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Chapter 1: Introduction to Photoshop

New features summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1

Create documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

System requirements | Photoshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Migrate presets, actions, and settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

System requirements | Older versions of Photoshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Chapter 2: Photoshop and Adobe services

Photoshop and Adobe Stock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Creative Cloud Libraries in Photoshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Use the Adobe Color Themes extension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Touch capabilities and customizable workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Chapter 3: Photoshop and mobile apps

Photoshop family of mobile apps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

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Chapter 4: Workspace

Workspace basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Photoshop search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Use the Touch Bar with Photoshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Microsoft Dial support in Photoshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Tool galleries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Performance preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Use tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Touch gestures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Tec hnol ogy p rev iew s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Metadata and notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Quickly share your creations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Place Photoshop images in other applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Default keyboard shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Rulers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Show or hide non-printing Extras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Specify columns for an image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Undo and history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Panels and menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Place files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Position elements with snapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Position with the Ruler tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Customize keyboard shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Grid and guides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

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Chapter 5: Web, screen, and app design

Photoshop for design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Artboards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Export artboards, layers, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Device Preview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Slice web pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

HTML options for slices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Modify slice layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Work with web graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Create web photo galleries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Chapter 6: Image and color basics

Resize images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Video | Resizing images in Photoshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Image essentials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Image size and resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Acquire images from cameras and scanners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Create, open, and import images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

View images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Viewing multiple images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Customize color pickers and swatches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

High dynamic range images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Convert between color modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Color modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Erase parts of an image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Blending modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Choose colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Customize indexed color tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Image information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

About color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Color and monochrome adjustments using channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Choose colors in the Color and Swatches panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Color mode or Image mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Color cast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Add swatches from HTML CSS and SVG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Chapter 7: Layers

Layer basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Nondestructive editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Create and manage layers and groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Select, group, and link layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Mask layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Video tutorial: Mask out part of an image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Video tutorial: Remove a person from the background with masking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Layer opacity and blending . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Apply Smart Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

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Video tutorial: Learn Photoshop Smart filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Layer comps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Video tutorial: Improved layer comps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Move, stack, and lock layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Mask layers with vector masks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Manage layers and groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Layer effects and styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Edit layer masks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

Extract assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Reveal layers with clipping masks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Generate image assets from layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Video: Generate web assets in Photoshop CC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Work with Smart Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Video tutorial: Linked Smart Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Combine multiple images into a group portrait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Combine images with Auto-Blend Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Align and distribute layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Copy CSS from layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Load selections from a layer or layer mask's boundaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Knockout to reveal content from other layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Flattening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Composite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Chapter 8: Selections

Select And Mask workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

Make quick selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Make selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

Select with the marquee tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Video tutorial: Select part of an image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Select with the lasso tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Select a color range in an image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Adjust pixel selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Extract an object from its background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

Convert between paths and selection borders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

Channel basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

Move, copy, and delete selected pixels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Create a temporary quick mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Save selections and alpha channel masks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Video tutorial: Mask out part of an image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Select the image areas in focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Duplicate, split, and merge channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Channel calculations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Bounding box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

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ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

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Chapter 9: Image adjustments

Perspective warp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

Reduce camera shake blurring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

Video | Using the camera shake reduction filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

Healing brush examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Export color lookup tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Adjust image sharpness and blur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Video | Sharpening in Photoshop CC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Video | Selective focus in Photoshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Understand color adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Apply a Brightness/Contrast adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448

Adjust shadow and highlight detail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449

From an expert: Shadows/Highlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449

Levels adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450

Adjust hue and saturation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453

Make quick tonal adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456

Apply special color effects to images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460

Apply the Color Balance adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462

View histograms and pixel values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

Match, replace, and mix colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469

Convert a color image to black and white . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474

Video tutorial: Creative black and white . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474

Video | Black and White adjustment layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474

Adjustment and fill layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475

Curves adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478

Target images for press . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482

Adjust color and tone with Levels and Curves eyedroppers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485

Adjust HDR exposure and toning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486

Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487

Blur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487

Dodge or burn image areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488

Chapter 10: Adobe Camera Raw

New features summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489

Introduction to Camera Raw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490

Create panoramas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497

Default keyboard shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499

Vignette, grain, and dehaze effects in Camera Raw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504

Automatic perspective correction in Camera Raw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506

Radial Filter in Camera Raw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509

Manage Camera Raw settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512

Open, process, and save images in Camera Raw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517

Repair images with the Enhanced Spot Removal tool in Camera Raw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520

Rotate, crop, and adjust images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523

Adjust color rendering for your camera in Camera Raw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525

New features summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527

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Content-Aware Patch and Move . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537

Retouch and repair photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539

Correct image distortion and noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546

Chapter 12: Image transformations

Transform objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550

Video tutorial: Free Transform command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550

Adjust crop, rotation, and canvas size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554

Video | Cropping and straightening photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554

Crop and straighten photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557

Create and edit panoramic images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560

Warp images, shapes, and paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564

Vanishing Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568

Use the Liquify filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582

Content-aware scaling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590

Free transformations of images, shapes, and paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591

Warp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593

Transfor m . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593

Panorama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594

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Chapter 13: Drawing and painting

Modify shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595

About drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596

Draw shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598

Draw shapes in Photoshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598

Painting tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602

Create and modify brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605

Add color to paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614

Edit paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616

Paint with the Mixer Brush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625

Brush presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627

Gradients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630

Fill and stroke selections, layers, and paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635

Draw with the Pen tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639

Create patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651

Generate a pattern using the Pattern Maker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651

Manage paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653

Manage pattern libraries and presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655

Draw or paint with a graphics tablet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656

Create textured brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656

Add dynamic elements to brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 658

Gradient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661

Paint stylized strokes with the Art History Brush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662

Paint with a pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663

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Chapter 14: Text

Work with OpenType SVG fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664

Format characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666

Format paragraphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671

Create type effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677

Edit text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 682

Line and character spacing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 686

Arabic and Hebrew type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689

How to access Arabic and Hebrew features in Photoshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689

Fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691

Work with Typekit fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701

Asian type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703

Create type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709

Chapter 15: Video and animation

Video editing | CC, CS6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714

Video | Walk through a video project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714

Edit video and animation layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716

Video and animation overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720

Preview video and animations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725

Paint frames in video layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 728

Import video files and image sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 730

Create frame animations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733

Create timeline animations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 740

Create images for video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 746

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Chapter 16: Filters and effects

Use the Blur Gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 752

Filter basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 760

Filter effects reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 764

Add Lighting Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 774

Use the Adaptive Wide Angle filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 777

From an expert: Adaptive wide angle filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 777

Use the Oil Paint filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779

Apply specific filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 781

Smudge image areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 784

Chapter 17: Saving and exporting

Supported file formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785

Save files in graphics formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785

Save images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 789

File formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 792

Save and export video and animations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 798

Save PDF files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805

Digimarc copyright protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 813

Supported file formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 815

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Chapter 18: Printing

Print 3D objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 817

Print from Photoshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 826

Print with color management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 828

Contact Sheets and PDF Presentations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 831

Print photos in a picture package layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 832

Print spot colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 835

Duotones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 838

Print images to a commercial printing press . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 840

Chapter 19: Automation

Creating actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 846

Video tutorial: Record actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 846

Create data-driven graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 850

Scripting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 855

Process a batch of files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 856

Video | Using the Image Processor to batch process multiple files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 856

Play and manage actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 860

Add conditional actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 863

About actions and the Actions panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 864

Record tools in actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 865

From an expert: Tool recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 865

Add a conditional mode change to an action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 865

Photoshop UI toolkit for plug-ins and scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 866

Chapter 20: 3D and technical imaging

Creative Cloud 3D Animation (Preview) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 869

3D painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 875

Video | 3D painting - The next level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 875

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Essential 3D concepts and tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 882

3D rendering and saving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 886

Create 3D objects and animations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 890

Image stacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 892

3D workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 895

Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 898

DICOM files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 904

Photoshop and MATLAB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907

Count objects in an image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 909

Combine and convert 3D objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 911

3D texture editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 912

3D panel settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 915

Chapter 21: Color Management

Understanding color management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 926

Keeping colors consistent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 928

Color settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 932

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Work with color profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 935

Color-managing documents for online viewing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 940

Color-managing documents when printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 941

Color-managing imported images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 946

Proofing colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 947

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New features summary

The January 2018 and October 2017 releases of Photoshop CC (versions 19.x) roll out exciting new features for designers, digital photographers, and illustrators. Read on for a quick introduction to these features and links to resources offering more information.

For a summary of features introduced in earlier releases of Photoshop CC, see Feature summary | earlier releases .

Note: If you're upgrading from an earlier version of Photoshop CC, see these considerations and tips .

Select Subject

New in the January 2018 release

Select the most prominent subjects in an image in a single click

Select Subject lets you select the most prominent subject in an image in a single click. Powered by advanced machine learning technology, Select Subject is trained to identify a variety of objects in an image—p eople, animals, vehicles, toys, and more.

Access Select Subject in one of the following ways in Photoshop:

• While editing an image, choose Select > Subject.

• While using the Quick Selection or Magic Wand tools, click Select Subject in the options bar.

• While using the Quick Selection tool in the Select & Mask workspace, click Select Subject in the options bar.

For more information, see Select Subject.

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Support for Microsoft Surface Dial

Updated in the January 2018 release

Using the Surface Dial with Photoshop, you can adjust tool settings without ever looking away from the canvas. Use the Dial to adjust size, opacity, hardness, flow, and smoothing for all brush-like tools. Using the Control option, you can also rotate the dial to make dynamic adjustments to settings while a brush stroke is in progress.

Photoshop supports the Surface Dial on bluetooth-enabled computers running Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (version 1709) and later versions.

For more information, see Microsoft Dial support in Photoshop.

High-density monitor support and per-monitor scaling

New in the January 2018 release

On Windows 10 Creators Update and later versions, Photoshop now offers a full range of choices for UI scaling—from 100% through 400% in 25% increments. This enhancement makes the Photoshop user interface looks crisp and sharp regardless of the pixel density of your monitor. Photoshop automatically adjusts its resolution based on your Windows settings.

In addition, Adobe and Microsoft have worked closely to provide per-monitor scaling across monitors with different scaling factors. This enhancement ensures that a high resolution (HiDPI) laptop works seamlessly alongside a lowerresolution desktop monitor, or vice versa. For example, one of your monitors can have a scale factor of 175%, while another monitor can have a scale factor of 400%. So, you can choose either the highest-end 13-inch laptops with 4k screens, the more affordable 1080p models, or tap into the new 8k desktop monitors, and still have an uncompromised experience within Photoshop.

In Windows, select Start > Settings > System > Display. Now, under Scale And Layout, choose a scaling factor for each of your displays.

Note: On Windows 10 Creators Update and later versions, the UI Scaling setting in Photoshop (Preferences > Interface > UI Scaling) still applies to some components, such as the File Info and Camera Raw dialogs. On earlier versions of Windows, this preference applies to all Photoshop components. When the UI Scaling option is set to Auto, scaling defaults to the value closest to the primary monitor's OS scaling factor—100 or 200.

Brush-related features

Stroke smoothing

New in the October 2017 release

Photoshop can now perform intelligent smoothing on your brush strokes. Simply enter a value (0-100) for Smoothing Eraser. A value of 0 is the same as legacy smoothing in earlier versions of Photoshop. Higher values apply increasing amounts of intelligent smoothing to your strokes.

Stroke smoothing works in several modes. Clicking the gear icon ( ) to enable one or more of the following modes:

Pulled String Mode Paints only when the string is taut. Cursor movements within the smoothing radius leave no mark.

Stroke Catch Up Allows the paint to continue catching up with your cursor while you've paused the stroke. Disabling

this mode stops paint application as soon as the cursor movement stops.

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Catch-Up On Stroke End Completes the stroke from the last paint position to the point where you released the

mouse/stylus control.

Adjust For Zoom Prevents jittery strokes by adjusting smoothing. Decreases smoothing when you zoom in the

document; increases smoothing when you zoom out.

