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tive Cloud What’s new in CC (Cs7!)

Creative Cloud on your desktop

BehanceIntegration with Behance, the world’s leading creative community. You can

publish your portfolios, follow other creatives, publish work-in-progress from

within a growing number of Creative Cloud apps, and solicit feedback from the

worldwide creative community. Over 1.4 million creatives globally are already

part of the Behance network.

Sync Colors with KulerThe new Adobe Kuler iPhone app lets you share your themes and explore thou-

sands of others available on the Kuler website. Sync your favorite themes, and

they’re accessible immediately in Illustrator CC.

Download CenterThe new Download Center provides access to all apps and services at a single place.

You can view all the details, such as system requirements and a summary of new

features. You can also install apps and access services from the Download Center.

Sync SettingsThe ability to sync your settings to Creative Cloud, so you can work the way you

like on any of your computers—Mac or PC. Synchronize your workspace set-

tings—including things like preferences, presets, brushes, and libraries—so they

go where you go.

Rick’s WhinesStripped-out “Output Module.”

Stripped-out facebook/Flickr sharing directly from Bridge

Plans & Pricing here:https://creative.adobe.com/plans

“Bridge” comes free with at least Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign when pur-

chased as Single apps. It is still a separate download and install, however.

Some Missing Features—according to David Blatner“Adobe hasn’t shipped everything they’ve promised yet. For example,

the Typekit feature that lets you download fonts to your desktop

and use them in any program—that’s coming “soon.” Adobe is

sure to roll out all kinds of features over the next few months—in

fact, that is part of the whole reason they’re going to a “cloud”

distribution model: They don’t have to hold up the release of these

programs until that stuff is ready!”

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Adobe InDesign

Pre-Web Improvements

“64-bit capable” (it can take advantage of more

than 3GB of RAM!)

A Preview button in the

New Document dialog box*

“Darker” Interface*

Adobe Exchange Panel*

Sync Settings*

QR Codes*

Font Menu Enhancements*

A Hi-DPI interface, so that it looks great on

Retina and other high-resolution displays

EPUB Enhancements

Adobe Illustrator

Paths & Touch

Images in brushes*

Automatic corner generation in Brushes!*

Unembed images

Touch Type tool*

Settings in the cloud (Sync Settings)

Kuler panel/Kuler App on iPhone*

Enhancement: Guides

Enhancements for touch-based devices

On-art Free Transform tool (Grrr...)

OS gestures support

Multiple file place

Share on Behance

Generate and extract CSS code

Export SVG graphics styles in CSS

Enhancement: White overprint Control

Indic support: Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil, Punjabi,

Bengali, Telugu, Oriya, Malayalam, and Kannada.

Search colors and swatches by name, percentage

Search fonts

Enhancement: Separations Preview panel:

“❑ Show Used Spot Color Only”

Enhancement: Perspective Grid usability

Enhancement: Modernized file dialog

(Windows-only—it needed it.)

Support for AutoCAD libraries

Package files!

Links panel improvements

Camera RAW/Bridge/

Lightroom

Super-Power!

Radial Filter!*

Enhanced Spot Removal tool!*

Upright—Automatic Perspective Correction,

a new geometry correction tool*

Smart Previews (Lr)

Improved Book Creation (Lr)

Share Photos with Publishing Services (Lr)

Videos in Slideshows

Lab Color Values Readout

Loupe Overlay: Grid (Lr)

Loupe Overlay: Guides (Lr)

Support for PNG files

The Histogram is now interactive:

Click and drag on the Histogram to

adjust the Blacks, Shadows, Exposure,

Highlights, and Whites slider adjustments.

A Color Smoothness adjustment slider has been

added to the Detail Panel, to help reduce

low-frequency color mottling artifacts

Separate Auto Temperature and Auto

Tint controls, which is accessible

via the Shift+Double Click on

either the Temperature or Tint

adjustment sliders. (Lr)

Workflow presets are now available

and can be selected on context-

clicking the workflow link. (Lr)

Refinements to the Spot Healing Tool:

Feather control

Auto find source improved

for images with textured areas

like rocks, bark, and foliage;

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Auto find source method now prefers

source areas within the crop rectangle

Refinements to the Local

Adjustment Brush:

—Move brush adjustments

by clicking and dragging on

brush adjustment pins;

Contextual menu available

on a brush adjustment pin

to duplicate or delete;

—Adjustments by Brush can now be

duplicated;

—Alt+Click (PC) / Option+Click

(Mac) on a brush adjustment

pin to delete the adjustment.

Adobe Photoshop

Behance, & Raw Edits as a Filter

Behance’s ProSites are the customizable

online portfolios, which

Creative Cloud subscribers can

use with their own URLs.

Reduce camera shake blurring

Image resizing improvements

Share your work on Behance

Sync settings using Adobe Creative Cloud

Actions can now be conditional,

using if/then expressions!

Filter:

Camera RAW as filter

(even to video!)

Photoshop CC now can generate CSS

code that produces the exact

look designed in the software.

It can also now import color from a web-

site’s HTML or CSS code.

Smart Sharpen gets a new

Reduce Noise slider

New, much improved upsampling

algorithm in Image Size Menu item

3D imaging

Adobe Acrobat

Finally!

Edit PDFs!

Create and distribute forms

Create and combine PDFs

Sign and distribute for signatures

Customize your tools and workspace

Protect PDFs

Make PDFs accessible (Acrobat Pro only)

Export formats and options

Adobe Dreamweaver

Interface Improvements

CSS Designer

Sync settings with Creative Cloud

Modern platform support

Simplified user interface

Full Lists here:

http://helpx.adobe.com/ creative-cloud/help/ whats-new.html

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