Back in 2013 Adobe changed the way that you buy its software, you no longer have to fork out a large amount on a one off purchase, everything is now subscription based, for a low monthly payment you can be a part of Adobes Creative Cloud (CC). The benefits are that you never have to pay costly upgrade fees as your software will automatically update when new features are added.
This new purchasing model has made Adobe InDesign more accessible than ever to a wide range of people – it is no longer a specialist piece of software for people in design based industries.
Alongside the many great features already included in InDesign CS6 there are some real improvements in InDesign CC 2014, Ive picked out my top five features that really make it worth upgrading…
To help ensure you get the latest and greatest tools, Creative Cloud is now the only option for purchasing Adobe creative software. For more information, visit the Adobe Creative Cloud page. As a Creative Cloud member, you can convert trial installations of most Creative Suite 6 (CS6) applications. CS6 Extended Features (video and 3D, which are not in CS6 Standard). And the list grows if you're using a version of Photoshop older than CS6. Lightroom CC offers the following advantages (vs Lightroom 6): Dehaze to remove (or add) fog or haze. Boundary Warp to handle irregular edges in stitched panoramas. Simply upgrade to the NVIDIA CUDA driver, and get speed for free. Adobe Anywhere Integration. GPU- accelerated Premiere Pro CC is integrated into Adobe Anywhere, allowing video editors, visual effects artists, and other creative pros to work together seamlessly using centralized media and assets across virtually any network. No, but eventually. I currently have CS6 running on the latest OS on iMac works great. However, Adobe has stopped supporting it. Most notably camera raw can not be updated.
Creating tables in InDesign has never been easier with great new drag and drop features.
Working with tables in InDesign was a fairly long and frustrating process, there was a lot of copying and pasting, selecting and deleting to get your tables in order. InDesign CC 2014 has addressed this issue making it much easier to just drag and move columns to get them exactly where you want them.
Organising your swatches and finding specific colours just got much much easier
InDesign CC 2014 has finally caught up with its sister programme Illustrator adding colour groups to your swatches panel, now rather than all your swatches being in a long list you can organise your swatches in to small folders within your swatches panel, you can even import colour groups that you have previously created in Illustrator! Do you use Kuler colour themes? Well you will be very pleased to know that you can easily automatically create a colour group from a Kuler theme. You can even recoulour entire spreads with the click of a button to incorporate a new colour theme from a group in your swatches panel.
Colour Groups are our favourite new feature!
Are you new to eBooks? Well they are a bit of a minefield and can be a bit specialist but InDesign CC2014 has introduced ‘Fixed Layouts'. Traditionally with an eBook the text content would reflow for different devices, this is useful for long text documents but not very good for a designer or someone who has spent a lot of time incorporating images to a design. With a fixed layout ePub you export your design and it stays exactly how you wanted it, much like generating a PDF. The fixed layout ePub also supports audio, visual and all the interactive elements that InDesign CC 2014 has to offer. So get designing and put your work for sale on iTunes quickly and easily!
With the new release of InDesign CC 2014 you get the ability to include a PDF and IDML file in any package created from InDesign for individual documents.An IDML file enables the InDesign document to be opened in any earlier versions of InDesign. The PDF generated is a print ready version. You can choose to include or not include any of these files when you choose the ‘Package' command in InDesign
Working with tables in InDesign was a fairly long and frustrating process, there was a lot of copying and pasting, selecting and deleting to get your tables in order. InDesign CC 2014 has addressed this issue making it much easier to just drag and move columns to get them exactly where you want them.
Organising your swatches and finding specific colours just got much much easier
InDesign CC 2014 has finally caught up with its sister programme Illustrator adding colour groups to your swatches panel, now rather than all your swatches being in a long list you can organise your swatches in to small folders within your swatches panel, you can even import colour groups that you have previously created in Illustrator! Do you use Kuler colour themes? Well you will be very pleased to know that you can easily automatically create a colour group from a Kuler theme. You can even recoulour entire spreads with the click of a button to incorporate a new colour theme from a group in your swatches panel.
Colour Groups are our favourite new feature!
Are you new to eBooks? Well they are a bit of a minefield and can be a bit specialist but InDesign CC2014 has introduced ‘Fixed Layouts'. Traditionally with an eBook the text content would reflow for different devices, this is useful for long text documents but not very good for a designer or someone who has spent a lot of time incorporating images to a design. With a fixed layout ePub you export your design and it stays exactly how you wanted it, much like generating a PDF. The fixed layout ePub also supports audio, visual and all the interactive elements that InDesign CC 2014 has to offer. So get designing and put your work for sale on iTunes quickly and easily!
