The new and improved Smart Guides display helpful spacing info about your document’s content depending on where you point your cursor (circled). By Option-dragging layer content, you duplicate the layer and see the distance between the duplicate and original as you drag. With the Move or Path Selection tool active you can see distance measurements between the active layer’s content and what your cursor is pointing at, including other layer content and the document’s edge. Smart Guides are automatically turned on in Photoshop CC 2014. On the other hand, the Fill command’s Content-Aware option sports a Color Adaptation checkbox for better blending, though (oddly) you have to turn it on. Unfortunately, both fields are tucked inside a sub-menu in the Options bar so they’re easily missed (plus the numeric range of what you can enter into either field should be noted in the tooltip). So, instead of adaptation presets for the Patch and Content-Aware Move tools, there’s a Structure and a Color field that let you enter precise settings for more realistic blending. All Content-Aware tools are capable of better color blending, too, especially when used in gradients (think skies, water, etc.). Photoshop’s improved graphics engine cause the Smart Sharpen filter and upsampling via the Image Size dialog box to be a little zippier. With Adobe’s Creative Cloud Photography program-you get Photoshop and Lightroom (along with a slew of Creative Cloud benefits) for $10 a month-this level of pixel-pushing power has never been more affordable.

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