You can now use an AI-enhanced live preview (powered by Adobe’s Sensei artificial intelligence engine) to pick and choose which part of the image the program should sample or exclude for precise control over the results. This year, Photoshop leans into the content aware process with a new command and accompanying workspace that offers tools and options for more precise and complex fills. It operates the same way as classic color wheels, and will doubtless please many users who no longer have to rely on a third-party color wheel plugin.Ĭontent Aware Fill is an algorithm that “sees” what’s behind an unwanted or distracting object in your image, allowing you to remove it without a trace, and replacing it with the background that would have been there. The absence of a color wheel, à la Corel Painter, has always irked some users, and now Photoshop 2019 sports one. Color Wheel Jackie Doveįinally, Photoshop features a native Color Wheel. Jackie DoveĪdobe has fashioned the home screen into a centralized resource for recent shots, tutorials, and your Lightroom catalog that you can access at any time via a new Home icon in the Options bar. You can now have Photoshop do math calculations in the image sizing tool or other fields that call for numeric values.
Similarly, Transforming a layer no longer needs the Shift key to preserve aspect ratio as you resize. The new Undo (Command-Z) makes sense to most people, though it might be a challenge to the muscle memory of current Photoshop users who have long been accustomed to a different key combo and the Step Backward command for multiple undos. The new version of Photoshop revamps some common key commands to match most other programs. You can now scale the interface to the font size. A single click in the Preferences scales toolbars, icons, buttons, labels, and panels according to type size-tiny, small, medium, and large.
Improvements to the interface, like matching the font size to the app’s controls, makes the experience more cohesive.