 3D models.
  • Easily print your 3D content:
  • Produce print-ready 3D PDF and SVX files, and submit print jobs to 3D Hubs from directly within Photoshop CC for quick and easy access to local 3D printing service providers.
  • And so much more:
  • Also includes: Improved behavior when moving layers; up to 80% reduction in energy usage when idling; updated pricing for 3D printing service providers; and more.

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2014.2.2 (Dec 17, 2014)

  • Collaborate on libraries:
  • You can now share libraries with collaborators from within Photoshop. Collaborators must have an Adobe ID. If they don't already have an Adobe ID, they can create one when they accept the invitation to collaborate.
  • Collaborators receive an email invitation. Existing Creative Cloud members also receive a notification via the Creative Cloud desktop app and website.
  • Improved Extract Assets dialog:
  • Assets are now clipped to document bounds by default. Photoshop Generator has also been updated to use this behavior by default.
  • When you group layers in the Layer panel, the group is now listed correctly in the Extract Assets dialog. This improvement comes handy when you want to create assets from composite layers.
  • Smart objects are now rendered with higher fidelity when an SVG asset is extracted for 2x or 3x versions.
  • Transformed shapes and text retain their transformations when they're exported as SVG assets.
  • You no longer require a workaround to use Extract Assets if you're using proxies to redirect localhost queries.
  • Previews of assets no longer fail because of invalid, incorrect, or duplicate layer syntax.

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2014.2 (Oct 7, 2014)

  • Creative Cloud Libraries:
  • Creative Cloud Libraries is a powerful new feature that lets you create, categorize, and store your favorite colors, brushes, text styles, graphics, and vector images in one easily accessible place. Then you can access them anywhere: Assets you create under the same Adobe ID will be visible across different computers—in a variety of applications like Photoshop CC—wherever you sign in.  
  • Extract Assets:
  • The 2014.2 release of Photoshop CC introduces Extract Assets, a brand new user interface that lets you easily extract optimized image assets from layers and save them to various formats and resolutions, including SVG, JPG, PNG, or GIF. Using the simple visual Extract Assets interface built on top of Adobe Generator, you may extract content either on-demand or in real-time with auto-updated extractions tailored to your workflow.
  • This feature is particularly useful for web and screen designers who frequently create assets in multiple resolutions for use in websites and mobile apps.
  • Improved Guides:
  • Quickly create multiple guides at one time. Accurately set the width and margins of multiple columns or rows, and even save guides as presets. 
  • You can also create guides that align with the edges of the selected layers or selected shapes within a shape layer.
  • New Welcome experience:
  • A new Welcome screen in Photoshop CC helps you discover, learn, and use the many features in Photoshop. The Welcome screen greets you each time you launch Photoshop and displays content that is personalized and relevant to you.
  • A tab-based interface helps you discover new features, how to get started, and tips and techniques.
  • The new Welcome experience is only available in the English version of Photoshop at this time.
  • UI improvements to the Fill dialog:
  • A number of UI improvements make the Fill dialog more intuitive and easier to use. The enhancements are focused on the logical grouping of options in the dialog.
  • Additional updates:
  • Performance improvements to Mercury Graphics Engine to speed up Content-Aware technologies and the Focus Area selection feature
  • Select > Modify command improvements; Also, a new edge padding option is now available for these commands
  • Improved default values for Layer Styles
  • Improved object selections on the canvas
  • Improved layer locking behavior
  • New menu item to collapse all layer groups
  • Improved Gradient and Pattern presets
  • Improved new document presets and default document size
  • Document save operations are now recorded in the History panel
  • New preference to enable overscrolling when a document does not fit the window
  • When you create a new layer group while some layers are selected, the layers are automatically added to the layer group
  • New Flame scripted pattern
  • Transparency support for Copy/Paste from Photoshop to other applications in OS X
  • UI improvements for Adaptation parameters in Content-Aware Patch and Move operations
  • Improved display of Properties panel for Live Shapes
  • Improved enterprise compliance for cloud-based features
  • The Adobe Color Themes panel (Window > Extensions > Adobe Color Themes) is now shipped with Photoshop
  • 3D printing support for rigging for figurine posing and animations
  • 3D PDF support and new 3D printer profiles
  • Several dialogs are now optimized for wide-screen displays
  • Adobe Camera Raw interface now supports High DPI displays
  • New keyboard shortcuts for locking layers (Cmd/Ctrl+"/") and hiding layers (Cmd/Ctrl+",")
  • New preference to enable overscrolling when the document doesn't fill the window

