Type simple maths operations into fields that require numeric values.

While this does make sense, many users like myself – who have been using Photoshop since its release – may find this an unwelcome change that actually impedes workflow. While in previous versions, you had to hold Shift to scale proportionately, Adobe has now reversed it, meaning you do not need to press any shortcut to proportionately scale, but do need to hold Shift if you want to activate variable scaling.

The last update worth commenting on is one of the most controversial changes – an update to the Shift scaling function. This has now been fixed and you are able to simply click anywhere on the screen to approve the change. Previously, if you wanted to write out text, you had to navigate to the top of the screen and press the tick icon anytime you made an edit, which, let's face it, was super-annoying. These 'Just Do It' updates will undoubtedly improve the speed of workflow ten-fold, as many creatives uses them frequently.įirst up, you are now able to undo multiple times simply by pressing cmd+ Z – news that received a resounding cheer when presented at Adobe Max 2018.Īnother Just Do It is the new Auto-Commit feature.

There's been a lot of buzz about these small but very significant updates. It’s also an indicator of Adobe potentially attempting to win back digitally savvy creatives who are using programmes like Sketch. While this is another fairly small update, which has been carried over from an existing Adobe application, it’s good to see Adobe taking strides to try and improve Photoshop's type and layout capabilities – much like it did with the variable type update in CC18. The image will automatically fall into the frame, and like with InDesign, you are given the option to scale the image inside of it, plus markers to indicate the size of the image within the frame itself. To do this, simply create a frame, and then drag an existing image into it. You can also convert any bespoke shape or text into image frames. Using the Frame Tool ( K), you can quickly create a rectangle, or circular frame that acts as a placeholder for images.

Mirroring a feature which already appears within InDesign CC, you can now easily mask images by placing them into frames.

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