What's new in Photoshop Extended?
Adobe® Photoshop® CS6 Extended software delivers even more imaging
magic, new creative options, and the Adobe Mercury Graphics Engine for
blazingly fast performance. Retouch with greater precision, and
intuitively create 3D graphics, 2D designs, and movies using new and
reimagined tools and workflows.*
Photoshop CS6 Extended Features
Enhance your creativity and boost your productivity. Adobe® Photoshop®
CS6 Extended software delivers blazingly fast performance with the new
Adobe Mercury Graphics Engine, groundbreaking new Content-Aware tools,
simplified 3D artwork creation, 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 you're editing
images with key tools such as Liquify and Puppet Warp, creating 3D
artwork, and working with matte paintings and other large files.*
3D performance boost : Experience enhanced performance throughout your
3D workflows. View shadows and reflections in all editing modes, quickly
render final work in Adobe RayTrace mode thanks to the Mercury Graphics
Engine, and much more.*
3D controls at your fingertips : Use a vastly simplified user interface
to intuitively create and animate 3D artwork. Use in-context and
on-canvas controls to manipulate cages for 3D extrusions, change the
orientation of scenes and objects, edit lights, and more.*
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. Manipulate your images on canvas,
and take advantage of the Mercury Graphics Engine to see your
adjustments happen live.*
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.
New reflections and draggable shadows : Quickly achieve 3D realism by
adding and enhancing shadows and reflections on your ground plane. Drag a
shadow to reposition the light source, and easily edit ground
reflections, shadows, and other effects.*
Intuitive video creation : Bring Photoshop image editing power to your
videos. Easily enhance any clip using the full range of familiar
Photoshop editing tools, and combine clips and stills with transitions,
audio, and effects such as pan and zoom.
Background Save : Keep on 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.
Easy alignment and distribution of 3D objects : Create rich 3D scenes in
less time now that you can automatically align 3D objects to the
vanishing point in your image and manipulate a group of 3D objects at
one time using a new multiselect option.*
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.
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.
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.
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.
New painting presets : Simplify painting with new presets that offer a
good starting point for creating realistic painting effects.
Scripted Patterns : Generate geometric pattern fills faster with Scripted Patterns.
Enhanced 3D animation : Animate all 3D properties — including cameras,
lights, materials, and meshes — using the Animation timeline. Final
rendering performance is now much improved during export of your 3D
animation.*
Flexible render modes for shadows : Work more fluidly now that you can
preview shadows in both GL and Adobe RayTrace render modes.*
Accurate 3D object merge : Accurately merge multiple 3D objects in a
single scene so they can interact with the same lighting and cameras.*
Alternate views : Easily view your 3D artwork from multiple angles while editing.*
3D stereo viewing and printing : Easily import common stereo formats,
such as JPS and MPO, into the 3D pipeline, and make simple adjustments
to set depth and range. View a stereo image on stereo monitors or TVs,
or print it as a lenticular 3D image.*
Adobe Flash 3D export : Easily export 3D artwork in Adobe Flash® 3D
format for viewing in web browsers. Also export 3D artwork assets for
use in Adobe Flash Builder® software (sold separately).*
3D sketch and cartoon presets : Click once to give your 3D objects the
look of sketches or cartoons, and automatically create sketch presets by
creating any brush stroke.*
Improved 3D extrusion engine : Create stunning 3D logos and artwork from
any text layer, selection, path, or layer mask with the improved 3D
extrusion engine, which offers faster editing, on-canvas controls, and
better beveling options.*
Type styles : Save time and 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.
Brush enhancements : Paint more naturally by manually changing the
rotation of your paint brush with your mouse. Dynamically resize your
brushes with shortcuts, and take advantage of the Mercury Graphics
Engine to fluidly adjust opacity or hardness.
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 lookup
tables (LUTs) — including Adobe SpeedGrade™ .Look color LUTs — that you
can turn on when you need to tweak raw color data.
OpenEXR transparency preferences : Choose whether you'd like to handle
alpha channels in OpenEXR files as alpha channels or transparency.
Properties panel : Save time with a context-sensitive Properties panel
that lets you make quick updates to the properties of your masks,
adjustments, and 3D content.
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.
New heads-up displays : Use heads-up displays to get greater precision when selecting and transforming objects and text.
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.
