Adobe is really measuring up to its standard of good bargain for Creative Cloud subscribers that it would continuosly add value to its tools on a regular basis. Once again this year, Adobe not only updated its Creative Suite applications with new features, but also added a cool new application — Adobe Fuse CC.
Adobe Photoshop Updates November 2015
While not as drastic as the Photoshop update earlier this year, this new version brings a major user interface change with a fully customizable tool palettes. I believe nobody uses all the tools in the palette, but everyone has to go through the whole set to pick out the ones they need.You can drag and drop the tools you use frequently into sets of your own making, or just remove the ones that get in the way. The customization box provides real time view of the changes which are hardly necessary, is quite good. As with everything you customize in Photoshop, you can save different tool palette layouts for numerous uses.
Workspaces can also be customized. The new Design Space capability comes with an HTML5-based layer on top of the Photoshop engine, for easy and quick design of artboards — useful for quick creation of layouts usable on mobile devices. SVG-format files can now be used directly in Photoshop. The UI has also been mopped up a bit, with improved support for touch with an option to show larger tabs and a soft keyboard for modifier keys, as well as extra touch gesture support. These additional capabilities are mostly useful for users of Microsoft Surface tablets.
For those editing images for the Web, or for clients, the Export As… command continues to get faster and more feature rich. Adobe want to completely remove the need for the Save for Web… command over time, although the older version is still available for now.
For graphic artists and designers, many of the same improved features are echoed in updated versions of Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign. In addition InDesign now features a tool for quickly converting print layout documents to online formats. There is also an amazing new tool, Adobe Portfolio which allows photographers to easily create websites for themselves.
Adobe Fuse CC: Adorable Character Generator
You can easily create fairly-lifelike 3D characters from scratch with almost no work. You can choose different looks for different parts of the body, the hair, and clothes simply by pointing and clicking.That is not pretty strange,the ease of customizing every aspect of your character by selecting it and then changing properties (through direct manipulation) allow you create any person you can think of without knowing anything about either anatomy or drawing.
Close Photoshop integration
Previously, animating characters needed the use of an online service (like acquired by Adobe) or a different application. Now, Photoshop users can use directly the characters created in Fuse. Just save them to your Adobe Library from Fuse, and then drag them into a Photoshop document. The character appears as a new layer with the rest of your content. The good part is ,Adobe has taken all the very cool animations from Mixamo and add them to Photoshop, so you have a guitar-playing rock star, or kick-boxing action hero, with just a few clicks of the mouse.
Just like any 3D object in Photoshop, your character can be moved around in a number of ways, for close integration into your overall design. Photoshop’s lighting tools are also available for you to customize the final look of your scene, coupled with the ability to move the virtual camera around.
Just like any 3D object in Photoshop, your character can be moved around in a number of ways, for close integration into your overall design. Photoshop’s lighting tools are also available for you to customize the final look of your scene, coupled with the ability to move the virtual camera around.
Video-handling updates throughout the Creative Suite
Users of Adobe’s increasing number of other tools are not left out. There are lots of goodies across the board, with particular emphasis on uses for UX designers and video editing. For example, Adobe Stock now has over a million HD video clips in addition to still images and graphics. It also features closer integration with Adobe’s Library feature for a more-streamlined workflow.
As promised, Premiere Pro now comes additional support for Ultra HD and HDR video, and has been optimized for use with touch-enabled devices. It has also included an Optical Flow Time Remapper that allows better fast-and-slow motion special effects and frame rate conversions.
Adobe’s mobile video editing app, Premiere Clip, has also been updated to version 2.0, and made available on Android. It lets you not only edit traditional video clips, but quickly make a “Ken-Burns-style” slideshow — complete with automatically-selected or your own music — from your images. .
More still to come
Adobe still has more to come from the list of features it promised at MAX — some later this year, and some next year. One of the coolest new tools — Project Comet — is still in the “teaser” stage, but it promises to be a very powerful UX design system when it comes out in 2016. In the meantime, there is something for everyone in this update for Adobe’s Creative Suite. The updated versions are available for download to Creative Suite subscribers through the App Update feature in Adobe’s Creative Cloud application.
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