💡 Photoshop Newsletter - Features and Helpful Links: March 2021
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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.
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.
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.
Troubleshooting
For help with these recent issues, please visit the links below:
Program error while saving files
Basic troubleshooting to fix most issues
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Photoshop Newsletter home page
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You are very welcome. Thanks for the feedback!
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I just moved up from Photoshop Elements to Photoshop. I'm sure I'll find this very helpful!
Walter in Davie, FL
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That's awesome! Welcome to Photoshop, you're going to love it! I'm glad you found this helpful.
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Very informative!
Pattie, is there a way to sign up for this to be delivered to my email?
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That is a good question. Other than following the Photoshop forum overall, I am not sure how you would get an email for other newsletters. Let me look into that to see if I can find a way.
Pattie
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There is now a home page for all the Newsletters and Quick Tips that you can bookmark. I'll add the new ones to these posts as I create them.
Photoshop Newsletter home page
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If you want to be notified when we post additional newsletters, you can go to the bottom of the Photoshop Newsletter home page and click " follow".
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This was excellent! Really loved to be able to read through and then click on the items I needed to understand better and even go to step by step of Helpx!
Thank you!
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You are welcome. I am glad you found it useful!
Pattie
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