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2014.1 (Aug 6, 2014)

  • Expanded 3D printing support:
  • Create print-ready 3D files for a broader range of printers and service providers. Photoshop now supports the fifth generation MakerBot Replicator 3D printer and Japanese online 3D printing service DMM.com.
  • Support for more 3D file formats:
  • Broaden your 3D workflow with support for new file formats, including VRML, U3D, PLY, and IGES. Photoshop includes better integration with CAD workflows, improved support for 3D scanners, and more.
  • Streamlined 3D painting:
  • Improvements in Photoshop make painting your 3D models faster and easier.
  • Optimized 3D printing resources:
  • Easily layout multiple 3D objects on a single print bed to maximize the efficiency of your print run.
  • 3D printing workflow improvements:
  • Load assemblies in Photoshop. Add depth and texture to surfaces more easily with normal maps and bump maps made from pictures. Get more accurate previews and higher fidelity mesh repair.

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2014.0.0 Build 58 (Jun 19, 2014)

  • Smart Guides:
  • Option + Drag a Layer: When you drag a layer while keeping the Option key pressed, Photoshop displays reference measurement guides showing the distance between the original layer and the duplicate layer. This feature works with both the Move and Path Selection tools.
  • Path measurements:
  • Photoshop displays measurement guides while you're working with paths.
  • Cmd + Hover Over a Layer: You can view measurement guides while working with layers. With one layer selected, hover over another layer with the Cmd key pressed. You can use arrow keys in conjunction with this feature to nudge the selected layer.
  • Distances from the canvas:
  • When you hold down the Cmd key while hovering outside a shape, Photoshop displays distances from the canvas.
  • Matched Spacing:
  • When you duplicate or move an object, Photoshop displays measurement guides to visually indicate spacing between other objects that match the spacing between the selected object and its immediate neighbors.
  • Linked smart object improvements:
  • You can package the linked smart objects in a Photoshop document, such that their source files are saved to a folder on your computer. A copy of the Photoshop document is saved along with the source files in the folder. Select File > Package.
  • You can convert an embedded smart object to a linked smart object. Transforms, filters, and other effects applied to the embedded smart object are preserved when it is converted. Select Layer > Smart Objects > Convert To Linked.
  • Workflow improvement - When you try to perform an operation on a linked smart object whose source file is missing, you are prompted that the smart objects must be rasterized or resolved.
  • Layer comps in smart objects:
  • This feature lets you change the state of the smart object at a layer level without editing the smart object.
  • Work with fonts from Typekit:
  • Through integration with Typekit, Photoshop brings a world of typographic possibilities to your creative projects. You can use fonts from Typekit that are synchronized with your computer.
  • Search for fonts:
  • You can now quickly search for fonts in the Text tool options bar and Character panel font lists.
  • Blur Gallery motion effects:
  • Path blur
  • Using the Path Blur effects (Filter > Blur Gallery > Path Blur), you can create motion blurs along paths. You can also control the shape and amount of blurring. Photoshop automatically composites the effects of multiple path blurs applied to an image.
  • Spin blur
  • Using the Spin Blur effect (Filter > Blur Gallery > Spin Blur), you can rotate and blur the image around one or more points. The spin blur is a radial blur measured in degrees.
  • Select the image areas in focus:
  • Photoshop CC 2014 lets you select the areas/pixels in an image that are in focus (Select > Focus Area). You can broaden or narrow down the default selection.
  • Content-aware features with color blending:
  • With Photoshop CC 2014, touching up images and removing unwanted elements from images is easier than ever before.
  • Enhancements to Photoshop Generator:
