May 7th, 2012Content-Aware Patch:
· Patch images with greater control using Content-Aware Patch, which allows you to choose the area that Content-Aware will use to create your patch.
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.
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, workspaces, preferences, and settings 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.
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.
Background Save:
· Keep working even while saving the largest of Photoshop files in the background — a performance improvement that can help your productivity soar.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Compatibility with Adobe mobile apps:
· Extend your creativity beyond Photoshop CS6 with Adobe Touch Apps and Photoshop companion apps (sold separately). Intuitive touchscreen features provide ease of use and precise control for a variety of creative tasks.
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.
March 22nd, 2012Content-Aware Patch:
· Patch images with greater control using the newest member of the Content-Aware family of technologies. Choose the sample area you want to use to create your patch, and then watch Content-Aware Patch magically blend pixels for a stunning result.
Blazingly fast performance and a modern UI:
· Experience unprecedented performance with the Mercury Graphics Engine, which gives you near-instant results when you edit with key tools such as Liquify, Puppet Warp, and Crop.* Plus, a refined, fresh, and elegant Photoshop interface features dark background options that make your images pop.
New and re-engineered design tools:
· Create superior designs fast. Get consistent formatting with type styles, create and apply custom strokes and dashed lines to shapes, quickly search layers, and much more.
· You will also discover hundreds of new ways to work faster and with greater creative freedom and precision when you dive into Photoshop CS6 beta.
May 3rd, 2011· Enables specially designed apps on tablets, smartphones, and PCs to communicate with and control interaction with Photoshop CS5 (Located in the File menu: Remote Connections). Now you can be creative on other devices and instantly incorporate what you create into Photoshop.
Also fixes liquify performance, type related crashes, and other top customer issues. The most significant fixes include the following:
· A number of potential security vulnerabilities have been addressed.
· Liquify save mesh now works as expected.
· An issue with Sharpen crashing has been fixed.
· An issue with Quick Selection crashing has been fixed.
· The Orphea Studio File Info issue has been resolved.
December 7th, 2010· A number of potential security vulnerabilities have been addressed
· Top type and font crashers found in the field have been addressed
· A number of performance issues have been addressed
· Crash opening 3D layers has been addressed
· Color Engine crash has been resolved
· Intermittent file format issues addressed
· Shift scrolling bug fixed
· Sharpen crasher fixed
· Marching ants not seen at certain zoom levels fixed
· Metadata focus distance issue addressed
· File info bug addressed for Orphea Studio jpg files
· TWAIN crashers fixed
· Brush cursor bug fixed
· Histogram progress bar issue fixed
· Droplet issues addressed
July 1st, 2010· A number of issues that could cause slow performance have been addressed.
· Top crashers found in the field have been addressed.
· 3D refractions, Ray Tracing and IBL workflows improved.
· Out of memory error opening some TIFFs has been addressed.
· A crash in Content Aware Fill has been addressed.
· Font related crashes have been addressed.
· Scroll wheel issue addressed.
· A number of user interface and workspace issues addressed.
· A number of painting issues addressed, including video layer issue.
· Droplet issues addressed.
February 25th, 2009· A number of issues that could cause slow performance have been addressed.
· Pen barrel rotation with Wacom tablets now works correctly.
· Photoshop now correctly recognizes 3D textures edited by a plug-in.
· The quality of the results of Auto-Blend Layers (Stack Images) has been improved.
· A problem that could result in a crash when pasting formatted text has been fixed.
· A crash that could result from a corrupt font no longer occurs.
December 12th, 2008· New: Smoother panning and zooming and fluid canvas rotation - Navigate to any area of an image with new, ultra-smooth zooming and panning. Maintain clarity as you zoom to individual pixels and easily edit at the highest magnification with the new Pixel Grid. And use the revolutionary new Rotate View tool to smoothly turn your canvas for distortion-free viewing at any angle.
· New: Adjustments panel - Simplify image adjustment by easily accessing every tool you need to nondestructively adjust and enhance the color and tone of your images; on-image controls and a wide variety of presets are also included in the new live and dynamic Adjustments panel.
· New: Masks panel - Quickly create and edit masks from the new Masks panel. This panel offers all the tools you need to create editable pixel- and vector-based masks, adjust mask density and feathering, easily select noncontiguous objects, and more.
· New: Content-Aware Scaling - Use the new and revolutionary Content-Aware Scaling feature to automatically recompose an image as you resize it, smartly preserving vital areas as the image adapts to the new dimensions. Get the perfect image in one step without time-intensive cropping and retouching.
· Enhanced: Extended depth of field - Easily create a single image from a series of shots that have different focal points with the enhanced Auto-Blend Layers command, which smoothly blends color and shading and now extends your depth of field, automatically correcting vignettes and lens distortion.
· Enhanced: Auto-alignment of layers - Create accurate composites with the enhanced Auto-Align Layers command. Move, rotate, or warp layers to align them more accurately than ever before. Or use spherical alignment to create breathtaking panoramas.
· Enhanced: Efficient file management with Adobe Bridge CS4 - Get instant access to Adobe Bridge CS4 with faster start-up, use new workspaces to jump to the right display for every task, easily create web galleries and PDF contact sheets, and more.
· Enhanced: Auto-blending of images - Combine a range of images, each with a different exposure, color, and focal point — with options to preserve tones and colors — into a single color-corrected image.
· Enhanced: Improved Adobe Photoshop Lightroom workflow - Select multiple photos in Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® software (sold separately) and automatically open them in Adobe Photoshop CS4 to merge them into a panorama, a high dynamic range (HDR) photo, or a multilayered Photoshop document. And seamlessly roundtrip back to Lightroom.
· Enhanced: Better raw image processing - Enjoy superior conversion quality as you process raw images with the industry-leading Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 5 plug-in, which now offers localized corrections, post-crop vignetting, TIFF and JPEG processing, and support for more than 190 camera models.
· Enhanced: Industry-leading color correction - Enjoy dramatically enhanced color correction with reengineered Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools that now intelligently preserve color and tone details.
· Enhanced: More powerful printing options - Get outstanding prints with superior color management, tighter integration with leading printer models, and the ability to preview out-of-gamut image areas. Support for 16-bit printing on Mac OS offers increased color depth and clarity.
· New: File display options - Easily work with multiple open files by using tabbed document display or n-up views.
September 8th, 2008· Smart Filters
· Quick Selection and Refine Edge tools
· Advanced compositing
· Streamlined interface
· Better raw image processing
· Improved Adobe Bridge
· Enhanced Vanishing Point
· Enhanced 32-bit HDR support
· Peak performance
· Black-and-white conversion
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