Adobe Creative Cloud only
If you're a subscriber to Adobe Creative Cloud, the following additional features are available. For new CS6 features that are not Adobe Creative Cloud only, scroll down the page.
Click the following link to view a video on the new Creative Cloud features by Adobe evangelist, Julieanne Kost.
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.
For more information, see Liquify filter and view a video on Smart Object Support for Blur Gallery and Liquify.
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.
For more information, see Photographic blur gallery | CS6, About Smart Filters, and view a video onSmart Object Support for Blur Gallery and Liquify.
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.
For more information, see Copy CSS from layers | Creative Cloud Only and view a video on New CSS Support in Photoshop.
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.
For more information, see Adding conditional actions | Creative Cloud, About actions and the Actions panel, and Creating actions.
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:
- Choose View > 200%.
- Ctrl-double click (Windows) or Cmd-double click (Mac OS) the Zoom tool icon.
- Shift-Ctrl-double click (Windows) or Shift-Cmd-double click (Mac OS) the Zoom tool icon to view all open documents at 200%.
In the Zoom tool 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 Sizebutton. Additionally, the Actual Pixels command in the View menu has been changed to 100%.
Updates to the Crop tool include numerous bug fixes and enhancements, including:
- Front Image and new presets in the Aspect Ratio menu.
- Clicking the double-arrow icon changes the crop orientation by swapping the Width and Heightvalues. This replaces the Rotate Crop Box button.
- 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 fields in the option bar. 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 thePerspective Crop tool.
CS6 Creative Cloud Crop tool options bar A. Aspect Ratio menu B. Swap Width and Height values C. Overlay Options
For more information, see Using the new crop tool and Crop and straighten photos | CS6.
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.
For more information see Specifying default type styles | Creative Cloud only, Character styles | CS6, and Paragraph styles | CS6. You can also watch a video about Type Styles in Photoshop by Adobe evangelist Julieanne Kost.
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.
For more information, see Saving Skin Tones settings as a preset | Creative Cloud only, Selecting a color range in an image, or watch the video, Selecting Skin Tones in Photoshop CS6, with Photoshop expert Matt Kloskowski.
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).
For more information, see Add swatches from HTML CSS and SVG | Creative Cloud and Customizing color pickers and swatches.
There are numerous new 3D features and enhancements in the Creative Cloud version of Photoshop CS6. For information about the updates, see 3D workflow in Photoshop Extended CS6 and view a video on New Possibilities in 3D.
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