There’s lots to play with today on our mobile devices. Adobe today released Lightroom mobile 1.3 for Android, and Lightroom mobile 2.0 for iPhones and iPads. We also have some new and updated Photoshop apps for iPad and iPhone that are tightly integrated with Lightroom mobile: Photoshop Mix has been updated, and Photoshop Fix and Premiere Clip [...]
More than three years after Photoshop CS6 was released in May, 2012, Adobe has announced that it will no longer update the Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) plugin incorporated in CS6 with support for new cameras or new lens profiles. The ACR update released today, 9.1.1, will be the last one. Implications for Photoshop CS 6 Users Who Also Use [...]
Today in a live event Adobe announced the release of new versions of Photoshop CC and 13 other CC desktop apps, plus Lightroom 5.5 (discussed in another blog post.) Photoshop CC 2014 new features of particular interest to photographers: Focus Mask, which allows automatic selection of in-focus objects. New motion blur filters in the Blur Gallery [...]
I was thrilled to have the opportunity to create a video tutorial for Adobe showing how to easily combine multiple photos into a panorama using Photoshop's Photomerge feature (available in Photoshop CSx as well as CC.) In the video I also give some tips for how to photograph panoramas. To access the tutorial, go to the [...]
Update April 2014: $9.99 has become the “going rate” for the “Creative Cloud Photoshop Photography program”, which includes Photoshop and Lightroom. A Creative Cloud subscription also now gives you unlimited syncing from your desktop catalog to Lightroom mobile for the iPad. This new app and Lightroom may be justification enough for you for the $9.99/month price [...]
Adobe's new version of Photoshop, Photoshop CC, is now available for download through its Creative Cloud subscription service. New features for photographers include a camera-shake-reduction filter, and improved Smart Sharpen and upsampling algorithms. Adobe announced last month that new versions of Photoshop and other Creative Suite software would only be available via a Creative Cloud subscription. [...]
Yesterday, Adobe announced the availability of Photoshop Touch on iPhones through the App Store, and on Android phones, through Google Play, for $4.99. (It has been available on tablets for a while now.) According to Photoshop Product Manager, Stephen Neilson, "much like the tablet version, Photoshop Touch on the phone has core Photoshop features like layers, [...]
Adobe has made it clear this year that going forward, only users of the immediate prior version of Photoshop (and the rest of the Creative Suite) will be eligible for upgrade pricing on future versions. Therefore, when CS7 comes out in 2013, only CS6 owners will be eligible for upgrade pricing -- CS5 and prior owners [...]
Update 11/20/2013: Read my updated article, on reasons to subscribe to Photoshop CC. Photoshop CS6 started shipping yesterday, so I anticipate that a lot of photographers not currently using Photoshop are wondering if they should consider it. I am assuming for the sake of this article that you are already using Lightroom. (If not, you may [...]
The Creative Suite 6, including Photoshop CS6 is now available for download or shipment. . It is available for pre-order now, though it won’t start shipping for up to 30 days. (The website “estimates” May 7.) The traditional stand-alone Photoshop CS6 full version will be $699, and the upgrade will be $199. Photoshop CS6 Extended, which [...]
As I mentioned in my last post, Adobe today announced the upcoming release of both the CS6 Creative Suite, including Photoshop CS6, and Adobe’s new Creative Cloud subscription service. There are now therefore two ways to purchase Photoshop CS6 — as we are accustomed to, through purchase of the stand-alone traditional product, and now also through [...]
In my last post, I presented a video of a few of my favorite CS6 Beta features so far. Since I need to focus on my upcoming creativeLIVE Lightroom workshop (watch it free next week online!) and on my next video series, Lightroom's Output Modules, rather than produce a whole series of "What's new in Photoshop [...]
