What's New in Photoshop CS6

Company Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced the beta version of Adobe Photoshop CS6. Now this version is available for free download at Adobe Labs . The commercial release of version Adobe Photoshop CS6 is expected in the first half of 2012. Let's talk about some new developments and possibilities of this graphic editor.

The new interface

As expected, CS6 offers a range of new tools and features. However, one of the most pleasant innovation is the redesigned user interface. For the first time in 22 years, the team turned the beauty of Adobe Photoshop.Besides the obvious transformation, which you can see from the screenshot, about 1800, and 250 cursors, icons have been changed.



Order of layers

Layers can be sorted by name, effects, mode, and color attributes. If you select to sort by the name of the layer, there is the search panel.



Brushes

There are more options for brushes, the maximum size of the brush increased up to 5000px. There is a new tool Mixer Brush Tool, which allows you to mix colors.



Dotted lines for vector layers

Fans of the dotted lines for vector layers in Illustrator can now get the same features in Photoshop. Now forms can be defined styles stroke.



Crop Tool

In CS6, he got some important updates. Now you can rotate the selection around, distort it, there are new settings to work with the prospect.



Editing functions with a view of the contents

Function Content Aware Patch allows more accurate filling replaced the image area, and the function Move Aware Content (in some releases, it can be called Remix Tool ) allows you to drag and drop objects anywhere on the image, it automatically restores the background.





Look for these features in action:



New features Blur filter (Blur)

There were three new blur tool to help make processing photos faster and easier. To open them, go to Filter> Blur, you will see the Field Blur (Blur on plots), Iris Blur (imitation of focus) and the Tilt-Shift (an imitation of TiltShift lens). In all of these filters can add Bokeh effect.

Let's look at the possibility of filter Iris Blur (imitation of focus) as an example.

This is the original image, with whom we work.



Use the filters Iris blur oval shape of the mask set, which will not be blurred, and the degree of blur.



That's what we've got a result.



The following video also demonstrates the capabilities of this filter:



Color Range: The color of the skin and face recognition

Now when you go to Select> Color Range to CS6, there is a new feature that allows you to make a selection based on shades of skin (Skin Tones).



New features for working with video



Since CS6 opportunities to work with video files have been greatly expanded. You can add audio, video, and cut to create an animation with various effects.

Oil Paint Filter

The new filter simulating oil paint allows you to quickly add to your image beautiful effect. The filter is opened in a separate window. The size of the brush settings you can adjust the lighting that can be viewed in real time.You can access the tool by selecting Filter> Oil Paint filter.




New features for working with text

Adobe Photoshop CS6 gave users the ability to configure the settings for paragraphs and characters. In order to gain access to the panel for the paragraph and character styles, choose Window> Paragraph Styles (for paragraphs) or Window> Character Styles (for characters). After creating a new style, double-click on it to open the settings window, shown below.

You can create and edit text attributes using a personal style that can be applied to any text layer with a single click.





Conclusion

Of course, this is not all the innovations, so more of them will be discussed in our future articles.

Recommended viewing the following videos:

Here you can find video tutorials for learning Photoshop CS6

Download the beta version is available here