Adobe Photoshop Cc 2017 ((better)) · Tested
When Adobe released (version 18.0) in November 2016, the creative world was still adjusting to the controversial yet inevitable shift from perpetual licenses to the Creative Cloud subscription model. While many purists clung to Photoshop CS6, Photoshop CC 2017 arrived not as a simple iteration, but as a statement of intent. It bridged the gap between traditional desktop power and an emerging, collaborative, cloud-connected future.
This was the "magic" feature of the year. A designer could take a photo of a street sign, a menu, or a movie poster, and use the Match Font tool to identify the font used. Leveraging Adobe Sensei (Adobe’s artificial intelligence engine), the software would analyze the shapes of the letters and suggest matching fonts from the user’s library or Adobe Typekit (now Adobe Fonts). This shaved hours off the workflow of designers who previously had to manually search font databases or ask forums for identification. Adobe Photoshop CC 2017
Deep integration with meant that watermarked placeholders could be dragged onto the canvas. If the user liked the image, they When Adobe released (version 18
did not reinvent the wheel—it greased the axle. It polished the user experience with searchable commands, modernized the new document workflow, and made GPU-accelerated editing a standard expectation. For a generation of designers who cut their teeth on CS6, CC 2017 was the bridge that made subscription software palatable. This was the "magic" feature of the year