A little over two weeks ago, Adobe released CC 2015.1 for most of its apps. The updates looked great on paper, but for photographers, there were a couple of glitches in the new Photoshop that turned out to quite be annoying. Yesterday, Adobe released a new update, CC 2015.1.1, meant to correct most of the issues.
One of the most criticized issue introduced by CC 2015.1 was most likely the liquify rendering bug. Unless you disabled the GPU acceleration when working on a 16-bit file, the rendering of the liquify tool would look like the areas touched were changed to the blending mode "Linear Dodge (Add)". Even though photographers could still do their job, either using other tools or a workaround, what probably annoyed most of us was that Adobe didn't find the bug before releasing the software. It undoubtedly made many people wonder if Adobe actually sent this update to real users before making it available to everyone. Because the liquify tool is probably one of the most famous Photoshop tools along with the clone stamp tool and healing brush (which they actually also managed to screw up with CC 2015), it made the bug even more surprising.
But the liquify issue along with others are now solved! All you have to do is update Photoshop to CC 2015.1.1 using the Creative Cloud app. I tried the update for you and it does solve the problem. Adobe also claims this new update will also resolve the following issues:
- Freeze/crash using Liquify in CPU mode
- Drag and drop from AI to PS no longer create Smart Object (Mac only)
- Using control/command to switch to Move tool invokes auto-select
- Align to selection doesn’t work with Artboards
- Running Photoshop on 5K monitor at 200% results in black bar across the top of the app
- Double clicking to open a document results in workspace set to Start instead of Essentials
- Fixed top crashing issues submitted via crash reporter
It is great to see that Adobe was quite quick to solve these problems. However, I must admit that I still keep my CC 2014 version installed just in case. Because it has become difficult to trust Adobe updates lately... Let's hope Adobe will change this around and make the future update great and bug free.
I don't know why, but I lost the option to uninstall the 2015 CC version AND install the 2014 CC version... I had to make a whole new installation of Creative Cloud and PS&LR, and from then I don't see the Previous versions... :-(
A serious bag of "bugs" over the past three months alone should qualify every CC subscriber to a refund of at least one month. Ridiculous.
And we all recieved the email from Adobe telling us this news,
* Problem 1,
* Problem 2,
* Problem 3 - Etc
fixed, fixed, fixed...
It came with a great ammount of pride...
Adobe do you not test things before release? i understand a fault here or there but at their scale and so many faults. Not cool.
These issues were bound to take place on a subscription model where updates are 'as released' instead of version by version..
Now that we've had a few months to warm up to this model, I have to say 'I'm not impressed' as a consumer. I would much prefer a **major** update of features on a release instead. This product model was done purely for a business reason, and nothing to do with 'quality to consumer' issues. The company -- now looking at sub base numbers, can now easily project incomes and plan a more accurate costs evaluation.
I wonder how many new bugs will be introduced to fix the old bugs...
I still can't hide a selection with CMD-H.
Haven't updated since Lightroom import dialog changes. Is everything finally fixed now?
I have Adobe Master Suite CS4, CS5, CS6 and CC on a machine dedicated to Media work. Just in case I need to go to a back up version.