What's Up
with CS6?
Photoshop CS6 has arrived! Discover the hottest new features. Hear what the world's best designers have to say about this new version.
New Features of Adobe Photoshop CS6
All-new Smart Sharpen
Rich textures, crisp edges, and distinct details. All-new Smart Sharpen is the most advanced sharpening technology available today. It analyzes images to maximize clarity and minimize noise and halos, and it lets you fine-tune for high-quality, natural-looking results.
Intelligent upsampling
Enlarge a low-res image so it looks great in print, or start with a larger image and blow it up to poster or billboard size. New upsampling preserves detail and sharpness without introducing noise.
Camera Shake Reduction
Save shots you thought were lost due to camera motion. Whether your blur was caused by slow shutter speed or a long focal length, Camera Shake Reduction analyzes its trajectory and helps restore sharpness.
Camera Raw 8 and layer support
Apply Camera Raw edits as a filter to any layer or file inside Photoshop, and then enhance them any way you want. And with new Adobe� Camera Raw 8, you get more precise ways to heal images, fix perspective distortions, and create vignettes.
Editable rounded rectangles
One of your most requested features is here. Now you can resize shapes, edit them, and re-edit them � before or after they're created. Even edit individual corner radiuses in rounded rectangles. If a shape is bound for the web, export CSS data from the file to save time.
Multi-shape and path selection
Get more done in fewer clicks by selecting multiple paths, shapes, and vector masks at once. Even in multilayered documents with lots of paths, you can easily target the path (and any layer) you want right on canvas using a new filter mode.
Extended features included
As part of Creative Cloud, Photoshop gives you all the powerful image and video editing features you've come to expect � and it includes the advanced 3D editing and image analysis tools that were previously in Photoshop Extended.
Behance integration
Share work in progress directly from Photoshop CC to Behance to get feedback from the creative community. Then, post your finished work to ProSite, a fully customizable professional portfolio, included free with your membership.
Expanded Smart Object support
Apply Blur Gallery and liquify effects nondestructively thanks to Smart Object support. Your original file stays intact as you add blur effects or push, pull, pucker, or bloat the image or video. Edit or remove the effects at any time � even after saving your file.
New Dark Interface
Photoshop CS6's new dark look will appeal to photographers, as it's less distracting. The ability to filter layers by type is also a major enhancement.
New HUD with key info
Tilt-Shift is just one of the three new Blur filters in Photoshop CS6, each of which works in real time thanks to GPU acceleration. The controls are placed directly on the image for ease of access.
CS6 filters
The new Content-Aware Patch tool in hotoshop CS6 can both move and extend objects - working well with organic objects, less well with man-made structures.
Adaptive Wide Angle filter
The new Adaptive Wide Angle filter in Photoshop CS6 does a great job of correcting camera distortion: simply drag over straight lines to make the adjustment.
Enhanced Camera Raw
Enhancements to Camera Raw in Photoshop CS6 include a greatly improved Clarity control, as well as the ability to apply localised noise reduction using adjustment brushes.
Photoshop CS6 Crop tool
The Select Color dialog in Photoshop CS6 can now select skin tones automatically, with a special Face Detection mode that performs well - even when the subjects are wearing hats and sunglasses.