Where are the technology previews?

[Moris272674419yvj]

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!

[Conrad_C]

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.

[c.pfaffenbichler]

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