The Top New Features in Photoshop CC

Apply ACR as a Smart Filter

You used to only be able to use ACR when you import your photos. Now you can use ACR in your layers as a filter or smart filter.

Upright

Upright fixes your perspective similar to how you can use tilt-shift lens to correct perspective distortion. It is fully automatic and easy to use.

Advance Healing Brush

Paint over anywhere to clone and heal areas. It works just like the healing brush tool but now you can remove blemishes, wrinkles, power lines, and other objects nondestructively*!

* Nondestructive editing only works when you apply ACR to a smart object.

Radial Gradient Filter

Now you can apply gradients or vignettes to specific parts of your photos. Previously, the closest feature was the post-crop vignette which adds a vignette based on the crop area of your photo. This didn’t look like a natural camera vignette and it only looked great if your subject was in the middle which wasn’t always the case. With the Radial Gradient Filter, you can now apply a vignette starting from anywhere you like – such as the face or an object that isn’t in the center.

Tone HDR photos

Reveal details in your 32-bit photos by using the easy-to-use highlights and shadow sliders in ACR. Simply use the Merge to HDR Pro script (File > Automate > Merge to HDR Pro), set the mode to 32-bit, then click Tone in ACR. Now you use the sliders to create halo-free HDR photos. The effect will automatically be added as a smart filter to your layer.

Automatic Motion Path Detection

Photoshop CC Camera Shake Reduction filter analyzes your photo and determines the motion path that your camera was moved. It can then use this path data to intelligently sharpen your photo. You can choose the area in your photo to grab the motion path data from or even draw in your own path.

Improve Lightly Blurred Photos

With the right settings, you can recover or improve slightly blurred photos. It can sometimes produce halo-effects but it’s a better tradeoff than having a blurred photo. Only the very slightest motion blur can be perfectly fixed. Other photos can be improved by resizing the image down after applying the Camera Shake Reduction filter.

Recover Details in Highly Blurred Photos

When not used for artistic purposes, you can use the Camera Shake Reduction filter to recover details in a photo such as a license plate.

Resizable Panel

Previously, the Smart Sharpen filter wasn’t resizable which meant that you only had a tiny 400×340 area to work with. Now you can resize the filter to enlarge your preview area.

Reduce Noise

Sharpening can sometimes introduce noise that were barely visible before – especially in the blurry areas of your photo. The Smart Sharpen filter in Photoshop CC allows you to minimize noise with a new Reduce Noise slider.

Preserve Details

This new resampling mode preserves details and sharpness without adding noise to your photo.

Noise Reduction

Enlarging your photo can also make noise more visible. By adjusting this setting, you can effectively reduce noise in your enlargements.

Live Preview

See the results of your enlargement with the live preview. This is especially useful when adjusting the noise reduction setting

New Anti-Aliasing for Type

Now you can simulate the look of anti-aliasing on the web with new anti-aliasing mode for type. These anti-aliasing modes closer resemble the look of text on browsers.

Copying CSS attributes

Create a button in Photoshop and copy the layer styles to CSS. This feature lets you convert your layer into CSS simply by right-clicking on the layer and choosing the copy CSS command.

Import Color Swatches

Now you can extract the colors used in HTML, CSS, or SVG files and place them inside your color swatch panenl. This is a huge time saver for web designers because they no longer have to view the source code or import colors one-by-one.