Adobe announces Photoshop CS6 beta

PanARMENIAN.Net - Adobe has announced, for the second time in its history, a free public beta of Photoshop, Macworld reports.

Photoshop CS6 will be available to try for the next few months as Adobe readies its Creative Suite of applications for launch alongside the brand new Creative Cloud online hub, targeted to creative pros.

The Photoshop beta is available now on Adobe Labs. The new Photoshop version works only on 64-bit Mac systems, and no longer in 32-bit mode.

Various under-the-hood improvements promise to make life easier and protect long hours of labor intensive operations. The highest profile of these include Background Save and Auto Recovery, Preset Migration and Sharing, and the new Mercury Graphics Engine.

Simply selecting some program preferences lets Photoshop automatically save and recover the work in the event of a power interruption. When upgrading from previous versions of Photoshop, users often lost painstakingly applied presets that automated many repetitive tasks.

The new version lets the users apply presets, tools, and workspaces to the new upgrade. While the Mercury engine is familiar to users of Premiere Pro, Photoshop's new Mercury Graphics Engine is mostly a software-based implementation of multicore functionality.