General Updates
Interface
The very first feature you’ll notice in Photoshop CS6 is the new dark color theme which is designed to match other Adobe products such as After Effects and Lightroom. If you don’t like the color, you can change it back to the Light Gray theme or customize it to any color you like.
Background Save
Saving large files? Photoshop will save files in the background so you can immediately continue your work in Photoshop.
Preset Manager
Photoshop makes migrating your presets and preferences from CS5 to CS6 easy with the new Preset Manager. You can also save these presets/preferences and load them onto other other computers.
Filters
Liquify Filter
The Liquify filter has undergone major performance enhancement. You can now edit photos with no lag – adjustments are made on the fly! In addition, the maximum brush size has increased from 1500 to 15000 pixels.
Adaptive Wide Angle
The Lens Distortion tool was great for fixing small lens distortions but was very limited with wide angle/fisheye distortions. This new tool will let you remove curved lines – just draw lines over straight edges and Photoshop will automatically fix it. It’s apparently very easy to use with few settings to adjust.
Field Blur, Iris Blur, and Tilt Shift
These types of blurs have popular recently and people were using a combination of blur filters and layer masks to create it. It’s easier than ever in CS6 with dedicated filters for these blur effects.
Oil Paint
Like artistic filters? This new Oil Paint filter can turn your photos into oil paintings in one step.
Adobe Image Deblur
This filter is potentially available in CS6. It restores blurry photos caused by camera shake (not lens blur, wrong focusing, etc). It works by detecting the path of the camera shake and using its own algorithm to correct the blur. The results are magical.
Tools
Selection Tools (marquee, lasso, etc.)
The selection tools will now allow you to apply a value with a decimal point to the feather setting (ex. 1.5px)
Eyedropper Tool
The Eyedropper tool has new options which lets your tool ignore adjustment layers and/or sample from the current layer or below. This applies to all the eyedropper tools (ex. black point, white point, white balance tool, etc).
Brush Tool
There are many new improvements to the brush tool. The first update is rich cursor support for the brush tool. You can now adjust your brush settings using hot keys and see a live preview of your brush size, feather, and opacity. Speaking of opacity, there is a new hot key for changing the opacity (Ctrl/Cmd+Alt/Option+Up/Down). In addition, the maximum brush size has been increased from 2500 to 5000 pixels – you can expect to see even higher resolution Photoshop brushes when CS6 comes out!
Demonstration of the new rich cursor support for the Brush tool
Patch Tool
A new Content-Aware mode for the patch tool allows you to remove objects more precisely using content-aware technology. This tool is great for removing objects near the edge of your photo.
Content-Aware Move Tool
Content-aware technology was great for removing objects in Photoshop CS5. Now you can use content-aware technology to move objects! This tool makes it easy to move people and objects around.
Text tool
Designers rejoice! Now you can generate Lorem Ipsum text without having to visit a website to generate it – it’s built right into Photoshop’s Text tool.
Vector Path Tools
The Vector Path tools have been updated to improve the dragging of vector curves. You can also turn paths into dash and dotted lines and apply gradients to them!
Transform Tool
Now you can resize and transform objects with better quality! The new interpolation options let you resize objects using Nearest Neighbor, Bilinear, Bicubic, Bicubic Smoother, Bicubic Sharper, or the new Bicubic Automatic mode which picks the best method for you. It also fixes the 90° bug.
Image Adjustments
Camera RAW
Camera RAW 6 has been upgraded to Camera RAW 7 which is already available in Lightroom 4. The new editing process makes retouching photos more intuitive and allows more room for recovery.
Demonstration of Camera Raw 7
Invert
This image adjustment is now available for 32-bit images.
Threshold
This image adjustment is now available for 32-bit images.
Image Size
The new Bicubic Automatic option automatically picks the best interpolation mode for you.
Layer Styles
Gradient Overlay
A new option to dither your gradient is available. Note that this option is already present with the other Gradient tools in CS5 – it seems like Adobe forgot about to add it to layer styles.
Stroke
If you create gradient strokes, you can also enable this dither option.
Palettes
Layers Palette
The Layers palette has been revamped to make it easier to find layers and apply layer properties to multiple layers at once. The new filtering option lets you find layers by kind, name, effect, mode, attribute, or color. You can also apply blending modes, opacity, locking, and color label to multiple layers at once. The bugs which didn’t allow you to set the layers opacity to 0 or duplicate multiple layers using its hotkeys has been fixed. Shape layer attributes can be copied/pasted just like layer styles.
Channels Palette
The Split Channels command now works for documents with more than one layer (no need to flatten image before using this command).
Gradient Palette
New split-toning presets.
Actions Palette
Now you can record tools! Simply enable the “Allow recording of tools” option and you can create Photoshop actions with tools (ex. Brush tool).
3D
Photoshop CS6 Extended will have enhanced 3D performance and updated tools to make it easier to change position, color, material, shadow, and light source of your 3D objects.
File Handling
Auto-Rotate
When you open photos, Photoshop will read the metadata and rotate the image to its correct orientation. Now you can undo or disable this feature in the preferences.
New Document
New image dimension presets for common devices like iPhones, iPads, etc.
File Format
Photoshop CS6 will support the new 3D image file formats (JPS and PNS) as well as BIGTIFF. TIFF files support more bit depth and OpenEXR files have new choices for handling transparencies.
Automate
Miss the PDF Presentations and Contact Sheet scripts in CS4? These have been reintroduced in CS6. If you’re into scripting, you can now write scripts that can get the tool name associated with the tool preset or return an array of guides in a document.
Release Date
Because Photoshop CS5.5 was released on May 2011, rumors speculate that CS6 will be released on May 2012 based on the new CS release schedule.
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