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New Features In Photoshop CC 2014
1. Smart Guides
Getting the correct distance between two objects is crucial in web design but it can be a tedious task to measure everything. With the Photoshop CC 2014 release, you longer do you have to guess the measurements between objects. The new Smart Guides are one of the most useful features because they show you the relative distance between objects and make positioning objects much easier. To use Smart Guides, hold the Control or Command key. A purple smart guide will appear and you can see the distance between your selected layer and the canvas. You can even measure the distance between two layers simply by hovering over the other layer. If you don’t see anything, make sure that you have the Move or any Path tool selected then try again.
Tip: If you want to change the measurements, simply press Ctrl/Cmd+R to enable the Rulers then right-click on the ruler and select the measurement you’d like to use.
Smart Guides also let you create matched spacing so that you can duplicate a layer to another position and repeat this with the same spacing you had before. For example, let’s say we want to duplicate this circle three times. Simply hold the Alt or Option key then drag it towards the right.
Repeat the same thing by holding Alt or Option and dragging another circle towards the right. Photoshop will automatically snap this circle so that the spacing matches.
2. Smart Object Improvements
A new feature in Photoshop CC that wasn’t found in Photoshop CS6 is Linked Smart Objects. This feature lets you embed a file to your Photoshop document and anytime you edit that Linked Smart Object, your file will save as well. This also works the other way around – you can edit your file then update your Linked Smart Object and it’ll update your Photoshop document with the new file.
If you wanted to turn the Linked Smart Object into a regular embedded one that isn’t linked, you can simply right-click on the layer and choose “Embed Link”. But in previous versions of Photoshop CC, you couldn’t do this vice-versa and turn an Embedded Smart Objected into a Linked Smart Object. Now you can do this in Photoshop CC 2014 by right-clicking any Embedded Smart Object and choosing Convert to Linked. When you do this, Photoshop will open a new window asking where you’d like to save the file. Save the file and your Embedded Smart Object is now a Linked Smart Object.
When you start using Linked Smart Objects, you’ll often find yourself having to organize where those files are stored in your computer. And if you have a document with many Linked Smart Objects, it can be a lot of work to organize all your files and send it to your coworker. Instead, you can now use the Package tool which will save a copy of your Photoshop document with all the Linked Smart Objects into any folder. Simply go to File > Package, browse for a folder where you want to save the files, and Photoshop will automatically save your document with all the Linked Smart Objects organized into the Linked folder.
What happens when you open a Photoshop document with a missing Linked Smart Object? Photoshop will let you know about the error and you can find the file.
If If you can’t find the file, Photoshop still has a raster version of the layer that you can use but you need to rasterize your layer. If you try to edit the layer, Photoshop will ask you if you want to rasterize the Smart Object. Click Yes and you can edit the layer.
The last update for Smart Objects are selectable layer comps. Sometimes you need to create multiple variations or compositions of the same artwork. For this, you can use the Layer Comps panel by going to Window > Layer Comps. You can create multiple layer comps and change the layer visibility, position, and appearance. In Photoshop CC 2014, you can easily switch between different layer comps on your Smart Object. To do this, select a Smart Object then go to Window > Properties. You’ll find a dropdown menu for you to pick the layer comps.
3. Better Font Previews and Typekit Integration
Photoshop CC 2014 brings a huge update to the Text tool. Firstly, you can pick your fonts quicker with the live font preview. Simply hover over a font from the options bar and your text will update. You can also do this by pressing the up or down button. Sometimes a font will have several styles – instead of pressing up or down multiple times until you get to the next font, you can hold the shift key while pressing up or down and it’ll skip the styles and go straight to the next font.
Another feature you’ll notice is the green icon beside the font. This indicates that the font is from Typekit – a respiratory of fonts that are free to use with your Creative Cloud membership. Simply click on the 
button and the Typekit website will load in your browser and automatically log you in. From here, you can select the font you want to use and sync it to your computer. The font will appear in Photoshop automatically without restarting.
button and the Typekit website will load in your browser and automatically log you in. From here, you can select the font you want to use and sync it to your computer. The font will appear in Photoshop automatically without restarting.
Back in the Photoshop font selection menu, you can filter the fonts list so that it only shows fonts from TypeKit.
You can also search for a font by typing. For example, you can type “bold cond” to find all the bold condensed fonts.
Finally, if you open a Photoshop document with missing fonts, Photoshop will automatically inform you if they’re available on Typekit and you can
4. Path and Spin Blur
With the new Path and Spin blur modes for the Blur Gallery filter, you can create realistic motion blur along a path or a circular motion blur. To access these, go to Filter > Blur Gallery > Path or Spin blur. First, we’ll show you the Path blur. This blur mode lets you create a motion blur along a path. Simply draw a path in the direction that you’d like the motion blur to move towards. You can also draw multiple paths in different areas.
