v2023 (24) Adobe Photoshop CC for Teams & Businesses

Cloud documents

With Photoshop now on the iPad, use cloud documents to work seamlessly across Mac, Windows, and your iPad. Your documents are saved to Adobe’s cloud as you work.

Improvements to presets

Explore new swatches, gradients, patterns, shapes, and styles effortlessly. Presets are now more intuitive to use and easier to organize.

New Object Selection tool

Use the new Object Selection tool to better automate complex selections. Simply define a region and Photoshop does the rest.

Consistent transform behavior

Proportionally transform multiple layers, regardless of the layer type, without using the Shift key.

Improved properties panel

Find even more of the controls you need in one central location. Easily change document settings, access all type layer settings, and conveniently use Quick Actions.

Smart Object to layers

Easily convert your Smart Objects back into component layers to fine-tune your designs—all in one place, without having to switch between document windows.

Enhanced Transform Warp

Get more control with the Warp tool. Add control points anywhere or divide your image with a customizable grid to transform by individual nodes or a larger selection.

Other enhancements

Check out all the new enhancements to Photoshop and learn how you can simplify and accelerate your workflow.

Frame Tool for easy masking

Easily mask images by placing them into frames. Use the Frame Tool (K) to quickly create rectangular or elliptical placeholder frames. You can also convert any shape or text into frames and fill it with images.

To place an image into a frame, simply drag an Adobe Stock asset or a libraries asset from the Libraries panel or from your local disk — the image automatically scales to fit the frame. Content placed in frames is always placed as Smart Objects so that it can be scaled non-destructively.

For detailed information, see Place images into frames.

Content-Aware Fill reimagined

Powered by Adobe Sensei

A new, dedicated Content-Aware Fill workspace provides you with interactive editing experience to achieve seamless fill results. You can now choose which source pixels to use and rotate, scale, and mirror the source pixels thanks to Adobe Sensei technology. You also get a live full-resolution preview of the changes and an option to save the result to a new layer.

To launch the Content-Aware Fill workspace:

1. Open an image in Photoshop. Using any selection tool, create an initial selection of the area you want to fill.
2. From the menu bar, choose Edit > Content-Aware Fill.

In the Content-Aware Fill workspace, the document window displays the default sampling area as an overlay mask on the image. You can use the tools provided in the Tools panel (at the left of the screen) to modify the sampling area and your initial selection of the fill area. In the Content-Aware Fill panel (at the right of the screen), you can specify sampling options, fill settings, and output settings to get the desired fill result in the image. As you make changes, the Preview panel displays a live full-resolution preview of the output.

For detailed information, see Remove objects from your photos with Content-Aware Fill.

New multiple undo mode

You can now use Control + Z (Win) / Command + Z (Mac) to undo multiple steps in your Photoshop document, just like in other Creative Cloud apps. The new multiple undo mode is enabled by default.

With the new multiple undo mode, the Edit menu displays the following commands:

• Undo: Moves one step back in the undo chain. Use the shortcut keys: Control + Z (Win) / Command + Z (Mac).
• Redo: Moves one step forward. Use the shortcut keys: Shift + Control + Z (Win) / Shift + Command + Z (Mac).
• Toggle Last State works the same as in the legacy undo mode. Use the shortcut keys: Control + Alt + Z (Win) / Command + Option + Z (Mac).

How do I switch back to the legacy undo shortcuts?

The Edit menu also displays the name of the step that will be undone next to the Undo and Redo commands.
For example, Edit > Undo Edit Type.

The commands Step Forward and Step Backward have been removed from the Edit menu. These commands are still available from the fly-out menu in the History panel. Additionally, the layer visibility changes are now undoable by default. When you click a visibility icon in the Layers panel, a history state is created. You can control this behavior using the Make Layer Visibility Changes Undoable option from the History Options dialog, accessible from the fly-out menu in the History panel.

For related helpful information, see Undo and History.

Usability improvements

Reference Point is hidden by default

While transforming items, you can now easily move items on the canvas. The reference point that appeared while transforming items is now hidden by default. You can select the Toggle Reference Point check box in the Options bar if you want the reference point to appear.

For more information, see Set or move the reference point for a transformation.

Double-click to edit text

You can now double-click a Type layer with the Move tool to quickly begin editing the text in your document. You do not need to switch tools anymore to edit text.

For related helpful information, see Edit text.

Auto-commit

Efficiently crop, transform and place or enter text with auto-commit. You no longer need to press Enter (Win) / Return (macOS) or click the Commit button in the Options bar to commit your changes.

When applying crop or transforming, perform any of the following actions to auto-commit your changes:

• Select a new tool.
• Click a layer in the Layers panel. (This action auto-commits changes and also selects the layer.)
• Click outside the canvas area in the document window.
• Click outside the bounding box in the canvas area.

