Adobe Photoshop CS6 Beta

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Today the beta of photoshop cs6 came out, you can download it here http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/photoshopcs6/ I downloaded it and installed, but I did not have much time to use it, it doesn't look a great deal different from the older photoshops, but is likely to have some good "hidden" features in it.

I found a change log somewhere on the internet.

 

  Reveal hidden contents

 

Brushes

- HUD brush resize and hardness can now change opacity

- Increase brush size to 5000px

- Change color dynamics to per stroke instead of per tip (user option for old behavior)

- Brightness/contrast slider for textures when painting

- Brush projection for static tips

- Brush cursor reflects brush dynamics for round and captured tips

Eyedropper

- Show the sample size popup for the various eyedropper tools (black point, white point,

etc.)

- Add ignore adjustment layers options bar item for the eyedropper

- New mode for eyedropper to select layers current and below

File formats

- Read common stereo image pair formats (JPS, PNS) Allow for more bit depths in TIFF files

- Read BIGTIFF format

- Give the user choices regarding how they want transparency treated in OpenEXR on file open

Grammar

- Policed throughout app

- Use consistent grammar style in the title of dialog windows (no commands such as "Choose a color:")

Layers

- Add a contextual menu item that deletes a layer effect not just disables it

- Add dither options to Layer Styles for Gradient Overlay and Gradient Stroke

- Allow 00 or Shift 00 to work when setting layer/fill opacity (previously no way to get 0%)

- Add bicubic sharper & bicubic smoother options when free transforming layers

- Allow changing of blend modes for multiple layers at once

- Allow locking of multiple layers

- CMD+J to duplicate layers and layer group

- Allow changing color labels to multiple layers at once

- Layer tooltips to include layer name (if defined)

- Opt+click on toggle arrows (groups and effects) in layer panel should close all targets

- Show blend if/Blending Effects badge on layer

- Show correct opacity and blend mode values for hidden layers

- Tab goes to next layer on inline layer rename, SHIFT + TAB goes to previous

- New command to raster layer effect into layer, merging the selected layers into themselves

- Reorder effects in the layers palette to match the Z-­­order style/blend mode (bottom most effects in termsof blending order, drop shadow is below the other effects

Liquify

- Resize Liquify brush with shortcuts

- Increase maximum Liquify brush size Add option to load last mesh

Presets

- Add new document presets for common devices (e.g. iPhone, iPad, etc.)

- Add new Gradient Map presets for toning and split-­­toning

- Sticky reorganization of tool presets (changes persist after re-launch) Add Contact Sheet II as an Automation option

SDK

- Add the ability to return an array of guides in a document from the scripting SDK

- Add ability to access tool name associated with the tool preset name via scripting

Selections

- Make the marquee, lasso, and mask panel feather values support decimal places like the feather dialog

- Remember feather radius when showing dialog for selection from a path

Transform

- Improve dragging of vector curves

- Don't hide smart object icon when transforming a layer

- Rotate 90 with even x odd pixel dimension to be smooth (bjango.com)

- Undo or disable auto -­­rotate on open

UI

- Remove the app bar and reduce the drag/app bar over 30%

- [Windows] New/open document to context click on a document tab (has always been on Mac, now Windows too)

- Add "Don't show again" checkbox to Purge warnings

Miscellaneous

- Enable Split Channels for documents with layers

- Select Hex field by default and allow clipboard pastes with # in contents (i.e. #fffffff)

- Increased GPU stability by prequalifying GPUs on the fly before use

- Auto-­­select the best resample method based on the type of resize

- Enable Invert and Threshold adjustments for masks in 32 -­­bit

- Hold SHIFT during startup to disable 3rd party plugins

- Add warning message that 16 -­­bit images cannot display their file size in the Save as JPEG dialog

- Add command to insert "lorem ipsum" for type

 

 

 

so it looks pretty good right now, apparently they improved the way vector lines are drawn with the pen tool, I didn't get to try it out though (maybe they made it worse?) so yeah, I might be doing my next vector with it. What do you guys think of it? You can read more about it here http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/22/adobe-photoshop-cs6-beta/

[Robojot 152]

downloading it now :3 finaly a upgrade to photoshop cs5

[ProjectRKA 2,848]

I read somewhere on their Facebook page that they have improved a lot on the 3D features in Photoshop.

There was a video of it too.

