What's new in CS6
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Adobe Creative Cloud only
New features for all Photoshop CS6 users
Retouching and transforming
Filters
Video
Color and tonal adjustments
3D (Photoshop Extended only)
Automation
Painting and patterns
Drawing
Workspace and workflow
Type
Compatibility with Adobe Touch and Photoshop companion apps
Camera Raw 7
To highlight new features throughout Photoshop menus, choose Window > Workspace > New in CS6.
Adobe Creative Cloud only
If you're a subscriber to Adobe Creative Cloud, the following additional features are available. For new CS6 features that are not Adobe Creative
Cloud only, scroll down the page.
Click the following link to view a video on the new Creative Cloud features by Adobe evangelist, Julieanne Kost.
Liquify filter enhancements
In the Creative Cloud update for Photoshop, the Liquify filter is significantly faster than previous versions. The Liquify filter now supports Smart
Objects, including Smart Object video layers, and is applied as a smart filter.
Another enhancement to the Liquify filter is an added behavior for the Reconstruct tool. If you hold down the Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS)
key while dragging the tool across a warp, the Reconstruct tool smooths a warp rather than scaling back or removing it.
For more information, see Liquify filter and view a video on Smart Object Support for Blur Gallery and Liquify.
Apply Blur gallery effects as smart filters
The photographic blur effects in the Blur gallery now support Smart Objects and can be applied non-destructively as smart filters. This feature also
supports Smart Object video layers.
For more information, see Photographic blur gallery | CS6, About Smart Filters, and view a video on Smart Object Support for Blur Gallery and
Liquify.
Copy CSS properties from shape or text layers
Copy CSS generates Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) properties from shape or text layers. It captures values for size, position, fill color (including
gradients), stroke color, and drop shadow. For text layers, Copy CSS also captures values for font family, font size, font weight, line height,
underline, strikethrough, superscript, subscript, and text alignment. The CSS is copied to the clipboard and can be pasted into a style sheet.
For more information, see Copy CSS from layers | Creative Cloud Only and view a video on New CSS Support in Photoshop.
Conditional actions
Conditional actions let you build actions that choose what to do based on one of several different conditions. First, you choose a condition and
then, optionally specify an action that plays if the document meets the condition. Then, you optionally specify an action that plays if the document
does not meet the condition.
For more information, see Adding conditional actions | Creative Cloud, About actions and the Actions panel, and Creating actions.
High dpi display support
Photoshop adds support for high dpi displays such as Retina Displays. Among the enhancements for working with higher resolution displays,
documents can be quickly viewed at 200%. To view a document at 200%, do any of the following:
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