Adobe Photoshop CC 2019-New Features and Updates

Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 – What is New in Latest Version

The Adobe has come out with a new version of Adobe Photoshop and that is Adobe Photoshop CC 2019.

This version of Photoshop is loaded with lots of new features and updates.

Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 promises to include many useful features which are new to Photoshop + it has tried to fix some of the previous problems for which many users were complaining.

So, let’s dive in and take a look at what’s new in Adobe Photoshop CC 2019.

Here is the Quick List of all the Top Features or Updates in Adobe Photoshop CC 2019.

The New Home Button
The New Frame Tool
New Content-Aware Fill Option
Layer Blending Modes Review
HDR Panorama Option
Sample Text Is Now Included
Proportional Scaling
Control+Z or CMD+Z Command is Back Again
Workspace Lock
New colour wheel
Auto Commit Option or Auto Apply Option

The New Home Button

When you will launch the Photoshop you will see our new Home Logo/ Icon on the top left corner of the Adobe Photoshop CC 2019.

This home button in Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 helps you to go back to the home screen rather than before you need to close all the documents currently opened.

So, if you want to go back to the Home screen for some reasons, maybe you want to open some recent files or you want to open some other files.

Then you can easily and quickly go back to the home screen just by clicking the home Icon in Adobe Photoshop CC 2019.

So, basically, this feature is very helpful and it says a lot of time and adds some functionality to the Adobe Photoshop CC 2019.

The New Frame Tool

Most awaited feature in Adobe Photoshop which I personally missed in the previous versions of the Adobe Photoshop CC.

The new frame tool which has been introduced in the Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 is very useful when it comes to creating some kind of mockups.

This new Frame tool in Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 also helps you to create web pages like ‘About us’ pages.

So, using this new Frame tool in Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 you can easily create the frame or image Placeholders.

These placeholders would help you out to place the image very quickly and it automatically adjusts to the size of the frame over the placeholder.

You can even modify it with the transform tool option or by pressing Ctr+T or CMD + T If you are using Mac.

New Content-Aware Fill Option

The content aware fill option in Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 now gives more precision and control over the automatic content aware fill option.

In this latest version of Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 now the content aware Fill option gives you the preview of the final result and also the preview of the area from where it is going to take the sample to fill the selection.

It also gives you more control to tell the photoshop to know from where you want to take the samples in order to fill the area of the selection.

So, you can modify the sample area with this New Content-Aware Fill option in Photoshop CC 2019.

How does it work?

Somewhat better than the previous version but still it doesn’t work the way it should be but this time you get some more controls and which are very useful.

This new Content-Aware Fill option in Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 works best for some images and no so good with some images, so overall it is a good feature.

Layer Blending Modes Preview

The Photoshop CC 2019 has got this amazing feature which was long awaited.

Now this version of the Photoshop CC 2019 includes the Real-Time preview of the layer blending mode option before it is applied or selected.

So, now if you just hover your mouse over any of the blending modes or layer blending modes then you will see a real-time preview of your image before you apply that.

This feature would really help you out to make a better and quick decision to choose the correct blending option and it would certainly save you a lot more time.

HDR Panorama Option

The new Camera RAW Includes the HDR Panorama option in Adobe Photoshop CC 2019.

In earlier versions of the Photoshop, if you want to create an HDR panorama image then you need to first merge all of your multiple exposure shots into the HDR and then you could create a Panorama image.

But now with this new feature of the HDR Panorama option in Adobe Camera Raw, you see all the multiple exposure images in the filmstrip so you can select all and then right click and you can choose to merge to HDR Panorama.

This option saves you a lot more time and the steps.

So, this could be a good useful feature for HDR and Panorama Fans out there.

Sample Text Is Now Included

If you are a designer, then you might have noticed this while working in the Adobe Photoshop CC previous versions, that you have to copy and paste the sample text like lorem ipsum from other sources and it was a time-consuming task.

But now with Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 latest version, you don’t have to copy this sample text from the lorem ipsum sites or some other sources.