When entering text in a Type layer, perform any of the following actions to auto-commit your changes:

• Select a new tool.
• Click a layer in the Layers panel. (This action auto-commits changes and also selects the layer.)

For related helpful information, see the following links:

• Transform objects
• Transform images, shapes, and paths
• Edit text

Transform proportionally by default

Photoshop now transforms all layer types, such as pixel layers, type layers, shape layers, bitmaps, Placed Smart Objects, proportionally by default.

When transforming a layer, you no longer need to hold down the Shift key while dragging a corner handle to resize a selected layer to constrain its proportions. Anytime you drag a corner handle during transform and move it, the layer resizes proportionally. Holding down the Shift key now resizes non-proportionally when you drag a corner handle during the transform.

To resize a layer proportionally during transform, do the following:

1. Select the layer(s) you want to resize in the Layers panel.
2. Press Command + T (Mac) / Control + T (Win). Alternatively, choose Edit > Free Transform.
3. Drag a corner handle on the bounding box to resize the layer.
4. Commit the changes.

How do I turn off the new proportional scaling by default behavior while transforming layers?

For related helpful information, see the following links:

• Transform objects
• Free transformations of images, shapes, and paths

Prevent accidental panel moves with Lock Workspace

Use the new Lock Workspace option to prevent accidentally moving workspace panels. This is particularly when you’re using Photoshop on a tablet/stylus. To access this option, choose Window > Workspace > Lock Workspace.

Lock Workspace option in Photoshop

For more helpful information about the workspace options, see Workspace basics.

Live blend mode preview

You can now scroll over different blend mode options to see how they look on your image. Photoshop displays a live preview of blend modes on the canvas when you scroll over different blend mode options in the Layers panel and the Layer Style dialog.

Scrolling over blend mode options in the Layers panel.

For related helpful information, see the following links:

• Layer opacity and blending
• Blending modes

Symmetry mode

Paint your brush strokes in a perfectly symmetrical pattern. While using the Paint Brush, Mixer Brush, Pencil, or Eraser tools, click the butterfly icon ( ) in the Options bar. Choose from the several available types of symmetry – Vertical, Horizontal, Dual Axis, Diagonal, Wavy, Circle, Spiral, Parallel Lines, Radial, Mandala. As you paint, the strokes are reflected live across the line of symmetry, allowing you to easily create intricate symmetrical patterns.

Pattern created with Mandala symmetry. (Artwork designed by Mike Shaw.)

For detailed information, see Paint symmetrical patterns.

Color Wheel to choose colors

Use the Color Wheel to visualize the color spectrum and easily choose colors based on harmonies such as complementary colors and analogous colors. From the Color panel fly-out menu, choose Color Wheel.

Use the Color Wheel to choose colors

Home screen

Get started quickly with the Photoshop Home screen. Access it at any time to find out about new features, connect to learning content, and jump right to your open documents. Click the new Home icon in the Options bar to access the Home screen at any point.

Photoshop Home screen

For more information, see Workspace basics.

Improved in-app learning

After completing an in-app tutorial (Learn panel), you can now use your own images to get the looks you want in less time.

Learn with your own images

Top customer-requested features

Distribute spacing (like Adobe Illustrator)

You can now distribute the spacing between the objects. Photoshop can already distribute objects by evenly spacing their center points. If your objects are different sizes, you now get an even spacing between them. For related helpful information, see Align and distribute layers.

(Left) Distribute Spacing options in Photoshop. (Right) Spacing distributed horizontally between objects.

Math in number fields

You can also perform simple math in any input box that accepts numeric values. For example, you can now type in simple math operations like 200/2, which gets calculated as 100 and inputs that final value into the field. This is very useful when trying to quickly get to a multiple of a value, or divide something up. For more information, see Use simple math in number fields.

Image showing simple math in the Canvas Size dialog.

Ability to see long layer names

For long layer names, Photoshop now retains the beginning and end of the layer name and puts ellipses (…) in the middle of the name. Previously, the layer name used to get cut off at the end with ellipses (…).

Photoshop now puts ellipses (…) in the middle of long layer names.

Match Font now support Japanese fonts

You can now search Japanese fonts with Match Font. Using Adobe Sensei, Match Font allows you to detect text included in the selected area of an image and match it to licensed fonts on your computer or on Adobe Fonts, suggesting similar fonts. For more information, see Match Fonts.

Search Japanese fonts with Match Font.

Flip document view

Quickly flip your canvas horizontally. Choose View > Flip Horizontal.

