PS Features

Adobe Photoshop Changelog/New Features
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3.0
November 1994

Tabbed Palettes
Layers

4.0
November 1996

Adjustment Layers
Actions (macros)
Navigator palette
Grids and Guides
Free Transform tool
Multicolor gradients and Gradient Editor
Gallery Effects filters
Digimarc image watermarking
PNG file format
PDF file format

5.0
May 1998

Editable type (previously, type was rasterized as soon as it was added)
Multiple Undo (History Palette)
Color Management
Magnetic Lasso and Pen
Freeform Pen
Spot Color channels
increased 16 bit/channel support
Channel Mixer adjustment
Layer Effects
Automation plugins
Color Samplers
Measure tool

5.5
February 1999

Bundled with ImageReady
Save for Web
Extract

6.0
September 2000

Vector Shapes
Updated User Interface
"Liquify" filter
Layer styles/Blending Options dialog

7.0
March 2002

Made text fully vector
Healing Brush
New painting engine
Spell check
Find/Replace

CS (8.0)
October 2003

Camera RAW 2.x
Highly modified "Slice Tool"
Shadow/Highlight command
Match Color command
Lens Blur filter
Smart Guides
Real-Time Histogram
Detection and refusal to print scanned images of various banknotes
Macrovision copy protection based on Safe cast DRM technology
Scripting support for JavaScript and other languages
Hierarchical layer groups
16 bit per channel layers, painting, and adjustments
Support for files over 2 Gigabytes
Documents up to 300,000 pixels in either dimension
Type on a path

CS2 (9.0)
April 4, 2005

Camera RAW 3.x
Smart Objects
Image Warp
Spot healing brush
Red-Eye tool
Lens Correction filter
Smart Sharpen
Vanishing Point
High dynamic range imaging (HDRI) support (32 bit per channel floating point)
More smudging options, such as "Scattering"
Modified layer selection, such as ability to select more than one layer.

CS3 (10.0)
April 16, 2007

Native support for the Intel-based Macintosh platform and improved support for Windows Vista
Revised user interface
Feature additions to Adobe Camera RAW
Quick Select tool
Alterations to Curves, Vanishing Point, Channel Mixer, Brightness and Contrast, and the Print dialog
Black-and-white conversion adjustment
Auto Align and Auto Blend
Smart (non-destructive) Filters
Mobile device graphic optimization
Improvements to cloning and healing
More complete 32 bit / HDR support (layers, painting, more filters and adjustments)
Faster launching
ImageReady removed

CS4 (11.0)
October 15, 2008

Smoother panning and zooming and fluid canvas rotation
OpenGL display acceleration in Photoshop
Native support for 64-bit on Windows Vista x64
Adjustments panel
Masks panel
Improved Adobe Photoshop Lightroom workflow
Content-aware scaling
Extended depth of field
Auto-blending of images
Auto-alignment of layers
New file display options (tabbed document display and n-up views)
New file management and workspaces with Adobe Bridge CS4

CS5 (12.0)
April 30, 2010

Content Aware Fill
Puppet Warp Tool
Bristle Tips
Mixer Brush
Automatic Lens Correction
Easier HDR toning for beginners
Improved selection and masking controls
Camera RAW grain control
New Blend modes: Subtract and Divide
GPU HUD controls for brush resize, color picker, color sampling
Improved Ray Tracing quality and speed (Extended)
Repousse 3D extrusion tool (Extended)
Image based lights (Extended)

CS5.1 (12.1)
May 3, 2011

Interacts with remote applications over TCP/IP, such as tablets and other computers.
Subscription model pricing

CS6, CS6 Extended (13.0)
May 7, 2012

UI redesign (all new icons and optional dark UI)
Auto and background saves
Content-aware Patch and Move tools (extensions of content-aware fill introduced in previous version)
Blur Gallery includes Tilt Shift, Iris and Field that can be used to create depth of field effects
Color Range: skin tone and face detection
Adobe Camera RAW 7
Enhanced crop tool with straighten option
New properties panel that can be used to vary properties of adjustment layers
Enhanced video support
Oil Paint filter now ships with the program
Adaptive Wide Angle filter
Paragraph and Character Styles
Built in support for Middle Eastern languages
Updated Printing UI
3DLUT adjustment
Overhauled vector tools including stroking of vector paths, dotted or dashed
Snap to Pixel for vector tools and transforms
3D UI completely redone, now easier to use

CS6 (13.0.1)
August 30 2012

Fixed Bugs/Glitch and Security Patch
3D: Reflection does not render when ray Traced
3D: Ray Trace does not stop rendering
3D: OpenGL widget stops working in Full Screen Windows
Paths and Shapes: No way to select a Shape layer without path getting activated
Paths and Shapes: Shapes do not constrain properly with non-square pixels
Paths and Shapes: Unable to type on paths or shape layer
Paths and Shapes: Vector Layers Copy/Paste attributes not actionable
Paths and Shapes: No vector preview when transforming shape layers.
Windows task bar location & image window problem
Paint is offset with Grip Pen
Actions: An action that copies, closes, and pastes to another open image gives error that it cannot paste Documents open as floating
Actions: CS4/5 Actions that include “Use legacy” option are not using legacy in CS6
Type: Extensis: Update All Text Layer becomes available after replace missing fonts
Layer Comps: “Could not complete your request because the result would be too big” displayed with this CS5 sample file
Group Styles: Some blending options not saved with file
Video playback should use draft quality for faster playback
After crop, Adjustment layers with dropdown menus become grayed out in properties panel
Channels Panel: Thumbnails don’t update after moving layer
Performance: Moving layers is slow compared to CS5 if layer palette is visible and thumbnails are showing