  • You can choose to save image assets generated from particular layers/layer groups in a subfolder directly under the document's asset folder. Include the subfolder name in the layer/layer group name;
  • You can specify document-wide default settings for the generated assets. Create an empty layer, begin its name with the keyword default, and then specify the default settings.
  • 3D printing
  • Photoshop CC 2014 features exciting enhancements to 3D printing capability:
  • he Print Preview dialog now indicates what surfaces have been repaired. In the Print Preview dialog, select Show Repair. Photoshop displays the Original Mesh, Wall Thickness, and Closed Hole repairs using appropriate color coding
  • New rendering engine for the Print Preview dialog, resulting in more accurate previews with realistic lighting. The new rendering engine ray traces the 3D object better.
  • New remeshing algorithm that greatly reduces the triangle count in your 3D object files
  • Better support for high­‐resolution textures when printing to Mcor and Zcorp printers
  • Enable experimental features:
  • Photoshop now ships with the following experimental features that you can enable and try out:
  • Scale the UI 200% for high-density displays
  • Enable multitone 3D printing
  • Touch gestures
  • Sync settings improvements:
  • Photoshop CC 2014 provides an improved Sync Settings experience featuring a simplified workflow and other useful enhancements:
  • You can now specify the direction of sync.
  • You can upload or download settings directly from the Preferences > Sync Settings tab.
  • You can now synchronize workspaces, keyboard shortcuts, and menu customizations
  • The Sync Settings log on the Preferences > Sync Settings tab displays the files being uploaded/downloaded, their sizes, and the timestamps for the upload/download operation.
  • 3D imaging:
  • OBJ group mesh import/export
  • Beginning Photoshop CC 2014, the structure of the meshes and groups is preserved during import and export operations.
  • Texture Properties dialog box enhancements
  • Photoshop CC 2014 features useful enhancements to the Texture Properties dialog:
  • You can modify the name of the texture from directly within the dialog
  • The dialog features a new Apply To Matching Textures option. Using this option, you can apply the current UV settings to similar textures.
  • Improved convergence for emissive surfaces
  • Scenes with surfaces emitting light—for example, self-illuminating textures or colors—converge faster in Photoshop CC 2014.
  • Export color lookup tables:
  • You can now export color lookup tables from Photoshop in multiple formats. The exported files can then be applied in Photoshop, After Effects, SpeedGrade, and other image/video editing applications.
  • You can export color lookup tables only from images that have a background layer as well as additional layers to modify colors.
  • Adobe Camera Raw enhancements.
  • Other enhancements:
  • Layer Copy CSS now supports Inner Shadow Layer effects
  • Smart Guides are now enabled by default
  • Brush highlights now show the currently-selected brush and brush changes
  • You can now access the most recently-used brush presets in the Brush context menu and the Brush Presets panel
  • New Hue and Brightness color picker cubes in the Color panel
  • Ability to specify transparency dithering in gradients
  • Ability to create gradients with a single stop. Saved single-stop gradients don't work with previous versions of Photoshop.
  • The new narrow Options bar lets you work more efficiently on devices having small screens. Select Preferences > Interface > Enable Narrow Options Bar.
  • Ability to create new gradient stops sampled from the current gradient preview
  • Import-only native support for MPEG-2 and Dolby audio
  • Support for new video formats, including Sony RAW and Canon RAW
  • Pin Edges To Liquify for warping in from the image edges
  • Reset All Tools now resets the tools displayed in the Tools panel slots to the default choices
  • Support for very large PNG files (up to Photoshop maximum and 2 GB limit)
  • Improved UI content for the New Document preset dialog
  • The Spectrum color picker in the Color Panel is now resizeable

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 14.2 (Jan 16, 2014)

