New features in Photoshop 25.5.1 update

Adobe just updated Photoshop to 25.5.1. Colin Smith shows you all the new features.

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[Bevlyn]

For an 80+ year old, simple examples like this are ever so helpful, thank you. I have to take it really slow, stop, start etc lol

[craigpiferphotography]

I'm not sure the task bar is better than just using the type panel, but it's nice to be able to have an additional way to access some of these settings.

[fooditing]

A good idea when editing the text layer would be to hide the selection with ctrl/cmd + H so the text is not inverted. Works especially well when choosing the text colour.

[DDave]

Appreciate all of your tuts Colin, including updates. I never realized that you could get rid of the Lorem Ipsum text with 4 consecutive clicks - thank you!

[balamina]

Thank you so much Colin! Very helpful and informative tutorial and tips! Good luck!

[handfp]

I understand that any BlendIf adjustment you have made does not get saved if you create your own preset. I think this happened in your own example @ 2'52".

[docham]

I use Text for a majority of my work and this is a welcome addition to the Task Bar. Thanks for letting me know.

[waynefose]

You da man Colin. I appreciate you teaching about any new updates.

[MrMajoroak]

Be nice if Adobe could give you the option of pinning the contextual task bar vertically on the left hand side tool menu with flyout options like other tools.

[FotomakerAcademy]

I don't use Type often, but your spacing related pointers to the new access options are helpful when needed! Wasn't there a new "bad" (at least to me) feature that's making me hold off updating? Were the Render > Lighting FX filters removed with the release?

[NiceGuy]

Finally something better than Actions.

[justcd]

These type settings were always there. Just not in that bar. If you go to the Window drop menu, and activate “Character” you will find many more useful letter/fond adjustments (even adjusting letter's own width and hight - great for 1st letter in par being larger but in same font).

[christopherfarrell-artist]

Finally some better Type settings....Thanks for showing us.

[yannmaenden]

Very interesting - thank you.
Personally I think the use of 'tracking' depends on the font. It's OK with plain fonts like those used on road signs, but if you're using a fancy font with lots of twirly bits you might be better off with 'kerning'.
I'm not sure I completely agree with your advantages. For example you can step through actions and you can stack LUTs and adjust them individually. But the new adjustment layer system is probably the way to go.

[msconsulting]

I’m loving the ability to create and save my own Adjustment Presets. However, I was not able to get PS to save a Solid Color layer in my preset. I used ‘Gradient Map instead and it worked fine. Have you been able to incorporate Solid Color into your presets?

[aussieuGA]

This is one of those updates internally noted as "We have to push out something..."

[indrasandy]

Thanks for sharing. I find these new updates quite useful. Thanks.

[jameswestii]

Thank you for this video but I just wanted to verify a couple things. I purchased the ADOBE creative cloud in September 2022 and I have used LRC but I have never once used Photoshop but I’m going to start learning to use it this week. I just updated the operating system for my MacBook Pro M1, and just now updated to version 14 for LRC. All my photos and my LRC catalog are all on my SANDISK external SSD. It looks like the newest version of Photoshop is 25.6 and I was curious if all I had to do was just update for Photoshop and all is good without having to have my SSD attached to my MacBook. I know that sounds ridiculous I’m sure, but I did not know if there was a specific link between the two that would require me to have the SSD with my LRC info/program on it before I upgraded to Photoshop or to make Photoshop work.
Thank you for any help.

[MrDungerus]

hi, Antonio how make sky blue while keeping clouds white? can you teach that?

[husamejle]

Thank you, i like your videos they are really informative, there is just one thing, please do less zooming in and out too much it's so distracting, thank you again for your dedication