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GREAT NEWS !!

I have just seen that Adobe have made available to download the new Photoshop CS6 Beta !!!

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/photoshopcs6/

Download Photoshop CS6 beta for Mac (DMG, 984 MB)
Download Photoshop CS6 beta for Windows (ZIP, 1.7 GB)


WOW! 1,7 GB !!! smile:eek:
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Be aware that this is a DIRECT download and DOES NOT use Adobe´s own special download manager to avoid problems smile:) and so I recommend to use a trusted browser to do it.

I can recommend to use the www.opera.com browser that for me is the best and faster one for downloading BIG files.
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PLEASE, PLEASE DO NOT MISS THE NEW VIDEO ALSO

http://youtu.be/PTYcRWPsZUg

Be aware that this video ONLY shows 6 of the new features, and there are much more!

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SO I think that the rumors are right that the final version could be released sometime in April 2012, or if not in the first days of May.

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Photoshop CS6 Highlights

Content-Aware Patch — Patch images with greater control using the newest member of the Content-Aware family of technologies. Choose the sample area you want to use to create your patch, and then watch Content-Aware Patch magically blend pixels for a stunning result.

Blazingly fast performance and a modern UI — Experience unprecedented performance with the Mercury Graphics Engine, which gives you near-instant results when you edit with key tools such as Liquify, Puppet Warp, and Crop.* Plus, a refined, fresh, and elegant Photoshop interface features dark background options that make your images pop.

New and re-engineered design tools — Create superior designs fast. Get consistent formatting with type styles, create and apply custom strokes and dashed lines to shapes, quickly search layers, and much more.


Blazingly fast performance and a modern UI

New and re-engineered design tools

Would this two be ever possible in Filter Forge ?

Would to see the news that FF Inc. is making something to make FF faster perfomance even without using GPU, perhaps could be needed a re-enginnering of the FF processing engine.

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Photoshop CS6 beta includes all the features in Photoshop CS6 and Photoshop CS6 Extended.

Take this opportunity to try out the 3D image editing and quantitative image analysis capabilities of Photoshop Extended*, but note that—while these features will be included in the shipping version of Photoshop CS6 Extended—they will not be included in the shipping version of Photoshop CS6.
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SpaceRay
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I have just finished download the 1,7 GB !!!

I love Opera for downloading, is very fast and have VERY FEW problems, and if it stops, you can hit stop, and then continue to resume without any problem, AND more important is that the fastest downloading I have tried fr om all the 5 browsers I have installed and use alternatively depending on what I want to do.

NOW I am going to install and test myself the incredible features shown in the videos I have seen.

Will also try to install Filter Forge in the CS6 and see if it works

IMPORTANT FOR THE CS6 BETA INSTALLATION
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Do I need a serial number to install the Photoshop CS6 beta?

No. When you begin the Photoshop CS6 beta installation process, you will be presented with a Welcome Screen. To install the Photoshop CS6 beta, simply select the option labeled "Try. I want to try Adobe Photoshop CS6 for a lim ited time." Do not select the option labeled "Install. I have a serial number."

I have installed the Photoshop CS6 beta. How do I activate it?

You are prompted to activate the Photoshop CS6 beta as part of installation.

The following activation requirements will need to be completed within seven days after first launch of the Photoshop CS6 beta or it will stop working: Log in with an Adobe ID and Activate the product online.

If you do not have an Adobe ID, you will be prompted to create one as part of the Photoshop CS6 beta installation and activation process.

Once you have completed the activation process, you no longer need to be online to use the beta.
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SpaceRay
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This beta is of course FREE

If you think that Photoshop CS6 is too expensive for you

YOU CAN BUY PHOTOSHOP FULL FROM 35$ EACH MONTH !

There is also available the option to NOT BUY the full version of the software and RENT it from adobe and pay MUCH LESS a part each month you want to use it.

You could ONLY 35$ per month for having the WHOLE FULL VERSION instead of the paying the full price.

http://www.adobe.com/products/creativ...ption.html

ALSO VERY IMPORTANT that is in this price IS INCLUDED ALL the future upgrades version without paying anything else more.

http://techhamlet.com/2011/04/now-you...photoshop/

http://guyism.com/lifestyle/adobe-cre...ental.html

This is a very good option IF you do not want to pay the whole full price, and could be ALSO cheaper in the long term, because it would take almost 2 YEARS to pay the full amount of the REAL price, BUT then this includes the UPGRADE TOO, so after 2 years when CS7 is released you will get it for FREE.