Smoothing: Eraser tool

While using stroke smoothing, you may choose to view the brush leash, which connects the current paint location with the present cursor position. Select Preferences > Cursors > Show Brush Leash While Smoothing. You can also specify a color for the brush leash.

Brush Leash preferences

Streamlined brush management

Enhanced in the October 2017 release

Working with brush presets is much easier in this release of Photoshop. You can now organize brush presets into folders—including nested folders—in the greatly-streamlined releases).

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You can now choose to work with and manage brush-enabled tool presets and their attributes, accessible only from the Options bar in earlier releases of Photoshop, in the Brushes panel. Any brush-enabled tool preset can be converted into a brush preset; all of its attributes—such as opacity, flow, and blending mode—are preserved. Once you've converted brush-enabled tool presets into brush presets, you can choose to remove them from the tool presets list.

Convert brush-enabled tool presets to brush presets

Choose to remove or retain brush-enabled tool presets after you've converted them to brush presets.

The Brushes panel itself incorporates a host of experience improvements in this release, such as the following:

• In the Brushes panel flyout menu, easily toggle between the different views to see any combination of the brush

name, brush stroke preview, and brush tip.

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Brushes panel: View just the information you need

• View more brushes in the same screen space using the zoom slider.

• Drag and drop brush presets to reorder them conveniently.

• Collapse or expand folders to see only the brushes you need.

• Use the Show Additional Preset Info option in the flyout menu to see the associated preset tool (for example, Eraser)

and any included colors.

For related information, see:

• Create and modify brushes .

• Import brushes and brush packs

Getting started with advanced custom brushes

Access your Lightroom photos in Photoshop

New in the October 2017 release

You can now access all of your synced Lightroom photos directly from the Start workspace within Photoshop. In the Start workspace, click the Lr Photos tab. Now, select the images you want to open and click Import Selected. If you've made changes to your photos or albums in any of the Lightroom apps while Photoshop is running, click the Refresh button to see the changes you’ve

Aside from the Start workspace, you can also find, filter, sort, and import Lightroom photos into Photoshop using the

Photoshop search.

made. Click See More to view a grid of all of your photos organized by date.

For more information, see:

• Photoshop search

• Start and Recent Files workspaces

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Variable fonts

New in the October 2017 release

Photoshop now supports Va ri a bl e Font, a new OpenType font format supporting custom attributes like weight, width, slant, optical size, etc. This release of Photoshop ships with several variable fonts for which you can adjust weight, width, and slant using convenient slider controls in the Properties panel. As you adjust these sliders, Photoshop automatically chooses the type style closest to the current settings. For example, when you increase the slant for a Regular type style, Photoshop automatically changes it to a variant of Italic.

In the Character panel or Options bar, search for variable in the font list to look for variable fonts. Alternatively, look

icon next to the font name.

for the

For related details, see Fonts .

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Slider controls to adjust font attributes

Font list: Some variable fonts

Quickly share your creations

New in the October 2017 release

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You can now email or share your creations to several services directly from within Photoshop. When you share a document by email, Photoshop sends out the original document (.psd file). For certain services and social media channels, Photoshop automatically converts the document to the JPEG format before sharing.

In Photoshop, select File > Share. Alternatively, click the icon in the options bar.

For details, see Quickly share your creations .

Sharing options on macOS

Sharing options on Windows

Note: Your operating system preferences determine the actual list of services appearing in the Share panel. You can tweak these preferences. For example, on macOS, add/remove services to the Share panel by tweaking System Preferences > Extensions > Share Menu. See

this Apple documentation page for more information.

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Curvature Pen tool

New in the October 2017 release

The Curvature Pen tool lets you draw smooth curves and straight line segments with equal ease. Create custom shapes in your designs or define precise paths to effortlessly fine-tune your images using this intuitive tool. While doing so, create, toggle, edit, add, or remove smooth or corner points without ever having to switch tools.

Access this new tool from the Pen tools group. To learn how to use it, see Use the Curvature Pen tool .

Draw curved and straight path segments with equal ease

Path options

New in the October 2017 release

Path lines and curves are no longer just in black and white! You can now define the color and thickness of path lines to suit your taste and for easier visibility.

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While creating a path—using the Pen tool, for example—click the gear icon ( ) in the Options bar. Now specify the color and thickness of path lines. Also, specify whether you want to preview path segments as you move the pointer between clicks (Rubber Band effect).

For related helpful information, see Manage paths .

Path options: Thickness and Color

Copy-paste layers

New in the October 2017 release

You can now copy and paste layers in Photoshop—within a document and between documents—using the Copy, Paste, and Paste Into Place commands.

When you paste a layer between documents with different resolutions, the pasted layer retains its pixel dimensions. specify how to handle color information in the imported data.

Depending on your color management settings and the associated color profile, you may be prompted to

For more information, see Copy/paste layers .

Rich tooltips

New in the October 2017 release

Figuring out what Photoshop tools do is now easier than ever before! When you hover the pointer over certain tools in the Tools panel, Photoshop displays a description and a short video of the tool in action.

You can choose not to view rich tooltips. To do so, deselect the Preferences > Tools > Use Rich Tooltips preference.

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Rich tooltip: Crop tool

Edit spherical panoramas in Photoshop

New in the October 2017 release

You can now edit equirectangular spherical panoramas, shot using different cameras, in Photoshop. With the panorama asset imported and its layer selected, invoke the panoramic viewer by choosing 3D > Spherical Panorama > New Panorama Layer From Selected Layer. Alternatively, directly load a spherical panorama into the viewer by selecting 3D > Spherical Panorama > Import Panorama.

Once you've opened a panorama in the viewer, you can perform a variety of operations on it:

• Rotate the camera view around

• Adjust the field of view

• Paint on the panorama using all relevant Photoshop tools and filters

Properties panel improvements

Enhanced in the October 2017 release

• You can now adjust leading and tracking for type layers in the Properties panel.

• You can now adjust settings, such as color, font, and size, for multiple type layers using the Properties panel.

• Work with Adobe Stock assets in the Properties panel:

• Vie w the asset on stock.adobe.com by clicking the asset ID.

• License a preview image directly from the Properties panel.

• Find stock assets similar to an image on stock.adobe.com.

Select & Mask improvements

Enhanced in the October 2017 release

• Improved algorithm providing more accurate and realistic results when subtracting the foreground in cases where

foreground and background colors are visually similar.

the

• Improved blending of original selection and matting results

• Transparency view mode settings are now decoupled from the Quick Mask view modes. Transparency settings are

no longer

• Overlay view mode transparency settings are now decoupled from On White and On Black transparency settings.

shared between Select & Mask and Quick Mask.

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Learn panel

New in the October 2017 release

You can now access step-by-step tutorials on basic concepts and tasks directly within Photoshop. These tutorials cover basic photography concepts, retouching and combining images, and graphic design fundamentals.

In Photoshop, select Window > Learn.

Technology Preview features

Before using some Technology Preview features, you may need to enable them from Preferences > Technology Previews.

For details about these features, see Te c h no lo gy pr e vie w s .

Preserve Details 2.0 Upscale

New in the October 2017 release

Default state: On

Photoshop now features artificial intelligence-assisted upscaling to preserve important details and textures while resizing images without introducing distortions. harder-edged details like text and logos. Try it on soups, salads, pizza, and any other subjects that need that extra dash of texture preservation.

In addition to skin tones and hair textures, this feature preserves

Artificial intelligence-assisted upscale (left) vs legacy resizing (right)

Paint Symmetry

New in the October 2017 release

Default state: Off

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Photoshop now lets you paint symmetrically while using the Brush, Pencil, and Eraser tools. While using these tools, click the butterfly icon (

) in the Options bar. Choose from the several available types of symmetry. Paint strokes are

reflected live across the line of symmetry, allowing for easier sketching of faces, cars, animals, and more.

To enable this feature, select Preferences > Technology Previews > Enable Paint Symmetry.

Easily create intricate patterns with Paint Symmetry

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Different symmetry types

Camera Raw | New features

Quick selections with Color and Luminance Range Masking

Available only for Creative Cloud members

Using the new Color and Luminance Range Masking controls, you can quickly create a precise masking area on your photo for applying local adjustments. These new precision masking tools can detect changes in lighting and contrasting edges based off color and tone. You can make quick initial masking selections with Adjustment Brushes or Radial Filter/Graduated Filter. Then refine your selection with the range masks, located under Auto-Mask in the Adjustment Brush tool options.

Color Range Mask

After making an initial selection mask on your photo with Adjustment Brushes or Radial Filter/Graduated Filters, use Color Range Masking to refine the selection mask based on the colors sampled within the mask area.

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Luminance Range Mask

After making an initial selection mask on your photo with Adjustment Brushes or Radial Filter/Graduated Filters, use Luminance Range Masking to refine the mask area based on the luminance range of the selection.

For Help documentation, see Apply local adjustments with color or luminance range mask .

For details of new features in Adobe Camera Raw, see New features summary .

Other enhancements and fixes

January 2018 release

• New adjustment slider for Decontaminate Colors in the Select And Mask workspace. See Output Settings.

October 2017 release

• Composer Switching: You can now change the text composer on a per-document basis from the Paragraph

panel. This feature makes it easy to reuse assets even across languages that use different composers—for example, Middle Eastern and East Asian languages.

• Photoshop now supports Apple's High Efficiency Image Format (HEIF). Photoshop can read depth maps in

HEIF image files created by iPhone 7 Plus and later devices into a channel. You can then create a depth-of-field effect in the image using Filter > Blur > Lens Blur.

• Improved document creation (Cmd/Ctrl+N) launch performance

• Usability improvements to the Properties panel

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• Improved startup time on Windows

• Improved performance of common blending and compositing operations

• Improved performance of the Surface Blur filter and the Noise > Median filter

• Improved Refine Edge tool accuracy in the Select & Mask workspace

• New preference on Windows 10: Preferences > Workspace > Align UI According To OS Settings. Use this

preference to prevent contextual UI elements, such as pop-up menus, from displaying beneath your hand when you're drawing directly on the display. This operating system setting is controlled from Ink & Stylus system preferences on Windows. It is available only on devices paired with a stylus.

• While pasting text into type layers, you can now use the new Edit > Paste > Paste Without Formatting

command. This command strips out style attributes from the source text and adapts it to the style of the destination type layer.

• Photoshop search now also lets you find, filter, sort, and import Lightroom photos into Photoshop.

• Improved protection of face details for Content-Aware Move, Auto Levels, Curves, Tone, Brightness, Contrast,

and skin tone color range

• Save As PNG now offers much better compression

• Improved quality of Content-Aware Crop and Content-Aware Fill on edges

• Collapsed font menus: The font lists in the Options bar and various panels now show all the font faces in a given

family collapsed into a pop-up submenu accessible via either the mouse or the keyboard.

• Intelligent deep-learning-led face detection for Face-Aware Liquify

• Fixed: Select & Mask issue where brushing with soft radius using the Refine Edge brush still produces a hard

edge.

What's changed

• The Brush panel in earlier releases of Photoshop is now called Brush Settings.

• The Brush Presets panel in earlier versions of Photoshop has been streamlined and renamed as Brushes panel. For

more information, see

• Device Preview is no longer available in this release. Additionally, the Preview CC iOS app is no longer available for

download or actively maintained as of October 2017. If you have a previously-downloaded version of Preview CC on your iOS device, you can continue to use it on an as-is basis with earlier versions of Photoshop.

• Pho tosho p no long er prompts you to imp ort as set s in to Cre ative Clo ud L ibrar ies whi le o pen ing doc ume nts. You ca n

still automatically import all assets from an open document using the Create New Library From Document command in the Libraries panel.

• The Preferences > General > Show Recent Files Workspace When Opening A File setting is no longer available.

• On macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) and newer, Photoshop uses a dark title bar for floating document windows when UI

brightness is set to one of the two dark settings.

• (MacBook Pro) Use Photoshop with the Touch Bar on MacBook Pro -related changes:

Streamlined brush management.

• The Enable History Scrubbing In The Touch Bar preference is no longer available. To suppress history scrubbing,

simply remove the corresponding button from the Touch Bar layout.

• You can now control brush smoothing using the Touch Bar. Add this control to the Touch Bar using the

Customize Touch Bar user interface.

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• PNG files created using the Save As option are now compressed better. Also, the options for saving images as PNG

assets have changed for better user experience:

New options for saving images as PNG

Known issues

• Photoshop sometimes stops responding when you're using the Refine Edge brush in the Select & Mask workspace.

