What’s New in Adobe Photoshop CS6? In-Depth Report of Photoshop’s New and Improved Features

Apply color labels to multiple layers at a time

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Channels Palette

The Split Channels command now works for documents with more than one layer (no need to flatten image before using this command).

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Gradient Palette

New split-toning presets.

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Actions Palette

Now you can record tools! Simply enable the “Allow recording of tools” option and you can create Photoshop actions with tools (ex. Brush tool).

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3D

Photoshop CS6 Extended will have enhanced 3D performance and updated tools to make it easier to change position, color, material, shadow, and light source of your 3D objects.

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File Handling

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Auto-Rotate

When you open photos, Photoshop will read the metadata and rotate the image to its correct orientation. Now you can undo or disable this feature in the preferences.

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New Document

New image dimension presets for common devices like iPhones, iPads, etc.

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File Format

Photoshop CS6 will support the new 3D image file formats (JPS and PNS) as well as BIGTIFF. TIFF files support more bit depth and OpenEXR files have new choices for handling transparencies.

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Automate

Miss the PDF Presentations and Contact Sheet scripts in CS4? These have been reintroduced in CS6. If you’re into scripting, you can now write scripts that can get the tool name associated with the tool preset or return an array of guides in a document.

How to enable tool recording for your Photoshop actions

The reintroduced automation scripts

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Release Date

Because Photoshop CS5.5 was released on May 2011, rumors speculate that CS6 will be released on May 2012 based on the new CS release schedule.

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