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Best Uses For Adobe Photoshop: Export to PDF, Import File From Scanner, Import Photo From Camera, Import Photo From Mobile, Layer Masks, Panorama Photo, Standard Edit Functions (crop, resize, etc), Templates

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Adobe Photoshop CS6 software delivers even more imaging magic, new creative options, and the Adobe Mercury Graphics Engine for blazingly fast performance. Retouch with new Content-Aware features, and create superior designs as well as movies using new and reimagined tools and workflows.

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Enhance your creativity and boost your productivity. Adobe® Photoshop® CS6 software delivers blazingly fast performance with the new Adobe Mercury Graphics Engine*, groundbreaking new Content-Aware tools, reengineered design tools, and more.

Content-Aware Patch
Patch images with greater control using Content-Aware Patch, which allows you to choose the area that Content-Aware will use to create your patch.

Mercury Graphics Engine
See near-instant results when editing with key tools such as Liquify and Puppet Warp. The new Adobe Mercury Graphics Engine delivers unprecedented responsiveness for a fluid feel as you work.

New and reengineered design tools
Create superior designs faster. 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.

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 Mercury Graphics Engine delivers immediate results.

All-new Crop tool
Crop images faster and with greater precision using the all-new, nondestructive Crop tool. Rapidly manipulate your images on canvas and see your adjustments happen live thanks to the Mercury Graphics Engine.*

Modern user interface
Work with a fresh, elegant 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.

Intuitive video creation
Bring Photoshop editing power to your video footage. Easily enhance any clip using the full range of familiar Photoshop tools, and then create movies using an intuitive set of video tools.

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.

Background Save
Keep working even while saving the largest of Photoshop files in the background — a performance improvement that can help your productivity soar.

Auto-recovery
Let the auto-recovery option work behind the scenes to save your edits without interrupting your progress. A copy of your work is saved every 10 minutes and recovered in the event of an unexpected shutdown.

Improved auto corrections
Quickly enhance your images with improved 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.

Adobe Camera Raw 7
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.

Content-Aware Move
Move or extend a selected object to another area of your image, and then watch as Content-Aware Move magically recomposes and blends the object for a stunning visual result.

Skin tone–aware selections and masking
Create precise selections and masks, enabling you to easily adjust or preserve skin tones; easily select intricate image elements, such as hair or faces; and more.

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.

Scripted Patterns
Generate geometric pattern fills faster with new Scripted Patterns.

Support for more camera models
Use the Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 7 plug-in with images from just about any camera. The plug-in supports more than 350 camera models.

10-bit deep color support
Get a more accurate representation of how your images will appear in film with 10-bit monitor support. See just the pixels you've captured, reduce or eliminate the need for dithering, and reduce contouring or banding.†

Support for 3D LUTs
Retouch images for film more easily with 3D look-up tables (LUTs) — including Adobe SpeedGrade™ .Look color LUTs — that you can turn on when you need to tweak raw color data.

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.

Vector layers
Use vector layers to apply strokes and even add gradients to vector objects.

Sharper vector rendering
Get sharper rendering by clicking once to snap the edges of vector objects to pixels.

Custom strokes and dashed lines
Easily create custom strokes and dashed lines.

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 a fine painting with the Oil Painting filter powered by the Mercury Graphics Engine. Control the style of your brush as well as the direction and shine of your lighting for a superior look.

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
Organize and manage your media visually using Adobe Bridge CS6 software. This integrated application delivers fast performance with cross-platform 64-bit support.

Redesigned Adobe Mini Bridge
Access your images and documents more quickly and easily in Adobe Mini Bridge, redesigned as an elegant filmstrip.

Enhanced TIFF support
Work with a larger range of TIFF files. Enhanced TIFF support allows for greater bit depths and larger file sizes.

Automatic resampling
Get great results when resizing an image — the best resample method is automatically selected.

Filler text
Save time with the ability to insert "Lorem ipsum" filler text when working with type.

Increased maximum brush sizes
Edit and paint with brush sizes all the way up to 5000px.

 

 

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Photoshop - Things we like

With a refined interface and intelligent new features that include content aware fill and edge detection, CS5 appears almost to think for itself. Users will appreciate how the HDR toolbar, for instance, allows the merging of several photos of different exposures and how the puppet warp tool works to cleverly warp and distort your images. If you're looking for improved workflow, you'll find the latest version has a big advantage over any previous Photoshop download. After you've grown accustomed to the more streamlined layout and the way it works, all its options will appear much more conveniently placed for ease of use. There's also a more common sense approach to your workspace functionality, with new images opening up in different tabs by default. This allows you to tile or stack your files for convenient side by side comparison.

Photoshop - Things we didn't like

If you've never used it before, you'll fail to appreciate its faster, smoother performance over previous versions, but seasoned users will also come to realise that there are in fact few actual new features with CS5. Combine this with reports of incompatibilities with Apple Mac OS X Spaces and annoying bugs which will be of interest especially to heavy users, such as a distinct lack of stability around third-party plug-ins. Sadly the software itself doesn't incorporate a help feature either, so the only way to find help for user issues is via the internet. If you happen to be working locally, you could come unstuck if you can't get an internet connection to look up a Photoshop review or forum for a solution to your problem.

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I still like the CS3 Photoshop. This one just seems clunky and awkward to use.

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