Monday, June 18, 2012

Tweaking Digital Photos With Photoshop CS6

By Eddie Jones


Adobe's much-anticipated Photoshop CS6 is ultimately here. Having at this point up-graded to CS6 at the office, we can state that thus far it looks to be a great upgrade, with many different additional features to generally be interested in. A couple of red herrings happen to be thrown in for good measure, such as the Content Aware Move program, and at first glance you'll notice the shiny new charcoal interface among the many new Photoshop variation attributes.



Even though there were a great deal of modifications to regular tools, you'll likewise see the addition of a few new ones also, including the Tilt-Shift Blur function.



In this article, we go on a quick look at half dozen Photoshop CS6 additional features and explain how they function.



Adobe's Camera Raw engine is actually at ACR 7, and the blend of the Brightness and Exposure scales into one Exposure slider makes life simpler. The new Highlights and Shadows sliders mean you are able to eke out more image detail without that HDR-like look. The Adjustment Brush may now precisely tweak White Balance, as well.



The first thing you'll notice if you open a picture is the change the Photoshop screen has undergone. It's currently a charcoal grey. Other changes towards the layout, panels as well as tools are logical. Mini Bridge, introduced in CS5, appears to work properly this time round, and really should be considered a big aid to work-flow.



Go to the Filter dropdown and you'll see that the tools also have a welcome clean-up. Field, Iris and Tilt-Shift Blur filters happen to be unveiled, and they all have 'on image' controls so you can tweak the aeroplanes of focus for toytown effects. The intuitive controls mean you don't even need to take your eyes off of the image.



The revamped crop tool offers the exact same crop capability as in Lightroom 4, with all the image revolving and the crop marks remaining static. The non-destructive editing system takes a tad of getting used to, but when learned its valuable Rule of Thirds and Golden Spiral grids will be handy should you don't get composition right very first time.



Adobe offers the Mercury Graphics engine for CS6, so specified tools and procedures make more significant use of your computer's graphics card. Together with the previously sluggish Liquify tool, for instance, there's no lag. The Background Save characteristic is additionally remarkably beneficial, permitting you to start other projects as a document is kept.



Content Aware Move, nestled with the Patch and Healing tools inside the Tools panel, is meant to enable you to move an object from a single part of an image to another. Nevertheless, it appeared to work effectively within the Adobe demos but not with all the images we tried out. Or else, carry on shooting with all the elements in the right place to start with.



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