Adobe Photoshop Cc 2017 V.18.0.0 Review

The beach ball spins.

I remember her hands. Not the hands themselves, but the pressure of her Wacom pen. She’d drag the (that beautiful, mathematical beast—P key, always ready) along the edge of a coffee bag photo. Anchor point. Anchor point. Bezier curve. Click-drag-release. Perfect. She never used the Magnetic Lasso. Amateur. Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 v.18.0.0

Clara updates without thinking twice. One click. My 18.0.0 executable is moved to a folder called “Previous Versions.” Dark. Quiet. No chime. The beach ball spins

“This document was last saved by Photoshop CC 2017. Some features may not be editable.” Bezier curve

She exhales. “Good boy, 18.”

She opens the (Filter > Camera Raw). Even though this isn’t a raw file. Even though it’s a flat TIFF. I don’t judge. I just process. She drags Texture to +70. Clarity to +45. Dehaze to +20. The ink drawing suddenly has tooth —it looks like it was pressed into handmade paper.

Adobe releases (19.0). It has the new Brush Smoothing. It has Variable Fonts. It has a “Learn” panel that patronizingly explains what a layer is.