Adobe Photoshop 2019 full DOWNLOAD files with detailed instructions

Features

It’s pretty difficult to sum up every feature in Photoshop without writing a book about it, but it is possible to explain broadly how it works and some of its most interesting tools. Photoshop works directly on the pixels in your images, so it’s not a fully ‘non­-destructive’ editor that lets you wind back your changes at any time. By using its system of layers intelligently you can backtrack if you need to, but only at the cost of massive image files in the proprietary PSD file format. 

Layers are the backbone of Photoshop’s capabilities. You can use non­-destructive ‘adjustment layers’ to modify your image’s appearance without changing the underlying pixels (so it can be non-­destructive in that sense), but you can also combine image layers to produce sophisticated montages built from two or more images and blended with layer masks and blend modes

You can also add vector­-based ‘shape’ layers that can be edited later, and re-­editable ’type’ (text) layers, though both these features are more relevant to designers than photographers. Photoshop isn’t just designed for photographers. It’s also made for designers, illustrators and artists, so there’s a lot here that’s not directly relevant to photography. 

Photoshop’s selection and masking tools are second to none, though you do need to learn which to use for particular types of subject and how to get the most from them. There’s a good deal of skill in making masks and selections, though Photoshop can get you off to a good start with its quick and simple Selection Brush or its relatively recent Select Subject command, which can automatically select the main subject in your pictures.

You’ll almost certain need to modify tricky selections to hide or blend rough edges, but there’s a dedicated Select and Mask workspace for that.Photoshop also has some of the best tools in the business for retouching, cloning and ‘content­ aware’ object removal, and Photoshop CC 2019 brings a dedicated workspace for choosing source pixels and outputting the results on to a new layer for more effective editing and blending.

Photoshop CC is typically updated a couple of times a year (it’s all part of your subscription, of course), but the number of updates directly relevant to photographers does seem to have slowed.

The latest October 15 2018 update brought the new Content Aware Fill workspace, a redesigned homepage with access to recent files, training materials and Lightroom CC profiles, live previews of blend mode changes and not a whole lot else.

The clever new Select Subject option arrived in January 2018, together with a slider to control decontamination around selection edges (whoop!), and before that in October 2018 Adobe introduced 360 editing tools, depth map support for HEIF files and smattering of other enhancements and improvements.

In fairness to Adobe, it’s hard to see how much more can be added to Photoshop to make it genuinely better, but the pace of change is underwhelming nevertheless.