I guess some of you are really interested in getting this! The new Photoshop 6 is now in Stock at BH: Mac version (Click here) and Windows (Click here).
You can also buy it directly at Adobe (Click here).
Beside that if you really need a good tutorial to learn the basics of digital photography bookmark that page: http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/. It’s really more important than the talk about Megapixels and High ISO 🙂
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Cambridgeincolour is definitely the best online resource to learn the basics. Very concise.
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Much thanks Andrea for the link 🙂
We already had a Photoshop 6 about 10-11 years ago!
CS6 Ver 13 🙂
What are the major improvements over CS5? Worth the upgrade?
Nope!
A new cool mib filter, making everyone face looks like alien 🙂
Definately. The interface is a lot less cluttered, the mercury-engine is FAST, content-aware move is awesome, adaptive wide angle can really do a difference if you shoot wide angle and the ability to edit video is really great if you shoot video with your DSLR. I have been on the beta for almost a month – and love it. Waiting for the Creative Cloud to be available on friday!
I’d recomend Lightroom 4 over CS6 for Photographers.
The ability to vary noise reduction over the image plus the enhanced exposure* make LR4 a better bet. The ability to boost exposure and at the same time add more NR to the shadows (which is where you get the most noise) is a great feature. You also get moire reduction via a brush, may be very useful for high MP cameras such as the A77.
Oh, and LR4 retails for about the same ecost as a single photoshop filter, so although you can do all this in PS/cameraRAW, its cheaper and quicker in LR4.
(Ive used both LR4 and PS CS6 extensively in beta)
*exposure now has a ‘rolloff effect’ that seems to simulate alnalogue film, so you are much less likely to get the ‘digital burnt highlights’ caused by digial’s immediate cutoff. MEans you can now drive exposure much higher.
LR4 is perfect for the photographers who don’t do much creative PP.
Probably a dumb question, but if I upgrade from Lightroom 3 to 4, will it retain all of my attributes/edits, or is there an easy way to import them?
you just have to upgrade your catalogs, everything will be retained.
@Christopher
All your LR3 images will appear in LR4, and so will your LR3 history for each image. If you have only one catalog in LR3, that will appear in LR4 without you having to do anything. Additionally, your LR3 installation is not affected by installing LR4 (which is as good a reason as any for just going to adobe and downloading the LR4 trial!). It does however mean that LR3 changes after installation will not be reflected in LR4, and neither will LR4 changes be affected in LR3 (except of course deleting an image – that is not a clone – from your harddrive, or moving the same image… if you do that, the RAW image is phsyically deleted/moved).
If you want to use the LR4 engine with an LR3 image, then in LR4 you have to
– go into develop mode for the image, then
– click the little ‘!’ icon at the bottom right.
– a window will appear with options ‘update all firmstrip photos’ and ‘update’. Select update. This updates only the current image
– A new action ‘Update to current process (2012)’ appears in the history. If you don’t like the update from LR3 >> LR4, then just undo this action.
The LR4 engine does not render exactly like LR3 for all images though. See my review of LR4 on amazon.co.uk (its the first review). I have uploaded one image there that shows the worst case for updating LR3 >> LR4 (its the eye image).
Again, your best bet is to simply go to Adobe and download the LR4 trial and see for yourself as installing LR4 doesnt affect your LR3 installation.
Question: doesn’t a new ACR do the same (is there no updated ACR with CS6?)? I don’t like the look and feel of LR and I feel limited using it.
@ JonasM
Yes, there is a new ACR with Photoshop. If your preference is towards photshop, then the new process engine is available via the new ACR. Disadvantage of PS over LR is of course cost, and that it generally takes longer to perform the same thing in PS over LR (although PS can of course do more).
I typically use LR instead of ACR unless I want to embed the RAW into the PSD (which you would do if you want to keep RAW conversion parameters editable after import, etc), in which case I use PS throughout (which is not often, not least because embedding the RAW creates huge PSDs!).
I have been a PS user since version 2 in 1990.
Now working on CS 6 at the moment.
Retouching 50mpx Hasselblad files, that once they are converted to 16 bit TIFF and clobbered with 15 to 20 layers, reach about 2gb file size. Yet the new CS6 use a new technology that take advantage of some specific video cards and it fly.
Some filters that on CS5 normally takes a lot of time, now they complete the task in a fraction of time.
Using liquify with large files and large brushes is mostly on real time now.
Not mentioning that some brushes that lagged big time in CS5, in CS6 they are mostly in real time or with very little lag.
Again, to take advantage of these speed improvement you need some specific video cards, which are not necessarily expensive and may be already present on you Mac or PC.
The new interface is also much better.
IMO this is the best PS upgrade in a long time and well worth the 200 bucks.
Not that it really matters, but that new PS box is very nice!
nvidia cards that use cuda or amd cards that use opencl.
This means CS5 migbt not get support for a99.
I use GIMP.. it’s free. V 2.8 was just released.
Adobe: We need more lens flare! Photoshop is nothing without good lens flares! Look at Olympus. Please.
What a creepy picture Adobe used for the box-art on this one……