Next, she tackled the composition. The original shot was a bit too tight, but she didn’t want to lose the resolution by cropping in. She tried the Content-Aware Crop. As she rotated the horizon and expanded the canvas, Photoshop intelligently filled in the empty corners with matching grass and sky. She watched in awe as the software "guessed" what should have been there, saving her hours of manual cloning.
Mastering Adobe Photoshop CC 2015.5: A Guide to the Hidden Gem
: Users gained the ability to give artboards colored or transparent backgrounds and export individual layers nested within an artboard group. photoshop cc 20155
: The updated algorithm is much more accurate at isolating fine textures like hair, fur, and complex foliage from busy backdrops. 3. Content-Aware Crop
The introduction of represented a massive leap forward in portrait retouching. Previously, using the Liquify tool on faces required careful, manual adjustments of brush sizes and pressure—and the results could easily look unnatural if you weren't highly skilled. Next, she tackled the composition
Adobe does not sell standalone versions of CC anymore. However, if you have an active Creative Cloud subscription, you can actually download any previous version.
With Face-Aware Liquify, Photoshop could now automatically detect faces in photographs and recognize individual facial features: eyes, nose, mouth, chin, and even the overall face shape. Once detected, each feature could be adjusted independently using simple, intuitive sliders. As she rotated the horizon and expanded the
Previous versions left blank white spaces or required manual cloning when rotating an image or expanding a canvas. CC 2015.5 integrated Content-Aware technology directly into the Crop tool. The software automatically samples surrounding pixels to seamlessly fill in empty corners during rotation or expansion. Face-Aware Liquify
, to more accurately separate complex foreground elements (like hair or fur) from backgrounds. Face-Aware Liquify
Photoshop CC 2015.5 introduced three flagship features that remain staples in the modern version of Photoshop. As one reviewer noted, "the 'Adobe Magic' continues".