  • Includes many new features, including Perspective Warp for manipulating multiple perspectives in an image, and linked Smart Objects for easier reuse of design elements. We are also delighted to deliver support for 3D printing in Photoshop CC. Now you can design, edit and print in 3D using the world’s best imaging tool.
  • JDI Features/Enhancements:
  • Mercury Graphics Engine performance boost (Smart Sharpen on GPU)
  • Enhanced Scripted Patterns and Fills (Trees, previews, and other improvements)
  • Added a “do not show again” checkbox to the missing fonts dialog
  • Enabled Share on Behance for more languages
  • Improved history states for editing text, editing and applying Character and Paragraph styles
  • Generator can export padding in image assets by using layer masks
  • Layer names can now be up to 255 characters
  • Generator now properly rescales Illustrator Smart Objects when exported at 200%
  • New option for Narrow Options Bar, for small displays
  • On a background layer, one click on the lock icon unlocks the layer
  • Set custom background color in New Document dialog
  • Better negative number support in curves adjustments
  • See recent colors in the Swatches panel
  • Change “Clear” to “Clear All” for the Color Sampler tool
  • Increase number of color samplers from 4 to 10
  • Change all color samplers in Info palette at the same time
  • Improved font transformations
  • Improved selection of shapes with white arrow tool (clicking in the middle reveals white knots)
  • Mac Pro Compatibility:
  • The Photoshop CC 14.2 update provides GPU compatibility support for the new Apple Mac Pro. The 14.2 update will allow Photoshop to take full advantage of one of the two available GPUs at a time.
  • We expect to add support for both of the new Apple Mac Pro’s GPUs, and continue to optimize our customers experience by supporting additional GPU operations in a future release.
  • Each of the two GPUs in the base model of Mac Pro are faster than the GPUs available in any other Mac model, and provide plenty of speed and VRAM (memory on the GPU card) for most operations. If you spend a great deal of time editing very large images using one of the GPU-accelerated Photoshop features such as Blur Gallery, Liquify, or 3D, we expect this gain to be significant. (The 6GB VRAM in the highest end GPU option would only be needed for the largest 3D models).
  • For additional guidance on hardware, OS and Photoshop configuration see this document on Tuning Photoshop for Peak Performance.
  • Mac OS X 10.9.x AppNap Optimizations:
  • AppNap is a new feature in OS X 10.9.x that tries to save power used to run applications that are not the current application and are completely invisible to the user. As such, AppNap can reduce performance or delay automated processes running in Photoshop if it’s hidden or all its windows are covered by other applications. The Photoshop CC 14.2 update prevents AppNap from putting Photoshop down for a nap if you’re running commands, batch actions or scripts in the background while you check mail or surf the web.
  • Notable Bug Fixes:
  • Generator stability improvements
  • Fix for a crash while using Color Picker or Layer Styles
  • Fixed renaming of a path to playback action properly
  • Fixed Ctrl/Cmd-J merging multiple shape layers into a single new layer
  • Fixed skewing horizontally for live shapes
  • Fixed Layer in hidden (invisible) group is selected when auto-select layers is set
  • Fixed changing tracking values for font selection returns different results from selected value

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 14.1.2 (Oct 31, 2013)

  • F5 was deleting layers instead of opening Brushes panel
  • Crashing while editing paths
  • Intermittent crash using Generator
  • Issue running actions with Generate>Image Assets enabled
  • OpenGL functionality disabled on some Windows systems with both NVidia and ATI cards

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 14.1.1 (Oct 31, 2013)

  • User preferences reset after applying 14.1 update
  • Inadvertent disablement of Graphics Processor Settings with some hardware configurations

New in Adobe Photoshop CC 14.0 (Jun 18, 2013)

