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This article is from February 16, 2012, and is no longer current.

New Video of Photoshop CS6 Shows Content-Aware Image Editing

In a new video posted this week on the official Photoshop YouTube channel, Adobe gives users another taste of what’s to come in version CS6 of the image-editing application. This is the fourth video Adobe has released on the product in order to whet the whistle of consumers. It seems the company wants to tantalize users to upgrade to the newest version, the release date of which has not been announced.
In this fourth video Photoshop’s senior product manager, Bryan O’Neil Hughes, demonstrates how Photoshop CS6 lets you move objects in a scene without channels, masks, and so on. This new feature builds on the Content-Aware Fill in CS5. In one example he moves a woman from one side of an image to another without leaving a trace. After the selection is moved, Photoshop analyzes the pixels where the selection used to be and fills in the area appropriately. It’s a pretty slick trick.
Watch it in action in this video:

We wrote about Adobe’s first sneak peek at Photoshop CS 6 in January, in which Adobe focused on Camera Raw and the processing power behind Photoshop CS6 and Lightroom 4. Since then Adobe teased users with two more videos.
Sneak Peak #2 shows less flashy but possibly more valuable improvements for most users. The application has under-the-hood performance enhancements that allow you to continue working even as another image is saving. Photoshop product manager Zorana Gee proves the point in the video by switching between windows and working with filters as a 1GB file saves in the background. Another speed boost is that there’s almost no lag time between when a filter is applied and when the effects appear on screen.
See for yourself in this video:

Sneak Peek #3 is a short-and-sweet demo of the ability to apply dashed and dotted vector-based lines directly in Photoshop, an oft-requested feature.
Check it out yourself:

It looks like Photoshop CS6 is a blend of both new features and fulfilled wish lists. For a first-person account of new stuff in Photoshop CS6, read this report from a Photoshop Sneak Peek live event in New York, courtesy of PSD.Tuts.
When watching the videos, be sure to view in full-screen mode — it’s worth it.
 

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