CC 2019 Sneak Peek

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September 11, 2018
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Looks like we are starting to get a few hints on what is coming with the next major update.

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DaveJCummings

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It looks amazing. Can't wait to see what's in store.

Trevor.Dennis

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I mentioned that I could not find any more Sneak Peeks back up this thread, but a post Gene made in a Lounge thread reminded me of John Nack's blog, which was essential reading before he left Adobe to work at Google. A quick search found that John still has a regularly updated Blog, albeit not on an Adobe server, and that its content still heavily features Adobe news and products.

Nackblog | Musings on photography, illustration, mobile apps, and more

There is too much going on to link to just one or two of his blog articles, but as well as a link to the new CAF we can look forward to in V20, there is a fascinating video about what must be the tech behind Adobe's 'Sensei' AI and how it does that incredibly clever 'Select Subject' trick. And _lots_ more.

John's blog was one of my daily visits when he worked at Adobe, so I am stoked to find it lives on now he is at Google. So do check it out and maybe subscribe.

Kukurykus

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That looks really amazing! I use it quite often by scripting. Unfortunatelly limited to avoid unnecessary outputs that I had to correct manually. I'm not sure this feature will not need user interaction to correct easier way that program couldn't handle (that partially is shown on this video), but still that's step forward and good addition.

Anyway I'd love to see Adobe releases 2 parrarel Photoshops. One with new features and never ending bugs, and second without new features, so like current one, or even 2017 but all bugs free And the best would be to cease new realeases untill Photoshop is cleaned from all problems. Not everyone would agree but surelly I wouldn't leave that first version (at least I still use in CS6 EXTENDED, though have access to new ones) as I believe such product would be better seen and purchased by more poeple while opponents had to have something very special to offer to 'steal' users.

D Fosse

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Maybe so, but a very large chunk of the "bugs" that people attribute to Photoshop, are in fact caused by outside factors.

Personally I have found Photoshop to be extremely reliable and problem-free in all the CC manifestations. I simply don't understand all the complaining. I have more problems with virtually every other piece of software I have installed.

My number one problem is the splash screen. Make that optional, and I'm happy.

Kukurykus

Legend

I remember you from that theard and that you said something alike about not experiencing problems of others as if I got sense they are specific for user. I'd like to share the same story, but in my case that doesn't work. Actually bugs are not the problem but fact you must deal with them too long and you never know they get ever fixied. It's why that would be better solution. One free bugs version not updated for next 5 years (so approximetaly 3 - 4 releases during this time) and regular ones for all of those that can't wait That would be for me not problem to use that older one but without 'anger' if now I can be happy with old good last Creative Suite release Then after five years when another release would be up, Adobe could collect all last 5 years features os previous versions, and though others would use newest one I would be happy to stay with previous, but again without finding problems about. Or if they were, then I hoped the priority of such version would be to sort out everything that wasn't fixed in good time. For example by dedicated team only to focus on.

macpawel

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Trevor.Dennis

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It is pretty impressive. That's for sure. We worked out that you can force CAF to ignore certain parts of a layer as source pixels, by selecting the area that we considered OK to use, and copying to a new layer. The new feature tidies up the workflow a fair bit, but we still need to brush out the erroneous pixels. Having a live preview is a significant advantage to the 'new layer' workaround, and adding flip and rotate takes it up another couple of notches.

Martin Evening showed us a similar trick using the Patch Tool in destination mode. I just had a hunt round for the article without success, but it used an image of a fishing boat. So from memory — which is a bit vague as this was several years ago — after selecting the boat he moves it into a new position, and uses Free Transform before committing the placement. He makes the new boat smaller, and adds a nice touch by moving the centre handle onto the horizon so the boat stays in the right position with the FT using Alt Shift. So similar to the flip and rotate, but here again, the live preview sets the new feature apart.

I've looked for more V20 Sneak Peeks on likely places like Julianne Kost's blog, but nothing else so far. I have my fingers crossed for improvements to the new brush management system that came with V19, as that definitely needs tidying up. And something I would _really_ like to see is the Extract Shadow feature that was Sneak Peeked at MAX 2015, but later abandoned as it was proving problematic.