Commentary: Adobe Unveils 'Big Splash' Creative Cloud Release Including New iPad Apps and Major Photoshop and After Effects Updates

When Adobe announced Creative Cloud in April 2012, 后来在5月份只接受订阅, 2013 one primary motivation was the ability to continuously update the individual products in the suite. 随着2014年Creative Cloud的发布, Adobe proves that the “continuously update” mode of operation doesn’t preclude a big splash of new products and services. 在2014年6月发布, Adobe released 14 updated versions of the CC desktop apps, 三个新的移动应用程序, 还有两个新的硬件设备, 摄影师的新计划, and key optimizations to educational and enterprise plans. Adobe也宣布有超过2个.300万Creative Cloud订阅, which the company said far exceeded their original projections from 2012.

If you’re scratching your head and wondering, Didn’t Adobe just seriously update Premiere Pro?, the answer is yes, but that was part of this release. 具体地说, Adobe previewed the Premiere Pro updates at NAB 2014, 其中包括几个关键的新功能, 包括实时文本模板, 掩蔽和跟踪, 还有主剪辑效果, as well as updated format support and enhanced graphics performance. You can read about those updates and watch a tutorial showing them in action in the April article, 教程:新功能在Adobe Premiere Pro CC. Accordingly, the June launch focused on other products, and so will this article.

短暂的, After Effects is a key application for many video producers; new features include additional keying effects, Kuler集成, and the ability to create live text templates and to share masks with Premiere Pro. Photoshop, 许多视频专业人士使用的另一个应用程序, 有了更强大的智能对象, 改进的图层对比和内容感知技术, 模糊画廊运动效果, 和焦点蒙版.

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One of the major benefits of the Creative Cloud is the ability to store preferences and other settings in the cloud, and to easily transfer your license from machine to machine. This makes it simple to use the applications on different computers and quickly duplicate your work environment.

What’s stored in the cloud varies between the various applications. With Premiere Pro, it’s preferences and settings, workspace layouts, and keyboard shortcuts. 用Photoshop, 要多得多, 包括色板, 自定义形状, 工具预设, 行动, 风格, 模式, 刷, 梯度和轮廓. 这些存储的设置, and the ability to transfer them from machine to machine is key because many creative professionals will soon be working on their iPads, courtesy of three new iPad applications launched with this update, Adobe草图, Adobe线, 和Photoshop Mix (下面的图1). When they do, the major settings from the desktop applications will follow them along.

图1. 为Creative Cloud用户提供的三款新iPad应用程序.

短暂的, Adobe草图是一个自由形式的绘图工具, 用石墨铅笔, 钢笔, 两个混合标记(笔尖), 凿尖), 还有橡皮擦. I haven’t seen the program, but apparently you can receive live feedback while you work. Adobe线用于精密绘图和绘图, 包括尺子之类的工具, t形方块和形状模板, 和Kuler颜色主题. Photoshop Mix用于合成和遮罩, 并包括内容感知填充, 减少相机抖动, 以及打开和保存PSD文件的能力.

All three new apps are free and available in the Apple App Store; you don’t even need a paid subscription to the Creative Cloud to install them. 你需要一台运行iOS 7或更高版本的iPad, 至少在一开始, Adobe不会发布Android版本.

Photoshop Mix was created using Adobe’s New Creative SDK (software development kit), a software library that enables the creation of 移动 apps that integrate with Creative Cloud apps and leverage key Adobe technologies like “Touch Slide” software for straight line drawing and cloud image-editing services like Content-Aware Fill and Upright. The SDK is currently in private beta with select developers with a beta launch planned for later this year.