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[ 7 ]20TH ANNUAL 100 HOT TIPS AND ADOBE MAX
It’s here! The issue you’ve
been waiting for all year
(okay, I’ve been waiting
for it all year, and I’m hop-
ing you have been too),
as it’s our “20th Annual
100 Photoshop Hot Tips”
issue, where we ask some
of our favorite Photoshop
experts to share some of
their favorite tips, and we
compile ’em all here for
you in this mega issue!
The tips start tippin’ on
page 49 , so head over
there now because I know
there’s no sense in my
going on until you tear through those tips. When you’re
done, head on back here. I’ll wait. Go ahead.
Okay, thanks for coming back. So, we’re in October
and that means Adobe MAX (Adobe’s huge annual con-
ference) is right around the corner, and I think I can
safely say (if history is any indicator whatsoever) that
Adobe will announce a bunch of new features across
the Creative Cloud (CC). Of course, at the heart of CC
is Photoshop, so I’m hoping (well, I’m counting on) that
we’ll be seeing some new Photoshop features. I’m not
giving away any trade secrets or anything here; I’m just
going on what’s happened in previous years—ya know,
like last year, and the year before that, and the year
before that.
This brings up an interesting thought, though (one
that will probably get me a nasty email from Adobe).
If you think back to the original promise of the Cre-
ative Cloud, it was that the big benefit would be that
we wouldn’t have to wait a year or more to get new
features. We’d get them as soon as they were ready,
because they could release them right then, giving us a
steady stream of new features all the time. And it was
that way for quite for a while.
If Adobe is (as I’m guessing) about to release a whole
bunch of features at Adobe MAX, did all those fea-
tures just coincidentally get done at the exact same time,
across all those Creative Cloud programs? That wouldbe some coincidence. I guess my point is (if my hunch
is correct), that this will feel like a product launch, like
we used to have back before the Creative Cloud days,
and my guess is that the new Photoshop will be renamed
Adobe Photoshop 2020, just as if it were a new product
with a bunch of new features. So, were there a bunch of
features ready, and they just held them to release them
all simultaneously at Adobe MAX? This is the stuff that
keeps me up at night. This and the whole plant-based
burger threat.
So, in short, I’m expecting some new features at MAX,
and if there are, we’ll include those in our next issue,
which is also our “14th Annual Gonzo Holiday Gear Guide.”
While this is an awesome issue for sure (and our most
popular of the year), the next issue will be no slouch either,
so make sure you keep an eye out for it in November.
It will be (wait for it...wait for it...) epic!All my best,Scott Kelby
KelbyOne President & CEO
Editor & Publisher, Photoshop User
A Note from Scott