It is the world’s premier image-editing software. Adobe’s Photoshop is used by everyone from Hollywood visual effects artists to moms who want to remove red-eye from their family vacation photos. The latest version, Adobe Photoshop CS6, releases on May 7, 2012. Adobe Photoshop CS6 offers many improvements and new features. Photoshop CS6 will retail for $699, but current users can upgrade for $199. An enhanced version of Photoshop CS6 (Photoshop CS6 Extended) will sell for $999, although for existing users to upgrade, it’s only $399. Has been vastly improved and both artists and photographers will be impressed with the upgraded CS6. And to add to the wow factor, CS6 will also have a noticeable performance boost due to the faster processing power of the new Adobe Mercury Graphics Engine.
Eleven Great Adobe Photoshop CS6 Improvements Not only are there lots of new features in CS6, but existing features have also been improved. Grab your favorite photo and let’s take Photoshop CS6 for a spin!
Adobe Photoshop has more than one price depending on what options you choose. I have written a post that details all the most current discounts and options. Adobe Photoshop * Monthly Subscription - $29.99 * Yearly Subscription (paid yearly) - $19.
“Vector-y!” If you’ve used Adobe Illustrator, you know how you can add a stroke or gradient to vector shapes. Photoshop CS6 now lets you do the same thing (and as with Illustrator, you don’t have to add layer styles in order to do it). Working with complex shapes just got a whole lot easier. Moving Pictures New tools for video editing, including controls for adjusting color and exposure levels and working with layers. And when a piece of video has been edited to your satisfaction, Photoshop CS6 provides a range of options for exporting that clip. Layer Slayer Anyone who’s spent any time editing images in Photoshop understands how quickly an image can require multiple layers, and how difficult it can be keeping track of all of them. Photoshop CS6 addresses this problem with a new Layer Search feature.
Now you can search through stacks of layers and locate just what you’re looking for. Filtering can be performed according to Kind, Name, Effect, Mode, Attribute and Color. Straighten Up! One of the niftiest aspects of Photoshop CS6 is the new Straighten tool. Here’s how it works: You draw a line anywhere on the image you’re working with and Straighten will shift the canvas accordingly so that your new line becomes completely horizontal.
(This tool was implemented so you can create perspectives based on reoriented images.) 5. Special Effects Photoshop already contains plenty of effects to give your images extra zing, but now there are even more effects to choose from. New effects include a very cool Field Blur, Iris Blur, Bokeh Effects, Tilt T-Shift and Image Deblurring. Background Check Here’s a real time-saver.
With Photoshop CS6’s new background-saving feature, you can save an image at the same time you’re editing one. No more waiting for the program to compile and archive one project before you get busy on another.
Get Your Share With Photoshop CS6’s Preset Sharing, you can export your presets, brushes and patterns between computers. Even more impressive, the Preset Sharing lets you share these items between different versions of Photoshop. Cropping is an essential part of image editing. New and better cropping options offer better image manipulation, as well as various grid views (which will help you get a better look at the cropping you’re performing).
New Look With each new version of Photoshop, Adobe always receives a fair amount of input from graphic designers. In response to recent suggestions, Photoshop CS6 features a redesigned User Interface.
Are You (Content) Aware? Photoshop’s Content-Aware tool has long been a mainstay of the program. For Photoshop CS6, the Content-Aware tool has been augmented with new capabilities, such as Content-Aware Move and Content-Aware Patch. The patch allows you to select the image area which Content Aware will utilize in order to create your patch. No More “Oops!” Moments Ever spent a good chunk of time editing an image, only to lose all that productivity because you forgot to save your work, or your system crashed? With Photoshop CS6, you’ll be able to customize the auto-save feature (Auto Recovery) according to your preferences and work style. Adobe Photoshop CS6 offers a convenient new Tilt T-Shift filter, which works in conjunction with the program’s new blur effects.
Photoshop CS6 vs. CS5: What’s New Still not convinced this is the greatest version of Photoshop ever? A is currently available for both the Mac OS X and Windows platforms. And if you’re still looking for a feature that wasn’t listed above, don’t worry.
