The 'Layers' pane, one of the most important windows by far, gets some much-needed redesign as well. On first look, the arrangement of the menu panes looks a lot cleaner, more organized that the previous versions of the image editing software. Many of the buttons in the tools menu look like they've been redesigned, with minor tweaks to the clicking animation and the shadows being evident.

Looks like someone at Adobe decided to toss Photoshop CS6 to the Dark Side because the entire user interface is now a lot darker than what we have traditionally been used to. It looks like Photoshop, but at the same time, not! Past the loading screen, the interface we were greeted by left us rather confused. We found it rather amusing and wonder if it has any undertones. When we fired up CS6, we were greeted by a very, well, unconventional splash screen a cat made of typography and the words 'Superstition' written in big, bold letters. If the icon has you going gaga, then wait till you feast your eyes on the actual UI. In our opinion, the new icon looks a lot neater, but then again, we're minimalists. With a deep blue, an almost violet square icon with 'Ps' being engraved in blue. While CS5 sported a blue icon with 'Ps' engraved in a lighter shade of blue.

Here are our initial observations.Īs far as interface goes, the first significant observation we made was the change to the Photoshop icon. So we downloaded and installed the Windows version of Photoshop CS6 to see what new features it has to offer. With CS5 introducing 3D capabilities, Photoshop found even 3D artists taking to it favorably. Photoshop can be considered one of the most versatile graphic software today, being employed heavily by photographers, graphic designers, illustrators and even forensic scientists.

Adobe has released the first beta of Photoshop CS6 to the public, available for both PC and Mac.

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