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Create powerful images with the professional standard

Adobe® Photoshop® CS6 - the world’s best digital imaging software - delivers magic that helps you bring your creative vision to life. Edit photographs with state-of-the-art photo editing. Create compelling HDR images, black-and-whites, and panoramas with utter precision. Design anything you can imagine - at amazing speed. Even put your ideas in motion by intuitively creating stunning videos.

Adobe® Photoshop® CS6 is also available as Adobe® Photoshop® CS6 Extended.

Adobe® Photoshop® CS6 is also a part of Adobe Creative Suite® 6:
  • Design Standard

Top New Features

Content-Aware Patch

Patch images with greater control using Content-Aware Patch, which allows you to choose the sample area Content-Aware will use to create your patch.

Mercury Graphics Engine

See near-instant results when editing with key tools such as Liquify, Puppet Warp, and Crop. The new 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.

Intuitive video creation

Bring Photoshop editing power to your video footage. Easily enhance video clips using the full range of familiar Photoshop tools and create movies using an intuitive set of video tools.

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.*

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 new Mercury Graphics Engine delivers immediate results.*

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.

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.

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.

Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 7 plug-in

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.

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.

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.

Modern interface

Work with a fresh, elegant Photoshop 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.

Skin tone–aware selections and masking

Create better selections and masks with a new option that easily enables you to select skin tones or, conversely, preserve skin tones while you adjust the color of everything else.

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.

Rich painting toolset

Simply by painting with presets, get realistic color blends with the Mixer Brush, use Bristle Tips for lifelike strokes, draw naturally with erodible pencils and pastels, easily create the look of an oil painting, and much more.

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 Photoshop Camera Raw with images from just about any camera. The plug-in supports hundreds of 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 an oil painting with the Mercury Graphics Engine–accelerated Oil Painting filter.* Control the style of your brush as well as the direction and shine of your lighting for a superior look.

Enhanced 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

Manage your media faster - especially when working with large image files. Adobe Bridge CS6 offers cross-platform 64-bit support and a range of user interface and database enhancements.

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 5,000 pixels.

* Some GPU-enabled features are not supported on Windows XP.
† Mobile and tablet applications require a separate download and agreement to additional terms. Such applications may not be available in all countries or languages and may be subject to change or discontinuation without notice. Additional fees or subscription charges may apply.
‡ Windows® only. Requires a DisplayPort interface and a 10-bit monitor.

Top Reasons to Buy Adobe® Photoshop® CS6

  • Content-Aware Patch - choose the sample area it will use to create your patch.
  • Mercury Graphics Engine and 64-bit support

  • New and reengineered design tools

  • Intuitive video creation

  • Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 7 plug-in

  • All-new Crop tool

  • Superior auto-corrections

  • Intelligent lens correction

  • Superior HDR imaging

  • Rich painting toolset

  • Tools for intelligent selections

  • Puppet Warp - lets you edit with fluid responsiveness.*

  • Background save and Auto-recovery

  • New Blur Gallery

  • Dozens of user-inspired improvements

  • Modern interface

  • Compatibility with Adobe mobile apps

* Some GPU-enabled features are not supported on Windows XP.

For Existing Customers

Adobe® Photoshop® CS6 software delivers state-of-the-art imaging magic, exciting new creative options, and blazingly fast performance. Retouch with new Content-Aware features, and create superior designs and videos using new and reimagined tools and workflows.

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* Some GPU-enabled features are not supported on Windows XP.
‡ Photoshop CS5 and CS6: Mac OS and Windows; Photoshop CS4: Windows only.
† Mac OS only.
Upgrade Eligibility Information

To install an upgrade version of Adobe Photoshop CS6, you must have an eligible earlier version of Adobe software. For information on eligibility, contact our Storm FX Team.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Q: What is Adobe Photoshop Lightroom® and does it work with Photoshop CS6?

A: Photoshop Lightroom software helps you quickly import, process, manage, and showcase volumes of photos. Its tight integration with Photoshop CS6 lets you easily take advantage of unrivaled pixel-level retouching and compositing, giving you a complete professional photography solution.

Q: I use Photoshop. Should I consider stepping up to Photoshop Extended?

A: Adobe Photoshop CS6 Extended software delivers everything in Photoshop CS6 plus tools for creating and editing 3D images and performing quantitative image analysis.* Consider Photoshop Extended if your images are used across a variety of media or if you work in film/video production, architecture, engineering, medicine, scientific research, or manufacturing.

Q:Should I buy Photoshop CS6 or Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design Standard?

A: Photoshop CS6 is the professional standard for digital image editing. If your work involves creating and sharing images within page layouts, you may want to consider Creative Suite 6 Design Standard, which includes Photoshop CS6 as well as Adobe Illustrator® CS6, InDesign® CS6, and Acrobat® X Pro. Smooth integration among the components provides an
efficient workflow.

* Adobe® Photoshop® Extended 3D features and some GPU-enabled features are not supported on Windows XP.

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Last Updated: Sunday, 19 May 2013 21:50