More Photoshop CC Questions

[Rich54]

A few more unrelated questions:

• I'm now using version 27.7.0. Is there a way to freeze this version against the future rollout of new versions? Once I reach a certain comfort level with CC, I would prefer to keep my version static and not be constantly surprised whenever Adobe decides to change something. Can I do this?
  
  
• The Selection Brush tool is new to me and I just viewed a tutorial about it. I see very little difference between this and the old Quick Mask tool, which I had in CS5. But surprisingly, Photoshop CC still has the Quick Mask tool. Why both? What does one do that the other can't?
  
  
• If I want to tile multiple files, I need to go to Windows>Arrange. In CS5, this control used to sit on the menu bar, like in the bottom image below. Is there any way to have the Arrange features permanently on the desktop?

Thanks again.

 

[thebestcpu]

A few more unrelated questions:

• I'm now using version 27.7.0. Is there a way to freeze this version against the future rollout of new versions? Once I reach a certain comfort level with CC, I would prefer to keep my version static and not be constantly surprised whenever Adobe decides to change something. Can I do this?
  
  
• The Selection Brush tool is new to me and I just viewed a tutorial about it. I see very little difference between this and the old Quick Mask tool, which I had in CS5. But surprisingly, Photoshop CC still has the Quick Mask tool. Why both? What does one do that the other can't?
  
  
• If I want to tile multiple files, I need to go to Windows>Arrange. In CS5, this control used to sit on the menu bar, like in the bottom image below. Is there any way to have the Arrange features permanently on the desktop?

Thanks again.


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For turning off autoupdate:
In Creative Cloud Desktop:

1. Open Creative Cloud Desktop
2. Go to Apps
3. Choose More actions / …
4. Choose Manage auto-updates or Preferences > Apps
5. Turn Auto-update OFF for all apps, or for specific apps

For the masking. They are heavily overlapped with pros and cons fo each. Here is a summary:
A useful analogy:

Quick Mask = editing a mask document​

You temporarily work on a grayscale mask.
Very flexible.
Very “Photoshop power user.”

Selection Brush = painting marching ants​

You directly manipulate the selection boundary.
More streamlined.
More approachable.

So use the one you like to use.

For the Arrange problem, I don't know of an easy fix. One option to consider is assigning a keyboard shortcut for the top arrange options as shown in my screenshot below.




Hope that helps
John Wheeler

 

[Rich54]

Thanks, John. Very helpful.