Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator: new innovations

On October 14, 2024, Adobe announced significant updates to Photoshop and Illustrator. These updates introduce new features that enhance speed, precision, and power for creative professionals.

 

What is Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator?

Adobe Photoshop is a leading software for photo editing and graphic design. It is widely used by photographers, designers, and artists to create and manipulate images.

Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics editor used for creating illustrations, logos, and complex graphics. It is popular among graphic designers and illustrators for its precision and scalability.

 

New Features

The latest release improves day to day workflows for creative professionals working across photography, graphic design, illustration, fashion design, animation, interior design and beyond. It’s now more seamless than ever to edit digital images and create stunning designs across all types of content including digital art and animations, print materials, digital banners, storyboards, marketing materials and beyond with differentiated color, texture, lighting and style across 2D and 3D assets.

New innovations in Photoshop

  • Remove Tool adds new Distraction Removal smart technology to help remove unwanted objects including people, wires and cables with speed and ease.
  • All-new Generative Workspace (beta), powered by Adobe Firefly, helps designers ideate, brainstorm, and iterate concepts simultaneously, so creators can achieve their vision and produce stunning visuals faster and more intuitively than ever before.
  • New Adobe Substance 3D Viewer app (beta) integrates with the Photoshop beta app, expanding imaging workflows by delivering new ways for graphic designers to seamlessly view and edit 3D editable Smart Objects across their 2D designs in Photoshop.
  • Now generally available, Generative Fill, Generative Expand, Generate Similar and Generate Background, powered by Adobe Firefly Image 3 Model, delivers new ways to ideate and create.
  • Additional valuable workflow enhancements including OCIO Configuration enables designers to control, convert and preserve color workflows at higher quality across programs for best-in-class color management, as well as 32-bit Workflow for HDR which delivers superb image quality, detail and color precision.

 

New innovations in Illustrator:

Project Neo web app (beta) helps designers seamlessly create and edit 3D designs including color, shape, lighting and perspective, and bring them into Illustrator for their everyday design workflows.

  • All-new Objects on Path empowers users to quickly attach, arrange, and move objects along any path of their art board with maximum speed and precision.
  • Enhanced Image Trace helps designers seamlessly convert graphics to vectors easier, faster, and more accurately than ever before for further editing and customization across design workflows.
  • Powered by the Firefly Vector Model, Generative Shape Fill (beta) accelerates creative workflows and empowers designers to quickly add detailed vectors to shapes by entering text prompts directly in the Contextual Taskbar.
  • General availability of Mockup delivers the ability to easily create high-quality visual prototypes of art on objects like product packaging, apparel and more by automatically adjusting the art to fit the curves and edges of the real-life object.
  • Powerful performance improvements including the Enclosed Selection Mode for the Rectangular Marquee tool, Star as a Live Shape, ability to now Export as PDF, Resized Artboard, Quick Gradient Creation and more optimize everyday Illustrator operations to boost productivity and empower speed and ease across workflows.

 

Licensing

Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator are available through Adobe’s Creative Cloud subscription. Various plans are offered, including individual, business, and educational licenses. Reach out to SCHNEIDER IT MANAGEMENT to find the best solution for your needs.

 

More information

You can read the official announcement here: https://news.adobe.com/news/2024/10/101424-new-innovations-in-photoshop-and-illustrator.

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