With the new release of InDesign CC 2014 you get the ability to include a PDF and IDML file in any package created from InDesign for individual documents.An IDML file enables the InDesign document to be opened in any earlier versions of InDesign. The PDF generated is a print ready version. You can choose to include or not include any of these files when you choose the ‘Package' command in InDesign
Earlier, transparency effects applied on an object in InDesign did not scale with the object. Now, all effects get applied. Effects such as drop shadows properly scale as you change the scale of an object or text. With the new Scalable Effects feature, an option to scale the transparency effects while scaling an object has been added in the Control panel and Transform panel flyout menus. You can activate scaling using this option.
For a full list of comparable features between InDesign CS6 and InDesign CC you can look on the Adobe website HERE
You can download a full working 30 day trial of InDesign CC HERE
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Note:
Looking for information pertaining to the most current version of Photoshop? See Keeping Photoshop up to date. I video converter.
Adobe provides technical support and security fixes for the current version and the prior version. Bug fixes are only provided for the current version.
See Photoshop - Supported versions.
Photoshop 2020 (October 2019)
- The most current update for Photoshop 2020 is 21.2.6
- The most current update of Adobe Camera Raw for Photoshop is 13.2
Photoshop CC 2019 (October 2018)
- The most current update for Photoshop CC 2019 is 20.0.10
- The most current update of Adobe Camera Raw for Photoshop CC is 12.4
Where to find video editors. Photoshop CC 2018 (November 2017)
- The most current update for Photoshop CC 2018 is 19.1.9
- The most current update of Adobe Camera Raw for Photoshop CC is 12.4
Photoshop CC 2017 (November 2016)
- The most current update for Photoshop CC 2017 is 2017.1.6
- The most current update of Adobe Camera Raw for Photoshop CC is 12.4
Photoshop CC 2015.5 (June 2016)
- The most current update for Photoshop CC 2015.5 is 2015.5.1
- The most current update of Adobe Camera Raw for Photoshop CC is 10.5
Photoshop CC 2015 (June 2015)
- The most current update for Photoshop CC 2015.5 is 2015.1.2
- The most current update of Adobe Camera Raw for Photoshop CC is 10.5
Photoshop CC 2014 (June 2014)
- The most current update for Photoshop CC 2014 is 2014.2.4
- The most current update of Adobe Camera Raw for Photoshop CC is 10.5
Photoshop CC(June 17, 2013)
- The most current update for Photoshop CC is 14.2.1
- The most current update of Adobe Camera Raw for Photoshop CC is 10.5
Photoshop CS6(May 7, 2012)
- The most current update for Photoshop CS6 is 13.0.6 (macOS) | 13.0.1.3 (Windows) for perpetual/boxed licensed product and 13.1.2 (macOS/Windows) for Creative Cloud members
- The most current update of Adobe Camera Raw for Photoshop CS6 is 9.1.1
Photoshop CS5(April 30, 2010)
- The most current version for Photoshop CS5 is 12.0.4 or 12.1
- The most current version of Adobe Camera Raw for Photoshop CS5 is 6.7.1
Photoshop CS4(October 15, 2008)
- The most current update for Photoshop CS4 is 11.0.2
- The most current update of Adobe Camera Raw for Photoshop CS4 is 5.7
Photoshop CS3(April 16, 2007)
- The most current update for Photoshop CS3 is 10.0.1
- The most current update of Adobe Camera Raw for Photoshop CS3 is 4.6
Photoshop CS2 (April 4, 2005)
- The most current update for Photoshop CS2 is 9.02
- The most current update of Adobe Camera Raw for Photoshop CS2 is 3.7
Launch Photoshop and choose Help > Updates.
See Update Creative Cloud apps.
If you're not seeing any updates available, see Available updates not listed
How do I verify what update I have installed for Photoshop?
To verify that you have the most recent version of Photoshop:
Upgrade Cs6 To Cc Shortcut
- macOS: Choose Photoshop > About Photoshop
- Windows: Choose Help > About Photoshop
How do I verify which update I have installed for the Camera Raw plug-in?
To verify which update you currently have installed for Adobe Camera Raw:
- macOS: Choose Photoshop > About Plug-In > Camera Raw
- Windows: Choose Help > About Plug-In > Camera Raw
Upgrade Cs6 To Cc Presets
What if I update Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop still doesn't recognize my camera?
Upgrade Cs6 To Cc Tutorial
See Why doesn't my version of Photoshop or Lightroom support my camera?
