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Adobe has announced the launch of major updates to its flagship Creative Cloud software programs.

According to Adobe the updates provide dramatic new features and performance enhancements that address many of the challenges designers, photographers and filmmakers face.

“We have two key goals with this release: saving our customers time and helping them jumpstart their creative engines,” said Bryan Lamkin, executive vice president and general manager, Digital Media at Adobe.

Included in the latest updates is an expanded Adobe Stock service which includes over 55 million royalty-free, high-quality photos, videos, illustrations and graphics. A new One-Click Workflow lets users select an image or video on the Adobe Stock website and place it on their creative canvas with a single click. Also an expanded In-app Purchase feature delivers an industry-first, one-click license capability, directly from Layers in Photoshop.

The latest Creative Cloud enhancements to Photoshop include: Content-Aware Crop, which automatically fills in the gaps when you rotate or expand a canvas beyond the original image size. As well, the latest Photoshop CC update offers Face-Aware Liquify, which Adobe says provides an easy way to create artistic effects with facial features using the Liquify Tool while keeping the face in proportion. Match Font, also in Photoshop, is a font recognition technology that has the ability to recognise and identify licensed fonts and automatically suggest fonts available on your computer system or license through Adobe Typekit.

Coming soon, Adobe will offer opportunities for creative professionals to contribute and monetise their work by contributing directly from Lightroom CC and Adobe Bridge CC and selling work via Adobe Stock. Also coming soon is Adobe’s new Stock Contributor Portal (beta) which will feature intelligent auto-tagging capabilities.

Updates to Adobe CC desktop apps are now available for download by Creative Cloud members as part of their membership at no additional cost. For more information on all the latest Creative Cloud updates visit www.adobe.com.

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