Lorem Ipsum placeholder text

Get ‘Lorem Ipsum’ as placeholder text while placing new type layers in your document. In Type preferences (Edit > Preferences > Type), select Fill New Type Layers With Placeholder Text.

Customize keyboard shortcuts for Select and Mask

You can now modify the shortcut keys for Select and Mask workspace. Choose Edit > Keyboards Shortcuts. In the Keyboard Shortcuts And Menus dialog, choose Taskspaces from the Shortcuts For menu. In the Taskspace command column, expand the Select and Mask set to edit the shortcuts as required. For related information, see Customize keyboard shortcuts.

Preference to increase UI size

Get more control when scaling the Photoshop UI, and adjust it independent of your other apps to get the font size just right. In the Interface preferences (Edit >Preferences > Interface), a new setting Scale UI To Font has been introduced. When you select this new setting, the entire Photoshop UI scales based on the UI Font Size drop-down value you’ve chosen. For example, Tiny, Small, Medium, or Large.

Scale UI To Font setting in the Interface preferences

Support for South East Asian scripts

Photoshop now includes the support for five new South East Asian languages, so your documents can include text in these scripts: Thai, Burmese, Lao, Sinhalese, and Khmer.

NOTE: To use these languages properly on Windows, you must install the Language and Font packs for the particular language you want to use. For details, see Microsoft’s Help documentation: Language Packs.

To create a document using one of these new languages, do the following:

1. Choose Edit > Preferences > Type.
2. Select the Middle Eastern and South Asian options.
3. Open a document.
4. Create a Type layer.
5. In the Character panel, set your Language to any of the new languages: Thai, Burmese, Lao, Sinhalese, or Khmer.
6. Based on the language you select, set an appropriate font. For example, if you choose the Thai language, set a Thai font such as Adobe Thai or Noto Sans Thai.
7. Copy and paste the text composed in the language that you choose. If you have a language-specific keyboard set up, simply type the text.

For more information, see Composers for Asian scripts.

Camera Raw | New features

For details of new features introduced in Adobe Camera Raw, see What’s new in Camera Raw.

Minimum System Requirements

Photoshop - Windows

Photoshop - macOS

Language versions available for Photoshop CC

Photoshop CC is available in the following languages:

* 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 for Adobe Camera Raw

The Adobe Camera Raw plug-in gives you ability to import and work with raw images, as well as JPEG and TIFF, in Photoshop.

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

See Considerations for Graphics Processor (GPU)-accelerated features.

February 2023 (version 24.2) release

• Crash reports fixed through Photoshop beta usage
• Crash when stepping forward on history panel MGT events
• Crash when Undoing a noise slider Color model change
• [Mac] Smoothing leash does not show correctly if the document is layered
• Untagged (PNG) converted to another color space, profile not embedded
• Photoshop closes automatically after freezing for a few minutes
• Camera Raw opens when PNG is dropped into a Photoshop layered file
• When using eyedropper with gradient tool, foreground color and color panel don’t update
• [Mac] Maximized app on large external monitor gets wedged and you can resize it on smaller laptop screen
• Photoshop gude log created when working with files
• Pulled string circle doesn’t show initially when layer is selected
• Transform Redraw Error on Scrubby Zoom

January 2023 (version 24.1.1) release

• Crash reports fixed through Photoshop beta usage
• .DNG and .ARW files, when opened via RAW in photoshop 24.1 will not save
  
• Photoshop 24.0.0 crashes whenever ‘Decontaminate Colours’ is selected in the Select and Mask window
• Undo reverts multiple changes
• Layer selection on right-click not working with Gradient tool
• Photoshop 24.0 green flickers on Mac 12.x
• Alt+Click/Opt+Click on mask thumbnail switch to quick mask mode
• [Window > Materials] The materials panel is not opening
• Delete and Fill missing from context menu
• Escape key and Learn More button confirm Smart Object rasterization

December 2022 (version 24.1) release

• Crash reports fixed through Photoshop beta usage
• Photoshop not working due to crash issues
• [Win] Myriad Variable Concept missing some glyphs (Umlautes) on Windows 10
• [Win] Photoshop process remains running after quitting
• Redraw problems in fullscreen mode
• Pen Tilt doesn’t work correctly with View > Flip Horizontal
• Text and Vector Shapes outside artboards don’t render correctly
• Filter Gallery error – “The end of data was reached while reading from a container.”
• Ps 23.5 Cycling Screen Modes causes Standard Screen Mode to be off screen at bottom
• Canvas flickering while painting in Ps 23.5
• Match color 16-bit broken
• Edit Guide dialog doesn’t respect units setting

