Under the hood, it uses something called the Adobe Mercury Graphics Engine to speed up performance. There are more video-editing features, and the beta has additional features for rendering 3D images that will end up as part of Photoshop CS6 Extended, a pricier premium edition. Photoshop CS6 has plenty of other stuff - Adobe says it has “62 percent more new features,” which sounds impressive even though I don’t know how to do that math. It’s not perfect - you’d probably want to finesse the gravel background a little further by hand - but Photoshop did all the work itself.Īnother nifty addition, the Blur Gallery, lets you apply a variety of effects to photos, including tilt-shift and simulated bokeh background blurring. With the right type of image, it works remarkably well.Īt right is the new version of the image at the top of this post that Photoshop created when I moved the kids to the right. Content Aware Patch, for instance, lets you specify which part of an image Photoshop should analyze when it fills in space, which is helpful when Photoshop’s first stab at doing it on its own doesn’t turn out well.Įven cooler, Content Aware Move lets you drag objects or people around in a photo - and Photoshop automatically repairs the background. In CS6, Content Aware Fill has some new companion features. When Photoshop CS5 debuted in 2010, its signature new feature was probably the amazing Content Aware Fill, which can intelligently fill in space in a photo based on what surrounds it - to extend a cloudy sky or a grassy field, for instance. Various elements such as dialog boxes, sliders and other controls are now more consistent, too. It’s a more trendy look - Photoshop Elements already has it - and Adobe says that it helps the tools retreat into the background so you can concentrate on your image. The most obvious change is the color scheme: Photoshop now has a dark color scheme made up of various shades of gray. It’s not an utter reinvention, and learning how to take advantage of the software’s nearly infinite bag of tricks still takes time. With CS6, it’s getting a meaningful makeover. Photoshop’s user interface hasn’t changed much over the years - except to get more convoluted and inconsistent as Adobe has packed in more and more features. It’s part of Adobe Labs and is available here. Now the company’s releasing something way better than a sneak peek: a free downloadable beta version of the new software. It’s been providing sneak peeks at selected new features - such as this and this - for awhile now. Follow in the first half of 2012, Adobe plans to release Photoshop CS6, the new version of the image-editing software that’s synonymous with image editing.
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