If you decide to get the 2021 edition, start at the book link that Jane-e posted, and from there go up to the Peachpit home page where there is a 35% off discount code. For example, the fact that you no longer hold Shift to get proportional scaling would make some steps in the 2019 book not work properly with Photoshop 2021. Those are not all the changes in the book, but they are areas where differences would be noticed if the 2019 book was used.

A new chapter on Neural Filters replaces the long-time chapter on 3D features.

Camera Raw now works much differently than any earlier version.

Steps were redone to follow the complete design overhaul in Camera Raw 12.3 and up.Sky Replacement and Select Sky topic added.New coverage about creating patterns, integrating the existing Pattern fill layer type with the Patterns panel and the new Pattern Preview and angle option.Some changes in Select and Mask steps as Adobe continues to improve this feature.During Free Transform, proportional scaling is now the default for many types of objects (you now hold down Shift only if you want non-proportional scaling)Īpplying presets was streamlined, including new Shapes, Gradients, and Patterns panels to store and apply those presets.Select Subject and Object Selection tool topics added.The book does not cover the iPad version specifically. Cloud documents added (cloud-synced format across desktop and iPad versions of Photoshop).I took a quick look at some notes, and these are some of the key changes that probably would make the 2019 edition too out of date to use with Photoshop 2021: What changes in the book each year must closely follow the changes in Photoshop itself, and Photoshop has changed a lot since 2019! The 2019 book would mostly work with Photoshop 2021, but the problem is that where Photoshop no longer follows steps exactly, you might not be sure if a lesson went off track because of the software or the book.

Hi, yes as Jane-e said I’m one of the authors of the Photoshop Classroom in a Book.

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