CC (14.0)
June 17, 2013

Camera Shake Reduction
Former Extended features now always included
Intelligent Upsampling
Camera Raw as a filter
Editable rounded rectangles
Improved 3D painting
Share on Behance
Conditional Actions
System antialiasing style for type
Min and Max filter round kernel
Sync preferences with Cloud

CC (14.1)
September 2013

Adobe Generator
Generate image assets from layers
Edge Reflow integration through Adobe Generator
Camera shake reduction improvements

CC (14.2)
January 2014

Perspective Warp
Linked smart objects
3D Printing support
Publish 3D models on Sketchfab
Adobe Camera Raw 8.3

CC 2014(15.0)
June 2014

Blur Gallery motion effects
Focus Mask
Expanded Mercury Graphics Engine support
Smart Object improvements
Adobe Camera Raw 8 enhancements

CC 2014.2.2 (15.2.2)
December 2014

CC 2015 (16.0) (Adobe Photoshop 25th Anniversary)
June 15, 2015

Artboards
Adobe Stock marketplace
Design Space (Preview) offers a designated mode for websites and mobile apps designers
Camera Raw as a filter
Some Layer styles can now be added up to 10 instances
Redesign image export feature
Adobe Camera Raw 9.1
Linked files in CC Libraries
Realtime healing previews

CC 2015.1 (16.1)
November 30, 2015

New Creative Cloud Libraries capabilities
Design Space (Preview) enhancements
Modern user experience on desktop and touch devices
More creative options with SVG import
Enhanced export experience

CC 2015.5 (17.0)
June 20, 2016

Better collaboration with Libraries
Match Font
Updated Libraries panel
Create patterns with Capture CC
Improved artboards
Showcase your work with Adobe Portfolio
Selection and Masking Space
Content-Aware Crop
Export enhancements
3D printing to Microsoft 3MF (Windows 10 only)

CC 2015.5.1 (17.0.1)
August 8, 2016

Fixed customer submitted crashing issues
Subtool reverts to primary tool after using keyboard shortcut
Unable to Export individual layers that are nested in Artboard > Group
“Rasterize EPS Format” dialogue box doesn’t remember Mode setting
Embed color profile result reflects whatever it was set last time
Text accidentally commits when try to transform Paragraph text using bounding box transform handles
Cursor doesn’t correctly change to Commit cursor to differentiate from Rotate and Move cursor
Error: “Could not apply the workspace because the file was not found” when opening a file
Several fixes and improvements for Select and Mask:
        Select and Mask: Command not available on non-pixel layer masks
        Select and Mask: Refine Edge Brush Tool creating artifacts along the brush stroke in mask
        Select and Mask: Redraw corruption (RGB 16bit/32 bit) with Show Original in certain zoom levels (preview mode “black and white”)
        Select and Mask: Using the Refine edge brush on one area of a pre-existing selection may cause certain hard edges in another area to change a few pixel values, especially when the image is in very high resolution
        Select and Mask: Using brush tool with feather 8 or more and zoom level 50 or lower get redraw issue
        Select and Mask: With a selection, the output defaults to selection, even if the previous output setting was a mask
        Select and Mask: Inverting a selection outputs the original selection
        Select and Mask: Crash when double-clicking adjustment mask
        Select and Mask: Program error when image is multi-channel

CC 2017 (18.0)
November 2, 2016

In-app search
Tighter integration with Adobe XD
Stock templates, 3D objects, and search
Support for SVG color fonts
Introducing Typekit Marketplace
Better overall performance

CC 2017 (18.0.1)
December 16, 2016

Bugs/Glitches Fixes

CC 2017 (18.1)
April 5, 2017

Program error when converting to bitmap using pattern dither with a selection
Performance issues with TrueType and OpenType fonts
Blank menu entry in the context menu for 3D type
3D show or hide polygons issue with Reveal All
Layer groups with changed blend modes corrupt files
Numerous other issues fixed in the areas of 3D, Actions, Search, Learn Panel, Performance, Touch Bar, and Type

CC 2017 (18.1.1)
May 2, 2017

Scratch Disk size error
Can't save changes to the Adobe Photoshop document before quitting
The last-used grouped tool is forgotten after using the Move tool (V)
Patches for some vulnerabilities and various other bug fixes

CC 2018 (19.0)
October 18, 2017

New Stroke smoothing features
New Curvature Pen tool
Support for Spherical panoramas editing
Streamlined brush management
Access your Lightroom photos in Photoshop
Supporting variable fonts
Email or share your creations to several services directly from within Photoshop
Tooltips have been enriched
Support for Microsoft Surface Dial
Upscale photos with AI
Option for automatically symmetrical paint
Color Range Mask for Camera Raw

CC 2018 (19.0.1)
November 3, 2017

Lots of Bugs Fixed