Photoshop update adds integration with Touch Bar for MacBooks Pro; Adobe launches first public version of Project Felix

THE Adobe was one of the companies fairly invited by Apple, considering that one of the biggest and most important software producers for the Mac to take the stage of its latest keynote and demonstrate to the world the new version of Photoshop with support Touch Bar of the recently released MacBooks Pro. This version is now available to subscribers of the Adobe Creative Cloud suite.

Photoshop running on the Touch Bar of the new MacBook Pro

This Adobe help page explores in detail all the features of the OLED bar interacting with Photoshop, but basically there are three subdivisions of tasks that can be performed: in Layer Properties, it is possible to control the properties of the active layer and related functions; in Brushes d to choose a type of brush, control its properties and also the color of the paint; in Favorites It is possible to add your most used controls so that they are available at a touch. In addition, contextual controls are also displayed depending on the action taken on the screen when activating a text or selection tool, for example.

If you are an Adobe CC subscriber (and The owner of one of the new MacBooks Pro, which is obviously the most difficult), can immediately enjoy the benefit of the Touch Bar in conjunction with Photoshop, the update is now available.

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Speaking of Creative Cloud subscribers, today is also the first day that they will be able to test the Project Felix, Adobe's infamous new project for manipulating and integrating 2D / 3D objects, which we have discussed in more detail here. The company, which had announced the first public beta of the software by the end of the year, is keeping its promise by releasing today this version of tests for consumers.

Adobe's Project Felix

The minimum requirements to run the Project Felix are relatively demanding: on the Mac, a minimum of 8GB of RAM is required (with 16GB recommended) and a graphics processor Intel Graphics 540 or GeForce GT750M card, at a minimum. Unfortunately, a trial version of the program was also not made available to users of the free version of CC only paying users will have access to the software.

(via 9to5Mac, TechCrunch)