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Seamless live view editing

In the new version, you can click to edit in live view, effortlessly. Now, edit the semantic tags like <aside>, <section>, and so on, enhancing your editing experience. With auto-sync feature, any edits made in live view automatically synchronize with code view.

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Code hinting improvements

In the current update, the code hints' filtering logic has been improved for PHP. Now, the hints that you are looking for are always at the top. Also, the availability of code hints for JS and PHP has been improved.

Cloud documents

Some Adobe Creative Cloud features and services are currently not available on adobe.com in mainland China. As a result, Photoshop on the iPad and cloud documents are not available in this country/region.

Cloud documents are Adobe's cloud-native files that you can easily open and edit in any of Adobe's compatible apps. Cloud documents enable you to seamlessly access your work across devices. Simply connect to the Internet, open your PSD from the Cloud documents tab in the app home screen and pick where you left off.

Saving your creative work as a cloud document provides you with exclusive benefits:

• Seamlessly access files across devices: Access your work from anywhere—Photoshop on your desktop, on your laptop, Photoshop on the iPad, and Adobe Fresco. Your work is saved safely in the cloud wherever you work.
• Use one file across products: Simply create a cloud document in Photoshop on your desktop and work on it in Adobe Fresco or Photoshop on the iPad. Or vice versa.
• Keep your files up-to-date and safe: Cloud documents automatically save your most recent version. Meaning you can pick up from where you left off across your devices, whether sitting at your desktop or while on the couch.
• Work offline: Your offline version will automatically sync when you reconnect to the Internet. For Photoshop on the desktop, working offline has not changed from previous versions.

Cloud documents, Creative Cloud files, and other synced files are part of the Creative Cloud services included with your membership and count toward your Creative Cloud storage allocation.

To learn more about cloud documents, see:

• Photoshop cloud documents | Common questions
• Manage and work with cloud documents in Photoshop
• Photoshop User Guide > Cloud documents
• Creative Cloud User Guide > Collaboration and storage services

Improvements to presets

Presets have been reimagined to bring a whole new experience in the latest release of Photoshop.

From the menu bar, go to Window > Swatches, Gradients, Patterns, Shapes, or Styles. You now get:  

• New modern default presets like gradients, patterns, shapes and styles.
• Dedicated panels for gradients, patterns, and shapes.
• Ability to manage your presets by organizing them into groups. Simply drag and move the presets to rearrange and reorder within the panels.   
• Ability to drag gradients, patterns, swatches, and styles from the presets panel onto the canvas.
• A live preview on the canvas when you click through your presets to try different looks.

You can still access the familiar legacy presets by enabling the Legacy Presets option from the contextual panel menu. 

For more information, see the following links:

• Gradients
• Manage pattern libraries and presets
• Select a color in the Swatches panel
• Draw shapes
• Layer effects and styles

New Object Selection tool

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Not seeing the Object Selection tool in your toolbar? See Tools missing from the toolbar.

Powered by Adobe Sensei, the new Object Selection tool simplifies the process selecting a single object, multiple objects, or parts of an object in an image—people, cars, furniture, pets, clothes, and more.

Simply draw a rectangular region or lasso around the object and the Object Selection tool will automatically select the object inside the defined region, speeding up even the most complex selections.

You can access the Object Selection tool at the following locations:

• From the main application Tools panel in Photoshop, located in the same group as the Quick Selection and Magic Wand tool.
• From the Tools panel in the Select And Mask workspace.

For detailed information, see Object Selection tool.

Consistent transform behavior

Regardless of the layer type, you can now proportionally transform multiple layers without having to press the Shift key.

In this release of Photoshop, the following changes and improvements have been made to the transform behavior:

• The default transform behavior is now proportional scaling for all layer types and objects, indicated by the Maintain Aspect Ratio button (Link icon) in the ON state in the Options bar. 
• To change the default transform behavior to non-proportional scaling, simply click the  Maintain Aspect Ratio button to turn it OFF. 
• The Shift key, while pressed, now acts as a toggle for the Maintain Aspect Ratio button. If the Maintain Aspect Ratio button is ON, the Shift key toggles it OFF while pressed and vice versa.
• Photoshop now remembers your last transform behavior setting—proportional or non-proportional scaling—it will be your default transform behavior when you start Photoshop the next time. 

