Feature summary | Photoshop desktop (October 2022 release)

Note:

With the January 2023 release of Photoshop 24.1.1, we provide fixes to several customer-reported issues. For details, see Fixed issuesAlso, for checking the complete list of supported cameras and lenses, see Supported camera models and Supported lenses.

Learn about new features and enhancements in the 2023 releases of Photoshop desktop (version 24.x).

Photoshop desktop | Other 2023 releases

Photoshop desktop 24.0 (October 2022 release)

Selection improvements

The Object Selection Tool got even better at detecting and making selections, like the sky, water, natural ground, plants, or architecture. Just hover over the object and click to make the selection.

Enjoy improved selections with the Object Selection tool in Photoshop
Enjoy improved selections with the Object Selection tool in Photoshop.

You can further refine this selection in the Select and Mask workspace and perform other adjustments.

To learn more about different selection tools and how to use them, check out Make selections in your composites.

One-Click Delete and Fill

With this release of Photoshop 24.0, you can easily remove objects from your images with the one-click Delete and Fill Selection feature and see Photoshop do its magic by seamlessly blending the background as if the object were never there.

Simply use the Object Selection Tool to make your selection and use the following keyboard shortcut to remove it:

  • macOS: Shift + Delete
  • Windows: Shift + Backspace

If you're working with the Lasso Tool or any other Photoshop tool, right-click the mouse to access the contextual menu and select Delete and Fill Selection to delete unwanted objects from your image. 

You can easily remove objects or people from your images or retouch them even when they have complex backgrounds.

Use the magical one-click Delete and Fill feature to make objects vanish without a trace from your images
Use the magical one-click Delete and Fill feature to make objects vanish without a trace from your images.

To learn more about retouching your images using selections, check out Make selections in your composites.

Invite to edit

Use the updated Invite to edit feature to share a link to your Photoshop cloud document with as many collaborators as you want, and manage access to it as well. For now, the Invite to edit feature allows asynchronous editing where each collaborator can edit a shared cloud document, one at a time.

Easily invite others to collaborate and edit your Photoshop cloud documents directly from the app.
Easily invite others to collaborate and edit your Photoshop cloud documents directly from the app.

  1. Open a cloud document in Photoshop and choose any of these:

    • Share button > Invite to edit
    • File > Invite to edit
    • Window > Comments
  2. In the Share document panel that opens, you can add collaborators to the invitation by entering their email addresses. Further, you can select the gear icon to see link settings and control the access provided to your intended collaborators. 

  3. Type an optional note to recipients under the Message... box before sending the invitation.

    Select the Invite to edit button to send your invitation.

To learn more about collaborating with stakeholders, check out Invite others to edit your cloud documents.

Share for review (Beta)

   Beta feature available in the Photoshop desktop app

With this release, you can use our new Share for review (Beta) feature to generate a web version of both your local or cloud documents and share the document link with teammates and stakeholders to collect feedback. You can also control whether the link is public or limited to a few collaborators. This is an addition to our already existing collaboration capability — Invite to edit that lets you give access to your live document. 

Easily share a web version of your local or cloud document with collaborators for review.
Easily share a web version of your local or cloud document with collaborators for review.

Follow these quick and easy steps to start sharing your files: 

  1. Open a document in Photoshop and choose any of these:

    • Share button > Share for review (Beta)
    • File > Share for review (Beta)
    • Window > Comments
  2. In the Share for review (Beta) panel that opens, you can: 

    • Type a suitable name for your document link
    • Control who can access the generated link

    Select Create link button to generate the link.

  3. Once done, select the link icon to copy the generated link to the clipboard. The review link to the web version of your Photoshop document is now ready to be shared with stakeholders.

Further, use the three-dots ( ) icon to Create new review link, adjust Link settingsDelete review link, and Manage review links.

To learn more about collaborating and sharing review comments, check out Share your documents for review.