  • A more connected Photoshop:
  • Photoshop CC is part of Creative Cloud. That means you have access to all the latest updates and future releases the moment they're available. Use Save to Cloud to keep your files organized across multiple computers. And with Behance integration, you can share your projects straight from Photoshop CC and get immediate feedback from creatives around the world.
  • All-new Smart Sharpen:
  • Rich textures, crisp edges, and distinct details. All-new Smart Sharpen is the most advanced sharpening technology available today. It analyzes images to maximize clarity and minimize noise and halos, and it lets you fine-tune for high-quality, natural-looking results.
  • Intelligent upsampling:
  • Enlarge a low-res image so it looks great in print, or start with a larger image and blow it up to poster or billboard size. New upsampling preserves detail and sharpness without introducing noise.
  • Extended features included:
  • As part of Creative Cloud, Photoshop gives you all the powerful image and video editing features you've come to expect — and it includes the advanced 3D editing and image analysis tools that were previously in Photoshop Extended.
  • Camera Raw 8 and layer support:
  • Apply Camera Raw edits as a filter to any layer or file inside Photoshop, and then enhance them any way you want. And with new Adobe Camera Raw 8, you get more precise ways to heal images, fix perspective distortions, and create vignettes.
  • Editable rounded rectangles:
  • One of your most requested features is here. Now you can resize shapes, edit them, and re-edit them — before or after they're created. Even edit individual corner radiuses in rounded rectangles. If a shape is bound for the web, export CSS data from the file to save time.
  • Multi- shape and path selection:
  • Get more done in fewer clicks by selecting multiple paths, shapes, and vector masks at once. Even in multilayered documents with lots of paths, you can easily target the path (and any layer) you want right on canvas using a new filter mode.
  • Camera Shake Reduction:
  • Save shots you thought were lost due to camera motion. Whether your blur was caused by slow shutter speed or a long focal length, Camera Shake Reduction analyzes its trajectory and helps restore sharpness.
  • Expanded Smart Object support:
  • Apply Blur Gallery and liquify effects nondestructively thanks to Smart Object support. Your original file stays intact as you add blur effects or push, pull, pucker, or bloat the image or video. Edit or remove the effects at any time — even after saving your file.
  • Improved 3D painting:
  • Live previews are now up to 100x faster and more responsive when you paint on 3D objects and texture maps. With the powerful Photoshop painting engine, you can make any 3D model look terrific.
  • Improved type styles:
  • You spend hours getting text to look just right. Type styles let you save your formatting as a preset that you can then apply with just a click. You can even define type styles to use across all your Photoshop documents.
  • Copying of CSS attributes:
  • When you hand-code a web design, you can't always get elements like rounded corners and colors to match your original. Now, let Photoshop generate CSS code for specific design elements, and simply copy and paste the code into your web editor to get the results you want.
  • Conditional Actions:
  • Put routine processing jobs on autopilot with Conditional Actions. These commands use if/then statements to automatically choose between different actions based on rules you set up.
  • Improved 3D Scene panel:
  • Make a smoother transition from 2D to 3D editing with a 3D Scene panel that has many of the options you already know from the Layers panel, like Duplicate, Instance, Groups, and Delete.
  • Workflow time-savers:
  • Save time on common tasks, thanks to small but frequently requested features from users like you. Create paths more easily with new modifier keys, move a path with the spacebar, include ICC profiles in PNG formats, and more.
  • Improved 3D effects:
  • Shadows and reflections can make or break your 3D artwork, and higher quality live previews help you get great looks faster. Plus, easily create better glow effects, scene illumination, and lighting for bumps and textures.
  • Color import from web files:
  • Import color swatches directly from HTML, CSS, or SVG files — for inspiration, or to easily match the color schemes of existing web content.
  • System anti-aliasing for type:
  • Get a realistic preview of how your type will look on the web with an option that closely matches the anti-aliasing of your Mac or Windows system.

New in Adobe Photoshop CS6 13.0.5 (Jun 4, 2013)

  • Notable bugs fixed (Mac & Win):
  • When a transformed type layer’s point size is changed, the end result should be as if there was no transform (like CS5)
  • When moving a type layer with a free transform active, the size of the font changes to non-integer values
  • Notable Macintosh specific bugs fixed:
  • Clicking a Pop-up window in a Flash extension panel does not work and/or cause Photoshop to crash
  • Info panel displays incorrect value for adjustment layers inside groups
  • Restore View>Print Size menu command and Zoom tool right-click context menu
  • Legacy actions fail due to layer merge naming change
  • Black & White adjustment layer scrubby slider does not work if in a layer group
  • Arrow keys stop working during text edit using the Type tool
  • Custom icons for Flash extension panels are not displayed after changing the Interface color theme

New in Adobe Photoshop CS6 13.0.4 (Jan 16, 2013)

  • Enables support for new HiDPI displays on the Macintosh platform for a dramatic improvement in image fidelity and resolution.

New in Adobe Photoshop CS6 13.0.3 (Dec 20, 2012)

  • Enables support for new HiDPI displays on the Macintosh platform for a dramatic improvement in image fidelity and resolution.

New in Adobe Photoshop CS6 13.0.2 (Dec 11, 2012)

  • Enables support for new HiDPI displays on the Macintosh platform for a dramatic improvement in image fidelity and resolution.

New in Adobe Photoshop CS6 13.0.1 (Aug 31, 2012)

  • Includes many critical fixes improving security, stability and performance while also addressing a number of high priority bugs with 3D, Crop, Type, Painting, Paths, and Shapes.