As a workaround to this issue, disable Preferences > Performance > Advance Settings > Use OpenCL.

• (Only on MacBooks with a single GPU and running OS X 10.11) While using the Refine Edge brush, you may notice

heavy degradation along the edges of the image areas you're retouching. As a workaround to this issue, either upgrade to the latest version of macOS or turn off OpenCL (deselect Preferences > Performance > Advanced Settings > Use OpenCL).

• Photoshop sometimes stops responding when you choose 3D > Spherical Panorama > Import Panorama to import

a panoramic image. As a workaround for this issue, either install the application in the default location in your system or remove any localized character from the installation path.

• Rarely, when Photoshop launches automatically after installation, the Start workspace and the New dialog might not

display any cards or templates. To resolve this issue, follow these steps:

• Quit Photoshop.

• Launch the Creative Cloud desktop app .

• Launch Photoshop.

• Press Cmd+N to invoke the New Document dialog.

• Press Esc to close the New Document dialog.

• Quit Photoshop and then launch it again.

• Occasional challenges while using the Curvature Pen tool:

• Path operations might behave unexpectedly. As a workaround, use the regular Pen tool.

• Selecting multiple points using the Ctrl+Shift-click keyboard combination may not work at times. As a

workaround, Shift-click with the Direct Selection tool to select multiple points or use the regular Pen tool.

• (Only on Windows) The first segment of a path remains a straight line and doesn't curve as expected, until you

close the path. As a workaround,

click and drag the second anchor point to achieve the expected curvature.

• Usability: The path transform bounding box may be hard to see at times against dark document backgrounds. As a

workaround, for shapes, select only the shape layer without the path. The transform bounding box should now be clearly visible.

Fixed customer issues

To view the list of fixed issues in this release of Photoshop CC, see Fixed issues .

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Create documents

Introduced in Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 release

When you create a document in Photoshop, instead of beginning with a blank canvas, you can choose from a wide variety of your project. When you open a template in Photoshop, you can work with it just as you would work with Photoshop document (.psd).

templates from Adobe Stock. Templates include assets and illustrations that you can build on to complete

any other

In addition to templates, you can also create a document by selecting one of the numerous presets available in Photoshop or create your custom sizes. You can also save your own presets for reuse.

Templates and presets

Te mp l at es provide inspiration and reusable elements for your documents. You can download templates from Adobe

Stock that include quality graphics and illustrations right within Photoshop. You can then build on these templates to easily create documents that share common settings and design elements. Templates open as and generally include multiple artboards.

Blank Document Presets are blank documents with predefined dimensions and settings. Presets make designing for

specific device form factors or use cases easier. For example, you can use a preset to quickly start designing for the iPad Pro. Blank document presets have predefined size, color mode, unit, orientation, positioning, and resolution settings. You c an

Templates and presets are categorized into these sets:

modify these settings before creating a document using the preset.

• Photo

• Print

• Art & Illustration

• We b

• Mobile

• Film & Video

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Access the New Document dialog

1 Launch Photoshop.

2 Do one of the following:

• Use the following keyboard shortcut:

• (Mac) Cmd+N

• (Windows) Ctrl+N

• Select File > New.

• Click New or Start New in the Start workspace.

• Right-click the tab for an open document and choose New Document from the in-context menu.

Overview: New Document dialog

The New Document window lets you:

• Create documents using selected templates from Adobe Stock across several categories: Photo, Print, Art &

Illustration, Web, Mobile, and Film & Video.

• Find more templates and create documents using them. See Search for more templates from Adobe Stock.

• Quickly access files, templates, and items that you've have recently accessed (Recents tab).

• Save your own custom presets for reuse and quickly access them later (Saved tab).

• Create documents using Blank Document Presets for multiple categories and device form factors. Before opening

the presets, you can modify their settings.

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Photo tab | New Document dialog box

Create documents using presets

1 In the New Document dialog box, click a category tab: Photo, Print, Art & Illustration, Web, Mobile, and Film &

Vi de o.

2 Select a preset.

3 Optionally, change the settings for the selected preset in the Preset Details pane on the right. See Modify presets to

understand how.

4 Click Create. Photoshop opens a new document based on the preset.

Modify presets

Before opening a document using the preset, you can modify its settings in the right pane.

1 Specify a file name for the new document.

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The Preset Details pane

2 Specify the following options for the selected preset:

Width and Height: Specify the size of the document. Select the unit from the pop-up menu.

Orientation: Specify a page orientation for the document: Landscape or Portrait.

Artboards: Select this option if you want your document to have artboards. Photoshop adds an artboard while creating the document.

Color Mode: Specify a color mode for the document. Changing the color mode converts the default contents of

selected new document profile to a new color.

the

Resolution: Specify the fineness of detail in a bitmap image measured in pixels/inch or pixels/centimetre.

Background contents: Specify a background color for the document.

3 To specify the following extra options, click Advanced Options.

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Color Profile: Specify the color profile for your document from a wide range of options.

Pixel Aspect Ratio: Specify the ratio of width to height of a single pixel in a frame.

4 Click Create to open a document with the preset settings.

Save your own presets

The Preset Details pane lets you modify an existing preset or specify fresh settings for a new one. To save your custom settings as a new preset, follow these steps:

1 After you're done specifying the settings, click the icon in the Preset Details pane.

2 Specify a name for the new preset.

3 Click Save Preset.

You can later access the new preset from the Saved tab of the New Document dialog.

Create documents using templates from Stock

Photoshop comes with various templates from Adobe Stock. Templates with font layers use basic fonts or fonts that can be synced from Adobe Typekit. To create a document using a template, do one of the following:

1 In the New Document dialog, click a category tab: Photo, Print, Art & Illustration, Web, Mobile, and Film & Video.

2 Select a template.

3 Click See Preview to view a preview of the template. A preview is an image representation of a template that you can

review and decide if you want to license that template.

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Preview the template before licensing it

4 Click Download.

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Photoshop prompts you to license the template from Adobe Stock. See Adobe Stock Help for more information about licensing and related considerations. After the template has been licensed using asset entitlements or credits in your account, you can open it as a Photoshop document

Template licensing in progress

5 After the template has downloaded, click Open. While opening the template, if you're prompted to sync some fonts

from Typekit, click

OK.

for you to work on.

You can now work with the open document in Photoshop just as you would work with any other .psd document.

Notes:

• Downloaded templates are added to a Creative Cloud library called Stock Templates. You can access this library

in the Libraries panel.

• Photoshop templates carry the .psdt filename extension. However, when you open a template, an instance of it is

opened as a .psd document. Changes made to that .psd document don't affect the original .psdt template.

Search for more templates from Adobe Stock

Aside from the preselected templates from Adobe Stock, you can search for and download numerous other such templates directly from within the New Document dialog.

• While working in the New Document dialog, enter a search string in the Find More Template s On Adobe Sto ck box.

Alternatively, simply click Go to browse the full selection of available templates.

Photoshop opens the Adobe Stock website in a new browser window for you to explore. Search for more templates and download the one that best meets your project's requirements.

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Explore and license templates on the Adobe Stock website

Use the legacy File New experience

Although not recommended, you can disable the latest New Document experience and revert to the File New experience that Photoshop provided by default (in versions CC 2015.5 and earlier).

1 Select Edit > Preferences > General.

2 Select Use Legacy File New Interface. Click OK.

Enable the legacy File New experience (not recommended)

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Note: Yo u can use the keyboard shortcuts for opening files (Ctrl/Cmd+O) or starting new documents (Ctrl/Cmd+N) to open this dialog box.

FAQ

• What are the available formats for a template?

Templates in Photoshop exist in the .psdt format. When you open a template, Photoshop creates an instance of it as a document. You can work on and save that

• Can I customize a preset after I have saved it?

You can further customize a saved preset in the Preset Details pane. The new preset, however, must be saved with a different name.

• Can I customize a template?

No. Any changes you make to the template instance after downloading it aren't applied to the original template.

• I have downloaded templates in Photoshop and Illustrator. Can I use them interchangeably?

The templates that you download in Photoshop and Illustrator are found in Libraries. You can open only.psdt templates in Photoshop and only.ait templates in Illustrator.

document just as you would work with any other Photoshop document.

System requirements | Photoshop

System requirements | October 2017 (19.0) release of Photoshop CC

Windows

• Intel® Core 2 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor; 2 GHz or faster processor

• Microsoft Windows 7 with Service Pack 1, Windows 8.1, or Windows 10

• 2 GB or more of RAM (8 GB recommended)

• 2.6 GB or more of available hard-disk space for 32-bit installation; 3.1 GB or more of available hard-disk space for

64-bit installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a casesensitive file system)

• 1024 x 768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit color and 512 MB or more of dedicated VRAM; 2 GB is

recommended*

• OpenGL 2.0-capable system

• Internet connection and registration are necessary for required software activation, validation of subscriptions, and

access to online services.**

Note: The Quick Share feature, introduced in the October 2017 release of Photoshop CC, requires Windows 10 Spring Creators edition version 1703 or later.

macOS

• Multicore Intel processor with 64-bit support

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• macOS version 10.13 (High Sierra), macOS version 10.12 (Sierra), or Mac OS X version 10.11 (El Capitan)

• 2 GB or more of RAM (8 GB recommended)

• 4 GB or more of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot

install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system)

• 1024 x 768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit color and 512 MB or more of dedicated VRAM; 2 GB is

recommended*

• OpenGL 2.0-capable system

• Internet connection and registration are necessary for required software activation, membership validation, and

access to online services.**

* 3D features are disabled on 32-bit platforms and on computers having less than 512MB of VRAM. Oil Paint filter and video features are not supported on 32-bit Windows systems.

**NOTICE TO USERS. Internet connection, Adobe ID, and acceptance of license agreement required to activate and use this product. This product may integrate with or allow access to certain Adobe or third-party hosted online services. Adobe services are available only to users 13 and older and require agreement to additional terms of use and Adobe’s online privacy policy (see be available in all countries or languages and may be subject to change or discontinuation without notice. Additional fees or membership charges may apply.

http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/legal.html). Applications and Services may not

Language versions

Photoshop CC 2017 is available in the following languages:

Dansk

Deutsch

English

Español

Français

Français*

Hebrew*

Hungarian

Italiano

Nederlands

Norwegian

Polish

Português (Brasil)

Suomi

Svenska

Tu rk i s h

Ukrainian

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Русский

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* Arabic and Hebrew supported in a Middle Eastern version with full right-to-left language support, Arabic/Hebrew features, and an English interface; also in a North African French (Français*) version with full right-to-left language support, Arabic/Hebrew features, and a French interface.

System requirements | 2017 release of Photoshop CC

Windows

• Intel® Core 2 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor; 2 GHz or faster processor

• Microsoft Windows 7 with Service Pack 1, Windows 8.1, or Windows 10

• 2 GB or more of RAM (8 GB recommended)

• 2.6 GB or more of available hard-disk space for 32-bit installation; 3.1 GB or more of available hard-disk space for

64-bit installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a casesensitive file system)

• 1024 x 768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit color and 512 MB or more of dedicated VRAM; 2 GB is

recommended*

• OpenGL 2.0-capable system

• Internet connection and registration are necessary for required software activation, validation of subscriptions, and

access to online services.**

macOS

• Multicore Intel processor with 64-bit support

• macOS version 10.12 (Sierra), Mac OS X version 10.11 (El Capitan), or Mac OS X version 10.10 (Yosemite)

• 2 GB or more of RAM (8 GB recommended)

• 4 GB or more of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot

install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system)

• 1024 x 768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit color and 512 MB or more of dedicated VRAM; 2 GB is

recommended*

• OpenGL 2.0-capable system

• Internet connection and registration are necessary for required software activation, membership validation, and

access to online services.**

* 3D features are disabled on 32-bit platforms and on computers having less than 512MB of VRAM. Video features are not supported on 32-bit Windows systems.

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http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/legal.html). Applications and Services may not

be available in all countries or languages and may be subject to change or discontinuation without notice. Additional fees or membership charges may apply.

