Adobe's annual Max conference, which is taking place both in-person in Los Angeles and online from Oct. 18-20, includes news about significant updates to nearly all the applications in its Creative Cloud suite, as well as the launch of a new application, Substance 3D Modeler.
Expect a slew of other product announcements covering AI, collaboration, 3D, video, and photography software across 100+ online sessions and over 200 in-person sessions featuring celebrity guests like artist Jeff Koons, music producer Steve Aoki, producer Sian Heder, and actor Kevin Hart.
Most people associate Adobe with its flagship product, Photoshop, and the company is always adding new whizzbang digital image manipulation tools to the software.
At this year’s Max, Photoshop gets even more impressive selection tools that now let you do one-click delete and fill operations. It also gets guideline improvements and lets you copy and paste live text between Illustrator and Photoshop.
The improved object selection tool detects more object types and has greater accuracy. According to Adobe, it “recognizes complex objects and regions such as the sky, buildings, water, plants, different types of flooring and ground (e.g., mountains, sidewalks, streets).”
The new One-click Delete and Fill option, as its name suggests, lets you hover over a detected object and remove it, filling in the background with a single keystroke: Shift-Delete. New guide options let you customize those lines that help you line up elements in your image to an unprecedented degree. You can specify pixel position, color, and the number of rows and columns.
To protect your intellectual property and prevent fakes, Adobe’s Content Credentials feature lets you attach attribution info to
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