New in Adobe Photoshop CS6 13.0 (May 7, 2012)

  • Content-Aware Patch:
  • Patch images with greater control using Content-Aware Patch, which allows you to choose the area that Content-Aware will use to create your patch.
  • Mercury Graphics Engine:
  • See near-instant results when editing with key tools such as Liquify and Puppet Warp. The new Adobe Mercury Graphics Engine delivers unprecedented responsiveness for a fluid feel as you work.
  • New and reengineered design tools:
  • Create superior designs faster. Get consistent formatting with type styles, use vector layers to apply strokes and add gradients to vector objects, easily create custom strokes and dashed lines, quickly search layers, and more.
  • New Blur Gallery:
  • Quickly create photographic blur effects using a simple new interface with on-image controls. Create tilt-shift effects, blur everything and then sharpen one focal point, or vary the blurriness between multiple focal points. The Mercury Graphics Engine delivers immediate results.
  • All-new Crop tool:
  • Crop images faster and with greater precision using the all-new, nondestructive Crop tool. Rapidly manipulate your images on canvas and see your adjustments happen live thanks to the Mercury Graphics Engine.
  • Modern user interface:
  • Work with a fresh, elegant interface featuring dark background options that make your images pop, and benefit from hundreds of design touches that create a smoother, more consistent editing experience.
  • Intuitive video creation:
  • Bring Photoshop editing power to your video footage. Easily enhance any clip using the full range of familiar Photoshop tools, and then create movies using an intuitive set of video tools.
  • Preset migration and sharing:
  • Easily migrate your presets, workspaces, preferences, and settings so you can experience Photoshop in the same way on all your computers, share your setup, and bring your customizations from past versions into Photoshop CS6.
  • Adaptive Wide Angle:
  • Easily straighten objects that appear curved in panoramas or photos shot with fisheye or wide-angle lenses. New on-canvas tools use the physical characteristics of individual lenses to automatically correct curvatures, and the Mercury Graphics Engine gives you near-instant results.
  • Background Save:
  • Keep working even while saving the largest of Photoshop files in the background — a performance improvement that can help your productivity soar.
  • Auto-recovery:
  • Let the auto-recovery option work behind the scenes to save your edits without interrupting your progress. A copy of your work is saved every 10 minutes and recovered in the event of an unexpected shutdown.
  • Improved auto corrections:
  • Quickly enhance your images with improved Auto Curves, Levels, and Brightness/Contrast controls. Intelligence from thousands of hand-retouched images is built in to give you a better starting point for making adjustments.
  • Adobe Camera Raw 7:
  • Bring out the best in your JPEG and raw files with improved processing and an enhanced control set; reveal every detail in the highlights of an image while still retaining rich detail in the shadows; and much more.
  • Content-Aware Move:
  • Move or extend a selected object to another area of your image, and then watch as Content-Aware Move magically recomposes and blends the object for a stunning visual result.
  • Dozens of user-inspired improvements
  • Save time with more than 65 new creativity and productivity enhancements that originated as suggestions from Photoshop users via Facebook, Twitter, and more.
  • Skin tone–aware selections and masking:
  • Create precise selections and masks, enabling you to easily adjust or preserve skin tones; easily select intricate image elements, such as hair or faces; and more.
  • Revolutionary erodible brushes:
  • Draw more naturally and realistically using drawing tips that erode as you work. Endlessly wear down and sharpen a charcoal pencil or pastel to create different effects, and save favorite blunted tips as presets.
  • Scripted Patterns:
  • Generate geometric pattern fills faster with new Scripted Patterns.
  • Compatibility with Adobe mobile apps:
  • Extend your creativity beyond Photoshop CS6 with Adobe Touch Apps and Photoshop companion apps (sold separately). Intuitive touchscreen features provide ease of use and precise control for a variety of creative tasks.
  • Support for more camera models:
  • Use the Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 7 plug-in with images from just about any camera. The plug-in supports more than 350 camera models.
  • 10-bit deep color support:
  • Get a more accurate representation of how your images will appear in film with 10-bit monitor support. See just the pixels you've captured, reduce or eliminate the need for dithering, and reduce contouring or banding.
  • Support for 3D LUTs:
  • Retouch images for film more easily with 3D look-up tables (LUTs) — including Adobe SpeedGrade.Look color LUTs — that you can turn on when you need to tweak raw color data.
  • Type styles:
  • Save time and help ensure a consistent look with type styles, which let you apply formatting to selected characters, lines, or paragraphs of text with a single click.
  • Vector layers:
  • Use vector layers to apply strokes and even add gradients to vector objects.
  • Sharper vector rendering:
  • Get sharper rendering by clicking once to snap the edges of vector objects to pixels.
  • Custom strokes and dashed lines:
  • Easily create custom strokes and dashed lines.
  • Layer search:
  • Use layer search capabilities to quickly zero in on the layer you need.
  • Lighting Effects Gallery:
  • Get better performance and results with the new, 64-bit Lighting Effects Gallery. The plug-in is powered by the Mercury Graphics Engine and offers on-canvas controls and previews that make it easier to visualize your lighting enhancements.
  • Oil Painting filter:
  • Quickly give your work the look of a fine painting with the Oil Painting filter powered by the Mercury Graphics Engine. Control the style of your brush as well as the direction and shine of your lighting for a superior look.
  • Airbrush tips:
  • Create realistic airbrush effects using fluid, lifelike controls and granular paint particles.
  • New painting presets:
  • Simplify painting with new presets that offer a good starting point for creating realistic painting effects.
  • Properties panel:
  • Save time with a context-sensitive Properties panel that lets you make quick updates to the properties of your masks, adjustments, and video layers.
  • Adobe Bridge CS6:
  • Organize and manage your media visually using Adobe Bridge CS6 software. This integrated application delivers fast performance with cross-platform 64-bit support.
  • Redesigned Adobe Mini Bridge:
  • Access your images and documents more quickly and easily in Adobe Mini Bridge, redesigned as an elegant filmstrip.
  • Enhanced TIFF support:
  • Work with a larger range of TIFF files. Enhanced TIFF support allows for greater bit depths and larger file sizes.
  • Automatic resampling:
  • Get great results when resizing an image — the best resample method is automatically selected.
  • Filler text:
  • Save time with the ability to insert "Lorem ipsum" filler text when working with type.
  • Increased maximum brush sizes:
  • Edit and paint with brush sizes all the way up to 5000px.

