Noteworthy: Photoshop CS6 Adobe Creative Cloud Members now have some pretty awesome features available via the most recent software update this December 2012.
In a nutshell, here’s what has been enhanced, improved, or added new that will certainly make your lives easier and fall in love with Photoshop all over again, or more!
- Liquify is now available as a “Smart Filter”, which means is now non-destructable and can be easily edited by just a double-click of your filter in its layer form.
- Blur Effects is now available as a “Smart Filter” which means is now non-destructable and can be easily edited by just a double-click of your filter in its layer form. And this can also be applied to videos clips in PS.
- Creating Actions now allows you to create what Adobe is calling “conditional actions”. Simply means that you can now tell the action “if” my images is horizontal do the following…. but “if” my image is vertical do this following step instead…. etc. You can now create a new action that can be applied to different type of images by adding “conditional rules” to that action.
- Cropping Tool now allows you visibly see and add your preferred image “resolution”: Available at the top bar next to width and height. Also, you can now crop the top image of out of grouping layers if that’s what your heart desires.
- Photoshop now can generate CSS*: New feature added in Photoshop for Web Designers. When you design any website in Photoshop, you can now “right-click” on any layer and select “Copy CSS” then bring that Photoshop generated css to your css file and paste it. Then view it via your browser to see the updated change. The best part about this new feature is that it works on both individual layers and/or group layers. (ie. if you’re using Edge Code, as your coding editor remember that it only works in connection with Google Chrome Browser) I’m in LOVE with this new feature!
- Swatches* now allows you to upload swatches from a pre-existing “css file swatches” you may have used in a previous website design. This is ideal or great if you loved the colors you previously used in another site and want to have those same colors available, just upload those css file swatches.
- Character Panel now allows you to “set the default styles for new documents”. Lets say you always use Header and Footer (like most do in web design) Now, you can save these two styles as your “new document default styles”–saves lots of time!
- 3D Panel now has the new ability to use 32 color. This allows you to enhance or light an object just turn on the illuminate effect in layer panel.
- Retina Display is now compatible. If you could not see in previous versions of Photoshop Cs6 an image at 100% view without having to scroll or move that image around, now you will with the new retina display compatibility.
If you want to see how these new features work in application, click on the link below to watch the video tutorial by Terry White, of Adobe. Or simply watch the embedded video tutorial in this post.
Article credit: Adobe & Terry White of Adobe
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