This website works best with modern browsers such as the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. If you continue with this browser, you may see unexpected results. Adobe Photoshop CS6 Extended for the beginning user: What is CS6 This guide will act as a quick reference for those who are first encountering Adobe Photoshop CS6 as well as good review for users who have worked with it before.
Adobe Creative Suite 6 Adobe Photoshop is an image editor. Photoshop at the Scholarly Commons The Scholarly Commons currently supports Photoshop on all of the machines, and the entire Creative Suite on several of our work stations. Scholarly Commons. Email Me. Social: Twitter Page. If you are an illustrator, designer or compositor, filtering will save you a ton of time. Speaking of layer names, when renaming layers, press the tab key to advance to the next layer and fill out its name too.
Designers are going to be thrilled about this one. Vector layers are redesigned. You can now define a stroke and a fill for any vector layers including the pen tool and shape layers. The fills can be solid, patterns or gradients. The strokes can be solid, patterns or gradients too. Check this out, yes; there are now dotted and dashed strokes available! You can apply a layer style and flatten the layer in a single click. Also, Layer Styles render in the correct order with shadows on the bottom.
Gradient Layer Styles now include a dither option; this is nice and helps to prevent banding. You can now do batch tasks to multiple layers at once. There is now an indicator to let you know if advanced blending options are used Blend if , double click the icon to open the blending dialog box. There have been a lot of significant changes with type in Photoshop CS6 beta. The biggest thing is type styles.
You can create and use both character and paragraph based type styles. Sure there are some neat tricks and work-arounds, but you no longer need those, full-blown type styles are here. Define your font, color, size and more. You can now apply those saved styles to both individual text blocks and also to paragraph text. Photoshop CS6 now supports custom ligatures, so you can add those nice pairing of characters as well as different alternative characters, when the font supports them.
Another cool addition is Lorem Ipsum. You can now fill paragraphs with placeholder text, so that you can mock up and see what a layout would look like without having to fill with actual text. This is nice, because you no longer have to cut and paste placeholder text from elsewhere. You can get some really cool patterns using the scripted fills. Select a pattern fill, like you would for any texture fill. The difference is, you can choose a scripted fill to lay out the tiles in different ways rather than just the standard tiling.
You can do bricks, weaves, spirals and more. If you know some scripting, you can even design some of your own. With the recent release of Lightroom 4, there was a slightly broken workflow between Lightroom and Photoshop.
All the settings are now nicely synchronized with Lightroom 4, so that round trip editing is now a possibility again. The main change is dropping of the Brightness, Recovery and Fill Light sliders. The sliders have largely been replaced with Shadow, Highlight, Whites and Blacks. These are more consistent with what we are used to working with in Photoshop. Shadow Highlight replaces Recovery and fill light with some changes to try and eliminate halos in images that are heavenly processed.
The Whites and Black set the white and black points in the histogram, much like what you would expect from the white and black slider in Photoshop levels. See the image I quickly ran through it. Check out the video on processing images in Lightroom 4. But wait.
It gets really cool about here. Adobe reworked the video features. You will notice that the timeline has a new look. Bring video in as a video layer and Photoshop treats it much like the other layers.
The big difference is that the video layers contain multiple frames of video. When you reorder the layers in the Layers panel, their order will also change in the timeline. In time speak, the layers start at the bottom and work their way up the panel, with the last clip being the top-most.
If you prefer different video tracks, this can be accomplished by creating a new layer group. Each group has its own video track. You can even add transitions between different clips. Transitions are added by dropping a transition point on the clip. You can change the type and length of the transition at any time.
Where it gets really good is adding effects. You can apply all the same smart filters to video as you would to images, so you can really knock out some professional looks.
Speaking of looks you can apply common Color Look Up Table presets to get professional video looks of your video, this is named LUT presets.
Photoshop has supported different video pixel aspect rations for years. As for output, you can output either video or image sequences. Video in Photoshop CS6 A photographer and designers guide. Rich Cursor support: The cursor displays information like coordinates, image size etc. They are much more convenient right in Photoshop.
While we are on the cool little things. Many people will be glad to hear that Photoshop now has an auto save and auto recover feature. When PS crashes oops I mean when someone trips a power overload , it attempts to recover the previous image at the point of the last save.
Mini Bridge now has a Filmstrip mode. This is great for snapping to the bottom of the screen. Auto correction in levels and in curves is more intelligent now and people should get better results from it.
We now have support for 10 bit monitors. Oh, I want to get me one of those! Choose bicubic sharper if you are scaling down and bicubic softer if you are scaling up. A lot of new stuff has happened around 3D. Repossue has been removed and everything now works on screen.
