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Kicking the Tires on the New Photoshop CC 2015.5

Last week Adobe released the new Photoshop CC 2015.5 , and in this episode of TheFIX we kick the tires and take it for a spin to check out the new features of most interest to photographers: Content-Aware Crop, which fills in the empty spaces on the edges that can result when straightening an image; the new Select & Mask task space, which represents a significant upgrade to what used to be the Refine Edge and Refine Mask dialogs; and the new Face-Aware panel in the Liquify filter, which recognizes face features like the eyes, nose, mouth, forehead and chin and allows you to make subtle (or not so subtle) modifications. Part of the "Kicking the Tires" philosophy is to not just show a demo of a new feature on an image where we know it will work, but to try it out on several images, to see where it works well and where it might have problems. This is a full version update to Photoshop CC, so you will need to re-install your plug-ins to have them show up in the new version. See the link below to Jeff Tranberry's Photoshop CC 2015.5 FAQ for more info on that.

Links Mentioned in This Episode

Jeff Tranberry's Photoshop CC 2015.5 FAQ (includes info on installing plug-ins)

See below in the Where's Seán section for links to Seán's upcoming workshops mentioned in this episode.

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Where's Seán?

* Lynda.com recently published Seán's two new Photoshop Compositing Project courses... Learn Photoshop Compositing: 10-Minute Techniques and Photoshop: Create a Portrait Collage. Check out his website to learn more about his photography, workshops, and all of his Lynda.com courses.

* Explore creative mobile photography processing with Seán in Mill Valley, California

iPhoneography: Creative Capture & Processing Techniques,  July 31, 2016

* Join Seán at the Maine Media Workshops for

"Creative Seeing: Refining Your Photographic Vision", Aug. 7 – 13, 2016

* Connect with Seán on social media:  Facebook   |   Twitter   |   Google+  |