Adobe Photoshop CS6
Enhance your creativity and boost your productivity.
Adobe Photoshop® CS6 software delivers blazingly fast performance with the new
Adobe Mercury Graphics Engine*, groundbreaking new Content-Aware tools, reengineered design tools, and more.
Smart Object support for Blur Gallery
Smart Object support for Blur Gallery and Liquify. Powerful CSS support for web design. They're just a few of the more than a dozen exclusive new features that make Creative Cloud the best way to get the most out of
Photoshop.*
Smart Object support for Liquify
Apply Liquify non-destructively, thanks to new Smart Object support. Your original file is kept intact as you push, pull, rotate, reflect, pucker, or bloat your image or video. You can re-edit or remove the effect at any time, even after saving and re-opening your file.*
CSS export for faster web design
Instantly generate CSS from text and shape styling in
Photoshop, and then simply paste the code into your favorite web editor to design websites in less time. Includes support for drop shadows, transformed text, gradients, and more.*
Import color from web files
Import color swatches directly from HTML, CSS, or SVG files — for inspiration, or to easily match the color schemes of existing web content.*
Conditional Actions
Speed up image processing by creating Conditional Actions to automatically choose between actions based on rules you establish.*
More time-savers
Save time with refinements to the Crop tool, improved merged-layer naming, the ability to quickly move a path, and the option to see up to 100 items in your list of recently opened files.*
HiDPI and Retina display support
See more detail in your images and in the
Photoshop user interface when working on high-resolution displays, including the new Retina display available on MacBook Pro.‡
Mercury Graphics Engine
See near-instant results when editing with key tools such as Liquify and Puppet Warp. The new
Adobe Mercury Graphics Engine delivers unprecedented responsiveness for a fluid feel as you work.*
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New and reengineered design tools
Create superior designs faster. Get consistent formatting with type styles, use vector layers to apply strokes and add gradients to vector objects, easily create custom strokes and dashed lines, quickly search layers, and more.
New Blur Gallery
Quickly create photographic blur effects using a simple new interface with on-image controls. Create tilt-shift effects, blur everything and then sharpen one focal point, or vary the blurriness between multiple focal points. The Mercury Graphics Engine delivers immediate results.*
All-new Crop tool
Crop images faster and with greater precision using the all-new, nondestructive Crop tool. Rapidly manipulate your images on canvas and see your adjustments happen live thanks to the Mercury Graphics Engine.*
Modern user interface
Work with a fresh, elegant interface featuring dark background options that make your images pop, and benefit from hundreds of design touches that create a smoother, more consistent editing experience.
Intuitive video creation
Bring
Photoshop editing power to your video footage. Easily enhance any clip using the full range of familiar
Photoshop tools, and then create movies using an intuitive set of video tools.
Preset migration and sharing
Easily migrate your presets and workspaces so you can experience
Photoshop in the same way on all your computers, share your setup, and bring your customizations from past versions into
Photoshop CS6.
Auto-recovery
Let the auto-recovery option work behind the scenes to save your edits without interrupting your progress. A copy of your work is saved every 10 minutes and recovered in the event of an unexpected shutdown.
Background Save
Keep working even while saving the largest of
Photoshop files in the background — a performance improvement that can help your productivity soar.
Adaptive Wide Angle
Easily straighten objects that appear curved in panoramas or photos shot with fisheye or wide-angle lenses. New on-canvas tools use the physical characteristics of individual lenses to automatically correct curvatures, and the Mercury Graphics Engine gives you near-instant results.
Improved auto corrections
Quickly enhance your images with improved Auto Curves, Levels, and Brightness/Contrast controls. Intelligence from thousands of hand-retouched images is built in to give you a better starting point for making adjustments.
Adobe Camera Raw 7
Bring out the best in your JPEG and raw files with improved processing and an enhanced control set; reveal every detail in the highlights of an image while still retaining rich detail in the shadows; and much more.
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Content-Aware Move
Move or extend a selected object to another area of your image, and then watch as Content-Aware Move magically recomposes and blends the object for a stunning visual result.
Dozens of user-inspired improvements
Save time with more than 65 new creativity and productivity enhancements that originated as suggestions from
Photoshop users via Facebook, Twitter, and more.
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Skin tone–aware selections and masking
Create precise selections and masks, enabling you to easily adjust or preserve skin tones; easily select intricate image elements, such as hair or faces; and more.
Revolutionary erodible brushes
Draw more naturally and realistically using drawing tips that erode as you work. Endlessly wear down and sharpen a charcoal pencil or pastel to create different effects, and save favorite blunted tips as presets.
Scripted Patterns
Generate geometric pattern fills faster with new Scripted Patterns.
Support for more camera models
Use the
Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 7 plug-in with images from just about any camera. The plug-in supports more than 350 camera models.
10-bit deep color support
Get a more accurate representation of how your images will appear in film with 10-bit monitor support. See just the pixels you've captured, reduce or eliminate the need for dithering, and reduce contouring or banding.†
Support for 3D LUTs
Retouch images for film more easily with 3D look-up tables (LUTs) — including
Adobe SpeedGrade™ .Look color LUTs — that you can turn on when you need to tweak raw color data.
Type styles
Save time and help ensure a consistent look with type styles, which let you apply formatting to selected characters, lines, or paragraphs of text with a single click.
Vector layers
Use vector layers to apply strokes and even add gradients to vector objects.
Sharper vector rendering
Get sharper rendering by clicking once to snap the edges of vector objects to pixels.
Custom strokes and dashed lines
Easily create custom strokes and dashed lines.
Layer search
Use layer search capabilities to quickly zero in on the layer you need.
Lighting Effects Gallery
Get better performance and results with the new, 64-bit Lighting Effects Gallery. The plug-in is powered by the Mercury Graphics Engine and offers on-canvas controls and previews that make it easier to visualize your lighting enhancements.*
Oil Painting filter
Quickly give your work the look of a fine painting with the Oil Painting filter powered by the Mercury Graphics Engine. Control the style of your brush as well as the direction and shine of your lighting for a superior look.
Airbrush tips
Create realistic airbrush effects using fluid, lifelike controls and granular paint particles.
New painting presets
Simplify painting with new presets that offer a good starting point for creating realistic painting effects.
Properties panel
Save time with a context-sensitive Properties panel that lets you make quick updates to the properties of your masks, adjustments, and video layers.
Adobe Bridge CS6
Organize and manage your media visually using
Adobe Bridge CS6 software. This integrated application delivers fast performance with cross-platform 64-bit support.
Redesigned
Adobe Mini Bridge
Access your images and documents more quickly and easily in
Adobe Mini Bridge, redesigned as an elegant filmstrip.
Enhanced TIFF support
Work with a larger range of TIFF files. Enhanced TIFF support allows for greater bit depths and larger file sizes.
Automatic resampling
Get great results when resizing an image — the best resample method is automatically selected.
Filler text
Save time with the ability to insert "Lorem ipsum" filler text when working with type.
Increased maximum brush sizes
Edit and paint with brush sizes all the way up to 5000px.
* Some GPU-enabled features are not supported on Microsoft® Windows® XP. Features available exclusively to Creative Cloud members also are not supported on Windows XP.
† Windows only. Requires a DisplayPort interface and a 10-bit monitor.
‡ The HiDPI feature in
Photoshop CS6 and
Photoshop CS6 Extended is currently only available on Mac OS. It is expected to be available in the future on additional operating systems.
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