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Airbrush tips replicate spray cans with a 3D conical spray. With a stylus, alter the spread of sprayed strokes by changing pen pressure. Specify the stylus tilt, rotation, and pressure. Use Brush Projection to apply stylus tilt and rotation to tip shapes. As you paint with a stylus, changes to tilt and rotation alter the tip shape. See Brush shape dynamics options. Color Dynamics remain consistent for each stroke by default. In previous versions of Photoshop, dynamics settings changed color for each distinct tip stamp in a stroke.
In Photoshop CS6, however, dynamic changes occur once at the beginning of each stroke. This feature lets you vary color between strokes, rather than within each individual stroke. Build sophisticated designs by combining these scripts with Custom Pattern presets and blending modes. The Line and Shape tools now create fully vector-based objects. Apply strokes and fills using the options bar. Stroke objects with dashed lines and other designs.
Fill objects with preset or user-defined gradients, colors, and patterns. To later revise stroke and fill settings, simply select the object layer, and then select the Path Selection or Direct Selection tool.
Vector based shape layers video. To edit only segments between selected anchor points, reflecting previous Photoshop versions, select Constrain Path Dragging in the options bar.
To reduce anti-aliased edges, ensuring that vector objects look as sharp as possible, select Align Edges in the options bar. Mac laptop users must also press the FN key. At the top of the Layers panel, new filtering options help you find key layers in complex documents quickly. Display subsets of layers based on name, kind, effect, mode, attribute, or color label.
You can use the Properties panel to quickly modify the layer components selected in the Layers panel. Background saving lets you keep working after you choose Save commands, instead of waiting for saving to complete. Auto-recover stores crash-recovery information at specified intervals. The default is ten minutes. In case the application crashes, your work is recovered the next time you start the application. A new Type menu has been added, and most of the text and type related functionality is available from the Type menu.
Design, edit, and elegantly present your work using six Adobe Touch apps designed for your tablet, including Photoshop Touch, Adobe Kuler, and Adobe Debut. Transfer files through Adobe Creative Cloud for further refinement in Photoshop CS6—or to view, access, and share from almost anywhere.
Or, interact directly with Photoshop CS6 wirelessly with Photoshop companion apps from Adobe and the developer community. Simplified Basic controls in the Develop tab improve highlight and shadow rendering. The new Basic sliders and new local adjustments options appear when you process new images or convert previously processed images to Process Version PV To convert an image, click the exclamation-point icon in the lower-right corner of the image preview area.
For a video overview, see this tutorial from Iceflow Studios. What's new in CS6 Search. Adobe Creative Cloud only. Apply Blur gallery effects as smart filters.
Copy CSS properties from shape or text layers. High dpi display support. Changes in view options. Crop tool changes and enhancements. Updates to the Crop tool include numerous bug fixes and enhancements, including: Front Image and new presets in the Aspect Ratio menu.
You can subscribe to the Creative Cloud and get the latest Photoshop CC for a monthly fee (See all the new features added in CC here). If you would rather buy . The CC Files tab provided in the Start workspace of earlier versions is no longer available. You can browse your assets by.
Clicking the double-arrow icon changes the crop orientation by swapping the Width and Height values. This replaces the Rotate Crop Box button. Clicking the Clear button clears the values in the Width and Height fields in the option bar. If displayed, the value in the Resolution field is also cleared. CS6 Creative Cloud Crop tool options bar. Face detection enhancements in Color Range. Support for big JPEGs.
Photoshop can now open and save JPEG documents up to 65, pixels in width or height. The Color panel is now resizable. New features for all Photoshop CS6 users. To crop an image, click the Crop tool in the toolbar. Then either adjust default crop borders in the image window, or drag in the window to start with specific borders. For more information, see Blur gallery. For more information, see Oil Paint filter. In Windows, you install QuickTime separately. Color and tonal adjustments. Skin tone selection and face detection. Numerous enhancements help you complete common tasks more efficiently.
Work with a fresh, elegant interface with design enhancements like the following: Select from four different brightness levels: Typically radius should be in the region of 0. You can also choose to reduce noise as you sharpen.
The shadows and highlights area allows you to fade sharpening, for example, in the shadow areas applying it more strongly to the highlights where noise will be less visible. You can also select to remove Gaussian blur, Lens blur or Motion blur if these blur issues affect your image. The new Adaptive Wide Angle Filter helps you remove problems encountered when shooting with wide angle lenses. Set the sliders for the Focal Length and Crop factor to remove distortion.
You can also draw on the image to add constraints.
These lines should be positioned over objects in the image that you want to be straight. Photoshop will use the constraints to determine the correction to apply to the image and, as a result, you can remove much of the distortion problems with an image.
This filter can be applied using a Smart Object layer so that the results will be editable. Behance is a community where you can showcase your work so that others, including businesses looking to find creatives, can find you and examples of your work. If you use, or plan to use, the Behance online creative community then you will appreciate that you can now post images from Photoshop CC direct to Behance.
One benefit of the new Photoshop CC which Adobe is encouraging is program updates.
Delivery via the Creative Cloud means that Adobe can now deliver program updates as they become available rather than having to wait for the next new release. This means that fixes for problems can be rolled out more quickly. Adobe copped a lot of flak from users over the bundling and pricing of its Creative Cloud applications.