10 Best And Worst Things In Photoshop CC

On this very extensive video tutorial by portrait photographer Nathaniel Dodson (from the website tutvid) we take a look at 10 of what he sees as the best (as well as the worst) things that are included in the current version of Photoshop CC.

This good and bad list of some of the features of Photoshop CC includes pretty common stuff like curves and far less known stuff like overscroll.

Here is the full list divided into the specific part in the (long) video:

THE GOOD

00:59 Curves
02:05 Smart Objects
06:11 Adjustment Layers
08:39 The Pen Tool
09:35 Save Selections
10:59 Masking
14:29 Quick Mask Mode
16:36 Rotate View Tool
18:22 Overscroll
20:22 Smart Guides & The Pixel Grid
22:48 BONUS: Close All (Apply don’t save)

THE BAD

24:03 Default EVERYTHING
24:28 Advanced Retouching Course Promo (just because)
26:29 Non-Scaling Layer Styles
29:10 Magnetic Lasso Tool
30:01 Content-Aware Move Tool
31:27 Reshuffling Open Files in Tab Bar
32:44 Browse in Bridge Button
33:34 No Good Way to Measure
35:34 Copy CSS
36:49 New Save For Web Location
38:15 Terrible for UI Designers.

Bonuses

40:23 BONUS: Actions Panel is Archaic
41:41 DOUBLE BONUS: New “Start” Menu in Photoshop

We shall mention that we feel that the “new” (not so new now – about 7 months old) workspace mechanism is really confusing and quite annoying (we are really missing a default option that will give us all the tools (and yes we know we can probably create and save this as a setting – but this should have been the default in our view).

You can find many more Photoshop video tutorials on LensVid’s Photoshop section. You can also check Dodson’s previous videos here on LensVid.

Iddo Genuth

Iddo Genuth is the founder and chief editor of LensVid.com. He has been a technology reporter working for international publications since the late 1990's and covering photography since 2009. Iddo is also a co-founder of a production company specializing in commercial food and product visual content.