Photoshop CS6 updated

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Mike Rankin
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Adobe has released an update to Photoshop CS6 (version 13.0.1) that fixes a total of 76 issues affecting security, crashing, and performance.

According to the Photoshop.com blog, fixes fit into four categories:

  • 1 critical Security fix (affecting both Mac and Windows)
  • 31 Crashing fixes
  • 18 fixes to 3D features
  • 15 fixes to Drawing and Graphics features

Specific bugs fixes include the following:

  • 3D: Reflection does not render when ray Traced
  • 3D: Ray Trace does not stop rendering
  • 3D: OpenGL widget stops working in Full Screen Windows
  • Paths and Shapes: No way to select a Shape layer without path getting activated
  • Paths and Shapes: Shapes do not constrain properly with non-square pixels
  • Paths and Shapes: Unable to type on paths or shape layer
  • Paths and Shapes: Vector Layers Copy/Paste attributes not actionable
  • Paths and Shapes: No vector preview when transforming shape layers.
  • Windows task bar location & image window problem
  • Paint is offset with Grip Pen
  • Actions: An action that copies, closes, and pastes to another open image gives error that it cannot paste Documents open as floating
  • Actions: CS4/5 Actions that include “Use legacy” option are not using legacy in CS6
  • Liquify: Mac 10.8: Corruption when using large images on a background layer
  • Type: Extensis: Update All Text Layer becomes available after replace missing fonts
  • Layer Comps: “Could not complete your request because the result would be too big” displayed with this CS5 sample file
  • Group Styles: Some blending options not saved with file
  • Video playback should use draft quality for faster playback
  • After crop, Adjustment layers with dropdown menus become grayed out in properties panel
  • Channels Panel: Thumbnails don’t update after moving layer
  • Performance: Moving layers is slow compared to CS5 if layer palette is visible and thumbnails are showing

Photoshop users can get the update by choosing Help > Updates, and then chooing Adobe Photoshop CS6 > Update in the Adobe Application Manager.

In addtion, Adobe has announced that this fall Photoshop will be updated to provide support for high resolution displays, including the Retina Display available on the new MacBook Pro. As was the case with the recent Illustrator CS6 update, Creative Cloud users will be the first to get the new Photoshop features.

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Mike Rankin
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  • Anonymous says:
    September 1, 2012 at 4:58 pm

    Yes the first CS6 update is here
    So I did some testing of the bugs that made me decide to stop using CS6 and found 4 bugs were fixed 6 bugs were not fixed.

    Fixed:
    un-checking the Photoshop preference “Open Document in Tabs” on PC broke many Actions and Scripts
    I do not like editing in tabs the number one reason I stopped using CS6 is unusable in Floating windows
    https://feedback.photoshop.com/…hile_open_documents_as_tabs_are_not_selected
    Fixed in 8/30 update a Major improvement I may start using CS6

    recording selective color adjustment layers in Absolute mode in actions bug.
    https://feedback.photoshop.com/…ction_with_selective_colors_adjustment_layer
    Fixed in 8/30 update
    record shape attributes in Actions bug
    https://feedback.photoshop.com/…doesnt_get_recorded_when_recording_an_action
    Fixed in 8/30 update
    pen tool bug
    https://feedback.photoshop.com/…hotoshop_cs6_keeps_reverting_to_exclude_mode
    Fixed in 8/30 update

    Not Fixed:
    Adjustment panel Fly-out menu option bugs. These can cause Some Actions and Scripts to fail.
    https://feedback.photoshop.com/…topics/adjustment_panel_fly_out_menu_options
    Not Fixed in 8/30 update
    script bug caused by Bicubic Automatic Scripting needs to be updated to support CS6
    https://feedback.photoshop.com/…ics/photoshop_cs6_32bit_and_64bit_script_bug
    Not Fixed in 8/30 update
    do not record adding adjustment layer apply to all layers in actions and edit all actions the have been recorded that way if you use newer then CS3
    https://feedback.photoshop.com/…p_family/topics/photoshop_cs4_c5_and_cs6_bug
    Not Fixed in 8/30 update
    Save For Web in actions for jpeg images bug when you use a custom filename the extension will be incorrect
    https://feedback.photoshop.com/…_recorded_action_exports_html_instead_of_jpg
    Not Fixed in 8/30 update
    Action player interactive dialog missing bug
    https://feedback.photoshop.com/…dal_control_for_layer_renaming_photoshop_cs6
    Not Fixed in 8/30 update
    Scriplistener plug-in bug
    https://feedback.photoshop.com/…photoshop_family/topics/cs6_conflict_problem
    Not Fixed in 8/30 update

    I can bypass these problem for myself but two of the bugs may cause many of my Action and Scripts I have made available to work incorrectly or fail for others. The failure occur because bugs in CS4 CS5 and CS6 that involve how some Photoshop options and Preference are set. They can not be set by action and scripts so there is no way to set the users options and preference the way the need to be set for proper Photoshop execution. I can code around some of the problems not all them. Coding around a bug is not the way bugs should be addressed for this do not fix the old Actions and Script code that expect Photoshop to work correctly.

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