{"id":10719,"date":"2014-01-16T07:57:15","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T15:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=10719"},"modified":"2014-01-16T07:57:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T15:57:15","slug":"sweating-the-details-new-jdi-tweaks-arrive-in-photoshop-cc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/16\/sweating-the-details-new-jdi-tweaks-arrive-in-photoshop-cc\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweating the details: New &quot;JDI&quot; tweaks arrive in Photoshop CC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI wish Adobe would do a \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mac_OS_X_Snow_Leopard\">Snow Leopard release<\/a>\u2019,\u201d I used to hear people say\u2014i.e., instead of building big, shiny features, spend time just tweaking the little things that make all the difference in day-to-day use.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Although we\u2019ve sweated the details in <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2008\/09\/cs4_sweating_the_details.html\">past releases<\/a>, including making <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/category\/jdi\">tons of \u201cJust Do It (JDI) tweaks<\/a>,&#8221; I think you\u2019ll find that the move to\u00a0Creative Cloud makes it more possible &amp; important than ever. <strong>CC = continuous, iterative improvement<\/strong>. Here are the tweaks made in just the newest release of Photoshop CC, including <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2013\/09\/new-photoshop-enhancements-live-coded-for-your-pleasure.html\">some live-coded at Photoshop World<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mercury Graphics Engine performance boost (Smart Sharpen on GPU)<\/li>\n<li>See recent colors in the Swatches panel<\/li>\n<li>Improved selection of shapes with white arrow tool (clicking in the middle reveals white knots)<\/li>\n<li>Improved font transformations<\/li>\n<li>Layer names can now be up to 255 characters*<\/li>\n<li>Generator now properly rescales Illustrator Smart Objects when exported at 200%<\/li>\n<li>Set custom background color in New Document dialog<\/li>\n<li>New option for Narrow Options Bar, for small displays<\/li>\n<li>On a background layer, one click on the lock icon unlocks the layer<\/li>\n<li>Enhanced Scripted Patterns and Fills (Trees, previews, and other improvements)<\/li>\n<li>Added a \u201cDon&#8217;t show again&#8221; checkbox to the missing fonts dialog<\/li>\n<li>Enabled &#8220;Share on Behance&#8221; for more languages<\/li>\n<li>Improved history states for editing text, editing and applying Character and Paragraph styles<\/li>\n<li>Generator can export padding in image assets by using layer masks<\/li>\n<li>Better negative number support in curves adjustments<\/li>\n<li>Change \u201cClear\u201d to \u201cClear All\u201d for the Color Sampler tool<\/li>\n<li>Increase number of color samplers from 4 to 10<\/li>\n<li>Change all color samplers in Info palette at the same time<\/li>\n<li>Generator stability improvements<\/li>\n<li>Over 200 bugs fixes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The work is never done, and the team will keep rolling on with improvements. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/feedback.photoshop.com\/photoshop_family\">request &amp; vote on changes (large &amp; small) here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* Reminds me of an <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2012\/06\/tab-through-layers-to-rename-them-in-cs6.html\">earlier JDI<\/a>: as of CS6 you can Tab\/Shift-Tab among layers to rename them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI wish Adobe would do a \u2018Snow Leopard release\u2019,\u201d I used to hear people say\u2014i.e., instead of building big, shiny features, spend time just tweaking the little things that make all the difference in day-to-day use.\u00a0 Although we\u2019ve sweated the details in past releases, including making tons of \u201cJust Do It (JDI) tweaks,&#8221; I think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}