Adobe Photoshop CS6 - Russell Brown 6 Favourite Features

[Pete Askew]

It looks like the release is getting closer and a bit of convergence with LR has occurred. This is from the Adobe site and at least the presenter is excited! There do seem to be some pretty useful improvements though.

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[Dave Moss]

I'm already using the beta version and it took 2 months from the release of beta to release for LR4 as a guideline

 

[Hamish Gill]

Be good if there is a price drop like lr4!

 

[Pete Askew]

In your dreams!!

 

[Aleks Isachenko]

I started from version 7 for PC, then I passed through CS3, CS4 and CS5 . Now I use CS6. For me there are several good improvements in Healing Brush tool and Spot Healing Brush. This tool became, let me say, more accurate. Also I like Content-aware Move Tool, but I prefer to place model or stand myself in right place at once, than to move some-body/thing later in photoshop.
It works a little bit faster on my MacBook Pro and all plug-ins which I use also work with CS6.

 

[Davie Hudson]

I'm ignoring all of these Ps stuff and waiting patiently for Aperture 4 lol

 

[Lesley Jones]

I will probably buck the trend here, but until I started getting banding in the sky, I was perfectly happy with my old Elements 6.0. It worked with Nik filters and generally behaved itself pretty well. I bit the bullet just before Christmas and got CS5 and I have no intention of upgrading. Ever. I think I saw the cheapest price for CS6 the other week and from memory it was more than double what I paid just over four months ago...

 

[Aleks Isachenko]

... got CS5 and I have no intention of upgrading...

CS5 is very good and I agree with you. Never look for best if you have something good and it's suit you.

 

[Lesley Jones]

You're absolutely right Aleks - CS5 is fine for me, although it falls over a lot. I think our computer needs more memory

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Will be forced to upgrade to CS6 in order to be able to edit RAW files from the X-Pro1

I must have put someone's kids through college at Adobe over the years!

 

[Aleks Isachenko]

As far as I remember it's not necessary to upgrade to CS6 if you want to work with RAWs of new cameras. It's enough to free download from Adobe web site a new version of Camera RAW. I hope ACR v.7 or what is the most up to date can be installed to CS4.

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Unfortunately, they are saying ACR 7.x onwards will only work with CS6

 

[Pete Askew]

That seems to be the case Chris and although this is embedded in LR4, if you edit in PS you need to let LR render the image rather than PS unless it is CS6. Not sure if there's a downside to that but I will be upgrading. Unfortunately we have one Master Collection, 1 Creative, 2 standard PS (one is new and will be upgraded free) and one extended PS. And 5 licenses for LR! Not going to be a cheap month!!

 

[Fidel Marcus]

I've had CS6 for about a week now but haven't installed it, finally today I got around to install & configure my RAID drives and now I can't wait to play with CS6 hopefully I'll get to install it tomorrow...

 

[Aleks Isachenko]

I use both LR4 and CS6. I do not need to catalog my photos, because they are organized in my way on my external HDDs. I only need to work with RAWs and then export them to jpeg or psd. Photoshop is used for more thorough retouch, cloning, liquifying etc. I like new gray PS interface, now it is in harmony with LR and lot of tools in PS are working better and more accurate.
Filters menu has got some new tools as well as blur filter sub-menu.
I don't feel any lag on my MacBook Pro i5 2,4 HHz and 4 Gb RAM.

 

[Pete Askew]

I think the biggest improvement is, as you say, the interface and the crop tool. We have several Macs with PS and LR on and PS on two PCs as well. Certainly the performance is better on the Macs, even my 5 year old MBP (a tiny bit slower than the newer ones). I use an HDD structure also but I also use MediaPro from PhaseOne for the main library which contains over 30,000 images.

 

[Dave Green]

Unfortunately, they are saying ACR 7.x onwards will only work with CS6

You can almost certainly convert your RAW files to Adobe's DNG format with the free converter - then edit those in your current version of Photoshop and Camera Raw..