Language versions

Photoshop CC 2017 is available in the following languages:

Dansk

Deutsch

English

Español

Français

Français*

Hebrew*

Hungarian

Italiano

Nederlands

Norwegian

Polish

Português (Brasil)

Suomi

Svenska

Tu rk i s h

Ukrainian

čeština

Русский

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Graphics processor requirements

Features requiring the graphics processor

A compatible graphics processor (also called a graphics card, video card, or GPU) lets you experience better performance with Photoshop and use more of its features. Also, display problems, performance issues, errors, or crashes can occur if your computer’s graphics processor or its driver is incompatible with Photoshop.

Features that won't work without a GPU

If your graphics processor is unsupported or its driver is defective, the following Photoshop features won't work:

• 3D

• Oil Paint

• Render – Flame, Picture Frame, and Tree

• Scrubby Zoom

• Birds Eye View

• Flick Panning

• Smooth Brush Resizing

Features that require a GPU for acceleration

• Artboards

• Camera Raw (more information )

• Image Size – Preserve Details

• Select Focus

• Blur Gallery - Field Blur, Iris Blur, Tilt-Shift, Path Blur, Spin Blur (OpenCL accelerated)

• Smart Sharpen (Noise Reduction – OpenCL accelerated)

• Perspective Warp

• Select and Mask (OpenCL accelerated)

Tested graphics card

Adobe has tested the laptop and desktop versions of the following graphics processor card series:

• nVidia GeForce: 400, 500, 600, 700 series

• nVidia GeForce GTX 965M & 980M

• nVidia Quadro: 2000, 4000 (Windows® and Mac OS), CX, 5000, 6000, K600, K2000, K4000, K5000 (Windows® and

Mac OS),

• nVidia GRID K1, K2

• AMD/ATI Radeon: 5000, 6000, 7000, R7, R9 series, 7950 Mac OS

M4000, M5000, P2000, P4000, P5000

• AMD/ATI FirePro: 3800, 4800, 5800, 7800, 8800, 9800, 3900, 4900, 5900, 7900, W8100, W9100, D300, D500, D700

• AMD/ATI FireGL: W5000, W7000, W8000

• AMD RX 480

• nVidia GeForce 1080 GTX

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• Intel® HD Graphics: P530, P630, 5000, 515, 520

• Intel® Iris Pro Graphics: P5200, P6300, P580

• Intel HD Graphics 515 and 520

Note: Tested cards may not meet the minimum bar for use with all GPU features. In addition to basic functionality, some Photoshop features, especially those which use APIs like OpenCL, require greater bandwidth, memory, or compute resources than other Photoshop features. These requirements can pose significant challenges when cards are placed in older machines, such as ones with low-powered motherboards or machines that make use of a single DIMM for their system memory, effectively halving the bandwidth between the system memory and the GPU memory.Additionally, the relevant tests are performed when Photoshop starts up. On computers barely meeting the requirements, other running software may tip the balance from a card passing to failing. At times, OS updates, patches, and driver updates may cause issues with cards that were previously working fine. We recommend you use the latest system and GPU hardware to make the most of GPU features in Photoshop.

Note: Ensure that you have the latest driver for your specific graphic processor installed. Laptop and desktop versions of the graphics processor have slightly different names.

Don't see your card in the list?

The list of graphics processor cards above is updated as newly released cards are tested. However, Adobe cannot test all cards in a timely manner. If your cards is not listed above, but meets the following requirements, you can assume that it works with the latest version of Photoshop CC:

• The card was released in the year 2014 or afterwards

• It has the minimum amount of graphics processor VRAM required for Photoshop (512 MB). The recommended

amount of VRAM is 2 GB or more, though.

Unsupported card series

The following card series are no longer being tested and are not officially supported in Photoshop:

• AMD/ATI 100, 200, 3000, and 4000 series

• nVidia GeForce 7000, 8000, 9000, 100, 200, 300 series

• Older Intel® HD Graphics (for example 2000, 3000, 4000 series) cards

Some GL functionality may be available for these cards, but newer features won't work.

System Requirements | Adobe Camera Raw

The Adobe Camera Raw plug-in gives you ability to import and work with camera raw files in Photoshop. You can also use Camera Raw to work with JPEG and TIFF files.

Your computer may need to meet additional system requirements to work efficiently with Adobe Camera Raw. See

Adobe Camera Raw | System requirements for details.

Unsupported video adapters on macOS

Adobe Camera Raw does not support the following video adapters on macOS:

• AMD Radeon HD 6000M series

• Intel HD 3000/4000Windows

• NVIDIA GeForce 9400/9400M

• NVIDIA GeForce 320M

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• NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M

• NVIDIA GeForce GT 120/GT 130

• NVIDIA GeForce 210

• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

• NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

• NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT/GS

• NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT

• NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT

• NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800N

• NVIDIA GeForce NVS 3100M

System requirements | Older versions of Photoshop

See Older versions of Photoshop | System requirements and supported languages .

Migrate presets, actions, and settings

Presets, settings, and actions

Presets are collections of items and values that are applied to artwork in Photoshop. You can save and load presets, or replace them with custom values at any time. Actions, brushes, and keyboard shortcuts are examples of presets. Photoshop comes with presets, but you can also create your own.

Settings are actual values that are currently loaded in Photoshop. They control various elements and tools in the application, such as your current brush and all its values.

Actions are series of tasks that you play back on a single file or a batch of files—menu commands, panel options, tool actions, and so on. For example, an action can change the size of an image, apply an effect to that image, and then saves the file in the desired format.

Migrate presets

You can migrate your custom preset collections, as well as some Photoshop presets, from one version of Photoshop to another on the same computer. The presets you can migrate include:

• Actions

• Brushes

• Black and White (Adjustment)

• Channel Mixer (Adjustment)

• Color Range

• Color Swatches

• Contours

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• Curves (Adjustment)

• Custom Shapes

• Doutone (Mono, Duo, Tri, Quad)

• Exposure (Adjustment)

• Gradients

• HDR Toning (Adjustment)

• Hue and Saturation (Adjustment)

• Keyboard Shortcuts

• Levels (Adjustment)

• Lighting Effects

• Lights (3D)

• Materials (3D)

• Menu Customization

• Patterns

• Render Settings (3D)

• Repousse (3D)

• Selective Color (Adjustment)

• Styles

• To o l s

• Vo l u m e s (3D )

Migrate presets while updating Photoshop

By default, when you update to the latest version of Photoshop CC using the Creative Cloud desktop app, your presets, settings, and preferences are migrated from the earlier version of Photoshop. Also, when you launch Photoshop for the first time, you're prompted to migrate all available presets from the most recent version of Photoshop installed on your computer.

Presets can be migrated from the latest version installed before Photoshop CC, going back to Photoshop CS3. To migrate from multiple versions of Photoshop, migrate presets

Note: You can, however, choose not to migrate them by deselecting Advanced Options > Import Previous Version Settings And Preferences on the confirmation screen that appears after you click Update in the Creative Cloud desktop app.

sequentially from one version of Photoshop at a time.

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The Creative Cloud desktop app

Advanced options available after you click Update in the Creative Cloud desktop app

Migrate presets after installing/updating Photoshop

If you chose not to migrate your presets when you updated Photoshop CC, or if you faced issues while migrating presets, you can select Edit > Presets > Migrate Presets to migrate presets, settings, and preferences later in Photoshop. Photoshop looks for an older version of Photoshop on the same system and prompts you to migrate presets.

Export and import presets

You can bring your presets from one computer to another, or to an offline computer, by manually exporting them and then importing. The Export/Import Presets is not restricted to computers running Photoshop as part of Creative Cloud.

SOURCE COMPUTER: On the computer that has the presets you want to migrate, do the following:

1 Open Photoshop.

2 Choose Edit > Presets > Export/Import Presets.

3 Choose Export Presets.

4 Select the desired presets and move them to the Presets To Export column.

5 Click Export Presets.

6 Select the folder to export your presets to. Choose a folder you can use to transfer the files using a USB drive,

network, or an online sharing service.

7 Click OK.

TARG ET COMPUTER: On the computer receiving the imported settings, do the following:

1 Choose Edit > Presets > Export/Import Presets.

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2 Select Import Presets.

3 Select the presets you want to import, or click Add All.

4 If you saved your presets to a folder that is not the default, choose Select Import Folder, and select the appropriate

folder.

5 Click Import Presets.

Save and load presets

You can move actions and presets across different versions of Photoshop on same or different desktops by saving them and loading them into the target application.

SOURCE COMPUTER: On the computer that has the presets you want to migrate, do the following:

1 Open Photoshop.

2 Choose Edit > Presets > Presets Manager.

3 Choose the desired option from the Preset Type drop-down menu. For example, choose Brushes.

4 Select the desired presets. For example, select the brushes that you want to migrate.

5 Click Save Set and then, click Save. For a set of Brushes, then Photoshop creates a .ABR file at the following location

by default:

• (Windows) C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC*<version>\Presets\Brushes

• (macOS) Applications/Adobe Photoshop <version>/Presets/Brushes

TARG ET COMPUTER: On the computer receiving the imported settings, do the following:

1 Choose Edit > Presets > Presets Manager.

2 Click Load in the Presets Manager dialog box.

3 Select the saved set you want to load.

4 Click Load.

Migrate actions

See Migrate actions .

Manually copy settings

Photoshop has a number of setting files that you can manually copy from one installation to another. These files include:

• Actions Palette.psp

• Brushes.psp

• Contours.psp

• CustomShapes.psp

• Default Type Styles.psp

• Gradients.psp

• Patterns.psp

• Styles.psp

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• Swatches.psp

• To o l Pr e s et s . ps p

To move these settings to a new installation, copy these files from the following path on the source installation to the same path on the target installation:

• Mac:<Username>/Library/Preferences/Adobe Photoshop CC*<version> Settings

• Wi n d ow s : C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC*<version>\Adobe Photoshop

CC*version Settings

System requirements | Older versions of Photoshop

Note: For system requirements and list of languages supported in the latest version of Photoshop CC, see System

requirements | Photoshop.

Photoshop CC 2015.x system requirements

Windows

• Intel® Core 2 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor; 2 GHz or faster processor

• Microsoft Windows 7 with Service Pack 1, Windows 8.1, or Windows 10

• 2 GB of RAM (8 GB recommended)

• 2.6 GB of available hard-disk space for 32-bit installation; 3.1 GB of available hard-disk space for 64-bit installation;

additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system)

• 1024 x 768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit color and 512 MB of dedicated VRAM; 2 GB is

recommended*

• OpenGL 2.0–capable system

• Internet connection and registration are necessary for required software activation, validation of subscriptions, and

access to online services.**

Mac OS

• Multicore Intel processor

• Mac OS X v10.9 (64-bit), v10.10 (64-bit), or v10.11 (64-bit)

• 2 GB of RAM (8 GB recommended)

• 4 GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install

on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system)

• 1024 x 768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit color and 512 MB of dedicated VRAM; 2 GB is

recommended*

• OpenGL 2.0–capable system

• Internet connection and registration are necessary for required software activation, membership validation, and

access to online services.**

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* 3D features are disabled on 32-bit platforms and on computers having less than 512MB of VRAM. Video features are not supported on 32-bit Windows systems.

http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/legal.html). Applications and Services may not

be available in all countries or languages and may be subject to change or discontinuation without notice. Additional fees or membership charges may apply.

*** Design Space (Preview) may have system requirements in addition to the ones listed above. See Design Space

(Preview) Help for more information.

Language versions

Photoshop CC 2015.x is available in the following languages:

Dansk

Deutsch

English

Español

Français

Français*

Hebrew*

Hungarian

Italiano

Nederlands

Norwegian

Polish

Português (Brasil)

Suomi

Svenska

Tu rk i s h

Ukrainian

čeština

Русский

????*

???

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Photoshop CC 2014 system requirements

Windows

• Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor (2 GHz or faster)

• Microsoft® Windows® 7 with Service Pack 1, Windows 8, or Windows 8.1

• 2 GB of RAM (8 GB recommended)

• 2 GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install

on removable flash storage devices)

• 1024 x 768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit color and 512 MB of VRAM (1 GB recommended)**

• OpenGL 2.0–capable system

• Internet connection and registration are necessary for required software activation, validation of subscriptions, and

access to online services.*

Mac OS

• Multicore Intel processor with 64-bit support

• Mac OS X v10.7, v10.8, v10.9, or v10.10

• 2 GB of RAM (8 GB recommended)

• 3.2 GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install

on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash storage devices)

• 1024 x 768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit color and 512 MB of VRAM (1 GB recommended)**

• OpenGL 2.0–capable system

• Internet connection and registration are necessary for required software activation, membership validation, and

access to online services.*

* Video features are not supported on 32-bit Windows systems.

