Adobe Photoshop CS6

by Adobe

• Content-Aware Patch-Patch images with greater control using Content-Aware Patch, the latest addition to the Content-Aware family of technologies, which allows you to choose the sample area it will use to create your patch.
• Mercury Graphics Engine and 64-bit support-Count on the new Mercury Graphics Engine for blazingly fast performance when editing with key tools, and take advantage of cross-platform 64-bit support to speed up imaging tasks.
• New and reengineered design tools-Create superior designs fast. Get consistent formatting with type styles, use vector layers to apply strokes and add gradients to vector objects.
• Intuitive video creation-Bring Photoshop editing power to your video footage. Easily enhance any clip using the full range of familiar Photoshop tools, and create videos using an intuitive set of video tools.
• 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.

Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B007R0RKV8
• Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 1.4 x 7.8 inches
• Media: DVD-ROM
• Release Date: May 7, 2012
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (73 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #131 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #14 in Software > Graphics > Photo Editing

Product Description

Platform: PC

From the Manufacturer

Adobe Photoshop CS6 delivers magic that helps you bring your creative vision to life. Edit raw image files and other photos with state-of-the-art photo editing. Create compelling HDR images, black-and-whites, and panoramas. Retouch images with astonishing ease and control. Design anything you can imagine—at amazing speed. Paint and draw naturally and expressively. Even put your ideas in motion by intuitively creating stunning videos.

Adobe Mercury Graphics Engine provides fast performance when editing with key tools.

Photoshop CS6 Highlights

• Experience imaging magic—Correct, refine, and composite images with remarkable ease and control. New Content-Aware features take image retouching to a new level. Get superior results when you crop, correct wide-angle lens curvatures, auto-correct, and more.
• Maximize your creativity—Experience creative breakthroughs with features that expand your visual language. Intuitively create videos within the familiar Photoshop environment. Work more fluidly with new and reengineered design tools. Create custom photographic blurs, and paint and draw more expressively.
• Achieve peak performance—Take full advantage of your hardware’s power and save significant time. Edit at blazingly fast speeds with the new Mercury Graphics Engine. Boost your productivity with new preset migration and sharing, new auto-recovery and background save options, and a modern user interface.

Adobe Photoshop Features Comparison	CS5	CS6
Content-Aware Patch		x
All-new Crop tool		x
Skin tone–aware selections and masking		x
Intuitive video creation and editing		x
Layer search		x
Enhanced airbrush tips		x
Mercury Graphics Engine		x
Auto-recovery		x
Modern interface		x
Post-crop vignetting		x
Support for Photoshop companion apps	x	x
Superior HDR imaging and HDR toning	x	x

Quickly enhance your images with powerful Auto Curves, Levels, and Brightness/Contrast controls.

Precisely reposition any image element to create a more visually appealing photo.

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Top New CS6 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.

Bring out the best in your JPEG and raw files with improved processing and an enhanced control set.

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.*

Quickly create photographic blur effects using a simple new interface with on-image controls.

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.

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

Product Description

Adobe Photoshop CS6-the world’s best digital imaging software-delivers magic that helps you bring your creative vision to life. Edit raw image files and other photos with state-of-the-art photo editing. Create compelling HDR images, black-and-whites, and panoramas. Retouch images with astonishing ease and control. Design anything you can imagine-at amazing speed. Paint and draw naturally and expressively. Even put your ideas in motion by intuitively creating stunning videos.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

45 of 55 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars CS5.1 with a Lightroom 4-like interface! Nice, but worth the cost of upgrade? Not really... May 10, 2012

By DaveW

Platform for Display:PC

First off, I want to say the CS6 Photoshop interface looks BEAUTIFUL!!! For those who also own Lightroom 4 will quickly recognize the similarities. Such a huge change would lead you to believe CS6 would be a significant upgrade from CS5.1 photoshop. But unfortunately the differences pretty much stop just below the interface. Yes, there are a few items that are awesome such as "content aware patch" which is a great addition to the CS family but other than that the changes are quite minor or simply small tweaks on features most of us have found workarounds for. For instance they have FINALLY updated their HDR handling but does that mean we all stop using Nik or Photomatix? I doubt it.

So it all boils down to this - if you have extra money laying around or you absolutely need these minor tweaks on existing programs then buy this update, you'll love it. It has a beautiful and sleek interface and works everybit as well as CS5.1. However, if you actually use Photoshop to make a living and don't care whether the interface is sleek and pretty but are more interested in value vs. performance, then stick with CS5.1 and wait for more than "bells and whistles" to fork over good money.

20 of 23 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Lasso Tool Improved, Speed Improved, Bridge Improved, Worth the Upgrade July 29, 2012

By Will F

Platform for Display:PC

One of a rarely mentioned improvement are the lasso tools. They are now pointers rather than droppers- much more easy to make fine selections. The improved speed and loading speed are time savers. Bridge is much more essential; I did not use prior versions but work with this version of bridge as it is much more versatile and useful. This is the version we have been waiting decades for. Photoshop finally got there! I upgraded from CS5 extended to CS6 (not extended) and it was well worth the money.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Photoshop CS6 2012 September 19, 2012

By Bajan Runner

Platform for Display:PC|Amazon Verified Purchase

I am newish to digital photography. I have used Lightroom 3 for the past 6 months. LR is a great product for image management and 'regular' edits such as contrast, exposure , noise reduction etc.

However, there are times when more advanced adjustments are useful, such as contrast masking, that are much easier in Photoshop. There are also much more advanced processes in masking, that I am still to learn.

However, even for the short while that I have used PS6, it has been very useful and fun to use. I see some complaining about bugs etc in the software, but for me there have been no issues.

I use Windows 7 on a computer with AMD Athlon chip, 4 gig RAM and with a 1 Gig Nvidia series 430 Video Card (PS6 uses GPU graphic processing to speed processing.).

PS 6 also works seamlessly with LR3.