Photoshop CS6 beta Download

[JJonas]

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Photoshop CS6 Highlights

 

Content-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.

 

 

 

Adobe Photoshop CS6 Beta | digital image editing software - Adobe Labs

[Arthur]

New features

 

Brushes

• HUD brush resize and hardness can now change opacity
  
• Increase brush size to 5000px
  
• Change color dynamics to per stroke instead of per tip (user option for old behavior)
  
• Brightness/contrast slider for textures when painting
  
• Brush projection for static tips
  
• Brush cursor reflects brush dynamics for round and captured tips
  

Eyedropper

• Show the sample size popup for the various eyedropper tools (black point, white point, etc.)
  
• Add ignore adjustment layers options bar item for the eyedropper
  
• New mode for eyedropper to select layers current and below
  

File formats

• Read common stereo image pair formats (JPS, PNS) Allow for more bit depths in TIFF files
  
• Read BIGTIFF format
  
• Give the user choices regarding how they want transparency treated in OpenEXR on file open
  

Grammar

• Policed throughout app
  
• Use consistent grammar style in the title of dialog windows (no commands such as "Choose a color:")
  

Layers

• Add a contextual menu item that deletes a layer effect not just disables it
  
• Add dither options to Layer Styles for Gradient Overlay and Gradient Stroke
  
• Allow 00 or Shift 00 to work when setting layer/fill opacity (previously no way to get 0%)
  
• Add bicubic sharper & bicubic smoother options when free transforming layers
  
• Allow changing of blend modes for multiple layers at once
  
• Allow locking of multiple layers
  
• CMD+J to duplicate layers and layer group
  
• Allow changing color labels to multiple layers at once
  
• Layer tooltips to include layer name (if defined)
  
• Opt+click on toggle arrows (groups and effects) in layer panel should close all targets
  
• Show blend if/Blending Effects badge on layer
  
• Show correct opacity and blend mode values for hidden layers
  
• Tab goes to next layer on inline layer rename, SHIFT + TAB goes to previous
  
• New command to raster layer effect into layer, merging the selected layers into themselves
  
• Reorder effects in the layers palette to match the Z-order style/blend mode (bottom most effects in termsof blending order, drop shadow is below the other effects
  

Liquify

• Resize Liquify brush with shortcuts
  
• Increase maximum Liquify brush size Add option to load last mesh
  

Presets

• Add new document presets for common devices (e.g. iPhone, iPad, etc.)
  
• Add new Gradient Map presets for toning and split-toning
  
• Sticky reorganization of tool presets (changes persist after re-launch) Add Contact Sheet II as an Automation option
  

SDK

• Add the ability to return an array of guides in a document from the scripting SDK
  
• Add ability to access tool name associated with the tool preset name via scripting Selections
  
• Make the marquee, lasso, and mask panel feather values support decimal places like the feather dialog
  
• Remember feather radius when showing dialog for selection from a path
  

Transform

• Improve dragging of vector curves
  
• Don't hide smart object icon when transforming a layer
  
• Rotate 90 with even x odd pixel dimension to be smooth
  
• Undo or disable auto-rotate on open
  

UI

• Remove the app bar and reduce the drag/app bar over 30%
  
• [Windows] New/open document to context click on a document tab (has always been on Mac, now Windows too)
  
• Add "Don't show again" checkbox to Purge warnings
  

Miscellaneous

• Enable Split Channels for documents with layers
  
• Select Hex field by default and allow clipboard pastes with # in contents (i.e. #fffffff)
  
• Increased GPU stability by prequalifying GPUs on the fly before use
  
• Auto-select the best resample method based on the type of resize
  
• Enable Invert and Threshold adjustments for masks in 32-bit
  
• Hold SHIFT during startup to disable 3rd party plugins
  
• Add warning message that 16-bit images cannot display their file size in the Save as JPEG dialog
  
• Add command to insert "lorem ipsum" for type