It's time for Photoshop customers to think carefully about how to pay for the software, because Adobe Systems is curtailing upgrade deals to steer people toward a new $600-per-year subscription for a wide range of its products. Subscription pricing, in which a person gets rights to use software for period payments, has been a mixed success in recent years. Red Hat has made it work with Linux and related server software, but seems to be emerging mostly through. Adobe-a software powerhouse going through a and with Web standards -is making a big bet on subscriptions for its Creative Suite (CS) products.
Some customers, though, aren't happy about the change. Earlier this month-but the issue started ringing alarm bells for many only yesterday when one authority-Scott Kelby, president of the National Association for Photoshop Professionals-objected in an. Kelby asked Adobe to reconsider its position that only those who already owned Photoshop CS5 would be able to pay a lower upgrade fee when Photoshop CS6 is released, saying it was the wrong thing to do: While I understand that Adobe needs to make business decisions based on how it sees market conditions, I feel the timing of this new pricing structure is patently unfair to your customers (and our members). Here's why: You didn't tell us up front. You didn't tell us until nearly the end of the product's life cycle, and now you're making us buy CS5.5 for just a few months on the chance that we might want to buy CS6 at a discount when it's released.
Otherwise, we have to pay the full price as if we were never Adobe customers at all. Kelby's post generated plenty of ill will toward Adobe in more than 300 comments. Several people pointed to Netflix and Bank of America pricing changes that generated a loud customer backlash. 'Plenty of businesses will upgrade software/equipment/cars/cameras every second or third cycle. Especially in the current economic environment,'. 'This forced upgrade is punishing the individuals and small businesses that form the backbone of Adobe's client base.Goodwill and credibility are hard won over time, but can evaporate in a heartbeat.'
And Doug Evans said, 'We at Evans Cooling Systems have Adobe software installed at three different locations and have no budget for upgrades. We use Adobe and Autodesk products, but have sought out alternatives for the Adobe offerings as we prioritize our upgrade paths,' including Phase One's Capture One and QuarkXPress. For a perpetual license, Photoshop CS5 and costs $699 for the full version and $199 for an upgrade. (: the current CS5 version is part of various CS5.5 suites.) When, that let people obtain access to the software by paying monthly or annually. Photoshop, for example, costs $49 per month or $348 per year, while the full Master Collection suite of just about everything Adobe makes costs $199 per month or $1,548 per year. Given how close those prices are to the perpetual license, there's not much incentive to move to the subscription plan.
Sure, you'll get upgrades for free as long as you keep paying, but on the flip side, but if you stop paying you have to stop using the software. The new order But beginning with a newer plan called the Adobe Creative Cloud that's, those subscription prices will start looking a lot more compelling. When the, $49.99 per month will get customers access to the full suite-Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, Flash Pro, After Effects, Dreamweaver. It'll also cover new Web-standards development tools, Edge and Muse. And it'll include the, a collection of six pro-oriented programs that just were launched for Android tablets. It may not be a great deal for Photoshop-only customers, but the more apps a person uses, the more compelling the offer becomes. Some caveats: $49.99 is the monthly rate if you sign up for a whole year.
And it's the individual price; for 'workgroups,' the corresponding cost will be $69.99 per seat. Adobe hasn't released the month-to-month pricing for those skittish about a longer-term commitments. In a response to Kelby's letter, the company said it plans to make its case starting next week: Our aggressive subscription price for Adobe Creative Cloud-$49 per month for every Adobe Creative Suite application, our new touch apps and new cloud-based services-will provide incredible value for the creative community and we will clarify and promote these benefits to our customers over the next few months.
The changes to our upgrade policy, for customers who would like to continue to purchase CS software as a perpetual license, benefits customers who are on the latest versions of our software. We have promotions that enable customers to upgrade to the latest CS version ahead of CS6 at a reduced rate-at the moment we are offering 20 percent off any upgrade to the latest version of their Adobe software. A 20 percent discount helps cushion the blow for those who choose to keep buying software the same old way, of course. But it's clear Adobe has a lot more convincing-and explaining-to do.