But now the sample text is automatically inserted if you create a text box or just select the Type Tool and click anywhere on the active document.

This feature would help you out to make better decisions about the Fonts and it also saves you some time by giving you the preview of how the text is going to look.

Earlier we have to type in something to see the preview or if you want to change the fonts styles.

So, again this is also a great feature in Adobe Photoshop CC 2019.

Proportional Scaling

In the previous version, if you want to scale up or scale down any image, layer or anything else, you need to Press and hold the Shift Key in order to proportionally scale it or to maintain the aspect ratio of the image.

But thanks to the latest version of the Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 now you no longer need to press and hold the Shift key in order to proportionally scale the image.

Now the image would be proportionally scaled and it will maintain the aspect ratio of the image without holding the Shift Key.

But in this version of the Photoshop CC 2019, the effect has been reversed.

Which means if you press and hold the shift key, then it will not maintain the aspect ratio or it will not proportionally scale the image rather it would scale it freely.

So keep this in mind working with the latest version.

Control+Z or CMD+Z Command is Back Again

In the previous version of the Adobe Photoshop CC, if you press CTR+ Z or CMD+Z then it would take one step back and if you just press it once again it will take one step forward.

Which means if you just press CTR+ Z or CMD+Z at once it is going to undo 1 step and then if you just press it once again it would redo the step.

But if you want to go back to the take multiple previous steps or undo multiple times then you need to hold the Control + Alt + Z or CMD + Opt + Z in order to go back to the previous steps.

That was really frustrating and confusing for many.

But now with the latest version of Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 if you want to go back to the multiple previous steps all you need to CTR+ Z or CMD+Z number of times.

This feature was available in the earlier versions of the Photoshop but I think in Photoshop CC 2017 they have altered the undo command of CTR+ Z or CMD+Z but now this is back again and you don’t have to complicate the undo steps.

Workspace Lock

If you want to lock the workspace in which you are currently working in Photoshop CC 2019 which helps you to keep the layout or the positions of various tools, menus, etcetera.

So, this feature is somewhat useful for those who accidentally change their menu style or the positions of the layers, tools etc.

But now with the new version of Adobe Photoshop CC 2019, you can lock their position but some users have reported that it’s not working properly and I hope the Adobe is going to fix it soon.

New colour wheel

All those who are the digital painters or Artist and love digital painting in Adobe Photoshop the colour wheel is a must tool for them as it quickly helps them to select the desired colours.

Earlier they have to install a third-party plugin for the colour wheel and it was very frustrating to install a third party plugin when you have a very powerful feature loaded Photoshop purchased already.

But their apathy has been heard by the Adobe and now with Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 they have introduced the colour wheel option in Adobe Photoshop itself.

You can easily select the colour Wheel by just going to the windows select the colours and then from the colours panel click on the menu icon and choose colour wheel.

This colour wheel is very helpful when you want to quickly change Colours for various needs so you can quickly use your Eye Picker Tool or the Colour Picker Tool and select the colour you want.

So thanks for this new feature from all the Digital Artist and Digital Painting lovers out there.

Auto Commit Option or Auto Apply Option

The new version of the Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 has introduced the auto apply or auto-commit option for various tools like Crop-Tool and Transform Tool.

For example, if you are using the Crop tool and once you made your selection you need to either press Enter Key or you need to just go on the top panel and select the Checkmark and only then the crop used to apply.

But that was the old version, now with Adobe Photoshop CC 2019, all you just need to click anywhere else or select another tool and the crop selection would be applied automatically.

This auto applies or auto-commit option also works very well with the Tool or Option.

So if you are using the Transform option by pressing CTR+ T or CMD+T then you don’t need to press enter or select the check mark to apply any transformation all you have to do once again select anywhere else and that would be applied or commit automatically.

So, this is a small feature would help you to save a little bit more time.

But this would also accidentally apply some Crop or Transformation which you may not want to apply.

Keep this in mind while using these new features while using the Transform option or the Crop option.