Photoshop CC 2014 : The World's Best Image Editor Now

 Adobe's Creative Cloud (CC) suite comes with Photoshop CC, which has new features that make it a standout from previous and traditionally locally installed versions of the popular photo editing tool. Photographers, web developers, web designers, graphic designers, and graphic artists benefit from using Photoshop CC in their day-to-day work.

Automatic updates to installed apps take place through the CC dashboard, which can be installed on any device, where you can also store your files in the CC and share them with other collaborators when working on multi-user projects. You can post your Photoshop work in the Behance community for review and comment by the public and discover the work of other creatives. (I'll review Behance in a future article.)

I cover how to install Photoshop CC and highlight some of the new features that set it apart from previous versions of the image editing application. For my demo of the features, I installed and used the Adobe CC Desktop application and the Photoshop CC application on Windows 7. All images in this article are screen captures from the Creative Cloud Desktop and the Photoshop CC application, and all of the sample images are my own.

Requirements

Before you can install Adobe CC applications, your device must meet the minimum system requirements, which I summarize below. For more details on supported languages and all system requirements, please check out the tech specs for Adobe CC.

Browser requirements

From Adobe: "The Creative Cloud website is designed to work optimally in the latest versions of Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Internet Explorer. The site should degrade gracefully on older browsers; you may have trouble using certain features on those older versions. Internet Explorer 8 and earlier are not supported."

Creative Cloud desktop app requirements

• Microsoft Windows 7, 8, or 8.1
• Mac OS X v10.7, v10.8, or v10.9
• Internet connection required

Individual CC applications may have other system requirements. Photoshop CC has the following tech spec requirements:

Windows

• Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64 processor (2GHz or faster)
• Windows 7 with Service Pack 1, Windows 8, or Windows 8.1
• 1 GB of RAM
• 2.5 GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash storage devices)
• 1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with OpenGL 2.0, 16-bit color, and 512MB of VRAM (1 GB recommended)

Mac OS

• Multicore Intel processor with 64-bit support
• Mac OS X v10.7, v10.8, or v10.9
• 1 GB of RAM
• 3.2 GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash storage devices)
• 1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with OpenGL 2.0, 16-bit color, and 512MB of VRAM (1GB recommended)
• Internet connection and registration are necessary for required software activation, membership validation, and access to online services.