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Adobe Photoshop CS6 Free Trial - 30-day Photoshop CS6 Download
The Photoshop CS6 Free Trial is now available.
Here's a quick look at some of the top new features in Photoshop CS6. Estimated street price for Photoshop CS6 is US$699 and US$999 for Photoshop CS6 Extended. Upgrade pricing is also available to eligible customers.
Content-Aware Patch—Patch images with greater control using Content-Aware Patch, the latest addition to the Content-Aware family of technologies, which allows you to choose the sample area it will use to create your patch.
Mercury Graphics Engine and 64-bit support—Count on the new Mercury Graphics Engine for blazingly fast performance when editing with key tools, and take advantage of cross-platform 64-bit support to speed up imaging tasks and process very large images faster.*
New and reengineered design tools—Create superior designs fast. Get consistent formatting with type styles, use vector layers to apply strokes and add gradients to vector objects, easily create custom strokes and dashed lines, quickly search layers, and more.
Intuitive video creation—Bring Photoshop editing power to your video footage. Easily enhance any clip using the full range of familiar Photoshop tools, and create videos using an intuitive set of video tools.
Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 7 plug-in—Bring out the best in your JPEG and raw files with improved processing and an enhanced control set; reveal every detail in the highlights of an image while still retaining rich detail in the shadows; and much more.
All-new Crop tool—Crop images fast and with greater precision using the all-new, nondestructive crop tool. Manipulate your images on canvas, and take advantage of the Mercury Graphics Engine to see your adjustments happen live.
Superior auto-corrections—Quickly enhance your images with powerful Auto Curves, Levels, and Brightness/Contrast controls. Intelligence from thousands of hand-retouched images is built in to give you a better starting point for making adjustments.
Intelligent lens correction—Easily straighten objects that appear curved in panoramas or photos shot with fisheye or wide-angle lenses—and perform automatic lens corrections—using tools that make adjustments based on your lenses' characteristics.
Superior HDR imaging—Create photo-realistic or surreal HDR images with exceptional speed and control. Get great results with automatic ghost removal, and precisely control tone mapping and adjustments.
Rich painting toolset—Simply by painting with presets, get realistic color blends with the Mixer Brush, use Bristle Tips for lifelike strokes, draw naturally with erodible pencils and pastels, easily create the look of an oil painting, and much more.
Tools for intelligent selections—Create precise selections and masks, enabling you to easily adjust or preserve skin tones; easily select intricate image elements, such as faces, hair; and more.
Puppet Warp—Precisely reposition any image element to create a more visually appealing photo. For example, easily straighten an awkwardly bent arm. Powered by the new Mercury Graphics Engine, Puppet Warp lets you edit with fluid responsiveness.*
Background save and Auto-recovery—Let the auto-recovery option preserve your edits without interrupting your progress. And keep working even while saving the largest of Photoshop files in the background.
New Blur Gallery—Quickly create photographic blur effects using a simple new interface with on-image controls. Create tilt-shift effects, blur everything and then sharpen one focal point, or vary the blurriness between multiple focal points. The new Mercury Graphics Engine delivers immediate results.*
Dozens of user-inspired improvements—Save time with more than 65 new creativity and productivity enhancements that originated as suggestions from Photoshop users via Facebook, Twitter, and more.
Modern interface—Work with a fresh, elegant Photoshop interface featuring dark background options that make your images pop, and benefit from hundreds of design touches that create a smoother, more consistent editing experience.
Preset migration and sharing—Easily migrate your presets, workspaces, preferences, and settings so you can experience Photoshop in the same way on all your computers, share your setup, and bring your customizations from past versions into Photoshop CS6.
Adaptive Wide Angle—Easily straighten objects that appear curved in panoramas or photos shot with fisheye or wide-angle lenses. New on-canvas tools use the physical characteristics of individual lenses to automatically correct curvatures, and the Mercury Graphics Engine gives you near-instant results.
Skin tone–aware selections and masking—Create better selections and masks with a new option that easily enables you to select skin tones or, conversely, preserve skin tones while you adjust the color of everything else.
Revolutionary erodible brushes—Draw more naturally and realistically using drawing tips that erode as you work. Endlessly wear down and sharpen a charcoal pencil or pastel to create different effects, and save favorite blunted tips as presets.
Rich painting toolset—Simply by painting with presets, get realistic color blends with the Mixer Brush, use Bristle Tips for lifelike strokes, draw naturally with erodible pencils and pastels, easily create the look of an oil painting, and much more.
Type styles—Save time and help ensure a consistent look with type styles, which let you apply formatting to selected characters, lines, or paragraphs of text with a single click.
Sharper vector rendering—Get sharper rendering by clicking once to snap the edges of vector objects to pixels.
Layer search—Use layer search capabilities to quickly zero in on the layer you need.
Lighting Effects Gallery—Get better performance and results with the new, 64-bit Lighting Effects Gallery. The plug-in is powered by the Mercury Graphics Engine and offers on-canvas controls and previews that make it easier to visualize your lighting enhancements.
Oil Painting filter—Quickly give your work the look of an oil painting with the Mercury Graphics Engine–accelerated Oil Painting filter.* Control the style of your brush as well as the direction and shine of your lighting for a superior look.
Enhanced airbrush tips—Create realistic airbrush effects using fluid, lifelike controls and granular paint particles.
New painting presets—Simplify painting with new presets that offer a good starting point for creating realistic painting effects.
Properties panel—Save time with a context-sensitive Properties panel that lets you make quick updates to the properties of your masks, adjustments, and video layers.
Adobe Bridge CS6 —Manage your media faster—especially when working with large image files. Adobe Bridge CS6 offers cross-platform 64-bit support and a range of user interface and database enhancements.
Redesigned Adobe Mini Bridge—Access your images and documents more quickly and easily in Adobe Mini Bridge, redesigned as an elegant filmstrip.
Automatic resampling—Get great results when resizing an image—the best resample method is automatically selected.
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