New in Adobe Photoshop CS6 13.0.0 Beta (Mar 22, 2012)

  • Content-Aware Patch:
  • Patch images with greater control using the newest member of the Content-Aware family of technologies. Choose the sample area you want to use to create your patch, and then watch Content-Aware Patch magically blend pixels for a stunning result.
  • Blazingly fast performance and a modern UI:
  • Experience unprecedented performance with the Mercury Graphics Engine, which gives you near-instant results when you edit with key tools such as Liquify, Puppet Warp, and Crop.* Plus, a refined, fresh, and elegant Photoshop interface features dark background options that make your images pop.
  • New and re-engineered design tools:
  • Create superior designs fast. Get consistent formatting with type styles, create and apply custom strokes and dashed lines to shapes, quickly search layers, and much more.
  • You will also discover hundreds of new ways to work faster and with greater creative freedom and precision when you dive into Photoshop CS6 beta.

New in Adobe Photoshop CS5 12.0.4 (May 3, 2011)

  • Enables specially designed apps on tablets, smartphones, and PCs to communicate with and control interaction with Photoshop CS5 (Located in the File menu: Remote Connections). Now you can be creative on other devices and instantly incorporate what you create into Photoshop.
  • Also fixes liquify performance, type related crashes, and other top customer issues. The most significant fixes include the following:
  • A number of potential security vulnerabilities have been addressed.
  • Liquify save mesh now works as expected.
  • An issue with Sharpen crashing has been fixed.
  • An issue with Quick Selection crashing has been fixed.
  • The Orphea Studio File Info issue has been resolved.

New in Adobe Photoshop CS5 12.0.2 (Dec 7, 2010)

  • A number of potential security vulnerabilities have been addressed
  • Top type and font crashers found in the field have been addressed
  • A number of performance issues have been addressed
  • Crash opening 3D layers has been addressed
  • Color Engine crash has been resolved
  • Intermittent file format issues addressed
  • Shift scrolling bug fixed
  • Sharpen crasher fixed
  • Marching ants not seen at certain zoom levels fixed
  • Metadata focus distance issue addressed
  • File info bug addressed for Orphea Studio jpg files
  • TWAIN crashers fixed
  • Brush cursor bug fixed
  • Histogram progress bar issue fixed
  • Droplet issues addressed

New in Adobe Photoshop CS5 12.0.1 (Jul 1, 2010)

  • A number of issues that could cause slow performance have been addressed.
  • Top crashers found in the field have been addressed.
  • 3D refractions, Ray Tracing and IBL workflows improved.
  • Out of memory error opening some TIFFs has been addressed.
  • A crash in Content Aware Fill has been addressed.
  • Font related crashes have been addressed.
  • Scroll wheel issue addressed.
  • A number of user interface and workspace issues addressed.
  • A number of painting issues addressed, including video layer issue.
  • Droplet issues addressed.