Want to switch back to the legacy transform behavior?

From the menu bar, choose Edit (Win)/Photoshop (Mac) > Preferences > General, then select Legacy Free Transform.

For related helpful information, see the following links:

• Transform objects
• Free transformations of images, shapes, and paths

Improved Properties panel

In the Properties panel, you easily discover even more controls for Document, Pixel Layer, and Type Layer properties without navigating through multiple panels and dialogs. The properties are shown contextually for the selected content. New Quick Actions will also accelerate your common tasks. For example, in a single click, you can now remove the background, select a subject while in the pixel layer properties panel, or quickly convert text layers into a frame or shape. 

Convert Smart Object to layers

In this release of Photoshop, you can easily convert a Smart Object back into its component layers without all of the extra steps.

Simply select the Smart Object in the Layers panel, then do any of the following:

• Right-click/Control-click the Smart Object, then choose Convert To Layers from the context menu.
• From the menu bar, choose Layers > Smart Objects > Convert To Layers. 

For more information, see Convert an embedded or linked Smart Object to layers.

Enhanced Transform Warp

With enhancements made to the Warp tool, you get more control over creative warping in Photoshop. Simply add control points anywhere or divide your image with a customizable grid, then transform by individual nodes or a larger selection. With the Warp tool, you can now:   

• Choose new preset grid size options: 3 x 3, 4 x 4, 5 x 5. 
• Create your own custom-sized grids.
• Add your own gridlines and anchor points. 
• Delete gridlines.
• Select and drag multiple anchor points.
• Undo individual steps of editing a warp.

To try it out, choose Edit > Transform > Warp.

For detailed information see, Warp images, shapes, and paths.

Path simplification

If you have complex paths in your artwork and you find it difficult to edit them, use the Path Simplify feature to make your path editing easier. This feature now has an enriched and intuitive user interface.

When you use this feature (Object > Path > Simplify), a dialog is displayed with essential options for simplifying a path. To view advanced options, click the More Options icon to open the Simplify dialog. With this dialog, you can simplify curves, adjust the corner point angle for smoothness, and convert curved paths into straight lines.

For more information, see Simplify a path.

Auto spell-check

Checking spellings is now easy with the Auto Spell-Check feature. If you're designing a book, brochure, resume, poster, or any other artwork that includes text, then do not worry about spelling errors as Illustrator will automatically highlight them as you type the text. 

Note: Illustrator supports spell-check in over 50 languages and dialects. It is currently not supported for East Asian languages.

For more information, see Check spellings.

Background save and export

Your Illustrator files are now saved and exported in the background. You no longer need to wait for the save and export processes to complete, you can continue working on your artwork. Illustrator will inform you when these processes are complete. If required, you can also check the progress by clicking the Check Progress button.

Note: Only .ai, .png, and .jpg files support background save and export. 

For more information, see Background save and Background export.

In-app troubleshooting support

We've improved Illustrator's file open and save processes in this release.

However, if the issue still occurs and your file can't be auto-recovered, Illustrator will display informative error messages stating the file recovery options.

Onboarding resources

To provide you an enriching learning experience and help you get started quickly with Illustrator, we provide a variety of resources in the Home and Learn tab of Illustrator – document presets, guided tutorials, and more. The Home screen also offers a sneak peek of the prominent new features released in the latest version of the app.

For more information, see In-app learning and inspiration.

Faster and quicker effects

If you have ever wished for an improved performance when applying Illustrator effectson images and objects, you'll be pleased to know that this release brings a significant improvement in the execution of Blur, Drop Shadow, and Inner and Outer Glow effects. Applying these effects in Illustrator is now much faster and quicker!

For more information, see Work with effects.

Backward compatibility of Illustrator files

All the new Adobe Illustrator (.ai) and Illustrator EPS (.eps) documents are now saved in the latest Illustrator 2020 format (version 24.0).

However, if you open the Illustrator 2020 document in an earlier version of Illustrator (2019 or before), a warning message is displayed. It indicates that this document is created using a newer version and you may lose some data on opening the document.

