

We’ve also added labels to each group of blending modes, making it easier to understand what they do. Now, you’ll see instant, on-canvas previews as you hover over each option. To help with this, we’ve added Foresight to the blending modes menu. Let’s be honest, no-one knows what each blending mode does.When you place or move guides, they’ll now snap to the middle point of any layer you have selected.The magic wand selection tool for bitmap editing is now more reliable and predictable.

You can now double-click on a layer’s icon in the Layer List to quickly pan and zoom to that layer on the Canvas.Additionally, we’ll show a button to the right of the parent instance and clicking it will change your selection to that parent instance. When you select layers inside a Symbol instance, or nested Symbols inside another Symbol, you’ll now see a dashed border around the parent instance, giving you some more visual context and a reminder that the whole instance will move if you drag your selection.We’ve improved the performance of flattening selections to bitmaps and trimmed PDF exports.We’ve tidied up and improved the Inspector options for editing Symbol overrides, especially when it comes to using Data sources and multi-image selections.Enabling this will preserve that nested Symbol’s space if you hide it, meaning that the dimensions of the Symbol that it’s nested within won’t change if it has Smart Layout properties. When you select a nested Symbol inside a Symbol instance, you’ll see a new Preserve space when hidden option in the Inspector.We’ve improved the rendering performance of previews in the Insert window and menus.