* NOTE: Internet connection, Adobe ID, and acceptance of license agreement required to activate and use this product. This product may integrate with or allow access to certain Adobe or third-party hosted online services. Adobe services are available only to users 13 and older and require agreement to additional Applications and services may not be available in all countries or languages and may be subject to change or discontinuation without notice. Additional fees or membership charges may apply.

** 3D features are disabled and some Mercury Graphics Engine enhanced features may not work with less than 512MB VRAM. Read the

Help article.

Language versions

Photoshop CC 2014 is available in the following languages:

Dansk

Deutsch

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English

Español

Français

Français*

Hebrew*

Hungarian

Italiano

Nederlands

Norwegian

Polish

Português (Brasil)

Suomi

Svenska

Tu rk i s h

Ukrainian

čeština

Русский

????*

???

????

???

Photoshop CC system requirements

Windows

• Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor (2 GHz or faster)

• Microsoft® Windows® 7 with Service Pack 1, Windows 8, or Windows 8.1 *

• 1 GB of RAM

• 2.5 GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install

on removable flash storage devices)

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• 1024 x 768 display (1280 x 800 recommended) with OpenGL® 2.0, 16-bit color, and 512 MB of VRAM (1 GB

recommended)**

• Internet connection and registration are necessary for required software activation, membership validation, and

access to online services.†

Mac OS

• Multicore Intel processor with 64-bit support

• Mac OS X v10.7, v10.8, or v10.9

• 1 GB of RAM

• 3.2 GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install

on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash storage devices)

• 1024 x 768 display (1280 x 800 recommended) with OpenGL 2.0, 16-bit color, and 512 MB of VRAM (1 GB

recommended)**

• Internet connection and registration are necessary for required software activation, membership validation, and

access to online services.†

* Video features are not supported on 32-bit Windows systems.

** 3D features are disabled with less than 512 MB of VRAM. Read the Help article.

†  is product may integrate with or allow access to certain Adobe or third-party hosted online services. Adobe online services, including the Adobe® Creative Cloud™ service, are available only to users 13 and older and require agreement to additional countries or languages, may require user registration, and may be subject to change or discontinuation without notice. Additional fees or membership charges may apply.

terms and Adobe's online privacy policy. The applications and online services are not available in all

Legacy versions

Photoshop CS6

Windows

• Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor

• Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 3 orMicrosoft Windows 7 with Service Pack 1. Adobe® Creative Suite®

5.5 and CS6 applications also support Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. See the CS6 FAQ for more information about Window s 8 s u pport.*

• 1 GB of RAM

• 1 GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install

on removable flash storage devices)

• 1024 x 768 display (1280 x 800 recommended) with 16-bit color and 512 MB (1 GB recommended) of VRAM

• OpenGL 2.0–capable system

• DVD-ROM drive

• This software doesn't operate without activation. Broadband Internet connection and registration are required for

software activation, validation of subscriptions, and access to online services.

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† Phone activation is not available.

Mac OS

• Multicore Intel processor with 64-bit support

• Mac OS X v10.6.8 or v10.7. Adobe Creative Suite 3, 4, 5, CS5.5, and CS6 applications support Mac OS X v10.8 or

v10.9 when installed on Intel-based systems.**

• 1 GB of RAM

• 2 GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install

on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash storage devices)

• 1024 x 768 display (1280 x 800 recommended) with 16-bit color and 512 MB (1 GB recommended) of VRAM

• OpenGL 2.0–capable system

• DVD-ROM drive

• This software doesn't operate without activation. Broadband Internet connection and registration are required for

software activation, validation of subscriptions, and access to online services.

† Phone activation is not available.

Photoshop CS5

Windows

• Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor

• Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 3; Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise

with Service Pack 1 (Service Pack 2 recommended); or Windows 7

• 1 GB of RAM

• 1 GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install

on removable flash-based storage devices)

• 1024 x 768 display (1280 x 800 recommended) with qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics adapter, 16-

bit color, and 256 MB of VRAM

• Some GPU-accelerated features require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0

• DVD-ROM drive

• QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for multimedia features

• Broadband Internet connection required for online services*

Mac OS

• Multicore Intel processor

• Mac OS X v10.5.7 or v10.6

• 1 GB of RAM

• 2 GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install

on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash-based storage devices)

• 1024 x 768 display (1280 x 800 recommended) with qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics adapter, 16-

bit color, and 256 MB of VRAM

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• Some GPU-accelerated features require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0

• DVD-ROM drive

• QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for multimedia features

• Broadband Internet connection required for online services*

*This product may allow you to extend its functionality by accessing certain features that are hosted online, including CS Live online services ("Online Services"), provided you have a high-speed Internet connection. The Online Services, and some features thereof, may not be available in all countries, languages, or currencies and may be discontinued in whole or in part without notice. Use of the Online Services is governed by separate terms of use and by the Online Privacy Policy, and access to some services may require user registration. Some Online Services, including services that are initially offered at no charge, may be subject to additional fees and require a separate subscription. For more details and to review the applicable

Photoshop CS4

Windows

• 1.8 GHz or faster processor

• Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 (Service Pack 3 recommended) or Windows Vista® Home Premium,

Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1 (certified for 32-bit Windows XP and 32-bit and 64-bit Window s Vi sta)

• 512 MB of RAM (1 GB recommended)

• 1 GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install

on flash-based storage devices)

• 1,024 x 768 display (1,280 x 800 recommended) with 16-bit graphics adapter

• Some GPU-accelerated features require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0

• DVD-ROM drive

• QuickTime 7.2 software required for multimedia features

• Broadband Internet connection required for online services*

Windows 7 compatibility

Mac OS

• PowerPC® G5 or multicore Intel® processor

• Mac OS X v10.4.11–10.5.4

• 512 MB of RAM (1 GB recommended)

• 2 GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install

on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on flash-based storage devices)

• 1,024 x 768 display (1,280 x 800 recommended) with 16-bit graphics adapter

• Some GPU-accelerated features require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0

• DVD-ROM drive

• QuickTime 7.2 software required for multimedia features

• Broadband Internet connection required for online services*

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Snow Leopard compatibility

*This product may allow you to access certain features that are hosted online ("online services"), provided you have a high-speed Internet connection. The online services, and some features thereof, aren't available in all countries, languages, or currencies and can be discontinued in whole or in part without notice. Use of the online services is governed by separate terms of use and by the Adobe Online Privacy Policy. Access to these services sometimes requires user registration. Some online services, including services that are initially offered at no charge, may be subject to additional fees. For more details, review the

Photoshop CS3

Windows

• Pentium 4, Intel Centrino, Intel Xeon, or Intel Core Duo (or compatible) processor

• Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise

(certified for 32-bit editions)

• 512 MB of RAM

• 64 MB of video RAM

• 1 GB of available hard-disk space (additional free space required during installation)

• 1,024 x 768 monitor resolution with 16-bit graphics adapter

• DVD-ROM drive

• QuickTime 7 software required for multimedia features

• Internet or phone connection required for product activation

• Broadband Internet connection required for Adobe Stock Photos* and other services

Mac OS

• PowerPC G4 or G5 or multicore Intel processor

• Mac OS X v10.4.8-10.5 (Leopard)

• 512 MB of RAM

• 64 MB of video RAM

• 2 GB of available hard-disk space (additional free space required during installation)

• 1,024 x 768 monitor resolution with 16-bit graphics adapter

• DVD-ROM drive

• QuickTime 7 software required for multimedia features

• Internet or phone connection required for product activation

• Broadband Internet connection required for Adobe Stock Photos* and other services

*Online services, including, but not limited to, Adobe Stock Photos and Adobe Connect, may not be available in all countries, languages, and currencies. Availability of services is subject to change. Use of online services is governed by terms and conditions of a separate agreement and may be subject to additional fees.

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Windows

• Intel® Xeon™, Xeon Dual, Intel Centrino™, or Pentium® III or 4 processor

• Microsoft® Windows® 2000 with Service Pack 4, or Windows XP with Service Pack 1 or 2

• 320 MB of RAM (384 MB recommended)

• 650 MB of available hard-disk space

• 1,024 x 768 monitor resolution with 16-bit graphics adapter

• CD-ROM drive

• Internet or phone connection required for product activation

Mac OS

• PowerPC® G3, G4, or G5 processor

• Mac OS X v.10.2.8 through v.10.3.8 (10.3.4 through 10.3.8 recommended)

• 320 MB of RAM (384 MB recommended)

• 750 MB of available hard-disk space

• 1,024 x 768 monitor resolution with 16-bit graphics adapter

• CD-ROM drive

• Internet or phone connection required for product activation

Photoshop CS

Windows

• Intel Pentium III or 4 processor

• Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Pack 3 or Windows XP

• 192 MB of RAM (256 MB recommended)

• 280 MB of available hard-disk space

• Color monitor with 16-bit color or greater graphics adapter

• 1,024 x 768 or greater monitor resolution

• CD-ROM drive

• Internet or phone connection required for product activation

Mac OS

• PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor

• Mac OS X v.10.2.4, 10.2.5, 10.2.6, or 10.2.7

• 192 MB of RAM (256 MB recommended)

• 320 MB of available hard-disk space

• Color monitor with 16-bit color or greater graphics adapter

• 1,024 x 768 or greater monitor resolution

• CD-ROM drive

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• Internet or phone connection required for product activation

Photoshop 7

Windows

• Pentium III or 4 processor

• Microsoft Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows NT with Service

Pack 6a, Windows 2000 with Service Pack 2, or Windows XP

• 128 MB of RAM (192 MB of RAM recommended)

• 280 MB of available hard-disk space

• Color monitor with 16-bit color or greater graphics adapter

• 800 x 600 or greater monitor resolution

• CD-ROM drive

Mac OS

• PowerPC G3, G4, or G4 dual processor

• Mac OS 9.1, 9.2, or Mac OS X v.10.1.3

• 128 MB of RAM (192 MB of RAM recommended)

• 320 MB of hard-disk space

• Color monitor with 16-bit color or greater graphics adapter

• 800 x 600 or greater monitor resolution

• CD-ROM drive

Photoshop 6

Windows

• Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 4, 5, or 6a, or Windows Millennium

• Microsoft Windows 98/Millennium/2000/NT 4.0 (Service Pack 4, 5, or 6a required)

• 64 MB of RAM (128 MB of RAM required for running Photoshop and ImageReady concurrently)

• 125 of MB hard-disk space

• Color monitor with 256-color (8-bit) or greater graphics adapter

• 800 x 600 or greater monitor resolution

• CD-ROM drive

Mac OS

• PowerPC based Macintosh computer

• Mac OS software version 8.5, 8.6, or 9.0

• 64 of MB of RAM (with virtual memory on) (128 MB of RAM required for running Photoshop and ImageReady

concurrently)

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• 125 of MB of available hard-disk space

• Color monitor with 256-color (8-bit) or greater graphics adapter

• 800 x 600 or greater monitor resolution

• CD-ROM drive

Photoshop 5.5

Windows

• Pentium or faster Intel processor

• Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows NT 4.0 or later

• 64 of MB of RAM (96 MB recommended for running Photoshop and ImageReady concurrently)

• 125 of MB of available hard-disk space

• 256-color (8-bit) display adapter (24 bit recommended)

• CD-ROM drive

• Sound card recommended for viewing interactive tutorial files

Mac OS

• PowerPC based Macintosh computer

• Apple System Software 7.6 or later

• 64 MB of RAM (96 MB recommended for running Photoshop and ImageReady concurrently)

• 125 MB of available hard-disk space

• Color monitor with 256-color (8-bit) or greater graphics adapter (24-bit color recommended)

• CD-ROM drive

Photoshop 5

Windows

• Pentium or faster Intel processor

• Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0 or later

• 32 MB of RAM (64 MB recommended)

• 80 MB of available hard-disk space

• 256-color (8-bit) display adapter (24-bit color recommended)

• CD-ROM drive

• Sound card recommended for viewing interactive tutorial files

Mac OS

• PowerPC based Macintosh computer

• Apple System Software 7.5 or later

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• 32 MB of RAM (64 MB recommended)

