The window has sliders you can use instead, though.īut the tool I found most impressive is Content-Aware Move. These give you great control, though I wasn’t wowed by the control that sets the amount of blur–you spin it like an iPod wheel, but in a tiny area. In a window with on-image controls, you can control the amount of blur, set areas that do not get blurred, the amount of feather, and the angle of blur. The tool can straighten the image and subtly enlarge portions of your image that are down-perspective (farther away) to make the entire image look straight.Ī new GPU-accelerated blur tool adds many features, too.

The brand-new Perspective Crop is an excellent tool–with it, you draw a cropping box over an image that has been taken at an angle that skews or distorts the image, then adjust where one or more of the corners of your image should be. Photoshop’s new Perspective Crop tool notice how the wood piece’s top edge is straightened. New overlay grids help you to crop with precision. You can also save cropping presets–your website’s standard size for thumbnail images, say. It encourages a new way of cropping, which is nondestructive–meaning, when you crop an image, you can choose to retain (but hide) the cropped pixels, so that if you need them back later, you can get to them without starting over.

The updated cropping tool has many new features.

You aren’t limited to choosing from only a small number of graphics cards, too see Adobe’s list of cards that it has tested and confirmed to work. With acceleration enabled, those features flew–no matter what setting I tried, no matter how big the brush–and I never had to wait for a progress bar to complete. Furthermore, some features, such as the new Oil Paint filter, refused to work with GPU acceleration turned off, and the Liquify tool strongly suggested that I please turn it back on.

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