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 .
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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.
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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.
in the Options bar when you're working with one of the following tools: Brush, Pencil, Mixer Brush, or
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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• 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
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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Lightroom photos in the Photoshop Start workspace
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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
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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 .
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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 .
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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
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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.
Rich tooltip: Quick Selection tool
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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:
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• 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
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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.
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Easily create intricate patterns with Paint Symmetry
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Different symmetry types
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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.
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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 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
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•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).
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• 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
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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.
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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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