What Are the Differences in Photoshop CS6 vs. CS5 Whats NewUPDATE May 7th, 2. CS6 is now shippingAt Photoshop World last week, we had the chance to sit down with Adobe Senior Product Managers Bryan ONeil Hughes and Zorana Gee for hours of in depth walkthroughs of the new Photoshop CS6 release. And all we can say is on top of what we already knew and experienced this is the Photoshop version youve probably dreamed aboutAnd with over one million downloads in record time, clearly were not the only ones thinking that. The reviews are in Gizmodo calls it, The best update in recent memory, Im in love PC Magazine says, The future of creative image editing is upon us this new version will thrill nearly all categories of users, from photographers to designers USA Today writes, Having lots of fun with the new tools the beautiful and streamlined new interface is a huge improvement, and the images really do look sharper and more pronounced. For expediency we put together a quick cheat sheet below of the top differences and new features in Photoshop CS6 as compared to PS CS5. Naturally if youre still on CS4, CS3, or earlier, then youd also need to add in the differences between CS5 vs. But really, its also a fit and polish thing with two years since the last major release and having no architectural challenges to worry about, the Photoshop team had plenty time to hone this into a smooth and polished product. This is reflected in the 6. JDI requests user focused Just Do It items addressed. Importantly, Photoshop CS6 will run alongside any previous PS versions you may have installed, without difficulty or conflict. So you can safely download and check out the free trial version for 3. Photoshop CS6 System Requirements and Performance. Heres a complete set of direct download links for all Adobe CS5. 5 free trials, without any Akamai Download Manager or Assistant for both Windows and Mac. How about performance This is always a big question for users, because sometimes moving forward in software necessitates moving up in hardware. But not so here. We asked Bryan about this directly on how Photoshop CS6 performs versus CS5 on identical machines. The answer thanks for streamlining, optimization, and much broader use of the GPU On the same hardware, in almost all cases, Photoshop CS6 is considerably faster than CS5 and not just on the newest computers, but CS6 will support older machines as well. Now, some notes on support and the official system requirements Officially, Photoshop CS6 is not supported on Windows Vista, because Adobe found that current Vista use is tiny compared to Windows 7 and XP. So Win 7 and XP will continue to be supported which was a relief to those worried the same thing might happen with Photoshop and XP as what they did with Lightroom 4. But note importantly, though Windows Vista is not officially supported for Photoshop CS6, Adobe does not restrict users from installing and using it on Vista Also, PS Extendeds 3. D features and some GPU enabled features are not supported on Windows XP. On the Mac, the major specification change is your processor must be 6. Macs are, but heres how to tell. But the good news is outside of those spec changes, the system requirements remain the same as they are now for Photoshop CS5, on both platforms. And there are no known issues running Photoshop CS6 on the future Windows 8 or on Mac OS X 1. Mountain Lion. Whats New in Photoshop CS6 vs. CS5 Heres the lengthy list The long rumored darker and modern user interface. Redesign and clean up of all icons, buttons, dialogs and new rich cursors. New Content Aware Move, Extend, and Patch Tools, plus better Content Aware Fill. Terrific DSLR video editing in both Standard and Extended versions, for many formatsSkin Aware Masking with Face Detection auto generation of skin tone masks. Complete overhaul of 3.
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