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Product Information

Adobe Photoshop CS6 provides the ultimate image and photo editing software. 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.

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New Features

What's new in Photoshop CS6

• Content-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 (some GPU-enabled features are not supported on Windows XP).
• 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.
• 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 customisations 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.
• 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 favourite blunted tips as presets.
• Scripted Patterns - Generate geometric pattern fills faster with new Scripted Patterns.
• 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 (Windows only. Requires a DisplayPort interface and a 10-bit monitor).
• 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 visualise 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 - Organise 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.

Note: some GPU-enabled features are not supported on Windows XP.

Features

Key features in Photoshop CS6

New and reengineered design tools

Create superior designs and artwork in significantly fewer steps. Save time and achieve consistent formatting with one-click type styles. Use vector layers to apply strokes and add gradients to vector objects. Click once to snap the edges of vector objects to pixels for sharper rendering. Create custom strokes and dashed lines. And easily search layers.

Content-Aware family of technologies

Retouch images with astonishing ease, control, and precision. Remove or move selected image objects, and Content-Aware technology magically fills, patches, extends, or recomposes your image with stunning results.

Content-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.

Adobe Mercury Graphics Engine and 64-bit support

Count on the new Adobe 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 and process very large images faster.

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.

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.

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.

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.

System Req.

Windows

• Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64 processor
• Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 3 or Windows 7 with Service Pack 1
• 1GB of RAM
• 1GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash storage devices)
• 1024x768 (1280x800 recommended) resolution display with 16-bit color and 256MB (512MB recommended) of VRAM
• OpenGL 2.0–capable system
• DVD-ROM drive.

Mac OS

• Multicore Intel processor with 64-bit support
• Mac OS X v10.6.8 or v10.7
• 1GB of RAM
• 2GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash storage devices)
• 1024x768 (1280x800 recommended) resolution display with 16-bit color and 256MB (512MB recommended) of VRAM
• OpenGL 2.0–capable system
• DVD-ROM drive.

Note: This product requires activation over the internet. Phone activation is not available.