💡 Photoshop Newsletter - Features and Helpful Links: March 2021

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
March 15, 2021
11 replies
10284 views

March 2021 update

Greetings Photoshop community! I am trying something new here and would appreciate feedback as to whether you find this useful. In an effort to ensure the Photoshop community is up to date, each newsletter will contain a summary of new features as well as links to feature articles, and issue resolution.

In case you haven’t heard, Photoshop 22.3 now runs natively on Apple computers using the Apple Silicon M1 chip and shows significant performance gains. In addition, we released quite a few amazing new Photoshop features in the last few months. In the Photoshop desktop app, you can navigate to Help > What's New to see the list of newly added features in the Discover Panel. I’ve listed short explanations and links below for some of the key features we have added since October 2020 so you can learn more about each topic and try them for yourself. You can also check out the additional helpful links at the bottom.

Recent Features

Collaboration
Using the Invite to Edit feature, you can invite others to collaborate on Photoshop cloud documents.

Preset sync
You can now sync brushes, gradients, swatches, styles, shapes, and patterns to Creative Cloud and access them from other desktop devices.

Custom Shape options
Shape options can now be controlled from either the Shape Properties panel or on canvas.

Camera and lens support
Check out the updated list of supported cameras and lenses.

Neural Filters

Using the Neural Filters workspace, you can change someone's expression, age, gaze, or pose in seconds, colorize a scene quickly, smooth skin, apply artistic styles, remove JPEG compression artifacts, add blur and haze to the background, and more.

Sky Replacement

The Sky Replacement option is a great way to liven up a scene quickly. The feature automatically selects and masks the sky in your landscape image, lets you choose a different sky to show, and then adjusts your image colors to match the new sky. There are also several optional adjustment sliders to help you customize the result.

Discover Panel
The Discover panel is a terrific way to learn more about Photoshop from within the app. It provides in-app learn content as well as a powerful search function. You can find tips, tutorials, and Quick Actions to help improve your workflow and learn more about Photoshop.

Cloud document versions
With the new Version History panel, you can now access your previously saved versions of Photoshop cloud documents.

Use Photoshop cloud documents offline
Recently opened Photoshop cloud documents can be made available offline for editing later when you don't have an internet connection.

Pattern Preview
Pattern Preview mode tiles and repeats your design so you can see how it looks as a seamless repeating pattern.

Live shapes
New on-canvas controls make resizing and adjusting shapes fast and intuitive. You can also adjust shape controls in the Properties panel.

Reset Smart Objects
Photoshop now allows you to completely reset a Smart Object to its original state.

Content-Aware Tracing Tool
The Content-Aware Tracing Tool lets you create vector paths and selections by simply hovering over the edges of your image and clicking.

Select and Mask enhancements
We added a Refine Hair feature to make it easier to select hair and fur. There are also two new edge refinement methods, Color Aware and Object Aware, and you can save and load your settings with custom Select and Mask presets.

Content-Aware Fill
You can now access the Content-Aware Fill workspace by right-clicking selections directly on the canvas.