October 2022 (version 24.0) release

• Crash reports fixed through Photoshop beta usage
• Object Selection is very slow to respond in Photoshop 23.5
• New Document windows are not reflecting correct dimensions from the clipboard
• Onboarding messages block use of libraries panel
• Spot channels visibility is turned on automatically when selecting a layer mask
• Document dimensions in lower left image tip do not update after performing a crop
• Save for Web no longer prompts before overwriting existing files in Photoshop 23.3.0 and above
• Layer Duplicated to Incorrect Artboard in Action or ScriptingListener
• Photoshop 2023 beta has very high power usage and increased CPU consumption after duplicating layer, which is causing performance issues

Adobe Photoshop 23.5

Select Subject cloud service

With the August 2022 release of Photoshop 23.5, enjoy our Select Subject cloud service to get finer and better quality images than what you get with our on-device Select Subject processing.

To work with the Select Subject cloud service, do any of the following:

• Choose between Device or Cloud mode for Select Subject Processing by navigating to the Image Processing section in the Preferences dialog box.
• You can also make your selection from within the Select & Mask workspace or by clicking the Select > Subject menu option.

Toggle between the Cloud mode, while working with details, and the Device mode, when you need faster results.

To learn more about making selections using Select Subject in Photoshop, see Make quick selections.

Neutral color mode UI preference

Photoshop users – we heard you! You can now use neutral colors for user interface elements in the application frame (such as the Share button). Navigate to Preferences > Interface and you will see a checkbox under the Appearance section for Neutral Color Mode.
Choose the Neutral Color Mode in Preferences > Interface

Preferences search for Windows

With this release, you can now search using keywords within the Preferences dialog box even on your Windows machine as well.

The search bar is enabled by default and available for everyone. It is placed near the upper-right corner of the Preferences dialog.

Search using keyboards in the Preferences search bar

To learn more about the Photoshop workspace, see Preferences.

Other changes and enhancements

Improved Harmonization neural filterHave fun creating flawless composites with the improved Harmonization neural filter!

Harmonize the color and luminosity of layers in your creative workflows by adjusting the Strength, Saturation, and Brightness settings to create a perfectly balanced composite.
To learn more about Harmonization and other neural filters, see Neural Filters list and FAQ.

Precise previews for 16-bit documentsGet more tonal variations and color and brightness adjustments in your 16-bit documents with our updated precise previews feature. Plus, you get more accurate compositing and histograms and there is reduced scope for data inaccuracy and banding.

To learn more about support for 16-bit images in Photoshop, see Bit depth and preferences.

Find newly added cameras and lenses in the full list of supported profiles below:

• Supported camera models
• Supported lens profiles

Fixed customer-reported issues

For detailed information, see Fixed issues in Photoshop.

Known Issues

For detailed information, see Known issues in Photoshop.

Adobe Photoshop 21.2.3

This update consists of bug fixes, including the following:

• Resizing proportionally while holding down the Shift key, disables snapping to smart guides even when the View > Snap To > Guides option is active

Feature summary | Photoshop desktop (February 2020 release)

Version 21.1, Released 24 February 2020

Enhanced Content-Aware Fill

In this release of Photoshop, you can now iteratively fill multiple areas of an image without having to leave the Content-Aware Fill workspace window. After you get the desired fill result for a selection in your image, click the new Apply button in the lower-right corner to commit fill changes and keep the workspace window open. After applying the fill, use Lasso Tool or Polygonal Lasso Tool within the Content-Aware Fill workspace to make another selection to fill.

Also, you can now sample source pixels from all visible layers in the document by selecting the new Sample All Layers option. The Sampling Area Options appear in the Content-Aware Fill panel on the right side of the workspace.

To try out the new options, open an image and select an area to fill. Then choose Edit > Content-Aware Fill.

For Help documentation, see the following links:

• Content-Aware Fill workspace
• Apply multiple fill changes
• Adjust Content-Aware Fill settings

Improved Lens Blur quality

The new Lens Blur alogorithm now uses your computer’s graphics card (GPU) to generate blurrier edges on objects that are in front of the focal plane, a more realistic bokeh look, correct color handling for CMYK and LAB color modes, and more colorful specular highlights in your photos.

To enable graphics processor in Photoshop, choose Edit (Windows) / Photoshop (macOS) > Preferences > Performance, the select Use Graphics Processor in the Preferences dialog.

For Help instructions, see Add lens blur.

Performance improvements

Photoshop’s user interface is now more responsive to your mouse and stylus movements. You’ll notice smoother panning and zooming in your documents. With increased responsiveness to your inputs, you’ll also notice improvements in many other UI interactions, especially where painting or dragging actions are involved.

Fixed customer-reported issues

For detailed information, see Fixed issues in Photoshop.

Known Issues

For detailed information, see Known issues in Photosho

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