VERY IMPORTANT TOO IS THAT FOR THE ADOBE SUBSCRIPTION YOU DO NOT NEED TO HAVE ALREADY ANY PREVIOUS VERSION
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SpaceRay
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Please Look Also on the MANY new videos that have been released today for CS6 Beta

MANY NEW HERE --> http://tv.adobe.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PJY6T...re=related

ARTICLES ON MANY WEBSITES HAVE ALSO APPEARED NOW

For example

http://www.photoshopsupport.com/photo...-free.html

AND HUGE article and many interesting things here

http://photoshopcafe.com/cs6/index.htm
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VERY IMPORTANT NEWS FOR UPGRADES

DO NOT DELAY THEM MUCH FROM NOW ON


Originally in November 2011 Adobe was NOT going to offer any discount to users of CS3 or CS4 and ONLY for CS5 or CS5.5, so the ONLY option was to buy a montly or yearly subscription.

Adobe Will Only Offer Photoshop CS6 Upgrade Price to CS5 Owners

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If you’ve been waiting to upgrade Photoshop CS3 or CS4 to CS6 when it’s released sometime next year, here’s some bad news: the upgrade price won’t apply to you. Starting with CS6, Adobe will be enforcing a new upgrade policy:


You can see it here --> http://www.petapixel.com/2011/11/16/a...s5-owners/

BUT then this year 2012 have changed their new policy and NOW will accept giving an option for previous users BUT ONLY UNTIL DECEMBER 2012

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Adobe offers CS6 upgrade pricing for CS3, CS4 users

Under the new plan, CS3 and CS4 owners will have until December 31, 2012 to take advantage of the offer.

http://www.macworld.com/article/11647...users.html


And here is the official and real offer announcement from adobe

http://www.adobe.com/products/creativ...olicy.html

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Adobe has change of heart for CS6 upgrade pricing

Stung by customer criticism, Adobe announced that CS3 and CS4 customers will be able to upgrade to CS6, not just be forced to move to a subscription plan.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-573...e-pricing/


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BE AWARE THAT MOST PROBABLY YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO UPGRADE FROM CS4 OR CS5 TO CS7
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CS7 is suppossed to be available according to the new "upgrading policy" of Adobe in about 18 or 24 months AFTER the release of CS6. 12 months could there a be a CS6.5.
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That $35 a month lifetime upgrades sure is tempting... Gonna have to check it out.
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SpaceRay
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MORE NEWS
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5 AMAZING THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS6 BETA

http://thenextweb.com/dd/2012/03/22/5...-cs6-beta/

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8 Photoshop CS6 Sneak Peeks – New 3D, Video, Depth-of-Field Tools


http://prodesigntools.com/adobe-photo...tools.html

This was published on 19 March so is new

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16 Top New Features in Photoshop CS6 vs. CS5

As the title say this are the 16 TOP new features BUT NOT ALL of them as there are many more according to Adobe.

http://prodesigntools.com/download-ph...-free.html

The much-discussed modern and darker user interface

Content-Aware Move, Extend, and Patch Tools

Excellent [DSLR] video editing in both Standard and Extended versions

Complete overhaul of 3D in Photoshop CS6 Extended

Some great new (and realistic) Brush Tips

Brand new Camera Raw 7 technology like in Lightroom 4

Text/Character Type Styles and Paragraph Styles

PixelBender now built in to Photoshop CS6

Adaptive Wide Angle Lens Correction

Custom vector strokes with Dashed and Dotted Lines

Core productivity enhancements, blazingly fast performance

Blur Gallery for creating shallow depth of field and other effects

New and improved non-destructive Crop Tool, like Lightroom’s
The oft-requested Background Save

Migration tool that imports custom presets and settings

The return of Contact Sheet and PDF Presentations in Photoshop
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SpaceRay
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Morgantao wrote:
That $35 a month lifetime upgrades sure is tempting... Gonna have to check it out.


Be aware that for getting this 35$ offer you must make a 1 year rent contract and can cancel after (although you still pay ONLY month by month and NOT all the whole year) because if you want the freedom to choose which months you want to use Photoshop or you want to cancel whenever you want it will cost 49$ per month.

