Need Beta Testers for Photoshop CC 14.0-Specific Sharpening Actions

I've developed a new image sharpening actions set that I'm ready to release, but I'd like to invite a few folks who have cloud subscriptions and are running Photoshop CC 14.0 to try the actions first.
Photoshop CC comes with some great sharpening tools, and I'm trying to get a feel for whether my actions add value over and above the tools already there. They do things a bit differently, leveraging the new detail-preserving upsampling method in Photoshop CC 14.0, and I've had some images for which the actions produced better looking results than the Smart Sharpen tool Photoshop provides out of the box.
All I'm looking for is for folks to try them out on their images, and let me know what they think of the results.
Users and Adobe folks alike are welcome. I can't promise everyone who responds a set (I only need 10 or so testers), and I'll post another message on this thread when I have enough.
If you're interested, please eMail me at: [email protected]
-Noel

I've had it for a while now, and I've posted some positive things about it already.
The sharpening tools based on deconvolution algorithms are really world class, the detail-preserving upsampling is excellent, and I've even found some good uses for Shake Reduction. The results I'm getting from astroimage processing with the new tools are great. The 3D facilities have improved a good bit, if you're into that sort of thing. I like the Upright features in Camera Raw. I've had it straighten out some images that would have taken a lot of time with the Perspective Crop Tool or a transform.
Regarding bugs... I've just reproduced a bug someone else reported with scrubbing the font size boxes after transforming text, but otherwise it's really a solid release from my perspective. I honestly haven't had this build of Photoshop CC crash unexpectedly at all (in well over a month of hard use). I've crashed it myself a few times running plug-in code under development (because of MY bugs, not theirs), and in those cases it auto-recovered my images.
All my plug-ins and actions work perfectly. Only thing I had to do was update my installers because I had anticipated it being called CS7 instead of CC back when I coded them.
Something's slightly different during Ps CC 14.0 initialization - it made a problem I always had with Photoshop CS6 go away. I used to have to wait a split second after Photoshop CS6 cold-started before I could do a File - Open from the menu. The menus would be disabled (grayed-out) if I got in there too quickly. Now I don't see that delay. It was a little thing, but constantly irritating, and I'm really glad that's gone.
I like the newer OS dialogs (e.g., File - Open, File - Save) better; I sometimes need to do searches and the new Explorer dialogs facilitate that. They also work perfectly with the codec pack I use (FastPictureViewer).
I still have Photoshop CS6 icons parked on my desktop right next to Photoshop CC, and I find that for other than specific testing I do not need nor crave using the older one at all. I guess you'd say I find Photoshop CC as good or better in every way.
Relatively speaking, most things are the same speed as Photoshop CS6, though a few are incrementally faster (moving huge layers around on a very deep image is a good example). Nothing seems slower to me. It scores the same on the various Photoshop benchmarks I've tried.
-Noel

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