On 21st march 2012, adobe made the first public beta release of the much awaited version of their highly popular image manipulation and editing application, Adobe Photoshop CS6 with all tools from both Adobe Photoshop CS6 and Adobe Photoshop CS6 extended. the software engineers from Adobe inc have redesigned the UI and 65 new features and many improvements to old features. its time to take the advantage for free. 
New Features in Adobe Photoshop CS6
Brushes
- HUD brush resize and hardness can now change opacity
- Increase brush size to 5000px
- Change color dynamics to per stroke instead of per tip (user option for old behavior)
- Brightness/contrast slider for textures when painting
- Brush projection for static tips
- Brush cursor reflects brush dynamics for round and captured tips
Eyedropper
- Show the sample size popup for the various eyedropper tools (black point, white point,
etc.)
- Add ignore adjustment layers options bar item for the eyedropper
- New mode for eyedropper to select layers current and below
File formats
- Read common stereo image pair formats (JPS, PNS) Allow for more bit depths in TIFF files
- Read BIGTIFF format
- Give the user choices regarding how they want transparency treated in OpenEXR on file open
Grammar
- Policed throughout app
- Use consistent grammar style in the title of dialog windows (no commands such as "Choose a color:")
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%)
Add bicubic sharper & bicubic smoother options when free transforming layers
Allow changing of blend modes for multiple layers at once
Allow locking of multiple layers
CMD+J to duplicate layers and layer group
Allow changing color labels to multiple layers at once
Layer tooltips to include layer name (if defined)
Opt+click on toggle arrows (groups and effects) in layer panel should close all targets
Show blend if/Blending Effects badge on layer
Show correct opacity and blend mode values for hidden layers
Tab goes to next layer on inline layer rename, SHIFT + TAB goes to previous
New command to raster layer effect into layer, merging the selected layers into themselves
Reorder effects in the layers palette to match the Z-order style/blend mode (bottom most effects in termsof blending order, drop shadow is below the other effects
Liquify
Resize Liquify brush with shortcuts
Increase maximum Liquify brush size Add option to load last mesh
Presets
Add new document presets for common devices (e.g. iPhone, iPad, etc.)
Add new Gradient Map presets for toning and split-toning
Sticky reorganization of tool presets (changes persist after re-launch) Add Contact Sheet II as an Automation option
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
Make the marquee, lasso, and mask panel feather values support decimal places like the feather dialog
Remember feather radius when showing dialog for selection from a path
Transform
Improve dragging of vector curves
Don't hide smart object icon when transforming a layer
Rotate 90 with even x odd pixel dimension to be smooth (bjango.com)
Undo or disable auto -rotate on open
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)
- Add "Don't show again" checkbox to Purge warnings
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 |