For a smooth experience, we recommend you to open the Illustrator 2020 documents in Illustrator 24.0.

Stability and other enhancements

Our aim is to provide you a stable and better product in every release.

In this release of Illustrator, we fixed a lot of issues that you reported to us. For example, issues related to typography, tools, file versioning, gradients, and more. For more information, see Fixed issues.

SVG import

You can now import and place the SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) format files in InDesign documents. SVG is an XML-based vector image format to provide support for interactivity. In the previous releases, SVGs from CC libraries were imported as PNG files in InDesign, but now they can be imported directly.

For more information, see Import SVG files.

Column rules

If you often design documents that contain multi-columns, the new column rule feature will let you add and control lines between columns in a multi-column text frame. Adding column rules helps you stylize the columns and add design elements. By default, the column rule is drawn from the ascent of the top line to the descent of the bottom line.

For more information, see Set column rules.

Support for South-East Asian languages

InDesign now includes a new text engine to support five new South East Asian languages: Thai, Burmese, Lao, Khmer, and Sinhala. Your documents can now include text composed in these scripts.

For more information, see South-East Asian Scripts.

Variable fonts

InDesign now supports Variable Font, a new Open Type font format supporting custom attributes such as weight, width, slant, optical size, etc. You can change these custom attributes using convenient slider controls available when you click variable font icon in the Control panel, Character panel, Character Styles panel, and Paragraph Styles panel.

Search for variable icon in the font list to look for variable fonts. Alternatively, look for the variable icon next to the font name.

For more information, see Variable fonts.

Reverse spell-check

If you've missed a spelling error while checking spellings manually, then you need not worry. You can now dictate the direction or order in which InDesign scans the text in your document for spelling errors.

Two new options, Backward and Forward are added in the Check spelling dialog. With these options, you can easily go back and correct the misspelled word.

For more information, see Spell-check and language dictionaries.

Enhanced data merge

This release brings the following enhancements in the Data Merge panel:

• A new frame fitting option, Use Existing is added. Select this option to retain the individual frame fitting for image frames when performing data merge operation on them.
• Now, semicolon (;) is also supported as the field delimiter, in addition to tab and comma.

For more information, see Content placement options.

Adobe Asset linking

For more information, see Adobe Assets Link.

Find similar images

You can now directly find graphic assets that are visually similar to the assets placed in your InDesign document. In previous versions, it was done only in the CC Libraries panel, but now you can search for similar assets on the canvas as well. 

For more information, see Find similar images.

Onboarding resources

To provide you an enriched learning experience and help you get started, a variety of resources are provided in the Home screen of InDesign: guided tutorials, document templates, presets, recent document list, and more. This screen also offers a sneak-peek of the prominent new features released in the current version of the app.

For more information, see In-app learning and inspiration.

Removal of Flash formats

Adobe decides to stop updating and distributing the Flash Player. To follow this decision, InDesign removed the support for placing, importing, exporting, and linking Flash files, such as .FLV, .F4V, and .SWF. 

The removal of Flash formats required some user-interface changes, where options related to Flash formats are removed.

For more information, see Flash Player reached end-of-life | Impact on InDesign.

In-app troubleshooting support

We've improved InDesign's file open and save processes in this release.

However, if the issue still occurs and your file can't be auto-recovered, InDesign will display informative error messages stating the file recovery options.

Stability and performance

Our aim is to provide you a stable and better product in every release.

In this release of InDesign, we fixed over 50+ issues that you reported to us. For example, issues related to core features, workflows, performance, stability, user-experience, and more. In addition, we made improvements in the features released in InDesign version 14.0, such as import PDF comments, Adjust layout.

For more information, see Fixed issues.

Other enhancements

• You will have a better performance while typing and composing text. Text will now compose faster for span columns, vertical justification, and balance columns.
• The Hyperlink panel now includes two tabs: Appearance and Accessibility. You can specify the alternate text in the Alt Options in the Accessibility tab.
• The Properties panel has been enhanced to provide a better experience. 
• The Scale factor in Links panel can now be sorted as numbers. In previous releases, the scale factor was sorted as alphabets.
• You can now assign a keyboard shortcut to the styles (para, character, object, table, cell, and more) without using the number pad.