Adobe has lost it’s Pantone Swatches, and you can pay to get Pantone, but the functionality is not the same

Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and In Design have all lost their Pantone Swatches, and you can pay $15 for a Premium Service, which is supposed to restore some Pantone Functionality, but it is not the same and doesn’t restore the old swatches.

You can now install the Pantone Connect plug in and use a free account, but functionality is not as good.

Obviously this is saving Adobe money, but with the old Pantone swatches becoming unusable even with the paid subscription this is not a great solution.

Adobe Updates Photoshop to 2023, the October 2022 (Version 24.0) release

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Selection improvements, is really impressive what the AI can do to select, and how easy it is to edit and fix these masks. Sure it might not be perfect, but what an incredible improvement.

One-click Delete and Fill, will be a huge addition for when you are separating the subject from the background as you will not have weird edges left to screw up any effects you put on your background image.

Invite to edit for collaboration features.

Share for review (beta) with shareable links, where you can get and manage feedback. I wonder if this uses Frame.io’s tech.

Photo Restoration Neural Filter (Beta) uses AI to restore old photographs. And it can use local AI, or higher quality but slower server based.

Other changes and enhancements to content credentials, substance 3d materials, and preference settings.

And Beta Features:

Live Gradients, which will be fast an amazing.

Live Gaussian Blur, more speed improvements.

Backdrop Neural Filter powered by AI.