• 80 MB of available hard-disk space

• Color monitor with 256-color (8-bit) or greater video card (24-bit color recommended)

• CD-ROM drive

Photoshop 4

Windows

• i486 or faster Intel processor

• Windows 3.1 with DOS 5.0, or Windows 95, or Windows NT 3.5.1 or later

• 16 MB of RAM

• 25 of MB available hard-disk space

• 256-color display adapter

• CD-ROM drive

Mac OS

• 68030 or greater processor, including Power Macintosh

• Apple System Software 7.1 or later (7.1.2 or later for Power Macintosh)

• 16 MB of RAM

• 25 MB of available hard-disk space

• Color monitor with 8-bit or greater graphics adapter

• CD-ROM drive

Recommendations

• Power Macintosh

• Apple System Software 7.5 or later

• 32 MB of RAM

• 25 MB of available hard-disk space

• Color monitor with 24-bit graphics adapter

• Acceleration products bearing the Adobe Charged logo

Photoshop 3

Windows

• i386, i486, or Pentium processor

• DOS 5.0 or greater

• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or Windows NT 3.5

• 10 MB of RAM (16 MB for Windows NT)

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• Hard disk with at least 20 MB of free space

• 256-color display adapter

Recommendations

• Pentium processor

• DOS 6.0 or greater

• At least 16 MB of RAM (32 MB for Windows NT)

• 24-bit color display adapter

• Sound card and CD-ROM drive

• Acceleration products bearing the Adobe Charged logo

Mac OS

• Macintosh with 68020 or greater processor, including Power Macintosh

• Apple System Software version 7.0 or greater

• 6 MB of application RAM for Macintosh 68020-68040

• 11 MB of application RAM for Power Macintosh

• Hard disk with at least 20 MB of free space for virtual memory

• Recommendations

• Macintosh with 68040 or greater processor or Power Macintosh

• Apple System Software version 7.1.2 or greater

• 16 MB of application RAM for Macintosh 68020-68040

• 24 MB of application RAM for Power Macintosh

• Color monitor with 24-bit video card

• CD-ROM drive (for Deluxe CD-ROM)

• Acceleration products bearing the Adobe Charged logoMac OS

Unix

• Sun SPARCstation 2, IPX, or faster workstation

• Solaris 2.3 or 2.4 operating system

• OPEN LOOK or Motif window manager

• CD-ROM drive

• 32 MB of RAM

• 80 MB of swap space

• Hard disk space:

• 32 MB for Adobe Photoshop files and executables (required); 160 MB for Adobe Photoshop sample files and stock

photography files (optional)

• Additional hard disk space is required to accommodate runtime requirements

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Photoshop 2.5

Mac OS

• Macintosh computer with a 68020 or faster processor

• Apple System Software version 6.0.7 or greater

• 32-bit QuickDraw extension (included)

• 3 MB of application RAM

• Hard disk

• Recommendations

• 68030 or faster processor

• Apple System Software version 7 or greater

• 4 to 8 MB or more of application RAM

• Color monitor with 24-bit video card

• Acceleration products bearing the Adobe Charged logo

• Supports ColorSync, Apple's color management software

• TWAIN compatible

Unix

• Sun SPARCstation 2, IPX, or faster workstation

• Solaris 2.3 operating system

• Open Windows or Motif window manager

• 32 MB of RAM

• Hard disk

• CD-ROM drive

• Recommendations

• Sun SPARCstation 10 or 10SX

• 48 MB of RAM or more

• 24-bit color capability

• Acceleration products bearing the Adobe Charged logo

Photoshop 2

Mac OS

• Macintosh II product line or SE product line with at least 2 MB of RAM, system 6.0.4 (or later) and a hard disk.

• Recommendations

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• 68020 processor or greater, a color monitor and 4 MB of RAM.

Photoshop 1

Mac OS

• Macintosh II product line or SE product line with at least 2 MB of RAM, system 6.0.3 (or later) and a hard disk.

• Recommendations

• 68020 processor or greater and color monitor.

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Photoshop and Adobe Stock

Adobe Stock provides designers and businesses with access to millions of high-quality, curated, royalty-free photos, videos, illustrations, and vector graphics for all their creative projects. You can purchase Adobe Stock on an as-needed basis as a single asset or you can purchase a multi-asset subscription. A number of subscription packages are available.

Use templates from Adobe Stock

Templates from Adobe Stock are available from right within the New Document dialog box in Photoshop. While creating a document, instead of beginning with a blank canvas, you can choose from a wide variety of these templates that include stock images, illustrations, and graphics.

Once you license and open a template, you can work with it just as you would work with any other Photoshop document.

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New Document dialog | Templates from Adobe Stock

Search for stock images from within Photoshop

• In Photoshop, select File > Search Adobe Stock.

Use stock images in your Photoshop documents

Adobe Stock is deeply integrated with Creative Cloud Libraries. You can add a watermarked stock asset to any of your libraries directly using the Adobe Stock website. You can then use the watermarked asset in your Photoshop documents as a library-linked asset.

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When you choose to license the asset—which you can do directly from within Photoshop—all instances of the watermarked asset in your open documents are updated to the high-resolution licensed asset.

For more information, see Use Adobe Stock in apps supporting Creative Cloud Libraries .

Creative Cloud Libraries in Photoshop

Creative Cloud Libraries is a web service that allows you to access your assets across various Adobe desktop and mobile applications. You can add graphics, colors, text styles, brushes, and layer styles to libraries in Photoshop and then easily access those elements in several Creative Cloud apps.

A first look at Creative Cloud Libraries

Libraries sync status | J Delete | K Show items in a list | L Libraries options | M Show items as icons

Create a library

1 In Photoshop, select Window > Libraries.

2 In the Libraries panel, select Create New Library from the pop-up menu.

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Create a library

In the dialog box that appears, enter a name for the new library and click Create.

The new library is now available in the Libraries panel.

Create new library from a document

When you open a document containing assets that can be automatically added to a library, Photoshop prompts you to create a new library. There are four types of assets that can be automatically added to a library from a document:

• Character styles

• Colors

• Layer styles

• Smart objects

Based on the contents of the document, Photoshop shows you the count for each type of asset.

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Create new library from a document

You can also create a new library from a document in one of the following ways:

• From the Libraries panel options, select Create New Library From Document

• Click the Library from Document ( ) icon at the bottom of the Libraries panel.

• Click Library from Document in the Libraries panel. This option is available only if your current library is empty.

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Linked and unlinked assets

You can use assets in libraries as linked assets or unlinked assets in your Photoshop documents. Library-linked assets are instances that stay associated with the original asset in the library. When the original asset in the library is updated, its instances in your Photoshop documents are automatically updated. Any effects that you applied to the instances are retained as well. Library-linked assets are similar in their behavior to Linked Smart Objects.

Unlinked assets, on the other hand, are embedded in your Photoshop documents and are decoupled from the original asset in the library. Unlinked assets are not updated automatically when the original asset changes.

Use library-linked assets in your Photoshop document

• In the Libraries panel, right-click an asset in a library and select Place Linked from the context menu.

Photoshop places the asset in your Photoshop document as a new layer. The layer thumbnail displays a cloud icon ( ) indicating that the layer is linked to a library asset.

A layer containing a library-linked asset

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File sync

Creative sync makes your libraries accessible across multiple applications, devices, and the web automatically. For cross-device syncing to work, file sync must be enabled in the Creative Cloud desktop app. You can check the status of library syncing by the Creative Cloud icon in the Libraries panel.

Library sync status A Sync enabled B Sync disabled

On your local desktop machine all apps share a single local cache for your libraries data. This enables optimal use of disk space and network bandwidth as well as near-instant propagation of libraries changes between local apps, even when you are not connected to the network.

Turn on file sync

• In the Creative Cloud Desktop app, select > Preferences.

• Select Creative Cloud > Files.

• For the Sync ON/OFF setting, select On.

When you turn on file sync, libraries start syncing. Your libraries are kept up to date across devices. File syncing may take some time, depending on the volume of content in your libraries.

Syncing libraries

Add assets to the library

Open the file containing your assets. You can add graphics, colors, text styles, and layer styles to the library. You can also add assets to the library from

Add graphics

1 Select the appropriate layers or layer groups containing the graphic asset in the Layers panel.

2 Select the Move tool. .

3 Drag and drop the layers or layer groups into the Libraries panel.

The graphic asset is now available in the library.

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Graphic assets added to a library.

Add layer styles, character styles, and colors

1 In the Layers panel, select the appropriate layer containing the asset.

2 Click an icon in the Libraries panel.

Add layer styles, character styles, or colors A Add Character Style | B Add Layer Style | C Add Color

The assets are now available in the library.

Note: Layer Styles apply only to Photoshop layers. Although you can add these styles to a library, you cannot use them in other Creative Cloud desktop applications that support Creative Cloud Libraries.

You can also drag brush presets from Brush Presets panel, layers from Layers panel, colors from Swatches panel, and layers styles from Styles panel and drop them in the Libraries panel.

Add assets from Adobe Stock

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Adobe Stock is deeply integrated with Creative Cloud Libraries. You can add a watermarked stock image to any of your libraries directly using the Adobe Stock website. You can then use the watermarked image in your Photoshop documents as a library-linked asset.

When you choose to license the image—which you can do directly from within the Libraries panel in Photoshop—all instances of the watermarked asset in your open documents are updated to the high-resolution licensed image.

For more information, see these resources:

• Use Adobe Stock in apps supporting Creative Cloud Libraries

Add assets from Creative Cloud Market

You can use the Creative Cloud for desktop app to browse and add assets from Creative Cloud Market.

1 Launch the Creative Cloud for desktop app.

2 Go to the Assets tab and select Market.

Creative Cloud for desktop

1 Browse and select the asset you want to add to the library.

2 Select the library you created in Adobe Photoshop from the pop-up menu.

Add asset from Creative Cloud Market

The asset is now available in the library.

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Add assets from other Adobe applications

You can add assets from other Adobe applications, such as Adobe Illustrator, and mobile applications, such as Adobe Brush. Creative Cloud keeps all the assets in sync and you can use these assets in Photoshop.

For more information, see Apps supporting Creative Cloud Libraries .

Library search

Adobe Stock search from Libraries panel

The search box in the Libraries panel enables you to search for the right asset, quickly and efficiently. You can modify your search based on the following available options:

Adobe Stock Search for the assets in Adobe Stock from directly within the Libraries panel.

Current Library Perform a search for your asset within your current library.

All Libraries Perform a search for your asset across all your libraries.

Find stock images visually similar to a library element

The visual search functionality in the Libraries panel lets you quickly find stock images similar to a library element. Follow these steps:

• In the Libraries panel, right-click an element and then select Find Similar from the context menu.

Photoshop displays the search results right within the Libraries panel.

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Use the Adobe Color Themes extension

The Adobe Color service helps you choose harmonious and appealing color combinations for your design projects. Adobe Color is integrated right within Photoshop in the form of an extension that lets you create, save, and access your color themes. You can also explore the many public color themes available on Adobe Color and filter them in several ways: Most Popular, Most Used, Random, themes you've published, or themes you've appreciated in the past. Once you've found a theme that you like; you can edit it and and save it to your themes, or add it to your swatches in Photoshop.

Aside from Photoshop, the Adobe Color Themes extension is currently available in three other Creative Cloud desktop applications: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign and Adobe After Effects. Themes saved to Creative Cloud libraries from within these desktop apps, mobile apps such as Capture CC, or using the seamlessly in Photoshop.

Additionally, Adobe Color Themes panel is your portal to groups of colors, or themes, created by an online community of designers. Using the Adobe Color Themes panel, you can create or edit thousands of themes, and then use them in your projects.

You can also use the this panel to share your themes with the community by uploading them.

Adobe Color website are accessible

Access the Adobe Color Themes panel

• In Photoshop, select Window > Extensions > Adobe Color Themes.

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Explore color themes

Explore themes

1 Click the Explore tab in the Adobe Color Themes panel. By default, the Explore tab displays all public color themes.

2 If necessary, filter the color themes by a category and a timeframe. Use the search bar if you're looking for a specific

theme.

Work with the color theme

Once you've found a theme that you like; click icon to choose the desired option from the flyout menu of a color theme using the Adobe Color Themes panel:

Options available for color themes under the Explore tab

Edit This Theme Opens the selected color theme in the Create tab of the Adobe Colors Theme panel. You can modify

and work with the colors present in the theme as desired and save it in your Creative Cloud Libraries.