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  On 2012-03-22 at 4:50 PM, 'ProjectRKA' said:

I read somewhere on their Facebook page that they have improved a lot on the 3D features in Photoshop.

There was a video of it too.

 

That is good, I would have assumed the old photoshops 3-d was terrible, but I never actually got into it, I might give it a go with CS6...

Also the pen tool, it allows you to make strokes with the curves, so thats cool!

[Ezynell 2,037]

  On 2012-03-22 at 7:25 PM, 'flaretta' said:

That is good, I would have assumed the old photoshops 3-d was terrible, but I never actually got into it, I might give it a go with CS6...

Also the pen tool, it allows you to make strokes with the curves, so thats cool!

 

Such as in Paint Tool SAI? Like smoothing the lines?

[CapnKrunk 307]

Is photoshop a good tool?

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  On 2012-03-23 at 12:08 AM, 'Ezynell the Peasant' said:

Such as in Paint Tool SAI? Like smoothing the lines?

 

No, the pen tool, used for drawing vector paths.

  On 2012-03-23 at 12:10 AM, 'Moon-Blood' said:

Is photoshop a good tool?

 

yes, 10/10...however it costs money, and well, if you have a really old computer it won't run that well.

[Ezynell 2,037]

  On 2012-03-23 at 5:07 AM, 'flaretta' said:

it costs money

 

The part that always gets people.

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  On 2012-03-23 at 5:33 AM, 'Ezynell the Peasant' said:

The part that always gets people.

 

and then piracy happened, and the people were happy for once in their sad life's.

[Ezynell 2,037]

  On 2012-03-23 at 5:38 AM, 'flaretta' said:

and then piracy happened, and the people were happy for once in their sad life's.

 

Shh... they're watching. They're always watching.

[Marcato 2,143]

CS6? Meh i dont want to pay 80$ more for another photoshop with a few new brushes.

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  On 2012-03-23 at 5:41 AM, 'Silver Arrow' said:

CS6? Meh i dont want to pay 80$ more for another photoshop with a few new brushes.

 

it has a few nice features more that just brushes AND its still in beta..._{who the actually pays for it is beyond me, unless its being used for professional things, like you are making money from it or you have a student license.}

[ProjectRKA 2,848]

  On 2012-03-22 at 7:25 PM, 'flaretta' said:

That is good, I would have assumed the old photoshops 3-d was terrible, but I never actually got into it, I might give it a go with CS6...

Also the pen tool, it allows you to make strokes with the curves, so thats cool!

 

The pen tool has always allowed you to do that. Lol

[Jokuc 8,174]

Awesome! I'm trying it out

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  On 2012-03-23 at 12:57 PM, 'ProjectRKA' said:

The pen tool has always allowed you to do that. Lol

 

Huh? before when you would do it, it would go straight to a raster image and half the time it would not work.

[Trixie_ 7]

Not a huge amount useful for me, looking at the feature list, save for the ability to insert Lorem Ipsum text. That would be useful for laying out websites.

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  On 2012-03-23 at 10:01 PM, 'Trixie_' said:

Not a huge amount useful for me, looking at the feature list, save for the ability to insert Lorem Ipsum text. That would be useful for laying out websites.

 

well hopefully there will be more features as the beta goes on. and yeah, the Lorem ipsum text feature would be very useful when used correctly.

[Chickey 383]

Downloading now

Can't wait to use it

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  On 2012-03-27 at 6:05 AM, 'ShadowCloud' said:

Downloading now

Can't wait to use it

 

Awesome!, what do you think of it so far?

[Azura 1,107]

I think I'll stick with Photoshop CS5 until it comes out.

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  On 2012-03-27 at 8:43 AM, 'Cloud Chaser' said:

I think I'll stick with Photoshop CS5 until it comes out.

 

You can install both at the same time (Thats what I did)

[Azura 1,107]

  On 2012-03-27 at 8:49 AM, 'flaretta' said:

You can install both at the same time (Thats what I did)

 

I am aware, but thanks for saying anyway.

[Chickey 383]

  On 2012-03-27 at 8:24 AM, 'Dipsy' said:

Awesome!, what do you think of it so far?

 

So far i like it.

But i really need to get a Graphics pad

[Prince Lightning Da Cute 619]

New tools..., better drawings of my OC..... More me, what's not to love. Imma vector artist and I'm going to bring this trial to heck and back!