This version introduced the modern "Home Screen" experience, offering a splash screen with easy access to recent files, tutorials, and cloud documents. It was a move toward onboarding education directly within the app.
(version 20.0), released in October 2018, introduced significant workflow enhancements and intelligence-driven tools to the industry-standard raster graphics editor. This version focused on usability, featuring the new Frame Tool for easy masking and a major overhaul of the Content-Aware Fill workspace, allowing users to select specific source pixels for more accurate results. Key Features and Improvements adobe photoshop version 2019
Transform operations (scale, rotate, skew) were enhanced. By default, dragging a corner handle now scales proportionally without needing to hold the Shift key. Holding Shift instead performed non-proportional scaling. This version introduced the modern "Home Screen" experience,
Responding to decades of user requests, the default behavior of Ctrl+Z (Cmd+Z on Mac) was changed from "toggle undo/redo" to a true multi-step undo, matching standard application conventions. This version focused on usability, featuring the new