Note: Alternatively, you can click the name of a color theme to edit it.

Add To Swatches Saves the selected color theme in the Swatches panel.

View Online View the color theme and related information, such as who created this color theme, the date of sharing

this color theme, ratings and reviews, and so on in your browser. You can also appreciate, save, share, and edit this theme from your browser.

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View a color theme online

Create and save a color theme

1 Click the Create tab in the Adobe Color Themes panel.

2 Select the color rule on which you want to base the theme: Analogous, Monochromatic, Triad, Complementary,

Compound, Shades, or Custom. For details, see

Now, choose a base color by clicking the little triangle corresponding to a color in the theme you're editing. Based upon the color rule selected, a color theme is automatically built around the base color.

Choose a base color

While a color is selected, you can adjust it either using the color wheel or by changing its value in one of the following color systems: CMYK, RGB, LAB, HSB, or HEX.

1 (Optional) You can choose one of the following options while creating a color theme:

• Click the Set Selected Color From Active Color icon ( ) to add the active color from Illustrator workspace to

your color theme.

• Click the Click To Set Active Color icon ( ) to set the active color in the Illustrator workspace from your color

theme.

• Click the Add To Swatches icon ( ) to add your color theme to the Swatches panel.

Color rules.

2 Enter a name for the new color theme. Click Save.

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3 Choose the Creative Cloud library to which you want to save the theme.

Save the new theme to a library

Click Save.

Note: Depending on whether you're logged in using your Adobe ID or your enterprise credentials, different sets of libraries may be available for saving themes. Select Help > Manage My Account to check the credentials with which you're logged in. If you land at the authentication screen for your organization when you select this option, you're logged in using your enterprise credentials.The same email ID may be associated with an Adobe ID as well as an enterprise ID.

Color rules

Analogous Uses colors that are adjacent on the color wheel. Analogous colors usually blend well with one another and

are harmonious and pleasing to the eye.

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Example: Analogous color rule

Monochromatic Uses variations in saturation and brightness of a single color. When you use this color rule, you're

presented with five colors sharing the same hue (example: H:182) but different saturation and brightness values. Monochromatic colors go well together and produce a soothing effect.

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Example: Monochromatic color rule

Tri ad Uses colors evenly spaced around three equidistant points on the color wheel. When you use this color rule,

you're presented with two colors with the same hue but different saturation and brightness values from the first point on the color wheel (example: HSB: 182, 90, 45 & HSB: 182, 100, 75), two from the second point on the color wheel (HSB: 51, 90, 55 & HSB: 51, 95, 45), and one color from the third point (HSB: 321, 90, 79). Triadic colors tend to be contrasting—albeit not as contrasting as complementary colors—while still retaining harmony when used together.

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Example: Triad color rule

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Example: Monochromatic color rule

Complementary Uses colors opposite to each other on the color wheel. When you use this color rule, you are presented

with two colors with the same hue as the base color (example: HSB: 182, 100, 45 & HSB: 182, 90, 100), the base color itself (HSB: 182, 100, 75), and two colors with the same hue from the opposite point on the color wheel (HSB: 23, 100, 45 & HSB: 23, 100, 75). Complementary colors provide high contrast and tend to stand out when used together.

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Example: Complementary color rule

Compound Uses a mix of complementary and analogous colors. When you use this color rule, you are presented with

two colors with the same hue that are adjacent (analogous) to the base color (example: HSB: 214, 90, 95 & HSB: 214, 60, 35), the base color itself (HSB: 182, 100, 75), and two colors opposite to the base color (complementary) but adjacent to each other (HSB: 15, 75, 78 & HSB: 6, 90, 95). Compound color themes have the same strong visual contrast as complementary color themes, but they have less pressure.

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Example: Compound color rule

Shades Uses five colors—all sharing the same hue (example: H: 182) and saturation (S: 100) but different brightness

values.

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Shades color rule

Custom Lets you manually select the colors on the color wheel in your palette without any rules controlling them.

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Custom color rule

Access themes saved to your libraries

Access your themes

1 In the Adobe Color Themes panel, click the My Themes tab.

2 Select the Creative Cloud library from which you want to access the color theme.

3 If necessary, select a sorting parameter/order for the listed themes: By Date, By Name, or By Quantity; ascending or

descending.

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Touch capabilities and customizable workspaces

Photoshop now features a modern user experience that provides robust touch capabilities, an updated UI, and customizable toolbar and workspaces.

Touch workspace and gestures

If you own a Photoshop-supported Windows-powered device, such as the Surface Pro, you can use these touch gestures while using Photoshop on it.

Two -Finger Pan

Move two fingers in any direction on the canvas without changing the distance between them or the angle of the line connecting them. You may, this way, pan the canvas view.

Two-Finger Pan and Zoom

Move two fingers toward or away from each other. You may, this way, pan or zoom the canvas view (scaled).

Two-Finger Pan and Rotate

Rotate two fingers around the center of the line connecting them. You may, this way, pan and rotate the canvas.

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Five-Finger Cycle Screen Mode

Tap once with five fingers to cycle through the three application display screen modes, including full screen.

Two-Finger Reset or Restore View

Double-tap two fingers on the tablet surface to reset the view to an unrotated transform that nearly fills the document canvas. Double-tap with two fingers again to restore the view to its previous state.

Three-Finger Step Back in History (Undo)

Move three fingers rapidly from right to left. The document view moves back one step in the change history.

Three-Finger Step Forward in History (Redo)

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Move three fingers rapidly from left to right. The document view moves forward one step in the change history.

Three-Finger History Scrub

Move three fingers from right to left or from left to right. The document view moves continuously through the entire change history.

Two-Finger Free Transform (Pan, Zoom, and Rotate)

• Place two fingers on the tablet surface and rest motionless for a moment.

• Rotate the two fingers around the center of the line connecting them while simultaneously moving them nearer to

or farther from each other.

You may, this way, freely pan, zoom, and rotate the canvas view.

Customizable toolbar and workspaces

Photoshop now features an updated UI. In addition to look-and-feel improvements, it now lets you customize your toolbar and save multiple toolbar configurations as parts of different workspaces. Also, included Photoshop workspaces have been streamlined to give you quick access to only the tools you need.

Customize the toolbar .

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Customize your toolbar

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Photoshop family of mobile apps

Adobe Photoshop Fix

Use Adobe Photoshop Fix to combine the power of Adobe Photoshop desktop software with the convenience of mobile for a creative, easy-to-use photo retouching experience on your iPhone or iPad. Heal, smooth, liquify, lighten, and make other edits and adjustments to your photos to get the precise look you want. What’s more, the Adobe Creative Cloud connected workflows in Fix open up limitless creative possibilities.

Download: iTunes

Adobe Photoshop Fix FAQ

Get started with Photoshop Fix

Adobe Photoshop Mix

Use Adobe Photoshop Mix to combine the power of Adobe Photoshop software with the convenience of mobile for a creative, easy-to-use photo editing experience on your iPhone, iPad, or Android phone. The ability to cut out images, mix them, and edit images non-destructively means your original photo stays untouched. Additionally, the Creative Cloud-connected workflows in Mix open up limitless creative possibilities.

Download: iTunes | Google Play

Adobe Photoshop Mix FAQ

Get started with Photoshop Mix

Adobe Preview CC

Adobe Preview CC is a Photoshop companion iOS app that lets you preview designs in real-time as you edit them in Photoshop. Using Preview CC, you can make sure designs appear on actual devices exactly how you want them to appear. Preview CC speeds up the design process and reduces the time required to test on multiple screen sizes. If you have a document with artboards, Device Preview attempts to show you the correct artboard by matching the size and position of the artboard with the size of the connected device.

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Photoshop Help | Device Preview

Adobe Lightroom for mobile

Bring beautiful images to light with Adobe Lightroom. Powered by the magic of Adobe Photoshop technology, Lightroom for mobile enables you to craft and share professional-quality images from your smartphone or tablet. And when you’re ready to take your photography further, our trial of the Adobe Creative Cloud Photography plan enables you to view, organize, edit, and share your photography across mobile devices, desktop, and the web. It’s all your photography—all in one place.

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Adobe Lightroom for mobile FAQ

Get started with Lightroom for mobile

Adobe Photoshop Sketch

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Adobe Photoshop Sketch brings inspiration, expressive drawing, and your creative community together in one place on your iPhone or iPad. Turn your ideas into sketches and share them on Behance for instant feedback. Sketch gives you the freedom to find inspiration, explore ideas, and get feedback from trusted peers—wherever you are.

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Get started with Photoshop Sketch

Chapter 4: Workspace

Workspace basics

Note: If you're wondering whether Photoshop or Lightroom is the right application for your requirements, this article will help you decide:

You create and manipulate your documents and files using various elements, such as panels, bars, and windows. Any arrangement of these elements is called a workspace. (The workspaces of different Adobe creative applications share similar appearances so that you can move between the applications easily.) You can adapt Photoshop to the way you work by selecting from several preset workspaces or by creating one of your own.

Start workspace

The Start workspace in Photoshop gives you quick access to your recent files, libraries, and presets. Depending on your subscription status, the Start workspace may also display content tailored for your requirements. You can also look for the right Adobe Stock asset for your project directly from within the Start workspace.

Choosing the right photo app .

Photoshop displays the Start workspace at launch or whenever no documents are open.

Note: If necessary, customize the number of recent files displayed. Select Preferences > File Handling and then specify the desired value (0-100) in the Recent File List Contains... field.

The Start workspace

To quit this workspace, simply press the Esc key.

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Work with the Start workspace

Toggle between tile and list views Click the Tile icon ( ) or the List icon ( ).

Find a stock asset Enter a keyword in the Search Stock field. Photoshop displays the search results from Adobe Stock

in a new browser window.

Access your assets Open a recently-opened file or a library. Else, create a new document using a preset.

Disable the Start workspace

1 Select Preferences > General.

2 Deselect Show Start Workspace When No Documents Are Open.

A first look at the Photoshop working area

A: Tools panel | B: History panel | C: Color panel | D: Creative Cloud Libraries panel | E: Layers panel

Interactive image | Click the highlighted areas in the image to view more information about them

Workspace overview

• The Application bar across the top contains a workspace switcher, menus (Windows only), and other application

controls. On the Mac for certain products, you can show or hide it using the Window menu.

• The Tools panel contains tools for creating and editing images, artwork, page elements, and so on. Related tools are

grouped.

• The Options bar Control panel displays options for the currently selected tool.

• The Document window displays the file you’re working on. Document windows can be tabbed and, in certain cases,

grouped and docked.

• Panels help you monitor and modify your work. Panels can be grouped, stacked, or docked.

• The Application frame groups all the workspace elements in a single, integrated window that lets you treat the

application as a single unit. When you move or resize the Application frame or any of its elements, all the elements within it respond to each other so none overlap. Panels don’t disappear when you switch applications or when you accidentally click out of the application. If you work with two or more applications, you can position each application side by side on the screen or on multiple monitors.

If you are using a Mac and prefer the traditional, free-form user interface, you can turn off the Application frame.

Usability features

The Photoshop workspace is easy to use and includes a number of usability features:

• Different brightness levels: Choose Edit > Preference (Windows) or Photoshop > Preferences (Mac OS) and select

a Color Theme swatch in the Interface section.

To quickly decrease brightness, press Shift + 1; to increase brightness, press Shift + 2. (On Mac OS, it’s necessary to also press the FN key.)

• On-image displays: Stay informed as you use your favorite tools. On-image displays show selection dimensions,

transformation angles, and more. To change the placement of the displays, choose an option from the Show Transformation Values in the Interface preferences.

• Maximized screen space: Click the button at the bottom of the toolbar to switch between Standard and Fullscreen

display modes.

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• Set UX color: You can customize the interface to sport one of the following color themes: Black, Dark Gray, Medium

Gray and

1 Choose Edit > Preferences > Interface.

2 Choose the desired color theme.

Available Color Theme options

Light Gray.To do this, follow these steps:

Hide or show all panels

• To hide or show all panels, including the Tools panel and Control panel, press Tab .

• To hide or show all panels except the Tools panel and Control panel, press Shift+Tab.

