![]() However, some third-party retailers still offer CS6 for purchase. As Adobe has since shifted to a subscription-based model with their Creative Cloud service, CS6 is no longer available for purchase directly from Adobe. It makes Photoshop CS6 seem fresh, and fast, and if the course followed by Premiere Pro is any indication, those features are merely the beginning.Adobe Photoshop CS6, an older version of the popular image editing software, was released back in 2012. GPU acceleration has had a huge benefit in video editing software–well, mostly Adobe’s video editing software–so it’s nice to see it receive such emphasis in Photoshop. ![]() It’s a killer feature if you’re working on documents with lots of layers. Unfortunately, none of the other CS6 applications have it.Īnother small but useful interface addition: The Layers palette now has filters, so with the click of a button, you can show only text layers, or only pixel, adjustment, shape, or smart-object layers (or combinations of those types), and you can toggle the filtering with the click of one small button. That’s only about a 5 to 6 percent increase per step, and it’s barely noticeable–but it’s still welcome. With the rectangular marquee tool selected, I measured the difference in the size of the toolbar on my screen the “small” setting measured 796 pixels wide, the “medium” setting came in at 845 pixels wide, and the “large” setting came in at 888 pixels wide. Those of us who have been peering at computer monitors for most of our lives and have the poor eyesight to show for it will appreciate that Photoshop now lets you set the menus to display small, medium, or large text. ![]() I certainly do see the point in the addition–finally–of a new interface-text-size setting. Adobe says Photoshop does video because of the popularity of shooting video with digital SLRs, and I suppose this is a great addition for folks who don’t have or want to learn Premiere Pro, but otherwise, it simply doesn’t do enough for me to see the point. You can open 70 different video formats in Photoshop CS6 and add layers–er, tracks–trim, add basic video and audio transitions, apply effects and the like, and then export the result as a video in one of three formats using a built-in version of Media Encoder. Photoshop has had basic video editing features for a few versions, but its capabilities have been enhanced with CS6. So, if you need Photoshop’s tools for your Web-bound graphics, you still should create in Photoshop, save your Photoshop file and open it in Fireworks, and then export your final image. Photoshop has had a ‘Save for Web’ feature for a long time, but it still doesn’t compress images as well or as much as its suitemate Adobe Fireworks does–Fireworks produces significantly smaller file sizes than Photoshop does. You can even paste in lorum ipsum placeholder text automatically, and you can copy the style of one block of text and apply that same style on text elsewhere. A new type-rendering engine, which supports OpenType, makes text appear cleaner and sharper. CS6 regards text as so important that it now has a Text menu, and it has several new controls over text, including the ability to format ordinals and fractions properly. ![]() That may happen less often now that Photoshop CS6 has ramped-up text tools. For some projects, especially ones that that incorporate text, I’ve found that I have to choose between Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign.
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