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Moris272674419yvj
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October 8, 2023
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Where are the technology previews?

  • October 8, 2023
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Hello- anyone have any idea why I can't see technology previews? Adobe's guide mentions lots of options but I don't see any when I go to Preferences - Technology Previews. I am trying to enable the atuo-trace function for the pen tool.

 

Using Photoshop CC 2020 on a Mac.

Thank you!

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    c.pfaffenbichler
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    c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
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    October 9, 2023

    May one ask why you are using an obsolete Photoshop version? (I am not contesting that there may be valid reasons.) 

    Conrad_C
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    Conrad_CCommunity Expert
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    October 8, 2023

    It looks like nothing is wrong. You have the Technology Preview that was available  back in Photoshop 2020 (Preserve Details 2.0).

     

    Apparently Content-Aware Tracing Tool started appearing in Photoshop 2021, along with two more. The list of Technology Previews got longer in each version; in Photoshop 2024 there are five. Some get removed as they graduate to being a permanent feature.

     

    My personal opinion of the Content-Aware Tracing Tool is that I didn’t understand the point of it, because what it was trying to do was already working much more effectively in the Magnetic Lasso tool. The Content-Aware Tracing Tool still has not graduated from Technology Preview to a real feature, so I guess they haven’t yet worked out how to make it significantly better than the Magnetic Lasso tool.

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