New features you found other than interface re-design like limunosity mask ?

[kirk23]

I  mean things like compound or luminosity masks have been perfectly possible before . Mostly just a new interface.

So what's relly new ?

I found so far.

1. bitmap fill  ( although it  doesn't make the fill stay on place  when you do boolean  on vector shapes  like it was in Xara ,  neither it allow to feather edges  while  keep the fill intact so not that much helpful

2. Transform links .  A great feature indeed until you select a group accidentally  and break everything apart again  contrary to Psh.   Still works fine  if you auto-select layer, not groups.    No pixel content linking from groups/a kind of  live rasterization into a "virtual layer"  .  I hoped for that very much. Could make the soft rival any node based solution if  would be working that way.  Sadly  isn't.

3. Normal map flip rotate and intensity  live adjustment layer.    Nice  but  i would prefer  height to normal map  one.   Without it   all those rotate and flipping is pretty useless.   Lighting filter makes normal maps from height with wrong gamma in 16 bit and with edge artifacts.

4.  Hide and hide others in layer panel.  Cool indeed.   Now we could select  same named or tagged layer   and hide others.     A kind of poor man replacement for layercomps in Photoshop . I'd love  they add  auto-select same tagged in selection drop down too. 

That said layercomps  are so much better  and so much more convenient.   Still no way to export such "layercomps" automatically  in export persona. 

5. Live displace. they kind of fixed it.   Now works same as in Phototshop  if done over 16 bit grayscale depth  image.    Too bad you  can't select a vector of displacement . I offered to use  red/green as direction and  blue as distance  and they make  some red/green choice but  seems it doesn't work that way.   

Would love they would do gradually fading series of 1px displaces  . A kind of a version of  "slope blur" from  Adobe Substance Designer.  We could probably do it with macro  but it would be a huge messy stack . Would love it be just an option  in displace filter

 

It's all I found so far.    Anything extra?   Hoped for a an improvements in  procedural filter but nothing new I could found there.

Anyway thanks Seriff for improving the soft .  Adobe does nothing at all  for a decade already  pursuing  that useless AI  features that helps you with nothing.  Hope they would fill the rivalry and wake up too.