Photoshop CC caused a storm when it was launched in 2013. From that
point on, you couldn't buy Photoshop with a 'perpetual licence' – you
had to rent it a month or a year at a time via an Adobe Creative Cloud
subscription. You choose the plan you need, and the software is then
available to you for as long as you keep paying the subscription.
This still causes dismay amongst some users, but there are upsides. Your
subscription includes free updates and an increasing range of Creative
Cloud services, such as the Behance sharing/collaboration site. And
since that rocky launch, Adobe has dropped the price and increased the
value. Photographers don't just pay less, they get two programs for the
price of one.
Adobe's current Photography plan costs just £8.78/$9.99/A$9.99 per month
(if you take out an annual subscription) and includes not just
Photoshop CC but Lightroom 5.5. It's a great double-act – Photoshop
takes care of the editing, Lightroom takes care of the organisation. The
free Lightroom Mobile app enables you to view and edit photo
collections on your iPad, while Adobe's new Mix app offers
Photoshop-compatible editing tools too.
Photoshop CC and Creative Cloud are now a powerful and compelling option
– and Adobe has been releasing modest but useful updates. But June 2014
brought a new version, Photoshop CC 2014, which doesn't replace the
existing Photoshop CC app but is installed alongside it.
What's new?
Photoshop CC introduced an all-new Smart Sharpen tool designed to
maximise clarity and reduce noise, together with a Camera Shake
Reduction tool that can analyse the direction of movement ('trajectory')
and then reverse the blur digitally. On Adobe's sample images it works
really well, but not all shots provide the right kind of blur, so don't
expect it to be a fix for every shaky shot.
Photoshop CC also brought an 'Intelligent Upsampling' feature to help
you scale up pictures for big prints without the image degradation
normally associated with upsampling. You don't get any more detail, but
sharp edges are better preserved.
But the biggest cluster of new features centres on Adobe Camera Raw 8,
Photoshop's companion RAW conversion tool. In fact, you can now carry
out so many everyday photographic enhancements in Adobe Camera Raw that
you may need Photoshop itself less and less. By the time the photo opens
in Photoshop, you'll have already done everything that needs doing.
A new Radial Gradient tool lets you highlight the focal point of your
picture by darkening, blurring, desaturating or otherwise subduing the
surrounding areas. It comes with grab handles you can use to change the
shape and size and a central 'pin' you can drag it around with.
And the Advanced Healing Brush now enables you to heal irregular areas
by painting over them, whereas previously you could only heal circular
areas. It's not as sophisticated as the Clone Stamp and Healing tools in
Photoshop, but it can cope with simple touch-up jobs very easily.
Best of all, though, is the new Upright tool, which can detect lines in
your image which it thinks should be horizontal or vertical, and
automatically straighten them, correcting perspective problems such as
converging verticals. It works so well it's almost uncanny.
Adobe released an update in January 2014 which brought 3D printing
capability and a number of enhancements for web designers, illustrators
and photographers – photographers could now apply a 'perspective warp'
to straighten buildings shot at an angle, for example. It's not unlike
the perspective crop feature, or the perspective tools in DxO Optics Pro
and Capture One, except that it can correct two planes (or two sides of
a building), not just one.
But the biggest changes are in Photoshop CC 2014, released in June 2014.
You can now create a wider variety of blur effects, including 'path
blur' and 'spin blur'. Path blur can follow a line or curve you define
yourself, while spin blur gives a more authentic look to spinning wheels
or prop blades.
It's now possible to create a 'focus mask' which selects ares of the
image which are in sharp focus. You could use this to create cutouts
more easily, for example, or apply a stronger blur to out-of-focus
backgrounds.
The content-aware Fill, Patch, Move and Extend tools have have
'algorithmic colour blending', which can produce more natural-looking
results – though, as ever, the success of these tools depends on the
surrounding objects and details in the image. When they work, however,
they can be almost uncannily effective.
There's a significant change to two of the tools in Adobe Camera Raw,
too. This is Adobe's raw conversion plug-in – it launches automatically
when you attempt to open a raw file. The Graduated and Gradient Filters
now have a manual masking brush tool which enables you to mask the
effect in specific areas.
For example, the Graduated Filter won't just darken the sky, it will
also darken anything sticking up into the sky such as a building – you
can now use the mask brush to remove the darkening effect from objects
like this.
These are modest but useful changes, but don't seem enough on their own
to justify a whole new application alongside the old one. There's a lot
more going on under the hood, though, and Adobe has overhauled its
'Mercury' graphics engine, for example, to boost performance. It seems
that for now at least Adobe expects some users may want to carry on
using the older version, perhaps for compatibility reasons.
Photoshop CC (2014) System requirements
Windows
- Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor (2 GHz or faster)
- Microsoft® Windows® 7 with Service Pack 1, Windows 8, or Windows 8.1
- 2 GB of RAM (8 GB recommended)
- 2
GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space
required during installation (cannot install on removable flash storage
devices)
- 1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit color and 512 MB of VRAM (1 GB recommended)**
- OpenGL 2.0–capable system
- Internet
connection and registration are necessary for required software
activation, validation of subscriptions, and access to online services.*
- Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor (2 GHz or faster)
- Microsoft® Windows® 7 with Service Pack 1, Windows 8, or Windows 8.1
- 2 GB of RAM (8 GB recommended)
- 2 GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash storage devices)
- 1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit color and 512 MB of VRAM (1 GB recommended)**
- OpenGL 2.0–capable system
- Internet connection and registration are necessary for required software activation, validation of subscriptions, and access to online services.*
* Video features are not supported on 32-bit Windows systems.
*
NOTE: Internet connection, Adobe ID, and acceptance of license
agreement required to activate and use this product. This product may
integrate with or allow access to certain Adobe or third-party hosted
online services. Adobe services are available only to users 13 and older
and require agreement to additional terms of use and the Adobe Privacy Policy.
Applications and services may not be available in all countries or
languages and may be subject to change or discontinuation without
notice. Additional fees or membership charges may apply.
** 3D features are disabled and some Mercury Graphics Engine enhanced features may not work with less than 512 MB VRAM.
* Video features are not supported on 32-bit Windows systems.
*
NOTE: Internet connection, Adobe ID, and acceptance of license
agreement required to activate and use this product. This product may
integrate with or allow access to certain Adobe or third-party hosted
online services. Adobe services are available only to users 13 and older
and require agreement to additional terms of use and the Adobe Privacy Policy.
Applications and services may not be available in all countries or
languages and may be subject to change or discontinuation without
notice. Additional fees or membership charges may apply.
** 3D features are disabled and some Mercury Graphics Engine enhanced features may not work with less than 512 MB VRAM.
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