New in Adobe Photoshop CS4 11.0.1 (Feb 25, 2009)

  • A number of issues that could cause slow performance have been addressed.
  • Pen barrel rotation with Wacom tablets now works correctly.
  • Photoshop now correctly recognizes 3D textures edited by a plug-in.
  • The quality of the results of Auto-Blend Layers (Stack Images) has been improved.
  • A problem that could result in a crash when pasting formatted text has been fixed.
  • A crash that could result from a corrupt font no longer occurs.

New in Adobe Photoshop CS4 11.0 (Dec 12, 2008)

  • New: Smoother panning and zooming and fluid canvas rotation - Navigate to any area of an image with new, ultra-smooth zooming and panning. Maintain clarity as you zoom to individual pixels and easily edit at the highest magnification with the new Pixel Grid. And use the revolutionary new Rotate View tool to smoothly turn your canvas for distortion-free viewing at any angle.
  • New: Adjustments panel - Simplify image adjustment by easily accessing every tool you need to nondestructively adjust and enhance the color and tone of your images; on-image controls and a wide variety of presets are also included in the new live and dynamic Adjustments panel.
  • New: Masks panel - Quickly create and edit masks from the new Masks panel. This panel offers all the tools you need to create editable pixel- and vector-based masks, adjust mask density and feathering, easily select noncontiguous objects, and more.
  • New: Content-Aware Scaling - Use the new and revolutionary Content-Aware Scaling feature to automatically recompose an image as you resize it, smartly preserving vital areas as the image adapts to the new dimensions. Get the perfect image in one step without time-intensive cropping and retouching.
  • Enhanced: Extended depth of field - Easily create a single image from a series of shots that have different focal points with the enhanced Auto-Blend Layers command, which smoothly blends color and shading and now extends your depth of field, automatically correcting vignettes and lens distortion.
  • Enhanced: Auto-alignment of layers - Create accurate composites with the enhanced Auto-Align Layers command. Move, rotate, or warp layers to align them more accurately than ever before. Or use spherical alignment to create breathtaking panoramas.
  • Enhanced: Efficient file management with Adobe Bridge CS4 - Get instant access to Adobe Bridge CS4 with faster start-up, use new workspaces to jump to the right display for every task, easily create web galleries and PDF contact sheets, and more.
  • Enhanced: Auto-blending of images - Combine a range of images, each with a different exposure, color, and focal point — with options to preserve tones and colors — into a single color-corrected image.
  • Enhanced: Improved Adobe Photoshop Lightroom workflow - Select multiple photos in Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® software (sold separately) and automatically open them in Adobe Photoshop CS4 to merge them into a panorama, a high dynamic range (HDR) photo, or a multilayered Photoshop document. And seamlessly roundtrip back to Lightroom.
  • Enhanced: Better raw image processing - Enjoy superior conversion quality as you process raw images with the industry-leading Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 5 plug-in, which now offers localized corrections, post-crop vignetting, TIFF and JPEG processing, and support for more than 190 camera models.
  • Enhanced: Industry-leading color correction - Enjoy dramatically enhanced color correction with reengineered Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools that now intelligently preserve color and tone details.
  • Enhanced: More powerful printing options - Get outstanding prints with superior color management, tighter integration with leading printer models, and the ability to preview out-of-gamut image areas. Support for 16-bit printing on Mac OS offers increased color depth and clarity.
  • New: File display options - Easily work with multiple open files by using tabbed document display or n-up views.

New in Adobe Photoshop CS3 10.0.1 (Sep 8, 2008)

  • Smart Filters
  • Quick Selection and Refine Edge tools
  • Advanced compositing
  • Streamlined interface
  • Better raw image processing
  • Improved Adobe Bridge
  • Enhanced Vanishing Point
  • Enhanced 32-bit HDR support
  • Peak performance
  • Black-and-white conversion