Top 7 Photoshop CS6 Features beta download

Looks amazing and I can't wait for the full version to come out!


1. New Interface Photoshop CS6 comes with a new darkened user interface. It's less cluttered and more streamlined. Some might prefer the new look and others might reject it, but it is more contemporary. And because you can control how dark the UI appears and can choose between four different UI color schemes, there's probably a setting that will suit everyone.

2. Adobe Camera Raw 7.0 Raw image files contain the unaltered data captured by digital cameras, before the processing that turns them into viewable images. Photoshop CS6 adds support for Adobe Camera Raw 7.0, a plug-in for editing raw image files. The settings panel has been redone, making it easier to control settings such as Highlights and Shadows.

3 Content-Aware Move. Ever wanted to remove someone from a photo? That's what the Content Aware Fill tool, introduced in Photoshop CS5, can do. In CS6, we have a variation on that theme: Content-Aware Move, which lets you select an object in a single-layer image and move it somewhere else in the picture. Photoshop will fill in the gap created by moving the object, and does so pretty well.

4. Type Styles Dealing with large blocks of text in Photoshop is a pain, or at least it was. Photoshop CS6 is starting to have some of the type styling flexibility of InDesign. New character and paragraph styles make type formatting much easier.

5. Blur Gallery Tilt-shift is the new HDR. The tilt-shift effect--which emphasizes a small in-focus area and blurs the surrounding area to make objects and people look like miniatures--can be accomplished using previous versions of Photoshop, but CS6 makes it even easier with a Blur Gallery that includes Tilt-Shift, Iris, and Field Blur tools.

6. Adaptive Wide Angle This lens correction filter gives you the ability to control the areas in your image that will be subject to adjustment. All you have to do is draw along a curved line of distortion and you can straighten it, making the image look as if it was taken with a different lens.

7. New Crop Tool It's non-destructive, making it easier to play around with cropping variations.

Video tutorial from youtube.com/photoshop








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How to help yourself if you have Adobe CS5 problems

Let me help some of you fellow designers save many hours of grief with CS5. No they will not tell you that they have issues. They do not have any customer support in the USA. Though I have felt like driving over to Adobe Head Quarters and sitting in front of their front doors with my Apple Computer and asking for help. I spent 4.5 hours on the phone today with two different tech support people that were on my computer remotely. Yes they will blame Apple. They will remind you from a written script that everything will be alright their is nothing to worry about. Well there are new updater's.

Here is how you install them. It only took me 3 weeks and 5 case numbers to finally have someone show me how to do it. Open up one of your programs. Go to help on the middle of your tool bar. Select the updater button. It will check for all CS5 updates. Close your program and then update all the programs you need too. There were many work arounds but this was the easiest and most efficient way to do it. Saving you the headache and grief. And the color sync error we didn't even get to that part yet.

They are phasing out Twain drivers so if you have scanners that need them you are SOOL.