The Spin blur creates a circular motion blur and it’s great for making the wheels look like they’re moving.
With the two new blur modes, you can create great looking motion blur car ads.
5. Focus Selections
Here’s a photo of with a blurry background and let’s say we want to make a selection of just the areas that are in focus. We can do this easily with the new Focus Area selection tool. To use this, go to Select > Focus Area.
Adjust the “In-Focus Range” setting or checkmark the Auto box to have Photoshop guess it for you. The selection isn’t always perfect but you can use the add and subtract tools to fix it. When you’re done, you can further enhance the selection by clicking on the Refine Edge button. This will bring up the Refine Edge tool to improve your selection.
And just like that, we created a quick selection of the in-focus areas that we can use with any adjustment or fill layers.
We Will All Talk to Computers
Ben Bajarin is the Director of Consumer Technology Analysis and Research at Creative Strategies, Inc, a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm located in Silicon Valley.
When Apple showed the world Siri, I believe they showed us the next major man-to-machine user interface.
The idea of talking to computers is nothing new. It has, of course, been featured in sci-fi novels, movies and TV shows for years now. Even software itself has shown shades of voice input as the next user input for over 10 years. The challenge had always been bringing it to the mass market. This is what Apple plans to do with Siri on the iPhone 4S.
(MORE: Apple iPhone 4S Review: It's the iPhone 4, Only More So)
This technology has been in development for quite a while and is getting progressively better. Besides bringing
it to the mass market, another challenge has been making it useful by going beyond simple dictation. One of the most impressive elements of Siri is not just the ability to do voice-to-text dictation, but its ability to turn natural-language directives into action.
What I mean by that is that I can use my voice to say, "Remind me to feed my goats when I get home." Because Siri is trained to know where my house is and the iPhone 4S has GPS, the second I drive into my driveway, I get a reminder that tells me to feed the goats. I live on a farm and this is quite handy for me.
It's a valuable proposition to be able to use voice commands to create calendar items, search the web, get abstract information like how many feet are in a mile, search local information, set alarms, check the weather, and much more. This can be done because Siri is tied to some very powerful databases and, through its AI and voice comprehension technology, can deliver some amazingly accurate information that has already proven helpful to me and many who have used this technology.
What is fascinating is that as I have been using Siri, the experience actually feels more like a conversation than me ordering my iPhone to do things. This is because when you use your voice to create an action, Siri asks you relevant questions in order to make sure it takes the correct action.
(MORE: Siri: Can Apple Sell the Concept of Natural Language Computing?)
For example, the first time I told it to call my dad, Siri asked, "What is your father's name?" I responded "Tim" and Siri said, "Do you want me to remember that Tim Bajarin is your father?" I answered yes and Siri acknowledged that it would remember that Tim Bajarin is my father.
Another example was when I was in an unfamiliar part of a city. I brought up the voice prompt and asked, "How do I get home?" Because I had set Siri up to know my home location, it then quickly gave me directions to my house using Google Maps.
Experiences like this cause you to realize that we are only just starting to scratch the surface of using our voices to interact with personal computers.
When Apple showed the world Siri, I believe they showed us the next major man-to-machine user interface.
The idea of talking to computers is nothing new. It has, of course, been featured in sci-fi novels, movies and TV shows for years now. Even software itself has shown shades of voice input as the next user input for over 10 years. The challenge had always been bringing it to the mass market. This is what Apple plans to do with Siri on the iPhone 4S.
(MORE: Apple iPhone 4S Review: It's the iPhone 4, Only More So)
This technology has been in development for quite a while and is getting progressively better. Besides bringing
it to the mass market, another challenge has been making it useful by going beyond simple dictation. One of the most impressive elements of Siri is not just the ability to do voice-to-text dictation, but its ability to turn natural-language directives into action.
What I mean by that is that I can use my voice to say, "Remind me to feed my goats when I get home." Because Siri is trained to know where my house is and the iPhone 4S has GPS, the second I drive into my driveway, I get a reminder that tells me to feed the goats. I live on a farm and this is quite handy for me.
It's a valuable proposition to be able to use voice commands to create calendar items, search the web, get abstract information like how many feet are in a mile, search local information, set alarms, check the weather, and much more. This can be done because Siri is tied to some very powerful databases and, through its AI and voice comprehension technology, can deliver some amazingly accurate information that has already proven helpful to me and many who have used this technology.
