For the last few weeks, the Photoshop team has been giving us some sneak peeks of the latest version of Photoshop. The latest version of Photoshop is due to be released in the first half of 2012. We have already seen videos showing off Photoshop’s new look, and some performance enhancements but this video shows us something new, something that we have been asking them to include for a long, long time – dotted and dashed lines.
In this video, Photoshop Product Manager, Zorana Gee shows how you can click on a stroke and quickly convert it to a dotted line. Then, she shows how to quickly add a gradient effect. What do you think of this new feature? Is there anything else you would want included in the next version of Photoshop?
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My question is… why has it taken 15+ versions of Photoshop for Adobe to realize that this is a needed effect? Hello Adobe! Are you asleep over there?
Have to buy the new version :)
It’s money :)
it has taken “15 versions” because only in the last few recent versions, photoshop has incorporated “vector”, vexel, imaging. before it was a raster imaging program made for editing photos. before you would use illustrator to do images like the one shown here.
Yeah, Finally :)
About Time!!!!
From what I’ve seen so far Adobe are making positive steps towards improving daunting tasks. Well excited. Thanks for the video.
So glad they are finally adding this feature.
Wow…FINALLY!!!!!!!!
A very nice tut, short but very informative.
One thing I would like to see with these type of short tutorials is perhaps a series of three of these be released in a day. I think it would be easy to do, a day set aside for these like a “Three mini Thursday’s”.
Maybe do on the following day, “Freaking hard Friday’s”, with the weekend to work on them. Would be something to look forwards to each day. The name is not important and in fact I would not use the name I gave but to give structure to the layout of tutorials to some degree would be awesome, perhaps just call Friday “Advanced studies day” would be better.
Also since this sites creators has made several sites that pay artists to sell their stuff on, why not do the same for art instruction and create a site that pays instructors to teach the same way as they have set up as in Videohive for example a payment system for instructors. As I would think who ever does such a thing first would generate some awesome instructors to make tutorials, and why don’t you pay me for the creative idea’s I give you if you start making millions off my idea as well :)
Flash has this feature for many years now. Seems like they finally(!) build it into Photoshop.
yeah. it’s beauty. nice video tuts.
Look ma, Illustrator!
Can they please add a preset browser or make brushes and patterns etc. visible in bridge.
right now the only way to see brushes is to load them.
Type styles.
i know they were working on it cause it made it into one of dekes videos for cs5 before they edited it out!
the ability to have folders in the brush panel
i want to organize my brushes inside the panel with folders
like have a folder name “water brushes” then when you click on it will show the water brushes,
make brushes separate with folders so it will be organized ,
it will make my workflow alot faster and easier to find brushes.
Are you serious everyone… If you’re an avid lifelong photoshop user (beginner or expert) and can’t create a dotted or dash line already you have problems… you can set this up with your brush presets and use the pen tool then stroke the path… Oh My! I guess now it’s easier..? Soon they’ll have an Easy Button like Staple’s. This is silly. People need filters, and tools that do what you can already do with a little more time. I’m might have to change my profession this new world of simplifying everything so “everyone” can do it and 36 mega pixel prosumer cameras is gonna put me out of business.
Yeah it’s easy enough to do by setting your brush spacing, shape, etc. and then stroking the path. But yes, this will be faster, and easier to make changes to. I welcome any new features that streamline my workflow, because I know that while these things make it easier for amateurs to execute professional techniques, they also enable professionals to work more quickly and even find new uses for the technique. And in the end, it is not the techniques that make a great designer, it is the creativity and the way they USE those techniques. I wouldn’t worry about an amateur out-designing you if you truly are a professional.
A new feature would definitely be stroke “Laziness”, something very much alike to the “Lazy Mouse” feature in ZBrush.
Because honestly, far from every one of us has a hand steady enough to hold a ball on a needle. (Shaky shaky!)
Another great (optional!) feature to that would be applying about the same principle to pressure sensitivity.
Again, because try making your stroke smoothly shrink as you go on. (I for one find it impossible to do.)
As for why the latter should be optional, well – I may want my stroke to be very precise, but smoothly shrink in size.
And now I’m getting carried off, but perhaps (perhaps perhaps indeed!) even have a feature to scale laziness according to zoom level.
The less (50%100%) the less lazy it becomes.
Convenience, my friends. All the more for convenience!
Wait a second there, I said THE LESS (Zoom) (50% is less than 100%) the more lazy it becomes, and the more (400% bigger than 100%) the less lazy it becomes.
More than/Less than signs seem to mess stuff up real bad.
I would like to see the ability to have multiple layer masks on a single layer.
You can actually do that using layer groups. It’s not a perfect solution but it works.
This new feature will be very handy, waiting for the next version.
Photoshop makes us experienced day by day. I am really attracted in adobe photoshop work. Thanx for sharing this.
I’d like to assign the slide tool to a layer or a group, that way i can save webdesigns for web without having to go for multiple saves to get the backgrounds, and the buttons in png so i get that shadow fine on any background, if i decide to change it.
I’d also like to be able to select all the elements with the same fill color, and change it to another, for all concerned fill layers for example…
makes any sense?
Photoshops is meant to be used along Illustrator.
It’s about time, now when I am designing web-sties I can actually do it much easier.
They should do the same thing for little jaggedy triangle edges.
Look forward to more of this vexel concepts. Id much rather just work in PS only. I very rarely open Illustrator these days.
So this is going to be in CS6?