PLEASE FOR NEARLY ALL THE ADOBE SUBSCRIPTION QUESTIONS

Here is an interesting article of what a subscription is really about

How Adobe CS5.5 Subscriptions Work – and Where They Don’t

http://prodesigntools.com/how-adobe-c...-work.html

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There is also a full FAQ´s already done for nearly all your possible questions

Please see it here and look in the Subscription part

http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/faq.html

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FULL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SUBSCRIPTIONS

Here is the conditions to use a subscription and what a monthly or yearly renting means exactly

Subscription Terms

http://www.adobe.com/misc/subscription_terms.html

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and the official main page

http://www.adobe.com/products/creativ...ption.html

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BEWARE OF ADOBE´S NEW SUBSCRIPTION PRICING

http://www.infoworld.com/t/software-l...ricing-540

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To Subscribe, Upgrade or Purchase CS6 ?

PRO and CONS of Buying or Subscribing !!


http://helpspa.com/other/adobe-creati...-purchase/

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New Adobe Upgrade Policy for CS6: What Does It Mean for You?

http://prodesigntools.com/new-adobe-u...-poll.html

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FOR WHO ARE THE SUBSCRIPTION GOOD FOR

Who CS6 Subscriptions Are For

Those who can’t afford to purchase the software outright, but can afford the smaller monthly payments

Those who are too far back with their versions to get CS5.5 upgrade discounts from Adobe

Those who only need the software temporarily, for a short period of time, or on an as-needed basis

Companies who’d rather write off software costs as an operating expense rather than a capital expenditure

Where CS6 Subscriptions Are Less Suited

Those who own previous versions (CS2 or later) of the same products they would like to upgrade to

Education customers – there are no subscriptions for the Student & Teacher Editions, which cost up to 80% less

Business customers – there are no subscriptions available for volume licensing (multi-user) plans

Those who need to be able to run the software without any Internet connection availability

Those who simply want a permanent version at a lower lifetime cost
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SpaceRay
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Please, Follow also the blog of Adobe´s John Nack that has very interesting things about the new CS6

http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/

GREAT PLACES TO LEARN ABOUT PHOTOSHOP CS6

Scott Kelby & his crew have created a terrific CS6 learning center (that is FREE to all)

http://www.photoshopuser.com/cs6

featuring a couple of dozen videos plus a one-page summary of all the new stuff

http://www.photoshopuser.com/cs6/cs6-features
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Deke McClelland goes deep with 27 VIDEO TUTORIALS at Lynda.com

http://www.lynda.com/Photoshop-tutori...406-2.html

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Jeff Tranberry is maintaining a list of tutorials, reviews, and other resources.

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/963751?tstart=0
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SpaceRay
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Adobe unveils Photoshop CS6 beta with redesigned UI and 65 new features

http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/22/ad...-cs6-beta/

Also more here

http://www.slashgear.com/photoshop-cs...-23219805/
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SpaceRay
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I have seen that there is a new ebook made for this Photoshop CS6 beta that is sold in Amazon for ONLY 1$ please see it in this link here

The ebook includes tutorials and exercise files, AND although this is for Kindle, you DO NOT NEED to have a kindle tablet to use it, there is a free Kindle reader for PC or Mac to download.

If you want to see a large preview of the ebook there is this full article in 3 long pages that you can see for FREE here.

Photoshop CS6 New Features Review beta

PART 1 - http://agitraining.com/blogs/photosho...res-review

PART 2 - http://agitraining.com/blogs/beta-pho...s-review-2

PART 3 - http://agitraining.com/blogs/beta-pho...s-review-3
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SpaceRay
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I have seen that Ice Flow Studios have put 12 new Photoshop CS6 Tutorials videos on Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/user/IceflowStudios

Here is the official website

http://jeremyshuback.com/photoshop-cs6-new-features/

There will appear even more soon
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BTW: I saw as presentation at the Adobe mothership in San Francisco this past week.

The new Pshop video tools look amazing. You can now pretty much edit video (incl. audio tracks) right in your .PSD file. It works as a smart object, and you can layer it using the normal layering tools, and the timeline. It also has nice features like fade-in, to simplifiy working with clips.

The 'tourist removal' tool is also amazingly useful. (actually combine stack) This was originally only in CS5extended, but now is standard in CS6:
http://av.adobe.com/russellbrown/CarT...ver_SM.mov

It allows you to take a stack of images, and run median (or a number of other processes: maximum, minimum etc.) on them all. So, if you have 5 pics of a building you can keep only the things which stay the same, not the people moving around in front. Apparently, this was created for medical imaging, (xrays) but is artistically useful as well.

BTW2: I also heard that if you upgrade to 5.5, that you will get 6.0 free!
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