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Click through for an in-depth look at Sony's latest full-frame mirrorless ILC. Nik Silver Efex Pro 3, one of the standout components of Nik Collection 4, is a black-and-white conversion tool that goes far further than the grayscale or black-and-white tools built into all-in-one photo apps. For some users, this app alone might be worth the cost of the whole collection — find out for yourself in our review.
The Nikon Z mm F2. Get all the details in our full review. These capable cameras should be solid and well-built, have both speed and focus for capturing fast action and offer professional-level image quality. Although a lot of people only upload images to Instagram from their smartphones, the app is much more than just a mobile photography platform.
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The acquisition further bolsters Zenfolio's ongoing efforts to reinvigorate its business model and position itself a strong option for photographers looking to build a website and run a business. The 'Deakinizer' lens was made and popularized by cinematographer Roger Deakins when he used a modified Arri Macro lens to capture dreamy, tilt-shift like shots for the movie Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
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Geological Survey. But how much difference does the longer 40mm equivalent lens of the 'X' version make to the shooting experience? Click through to read more. Want to learn more about the Nikon Z9? Do you have a burning question you haven't seen answered anywhere else? Join us for a live Twitter Space on Thursday, November 11, and be part of the conversation. Click through for details. The four firmware updates bring improved autofocus performance in a number of different shooting modes, as well as support for Nikon's new FTZ II mount adapter and Nikkor Z mm F4 S lens.
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This is the second time the venerable telescope has faced extended downtime after being offline for a month earlier this year. Panasonic China has posted a pair of images to various Chinese social media sites that tease what appears to be a new lens launch. Gordon Laing is back at it again with another Retro Review. In this episode, Laing goes back 25 years to provide an in-depth overview of Nikon's unique Coolpix camera, which was half compact camera, half PDA.
The adapter includes optics to help offset the crop factor of APS-C cameras. OM Digital Solutions — the company that's bought the Olympus imaging division — has just launched the M. Zuiko Digital ED 20mm F1. Click through for a closer look. Chris and Jordan tease-out the differences. After quickly selling out of its first batch back in , Lomography has announced that it's re-releasing its color-shifting LomoChrome Turquoise Film in 35mm, and format.
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Submit a News Tip! Reading mode: Light Dark. Login Register. Best cameras and lenses. We've already published several articles, looking at the additional features that have been introduced as part of CS6: Click here to read our Photoshop CS6 features overview Click here to find out more about how to use the Blur Gallery - a series of tools to simulate photographic blur or click here to read about the added flexibility that comes from the revised tools brought to Adobe Camera Raw 7 and Photoshop Lightroom 4 as part of the 'Process Version ' update.
Adobe Mercury Graphics Engine — Takes advantage of the graphics processing unit in modern hardware to speed up imaging and editing tasks, and process large images faster. New and Re-engineered Design Tools — Type styles enable consistent formatting; vector layers apply strokes and add gradients to vector objects; custom strokes and dashed lines are easily created; quick layers search and more.
Intuitive Video Creation — The full range of familiar Photoshop tools and an intuitive set of new video tools to create and enhance any video clip. Blur Gallery — A simple new interface with on-image and in-context controls allows users to quickly create photographic blur effects including tilt-shift effects, blur everything with one focal point, or vary the blurriness between multiple focal points.
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Creative Cloud members will be able to easily deliver mobile apps to iOS and Android marketplaces and publish, manage and host websites. Adobe Creative Cloud members will receive access to application upgrades, including new Photoshop features — before they are launched as part of a major update, as well as inventive new products and services, as they emerge.
Tags: adobe , photoshop , software-news. View Comments Comments All Giselleraut I always felt that 3D art was still too time consuming for an age in which we need it everywhere! WillieNillie I'm pretty stoked about this release. Now I'm sure the rest of my year will be filled with nothing but bad luck Hopn I have CS5 and just bought 5.
Mollysnoot2 I think you just enter the previous version's serial number when prompted. Hopn How are you getting warpfoo? Mollysnoot2 I think we're all talking about the standalone Photoshop, not one of the suites. Downpour The UK pricing in this article appears to be incorrect. A straightforward site is Apple's. That is how a store and a site should be designed. MisterNo I have used Photoshop since when Photoshop 5 was released.
Superka Oh yeah. Lofi So the deblur function was all in all a marketing fraud? It will still probably show up someday. Gothmoth fraud? Lofi summarized it correctly. ProtoPhoto Where do you see that? Downpour So presumably loyal customers who upgraded early get nothing?
Bartek misspelling in the article: "[ Richard Butler Fixed. Thanks for pointing it out.
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