What is fascinating is that as I have been using Siri, the experience actually feels more like a conversation than me ordering my iPhone to do things. This is because when you use your voice to create an action, Siri asks you relevant questions in order to make sure it takes the correct action.
(MORE: Siri: Can Apple Sell the Concept of Natural Language Computing?)
For example, the first time I told it to call my dad, Siri asked, "What is your father's name?" I responded "Tim" and Siri said, "Do you want me to remember that Tim Bajarin is your father?" I answered yes and Siri acknowledged that it would remember that Tim Bajarin is my father.
Another example was when I was in an unfamiliar part of a city. I brought up the voice prompt and asked, "How do I get home?" Because I had set Siri up to know my home location, it then quickly gave me directions to my house using Google Maps.
Experiences like this cause you to realize that we are only just starting to scratch the surface of using our voices to interact with personal computers.
How Steve Jobs & Apple Change World Music Industry
During this decade of uncertainty and instability for the music industry, Apple has remained one of few companies that has managed to nail it. Apple has conquered nearly every musical endeavor that it attempted (the only exceptions being its social networking efforts with Ping and its decision to shutter Lala upon acquisition).1. Musical Consumption Patterns
It’s hard to imagine life without the iPod today. Although it wasn’t the first portable MP3 player released, the iPod extracted the best elements from its early competitors, and morphed them into a product that defined portable technology and changed the way listeners experience music.
People everywhere began to analyze the device’s impact on consumption patterns. For starters, the iPod meant that a listener could hear any song in his library at any time. This allowed users to create their own personal soundtracks, instead of being constrained by a particular time, place or media.
“I remember the first day I got an iPod,” The Postelles’ David Dargahi recalls. “I was on the crosstown bus in Manhattan during a snow storm and had a sudden urge to listen to some Bob Marley. Needless to stay it brightened up my mood and showed me the power of the iPod.”
In addition, iPods impacted the format of the musical experience. The user could now purchase individual songs and subsequently shuffle through a several-thousand song library. We could hear any given song at any given time with the click of a button. Therefore, records in their classic sense were deconstructed. No longer was the album a mandated listening requirement – playing the duration of a full-length release became an option, not a necessity. As a result, the iPod empowered the single track more than ever before, simultaneously diminishing the impact of the full-length album.
2. Accessibility of Recording and Production Tools
To put it simply, Apple leveled the playing field. The barrier between writing songs, recording and production lessened with the advent of affordable, easy-to-use software programs like Logic and GarageBand. The former became an industry standard for professional audio engineers, while the latter offered an entry into the recording and production world for amateurs. As these programs became available, the lines blurred between professional recording artists and bedroom musicians.
Dave Yang, singer and guitarist of the New York indie-rock group Extra Arms, is a testament to Apple’s impact on emerging musicians. “I’ve now recorded hundreds of songs on Apple computers, and GarageBand taught me basic recording engineering that got me started,” he explains. “Steve Jobs leveled the playing field for who could make music or art, and allowed me to get my voice out.”
Without Apple’s innovations, Warm Ghost’s Paul Duncan doubts his music would sound the same. “I’m not sure I would be making the same music if I hadn’t started using Macs to record,” he says. “It can be a cheap way to make a record, which has not just changed the artist’s relationship to music, but music’s relationship to the world and vice versa (for better or worse).”
3. Online Retail and Distribution Models
While many of Steve Jobs and Apple’s services revolutionized the music industry over the past decade, few have made as profound an impact as now eight-year-old iTunes.
In 2003, Apple launched iTunes and sold single MP3s for $0.99 each. From that point forward, Apple grew the platform into a widely successful and profitable effort, eventually becoming the number one music retailer in the United States.
iTunes stood out among the early online music retailers and has continued to serve as a model for all other Internet media distributors. By being the first online distributor to secure deals with all four major corporate record labels (Universal, Sony, Warner Music Group and EMI), iTunes effectively legitimized digital music sales following the proliferation of illegal sharing sites like Napster.
Since then, iTunes has continued to exist as one of the most stable entities in the far-from-certain territory of online music sales.
4. Live Electronic Performance Becomes Reliable
Before Apple, reliable processing for live electronics was a crapshoot. Granted, PCs have long been used to process effects, sample instrumentation and help electronic artists perform their music live. However, Apple computers like the PowerBook and MacBook became staples at shows, garnering a reputation for their reliability.
Brooklyn electronic musician J. Viewz heavily relies on Apple to craft his works. “Live, I use a MacBook Pro with Ableton,” he says. “In the studio on a Mac pro, Cubase & After Effects.” Viewz is one of countless musicians now dependent on Apple products to manufacture and refine his sound.
source : http://mashable.com/2011/10/11/apple-changed-music
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