Photoshop CC

• Multiple shape and path selection
• Photoshop merged to include "Extended"
• Conditional actions
• Camera shake reduction
• Improved min and max filters
• System anti-aliasing for type
• All-new smart sharpen
• Mercury graphics engine
• Intelligent up-sampling
• Adobe camera raw 8 & Adobe camera raw as a filter
• Editable rounded rectangles and other shapes
• Improved 3D painting
• Smart object support for blur gallery and liquify
• Seperate installation for Bridge

Photoshop CS6

• Redesigned interface
• Darker interface (optional)
• Improved performance in multiple areas
• New crop tool
• New filter: Oil Paint
• More advanced video editing, all Photoshop effects can now be applied to video
• Improve Camera Raw, plus two new controls (highlight and shadows)
• New blur gallery: field blur, iris blur, tilt-shift blur
• Bridge rewritten for 64-bit
• Background Save and Auto-recovery
• Adaptive Wide Angle
• Improved Filter Gallery
• New Content Aware Move
• Improvements to paint engine
• Improvements to working with Shapes
• New Type menu
• New Type Styles
• Vector strokes
• Dashed lines
• Skin Tone-Aware selections and masking
• 3D improvements (Photoshop Extended only)
• New Search Tool in Layers Palette
• Performance improvements for Liquify Filter
• Patch tool now has Content Aware (optional)
• New Properties panel
• Improved and expanded GPU acceleration
• Improved Lighting Effects filter

 

Photoshop CS5

• Content aware fill
• Improved painting with new mixer brush, bristle tips and color blend
• Puppet warp
• 3D extrusions with Repoussé (only Photoshop Extended)
• Improved selections with Edge detection
• Improved HDR with HDR Pro
• Automatic lens correction
• Improved sharpen tool with option "protect detail"
• Camera raw 6
• Improved eyedropper tool
• Mini Bridge
• 64 bit version now also available for Mac
• Several smaller improvements

 

Photoshop CS4

• Tabbed document viewing
• Auto blend for stitched image
• Adjustments panel
• Mask panel
• Vibrance adjustment
• Content-Aware Scaling
• Improved Color Range selection tools
  
• Improved Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools
• Ability to adjust the density (opacity) of a layer mask
• Ability to add non-destructive feathering to a layer mask
• CUDO support
• Smoother painting performance
• Eyedropper option to sample all layers or just the current layer
• Flash panels
• Kuler panel
• Support for sampling color from fill layers
• Improved use of video card to improve zoom, pan and rotation
• Ability to take advantage of OpenGL video processing
• 3D painting and compositing (only in Photoshop Extended)
• 3D object and property editing (only in Photoshop Extended)
• Camera Raw 5
• 16-bit printing (Mac only; requires OS X 10.5)
• 64-bits version available (only for Windows)
  

Photoshop CS3

• Auto align layers
• Auto blend for stitched images
• Device Central 1.0
• Smart filters (non-destructive filters (including Shadows and Highlight) which you can combine with a mask)
• Quick selection tool
• Adjustable Cloning and Healing with preview overlay
• Zoomify (Google maps style zoom interface for web based images)
• Improved curves
• Refine Edge (to modify the edge of any selection)
• Refined interface (see examples below)
• Enhanced Brightness/Contrast
• New advanced Black and White conversion tool
• Improved print window
• 2 new blend modes: Lighter Color, Darker Color
• Enhanced Photo Merge function
• Enhanced Merge to 23-Bit HDR
• Enhanced Channel Mixer (filter presets)
• New Bridge version
• Improved vanishing point with multiple, adjustable angle perspective planes
• Camera Raw 4.0

Photoshop CS2

• Adobe Bridge
• Vanishing Point
• Multiple layer control
• Smart Objects
• Multi-image digital camera raw file processing
• Advanced noise reduction
• 32-bit High Dynamic Range (HDR) support
• Customizable workspaces and menus
• Spot Healing Brush
• Warp Tool
• One-click red-eye correction
• WYSIWYG font menu
• Smart Guides
• High-capacity RAM compatibility
• Digital camera and Digital Negative (DNG) support
• Smart Sharpen
• Optical lens correction (distort)
• Spot Healing Brush
• Help improvements
• Box, shape and surface blur
• Reduce Noise
• Animation (was Imageready)
• Variables
• Expanded ability to edit 16-bit files
• Layer Sets renamed to Layer Groups
• Enhanced Info Palette
• Exposure (Image/adjustements)
• Visible Cursor on 50% gray layers

Photoshop CS

• Custom Keyboard shortcuts
• History Log
• Camera Raw Plugin
• Match Color
• Live Histograms
• Photo Filters
• Color Replacement Tool
• Shadow/Highlight
• Text On Path
• Layer Comps
• Large Document Format (PSB) Supporting 300,000x300,000 pixels and 54 channels
• Non-square pixels
• Enhanced File Browser
• Expanded ability to edit 16-bit files
• Lens Blur filter
• Customizable help
• Improved Photomerge
• Auto-cropping and straightening of multiple images
• Extended 16-bit support
• New image interpolation methods: Bicubic Sharper/Smoother
• Hard mix blending mode

Photoshop 7

• Context sensitive options bar
• Tool presets
• Healing Brush
• Patch Tool
• Auto Color
• Brushes palette
• Spell check
• Pattern Maker
• Redesigned tool bar (colors)
• Large filter previews
• Liquify improvements
• Improved Web-Gallery
• Improved Picture Package

Photoshop 6

• Droplets
• Annotations
• Docking palettes
• Type Tool makeover
• Warp Text

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