Photo Restoration Neural Filter (Beta)

   Beta feature available in the Photoshop desktop app

Need to restore old photos? Try the new Photo Restoration Neural Filter (Beta), powered by AI, to fix your old family photos or restore prints in Photoshop. 

Restore and enhance your old photos with the new Photo Restoration Neural Filter
Restore and enhance your old photos with the new Photo Restoration Neural Filter.

Enhance your photos by following these simple steps in the Neural Filters workspace:

  1. Navigate to File > Neural Filters > All filters. Select the  download from the cloud ( )))) icon for Photo Restoration under the Beta section to initiate the download and enable the filter.

  2. Apply Photo Enhancement and Scratch Reduction to improve contrast, enhance details, and remove scratches. 

  3. Additionally, apply Colorize to add color to a monochrome photo. You can also manually color your image or adjust the Profile, Saturation, and Color artifact reduction settings. 

To learn more on Neural Filters, check out:

Other changes and enhancements

Substance materials for Photoshop

Pioneered by the Adobe Research team, the Substance Photoshop plugin is an extension that allows Photoshop users to access the power of Substance materials, formerly reserved for 3D native applications. Within Photoshop, these materials are great for boosting the photo-realism of architectural renditions or interior designs or as added content options for more abstract digital creations. They can be thought of like Photoshop’s existing patterns but with controls for limitless variations and a more sophisticated (and different) workflow for editing and applying than existing Photoshop patterns. 

Materials as Brushes
Use Substance 3D materials as Brush Presets in Photoshop.

To learn more and explore how to use Substance 3D with Photoshop, see Substance 3D materials.

Content Credentials (Beta)

   Beta feature available in the Photoshop desktop app

Content Credentials (Beta) is a developing feature in Adobe Photoshop that, when enabled, gathers the edits, activity, and attribution information associated with in-progress content. These details are captured as tamper-evident attribution and history data (called content credentials) that creators attach to the final content when exported.

To learn more, see Learn about Content Credentials.

Improved cloud documents version history

With the October 2022 release of Photoshop 24.0, you can also:

  • Add a name and a description to bookmarked versions.
  • Search for a specific version from the list of versions for that cloud document.
  • Filter out versions based on the time they were created, marked status, etc.

New Preference to Improve Selection stability (Windows only) 

With this release, Photoshop introduces a new preference setting to improve the stability of the Object Selection tool, Select subject, and Sky Replacement for Windows users with an NVidia GPU.

Selections preference toggle for better selection stability
Selections preference option for better selection stability.

To access the new preference on your Windows device, go to Preferences > Image Processing. Toggle the Selections Processing from Faster (default) to More Stable.

To learn more about setting preferences to make your common workflows easier in Photoshop, see Preferences in Photoshop.

GPU status indicator

When you're trying to diagnose rendering issues, there was no intuitive way to tell whether a document was rendering in CPU or GPU mode. If the GPU stops working in Photoshop, several features could be impacted. If you notice changes to any of the visuals or performance for these tools, it's best to confirm what GPU mode Photoshop is in for your document.

With this release, the new GPU Mode document status indicator will report the exact mode Photoshop's GPU state is in, allowing you to address further GPU troubleshooting steps.

Use the new GPU Mode indicator for your active document when trying to diagnose rendering issues
Use the new GPU Mode indicator for your active document

To access the new GPU status indicator, open the Document Status menu and select GPU Mode to display the GPU operating mode for your open document. 

To learn more about common questions related to GPU in Photoshop, see Photoshop GPU FAQ.

Older GPU Mode (Pre 2016) introduced in Technology Preview (Windows only) 

Enable this feature if your graphics processing unit (GPU) is older than 2016 or does not support DirectX 12 or later, or if you experience performance instability.

When enabled, Photoshop will use older GPU protocols for improved stability. This option may also help when using virtual GPUs (as with virtual machines) or newer cards with older GPU drivers. 

Restart Photoshop for the changes to take effect. By default, this option is turned off.