You can temporarily display hidden panels if Auto-Show Hidden Panels is selected in Interface preferences. Move the pointer to the edge of the application window (Windows) or to the edge of the monitor (Mac OS) and hover over the

strip that appears.

Display panel options

• Click the panel menu icon in the upper-right corner of the panel.

Note: You can open a panel menu even when the panel is minimized.

Note: In Photoshop, you can change the font size of the text in panels and tooltips. In the Interface preferences, choose a size

from the UI Font Size menu.

Reconfigure the Tools panel

You can display the tools in the Tools panel in a single column, or side by side in two columns.

• Click the double arrow at the top of the Tools panel.

Manage windows and panels

You can create a custom workspace by moving and manipulating Document windows and panels. You can also save workspaces and switch among them.

Rearrange, dock, or float document windows

When you open more than one file, the Document windows are tabbed.

• To rearrange the order of tabbed Document windows, drag a window’s tab to a new location in the group.

• To undock (float or untab) a Document window from a group of windows, drag the window’s tab out of the group.

Note: You can also choose Window > Arrange > Float in Window to float a single Document window, or Window > Arrange > Float All In Windows to float all of the Document windows at once.

• To dock a Document window to a separate group of Document windows, drag the window into the group.

• To create groups of stacked or tiled documents, drag the window to one of the drop zones along the top, bottom, or

sides of another window. You can also select a layout for the group by using the Layout button on the Application bar.

• To switch to another document in a tabbed group when dragging a selection, drag the select ion over the document’s

tab for a moment.

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Dock and undock panels

A dock is a collection of panels or panel groups displayed together, generally in a vertical orientation. You dock and undock panels by moving them into and out of a dock.

• To dock a panel, drag it by its tab into the dock, at the top, bottom, or in between other panels.

• To dock a panel group, drag it by its title bar (the solid empty bar above the tabs) into the dock.

• To remove a panel or panel group, drag it out of the dock by its tab or title bar. You can drag it into another dock or

make it free-floating.

Navigator panel being dragged out to new dock, indicated by blue vertical highlight

Navigator panel in its own dock

You can prevent panels from filling all the space in a dock. Drag the bottom edge of the dock up so it no longer meets the edge of the workspace.

Move panels

As you move panels, you see blue highlighted drop zones, areas where you can move the panel. For example, you can move a panel up or down in a dock by dragging it to the narrow blue drop zone above or below another panel. If you drag to an area that is not a drop zone, the panel floats freely in the workspace.

Note: The position of the mouse (rather than the position of the panel) activates the drop zone, so if you can’t see the drop zone, try dragging the mouse to the place where the drop zone should be.

• To move a panel, drag it by its tab.

• To move a panel group, drag the title bar.

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Narrow blue drop zone indicates Color panel will be docked on its own above the Layers panel group. A Title bar B Tab C Drop zone

Press Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS) while moving a panel to prevent it from docking. Press Esc while moving the panel to cancel the operation.

Add and remove panels

If you remove all panels from a dock, the dock disappears. You can create a dock by moving panels to the right edge of the workspace until a drop zone appears.

• To remove a panel, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac) its tab and then select Close, or deselect it from

the Window menu.

• To add a panel, select it from the Window menu and dock it wherever you want.

Manipulate panel groups

• To move a panel into a group, drag the panel’s tab to the highlighted drop zone in the group.

Adding a panel to a panel group

• To rearrange panels in a group, drag a panel’s tab to a new location in the group.

• To remove a panel from a group so that it floats freely, drag the panel by its tab outside the group.

• To move a group, drag the title bar (the area above the tabs).

Stack floating panels

When you drag a panel out of its dock but not into a drop zone, the panel floats freely. The floating panel allows you to position it anywhere in the workspace. You can stack floating panels or panel groups so that they move as a unit when you drag the topmost title bar.

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Free-floating stacked panels

• To stack floating panels, drag a panel by its tab to the drop zone at the bottom of another panel.

• To change the stacking order, drag a panel up or down by its tab.

Note: Be sure to release the tab over the narrow drop zone between panels, rather than the broad drop zone in a title bar.

• To remove a panel or panel group from the stack, so that it floats by itself, drag it out by its tab or title bar.

Resize panels

• To minimize or maximize a panel, panel group, or stack of panels, double-click a tab. You can also double-click the

tab area (the empty space next to the tabs).

• To resize a panel, drag any side of the panel. Some panels, such as the Color panel cannot be resized by dragging.

Collapse and expand panel icons

You can collapse panels to icons to reduce clutter on the workspace. In some cases, panels are collapsed to icons in the default workspace.

Panels collapsed to icons

Panels expanded from icons

• To collapse or expand all panel icons in a column, click the double arrow at the top of the dock.

• To expand a single panel icon, click it.

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• To resize panel icons so that you see only the icons (and not the labels), adjust the width of the dock until the text

disappears. To display the icon text again, make the dock wider.

• To collapse an expanded panel back to its icon, click its tab, its icon, or the double arrow in the panel’s title bar.

• To add a floating panel or panel group to an icon dock, drag it in by its tab or title bar. (Panels are automatically

collapsed to icons when added to an icon dock.)

• To move a panel icon (or panel icon group), drag the icon. You can drag panel icons up and down in the dock, into

other docks (where they appear in the panel style of that dock), or outside the dock (where they appear as floating icons).

Comprehensive search

Photoshop features powerful search functionality that lets you search across UI elements, documents, Help & learning content, inspiring Stock assets, and much more—all from within a unified dialog. You can search for items right after launching Photoshop or when one or more documents are open.

For details, see Photoshop search.

Create documents

When you create a document in Photoshop, instead of beginning with a blank canvas, you can choose from a wide variety of templates, including templates from Adobe Stock. Templates include stock assets and illustrations that you can build on to complete your project. When you open a template in Photoshop, you can work with it just as you would work with any other Photoshop document (.psd).

In addition to templates, you can also create a document by selecting one of the numerous blank presets available in Photoshop.

For more information, see Create documents.

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New Document dialog | Templates from Adobe Stock and blank presets

Save and switch workspaces

By saving the current size and position of panels as a named workspace, you can restore that workspace even if you move or close a panel. The names of saved workspaces appear in the workspace switcher in the Application bar.

Save a custom workspace

1 With the workspace in the configuration you want to save, choose Window > Workspace > New Workspace.

2 Type a name for the workspace.

3 Under Capture, select one or more options:

Keyboard shortcuts Saves the current set of keyboard shortcuts (Photoshop only).

Menus or Menu Customization Saves the current set of menus.

Display or switch workspaces

Select a workspace from the workspace switcher in the Application bar.

In Photoshop, you can assign keyboard shortcuts to each workspace to navigate among them quickly.

Delete a custom workspace

• Select Manage Workspaces from the workspace switcher in the Application bar, select the workspace, and then click

Delete.

• Select Delete Workspace from the workspace switcher.

• Choose Window > Workspace > Delete Workspace, select the workspace, and then click Delete.

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Restore the default workspace

1 Select the Default or Essentials workspace from the workspace switcher in the application bar.

2 Select Window > Workspace > Reset [Workspace Name].

Restore a saved workspace arrangement

In Photoshop, workspaces automatically appear as you last arranged them, but you can restore the original, saved arrangement of panels.

• To restore an individual workspace, choose Window > Workspace > Reset [Workspace Name].

• To restore all the workspaces installed with Photoshop, click Restore Default Workspaces in the Interface

preferences.

To rearrange the order of workspaces in the application bar, drag them.

Rich tooltips

You can choose not to view rich tooltips. To do so, deselect the Preferences > Tools > Use Rich Tooltips preference.

Rich tooltip: Quick Selection tool

Rich tooltip: Crop tool

Hide tooltips

When you position the pointer over most tools and options, descriptions appear in tooltips by default. If you find tooltips visually distracting, you can hide them.

In the Interface preferences, deselect Show Tooltips.

Note: Tooltips are not available in some dialog boxes.

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Windows | High-density monitor support and per-monitor scaling

On Windows 10 Creators Update and later versions, Photoshop offers a full range of choices for UI scaling—from 100% through 400% in 25% increments. This enhancement makes the Photoshop user interface looks crisp and sharp regardless of the pixel density of your monitor. Photoshop automatically adjusts its resolution based on your Windows settings.

In addition, you can adjust per-monitor scaling across monitors with different scaling factors. This flexibility ensures that a high resolution (HiDPI) laptop works seamlessly alongside a lower-resolution desktop monitor, or vice versa. For example, one of your monitors can have a scale factor of 175%, while another monitor can have a scale factor of 400%. So, you can choose either the highest-end 13-inch laptops with 4k screens, the more affordable 1080p models, or tap into 8k desktop monitors, and still have an uncompromised experience within Photoshop.

In Windows, select Start > Settings > System > Display. Now, under Scale And Layout, choose a scaling factor for each of your displays.

Use Photoshop with the Touch Bar on MacBook Pro

See Use Photoshop with the Touch Bar on MacBook Pro.

Windows | Modifier Keys palette

The new Modifier Keys palette lets you access frequently-used keyboard modifiers—Shift, Ctrl, and Alt—on Windows-powered touch devices, such as the Surface Pro.

• Select Window > Modifier Keys.

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Photoshop search

The in-app search experience also lets you find, filter,

Begin searching

In Photoshop, do any of the following:

• Select Edit > Search.

• Use the Cmd/Ctrl+F keyboard shortcut.

• At initial launch, click the Search icon ( ) in the right extremity of the Options bar, to the left of the Workspace

Switcher icon.

Search icon in the Options bar

A Search icon B Wor kspac e swit cher

Note: In earlier releases of Photoshop, Cmd/Ctrl+F used to be the keyboard shortcut for reapplying the last-used filter.

Beginning the shortcut for reapplying the last-used filter, see

2017 release of Photoshop CC, it invokes the Photoshop search experience.To set a different keyboard

Customize keyboard shortcuts.

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Scope of search

Using the Photoshop search functionality, you can find items across the following:

• UI elements

• To o l s

• Panels, including the Styles panel

• Menu items

• New document presets

• Open documents

• Recent files

• Layers

• Smart objects

• Help & learning content; documentation and instructional tutorials

• Stock assets

• Yo u r Li g htr o om phot o s

• The search scope does not currently include library elements and individual styles.

• The search scope shows menu items that are disabled too.

Note:

Search interface

Search tabs

Photoshop organizes search results into the following tabs:

All: Displays, in order, Photoshop UI elements, Help & Learn content, and Adobe Stock assets

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ADOBE Photoshop CS6 User Manual

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

Legal notices

Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction to Photoshop

New features summary

Select Subject

Support for Microsoft Surface Dial

High-density monitor support and per-monitor scaling

Brush-related features

Stroke smoothing

Streamlined brush management

Getting started with advanced custom brushes

Access your Lightroom photos in Photoshop

Variable fonts

Quickly share your creations

Curvature Pen tool

Path options

Copy-paste layers

Rich tooltips

Edit spherical panoramas in Photoshop

Properties panel improvements

Select & Mask improvements

Learn panel

Technology Preview features

Preserve Details 2.0 Upscale

Paint Symmetry

Camera Raw | New features

Quick selections with Color and Luminance Range Masking

Other enhancements and fixes

January 2018 release

October 2017 release

What's changed

Known issues

Fixed customer issues

Create documents

Templates and presets

Access the New Document dialog

Overview: New Document dialog

Create documents using presets

Modify presets

Save your own presets

Create documents using templates from Stock

Search for more templates from Adobe Stock

Use the legacy File New experience

System requirements | Photoshop

System requirements | October 2017 (19.0) release of Photoshop CC

Windows

macOS

Language versions

System requirements | 2017 release of Photoshop CC

Windows

macOS

Language versions

Graphics processor requirements

Features requiring the graphics processor

Tested graphics card

Don't see your card in the list?

Unsupported card series

System Requirements | Adobe Camera Raw

Unsupported video adapters on macOS

System requirements | Older versions of Photoshop

Migrate presets, actions, and settings

Presets, settings, and actions

Migrate presets

Migrate presets while updating Photoshop

Migrate presets after installing/updating Photoshop

Export and import presets

Save and load presets

Migrate actions

Manually copy settings

System requirements | Older versions of Photoshop

Photoshop CC 2015.x system requirements

Windows

Mac OS

Language versions

Photoshop CC 2014 system requirements

Windows