New features for all Photoshop CS6 users

Retouching and transforming

Content-Aware Move tool
The Content-Aware Move tool lets you quickly recompose images without complex layering or slow, precise selections. Extend mode convincingly
expands or contracts objects such as hair, trees, or buildings. Move mode lets you place objects in different locations (most effectively when the
background remains similar). In the toolbar, hold down the Spot Healing Brush and select the Content-Aware Move tool .

Spot Healing Brush

Content-Aware Move tool  

Content-Aware Patch toolThe updated Patch tool includes a Content-Aware option that seamlessly replaces unwanted image elements by synthesizing nearby content. The
natural-looking results are similar to Content-Aware Fill, but the Patch tool lets you select the area from which the fill is drawn. In the toolbar, hold
down the Spot Healing Brush and select the Patch tool .

Patch tool 

  

Redesigned Crop toolsThe redesigned Crop tool provides an interactive preview so you can better visualize results. A streamlined set of toolbar options includes a helpful
Straighten tool, and aspect ratio controls you can adjust while a crop is active in the image window. (To maintain the current aspect ratio or
resolution, right-click the image to access additional options.)
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.
To correct image perspective, hold down the Crop tool and select the Perspective Crop tool

Crop tool

 Crop tool 

Filters

Correcting wide-angle lenses
Choose Filter > Adaptive Wide Angle to quickly straighten lines that appear curved in panoramas or photos shot with fisheye and wide-angle
lenses. The filter uses the physical characteristics of individual lenses to automatically correct images.

Photographic blur galleryChoose Filter > Field Blur, Iris Blur, or Tilt-Shift to quickly create three distinct photographic blur effects with intuitive on-image controls. Use the
Blur Effects controls to add Bokeh effects to the images.

Lighting Effects galleryGet better performance and results with the new, 64-bit Lighting Effects gallery. A dedicated workspace provides on-canvas controls and previews
that make it easier to visualize your lighting enhancements.

Oil Paint filterChoose Filter > Oil Paint to easily create the look of a classic painting.

What's new in CS6 Photoshop Tutorial

Adobe Creative Cloud only

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.


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.

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.

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.

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:

1. Choose View > 200% 
2. Ctrl-double click (Windows) or Cmd-double click (Mac OS) the Zoom tool icon.
3. Shift-Ctrl-double click (Windows) or Shift-Cmd-double click (Mac OS) the Zoom tool icon to view all open documents at 200%

Changes in view options
In the Zoomtool options bar and the Hand tool options bar, the button for viewing an image at its actual size has been renamed as 100%

Additionally, both tool options bars no longer have a
Print Size button. Additionally, the Actual Pixels command in the View menu has been changed to 100%

Crop tool changes and enhancements
Updates to the Crop tool include numerous bug fixes and enhancements, including:

Front Imaged new presets in the Aspect Ratio menu.
Clicking the double-arrow icon changes the crop orientation by swapping the Wide and Height values. This replaces the Rotate Crop Boxbutton.

Choosing W x H x Resolution from the Aspect Ratio menu displays a Resolution field in the options bar and auto-fills the Width and Height values

Clicking the Clear button clears the values in the Width and Height. If displayed, the value in the Resolution field is also cleared.

The keyboard shortcut for Front Image has changed from F to I for both the Crop tool and the Perspective Crop tool.

CS6 Creative Cloud Crop tool options bar

 A.Aspect Ratio menu

B.Swap Width and Height values

C.Overlay Options

Default type styles
The character and paragraph styles of a document can be saved as the default type styles. These default styles are automatically loaded in the
Character Style and Paragraph Style panels when a new Photoshop document is created. The default styles can also be loaded into any
existing document using the Load Type Styles command.

Face detection enhancements in Color Range
The Color Range selections command now saves Skin Tones selections as a preset. It can also save the setting for the Detect Faces option
when Skin Tones or Sampled Colors are selected.

Read swatches from HTML, CSS, and SVG files
You can add colors specified in an HTML, CSS, or SVG document to the Swatches panel. If a color value is repeated in a document, only one
instance of the color is added not duplicates. This feature recognizes the following HTML/CSS color syntax: #112233, #123, rgb(1,2,3),
rgba(1,2,3,4), hsb(1,2,3), and hsba(1,2,3,4).

Support for big JPEGs
Photoshop can now open and save JPEG documents up to 65,535 pixels in width or height.
Resizable Color panel
The Color panel is now resizable.