Photoshop gets a major update

Adobe is about to announce a major update to Photoshop for users of its online subscription service, Creative Cloud.

Members of Creative Cloud will shortly have access to over a dozen exclusive new features including:

• Support for HiDPI (Retina) displays for Apple MacBook Pro.
• Smart Object support for Blur Gallery and Liquify.
• The ability to quickly export CSS code for text and objects, and import colour swatches.
• New workflow timesavers including Crop tool refinements.
• 3D enhancements including improved live (OpenGL) previews of shadow effects and additional control over illumination using 32-bit colour picker to create glow effects.
• Conditional Actions that automatically select the appropriate Action based on user-defined rules, giving users enhanced image processing speed.

These new features, and updates to other Adobe products, will be described in detail at a live online event to be held later called Create Now Live. The event will begin at 10am PST (6pm GMT) with a keynote address by Jeffrey Veen, Adobe's vice president of products.

Other annoucements will include a new version of Creative Cloud for teams, new capabilities for website design tool Muse, a new Creative Cloud tool for desktop synching and collaborative sharing, and the introduction of Creative Cloud Training.

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