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 400x340 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.

Editable Rounded Rectangles

Now you can resize and edit rounded rectangles after you’ve drawn them. This new feature lets you adjust the radius setting of each corner and add/remove rounded corners. You can even export the settings to CSS data.

Multi-Shape and Path Selection

The Paths Selection tool has been improved to allow you to select paths directly on the canvas across multiple layers using the Paths Selection tool. You can also isolate shapes by double-clicking on the shape in the canvas and double-clicking anywhere outside to exit out of the isolation mode.

Improved Scene Panel

Delete, duplicate, and create instances of 3D objects inside the scene panel. With instances, you can duplicate a 3D object several times, edit one of the instances, and have the changes automatically be applied to the other instances.

3D Painting

When painting on 3D objects, you now have a live cursor preview that shows a 2D map of the area you’ve painted. Painting on 3D objects has also been improved to be up to 100x smoother and faster.

More Smart Filters

Apply the Blur Gallery and Liquify effects as smart filters which enables you to go back and edit the settings at any time. Simply convert any layer into a smart object (Layer > Convert to Smart Object) then apply the filter.

Improved Min and Max filters

The Minimum and Maximum filters are frequently used to increase the white or black areas in a layer mask. Unfortunately, the results are very square. In Photoshop CC, you can get more rounded results by telling the filters to preserve roundness over squareness.

Conditional Actions

Create smarter actions with conditional logic. This new feature lets you add if/then statements to your Photoshop actions so that you can make your action run differently depending if your photo is landscape/portrait/square, the image color mode and bit depth, type of layer selected, etc.

Behance Integration

Upload your artwork straight to your Behance portfolio (File > Share on Behance).

Sync Settings

Because you can use your standard Creative Cloud subscription on two computers, adobe has a syncing tool so that your Photoshop looks and works the same way on both computers.