Introduction to Photoshop CS6

Photoshop CS6 has finally arrived. It has come packed with new features and tweaks that will significantly improve your workflow and enhance your tool set. In this series we will take a look at some of Photoshop CS6’s new features and show you how they work.

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Our First Look at Photoshop CS6 - Now Available in Beta
Today, Adobe announced some big news. Photoshop CS6 is now available for download in Beta. For the last several months, we have been speculating about what...
Grant Friedman
22 Mar 2012
Design & Illustration
Manage Your Layers More Efficiently With Photoshop CS6
Designers often work with PSD files that include hundreds, if not, thousands of layers. Managing those layers was a hassle in previous versions of Photoshop....
Grant Friedman
22 Mar 2012
Design & Illustration
Introducing the New Crop Tool in Photoshop CS6
A good crop can make a big difference in how well a photograph looks. In Photoshop CS6, Adobe has made some significant changes to how the Crop Tool works....
Grant Friedman
27 Mar 2012
Design & Illustration
Easily Import and Export Presets in Photoshop CS6
If you work on multiple machines or if you are planning to upgrade to Photoshop CS6, then you might dread the idea of transferring all your presets and...
Grant Friedman
30 Mar 2012
Design & Illustration
Finally Add Strokes Without Layer Styles in Photoshop CS6
In the past, Photoshop did not do a very good job of applying strokes to objects. Applying a dashed line to an object in Photoshop CS5, for instance, could...
Grant Friedman
5 Apr 2012
Design & Illustration
How to Use the Content Aware Patch Tool in Photoshop CS6
When Content Aware was added to Photoshop CS5, people described the feature as "magical" or "impossible." Now that we have had a couple years to get...
Grant Friedman
11 Apr 2012
Design & Illustration
How to Use the Content Aware Move Tool in Photoshop CS6
In Photoshop CS6, the Photoshop team introduced a new Content Aware feature called Content Aware Move. Content Aware Move will allow you to select pixels and...
Grant Friedman
12 Apr 2012
Design & Illustration
Finally, Background Save and Auto Recovery in Photoshop CS6
Be honest, how many times have you lost hours of work because you forgot to save your files? Photoshop users have been asking for a background save and auto...
Grant Friedman
17 Apr 2012
Design & Illustration
New Liquify Performance and Usability Enhancements in Photoshop CS6
Liquify is an essential tool for manipulating and retouching photos. In Photoshop CS6, it has received some significant performance and usability...
Grant Friedman
19 Apr 2012
Design & Illustration
Quickly Change the Appearance of Photoshop CS6
One of the first things you might notice about Photoshop CS6 is the darker color of the interface. If you prefer the lighter color of the old interface, you...
Grant Friedman
25 Apr 2012
Design & Illustration
Quickly Select Skin Tones in Photoshop CS6
Skin Aware technology is a relatively obscure feature in Photoshop CS6 that will allow you to quickly select skin tones in a photo. In this episode of our...
Grant Friedman
28 Apr 2012
Design & Illustration
Photoshop CS6 Includes Improved Auto Adjustment Features
For Photoshop CS6, Adobe applied lots of quick fixes to features that have been around for a while. Internally, these changes were called JDIs (Just Do It),...
Grant Friedman
29 Apr 2012
Design & Illustration
How to Use Adaptive Wide-Angle Filter in Photoshop CS6
The Adaptive Wide Angle Filter in Photoshop CS6 will allow you to straighten curves and lines in photos taken with a fisheye or wide-angle lens. In this...
Martin Perhiniak
3 May 2012
Design & Illustration
New Brush Features in Photoshop CS6
The Brush Panel in Photoshop CS6 includes plenty of new features. In this episode of our Introduction to Photoshop CS6 series we will explain how to work...
Martin Perhiniak
11 May 2012
Design & Illustration
Using Paragraph and Character Styles in Photoshop CS6
In this past, working with a lot of text in Photoshop was a hassle. Global changes to text simply could not be made easily. In Photoshop CS6, Adobe has given...
Martin Perhiniak
16 May 2012
Design & Illustration
Introduction to the New Oil Paint Filter in Photoshop CS6
Filters are a powerful tool in Photoshop to help you apply quick effects to your images. The Oil Paint filter in Photoshop CS6 will give any image a painted...
Grant Friedman
18 May 2012
Design & Illustration
How to Use the New Timeline Panel in Photoshop CS6
Have you always wanted to add special effects to your videos but found the thought of learning Adobe Premiere or After Effects a bit daunting or...
Martin Perhiniak
24 May 2012
Design & Illustration
Quick Tip: Rename Layers in Photoshop CS6 Using the Tab Key
Naming your layers is the the first step if you want to take advantage of some of the new layer search features in Photoshop CS6. In the past, naming your...
Grant Friedman
1 Jun 2012
Design & Illustration
Introduction to the Blur Gallery in Photoshop CS6
In this episode of our Introduction to Photoshop CS6 series we will talk about the new Blur Gallery. The Blur Gallery includes 3 types of blurs that you can...
Grant Friedman
15 Jun 2012
Design & Illustration
Improvements to Layer Style Feature in Photoshop CS6
Photoshop layer styles are a popular way to add effects, such as drops shadows and strokes to layers in a non-destructive way. Layer styles were first...
John Shaver
27 Jun 2012
Design & Illustration
Introduction to the New 3D Capabilities of Photoshop CS6 Extended
Photoshop CS6 Extended is packed with new and exciting features to help you work with and create 3D objects much more efficiently. In this tutorial, Steve...
Steve Caplin
5 Oct 2012
Design & Illustration
Adobe Adds Retina Support for Photoshop CS6
One of the biggest complaints about Apple's new retina display is that many apps don't support it. Lots of designers using Photoshop on retina displays...
Josh Johnson
18 Dec 2012
Design & Illustration
Import Swatches From CSS to Photoshop
Photoshop CS6.1 now lets you import color information directly from CSS files as a swatch in Photoshop. In this article, we will explain how this is done....
Josh Johnson
1 Jan 2013
Design & Illustration
Quickly Convert Objects to CSS Using Photoshop CS6.1
The latest build of Photoshop has some great new features that are sure to catch the attention of web designers. You can now convert a layer's shape and...
Josh Johnson
24 Dec 2012
Design & Illustration
Adobe Announces New Refinements to Crop Tool in Photoshop CS6.1
When Photoshop CS6 was released, many users complained about how the new Crop Tool worked. In Photoshop CS6.1, Adobe made some adjustments to the Crop Tool...
Martin Perhiniak
8 Jan 2013
Design & Illustration
Adobe Adds Smart Object Support for Liquify and Blur Gallery
The new update to Photoshop CS6 adds smart object support for the Blur Gallery, as well as the Liquify Tool. This means you can now convert your layers to...
Martin Perhiniak
15 Jan 2013
Design & Illustration
Create Conditional Actions in Photoshop CS6.1
Photoshop CS6.1 includes the ability to create Conditional Actions. This means that you can now create actions that are optimized for certain situations. For...
Martin Perhiniak
22 Jan 2013
Design & Illustration
Create Default Type Styles in Photoshop CS6.1
In Photoshop CS6, Adobe gave us the ability to create paragraph and character styles that we can apply to documents heavy in text. In CS6.1, they added...
Martin Perhiniak
29 Jan 2013
Design & Illustration
Adobe Improves 3D Functionality in Photoshop CS6.1
Adobe made some rather significant changes to its 3D features in Photoshop CS6. In CS6.1, they have made a handful of tweaks that you should be aware of....
Steve Caplin
6 Feb 2013
Design & Illustration