Photoshop CS6 Beta With 65 User-Feedback Inspired Features Unveiled by Adobe

After two years, Adobe unveiled the new beta version of Photoshop, Photoshop CS6 on March 21, 2012. It shouldn't come as a surprise that the company's engineers have been toiling away behind the scenes on a major update. The outfit's clearly ready to start showing off the fruits of its labor, though, as it just unveiled the beta version of CS6. As per adoble’s news, the new version added 65 user-feedback-inspired features, including a new crop tool, expanded video editing options, auto recovery and the ability to search for specific layers. Fans of the dotted lines in Illustrator now get the same vector tools in Photoshop. Additionally, every slider for the Camera Raw 7.0 plug-in (exposure, contrast, etc.) has a freshly tweaked algorithm. And for anyone who's ever looked on helplessly as Photoshop locked itself up during a long file save, projects can now save in the background while you work on other things. 

New Features

Brushes
HUD brush resize and hardness can now change opacity, Increase brush size to 5000px and more…

Eyedropper 
Show the sample size popup for the various eyedropper tools, Add ignore adjustment layers options bar item for the eyedropper and more…

File formats 
Read common stereo image pair formats (JPS, PNS) Allow for more bit depths in TIFF files, BIGTIFF format and more…

Grammar
Policed throughout app, Use consistent grammar style in the title of dialog windows and more…

Layers
Add a contextual menu item that deletes a layer effect not just disables it, Add dither options to Layer Styles for Gradient Overlay and Gradient Stroke, Allow 00 or Shift 00 to work when setting layer/fill opacity (previously no way to get 0%) and more…

Liquify
Resize Liquify brush with shortcuts, Increase maximum Liquify brush size Add option to load last mesh and more…

 Presets
Add new document presets for common devices (e.g. iPhone, iPad, etc.), Add new Gradient Map presets for toning and split-­­toning and more…

SDK
Add the ability to return an array of guides in a document from the scripting SDK, Add ability to access tool name associated with the tool preset name via scripting
Selections and more…

Transform
Improve dragging of vector curves, Rotate 90 with even x odd pixel dimension to be smooth (bjango.com) and more…

UI
Remove the app bar and reduce the drag/app bar over 30%, [Windows] New/open document to context click on a document tab (has always been on Mac, now Windows too) and more…

Miscellaneous
- Enable Split Channels for documents with layers
- Select Hex field by default and allow clipboard pastes with # in contents (i.e. #fffffff)
- Increased GPU stability by prequalifying GPUs on the fly before use
- Auto-­­select the best resample method based on the type of resize
- Enable Invert and Threshold adjustments for masks in 32 -­­bit
- Hold SHIFT during startup to disable 3rd party plugins
- Add warning message that 16 -­­bit images cannot display their file size in the Save as JPEG dialog
- Add command to insert "lorem ipsum" for type and more…
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