To enable, check Older GPU Mode (Pre 2016) in Preferences > Technology Previews.

To learn more about the various available Technology Previews and how to enable them, see Technology previews in Photoshop.

Support for Emoji Glyphs

With this release, we have removed the EmojiOne font from our bundled font set and replaced it with Noto Color Emoji SVGWhen you open a legacy document containing a Type layer that uses EmojiOne, EmojiOne should be automatically activated and downloaded from the Adobe Fonts server.

Glyphs panel in Photoshop
Glyphs panel in Photoshop

To learn more about working with Fonts, see Using Fonts in Photoshop.

Photoshop (Beta)

Note:

To install Photoshop (Beta), visit the Beta apps tab of your Creative Cloud desktop app and select Install next to Photoshop (Beta)

Live Gaussian Blur

The Live Gaussian Blur filter is a modernized approach to improving focus on a specific image part. Currently, you can access this filter with the Photoshop (Beta) app on macOS only. To install Photoshop (Beta), visit the Beta apps tab of your Creative Cloud desktop app and select the Install button next to Photoshop (Beta). 

Unlike the Gaussian Blur filter, with Live Gaussian Blur you can leverage the power of the GPU while working on sample colors, pan, zoom, apply blend modes, opacity, and toggle layer visibility, all outside the dialog box and on your canvas.

Focus on a specific area in your image using Live Gaussian Blur (Beta) with on-canvas controls
Focus on a specific area in your image using Live Gaussian Blur (Beta) with on-canvas controls.

To learn more about various blur filters in Photoshop, check out Use the Blur gallery.

Live Gradients

Create and control the gradient points on canvas and perform contextual gradient editing using our Live Gradients feature. Currently, you can access this filter with the Photoshop (Beta) app only. To install Photoshop (Beta), visit the Beta apps tab of your Creative Cloud desktop app and select the Install button next to Photoshop (Beta). 

Easily control the gradient points on canvas and perform contextual gradient editing with Live Gradients (Beta)
Easily control the gradient points on canvas and perform contextual gradient editing with Live Gradients (Beta).

Select the desired area to apply the gradient fill, and then choose the Gradient Tool from the toolbar. The gradient widget appears on your canvas, where you can adjust your gradient and see its impact in real-time. Also, you can add color stops and opacity stops, and move those to make the color, density, opacity, and blend mode adjustments to the gradient.

To learn more about using gradients to enhance your images, check out Working with gradients.

Backdrop Neural Filter

Use the power of AI with the Backdrop Neural Filter to create a unique backdrop based on a description. Navigate to Filter > Neural Filters > All filters and enable Backdrop in the Creative section. Type a description, select Create, and choose your favorite result.

Create a unique backdrop based on a description with the Backdrop Neural Filter in Photoshop.
Create a unique backdrop based on a description with the Backdrop Neural Filter in Photoshop.

Other enhancements — Snap Window Support for Photoshop Title bar

Windows users can now put to use the snap layout support in Photoshop (Beta). This feature follows the one found in Windows 11, which allows application windows to snap dynamically to pre-configured regions of the display.

To install Photoshop (Beta), visit the Beta apps tab of your Creative Cloud desktop app and select the Install button next to Photoshop (Beta). 

Snap layout support in Photoshop on Windows
Snap layout support in Photoshop on Windows

Simply hover your mouse over a window’s maximize/minimize button or press Win + Z. You'll see the preset options for organizing your app windows, considering your current screen size and orientation. 

The snap layout support in Photoshop is enabled by default on Windows machines.

To learn more about the workspace in Photoshop, see Workspace basics.

Support for new cameras and lenses

Find newly added cameras and lenses in the following list of supported profiles:

System requirements

For detailed information, see Photoshop system requirements.

Fixed customer-reported issues

For detailed information, see Fixed issues in Photoshop.

Known issues

For detailed information, see Known issues in Photoshop.

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