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Improvements and new features of 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
* 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

Adobe Photoshop CS4 11.0.1 update - multiple languages

The Adobe® Photoshop® CS4 11.0.1 update addresses a number of issues discovered after Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop CS4 Extended (11.0) software were released.The most significant fixes in the Photoshop CS4 11.0.1 update include the following:

- A number of issues that could cause slow performance have been addressed.
- Pen barrel rotation with Wacom tablets now works correctly.
- Photoshop now correctly recognizes 3D textures edited by a plug-in.
- The quality of the results of Auto-Blend Layers (Stack Images) has been improved.
- A problem that could result in a crash when pasting formatted text has been fixed.
- A crash that could result from a corrupt font no longer occurs.

Just a short selection of Adobe articles that can help you to troubleshoot some problems you might have with Adobe Photoshop CS3:

Adobe ImageReady CS2 feature location guide for Photoshop CS3

Troubleshoot system errors or freezes in Adobe Photoshop CS3 on Windows XP

Troubleshoot system errors or freezes in Photoshop CS3 on Mac OS

Optimize performance of Photoshop CS3 on Windows XP and Vista

Optimize performance in Photoshop CS3 on Mac OS

Troubleshoot installation problems in Adobe Photoshop CS3 on Windows XP

Troubleshoot installation problems in Adobe Photoshop CS3 on Mac OS X

Driverheaven.net offers a simple way to test the speed of your current configuration of Photoshop.
You can download the test here and compare your results on this page.

Tests like these can be useful to find out how much hard- and software changes affect the overall performance of Photoshop. Feel free to check out related blog articles.

Photoshop Speed

Adobe Photoshop 9.0.2 update for Adobe Photoshop CS2 for Windows

The Adobe Photoshop 9.0.2 update fixes a number of problems discovered after Photoshop CS2 (9.0) was released. The Photoshop 9.0.2 update includes all the fixes contained in the earlier Photoshop 9.0.1 update. Therefore, it is not necessary to apply the 9.0.1 update prior to running the 9.0.2 update on Photoshop CS2.

The most significant fixes in the 9.0.2 release include the following:

- Menus now respond correctly after a single click.
- Undo/Redo work properly when multiple documents are open.
- Photoshop no longer produces a program error when encountering unsupported file types through the Acrobat Touchup workflow.
- Supported files that incorrectly produced an “unsupported color space” message now open as expected.
- TIFF files with layer data greater than 2GB now open correctly.

The most significant fixes in the 9.0.1 release (also included in the 9.0.2 update) include the following:

- Photoshop no longer hangs for several seconds when using painting tools with quick strokes.
- A runtime error that could appear when mousing over a high-res doc with the Brush Tool has been fixed.
- Documents containing a large number of text layers now open more quickly.
- Problems related to palettes (slow redraw, palettes go white, possible crash) have been addressed.
- TIFF files from certain scanners can now be opened correctly.
- After editing an image in Photoshop CS2 via Acrobat Touchup, the image no longer gets repositioned.
- XMP metadata from AI and PDF files is now retained in Photoshop.
- Slow performance when toggling layer visibility has been fixed.
- Info palette numbers now display and update when moving a curve point in Curves via the cursor keys.
- Problems opening certain TIFF and PSB files greater than 2GB have been resolved.
- The Merge to HDR command now functions properly when using high-ASCII characters in the user login.

Download Windows Update

 

UpdateNote concerning the Mac update

Adobe has pulled its latest Photoshop CS 2 update after Photoshop users encountered issues with printing.

Adobe admitted: “We have identified an issue with the 9.0.2 when printing on OS X 10.3 and are addressing that with our team now. Be forewarned we expect we will pull the 9.0.2 update because of this and release an update that will address this issue as soon as we can.”

Adobe Photoshop 9.0.1 (CS2) update - all languages

The Adobe Photoshop 9.0.1 update fixes a number of problems discovered after Photoshop CS2 (9.0) software was released.

The most significant fixes in the 9.0.1 release include the following:

• Photoshop no longer hangs for several seconds when using painting tools with quick strokes.
• A runtime error that could appear when mousing over a high-res document with the Brush tool has been fixed.
• Documents containing a large number of text layers now open more quickly.
• Problems related to palettes (slow redraw, palettes go white, possible crash) have been addressed.
• TIFF files from certain scanners can now be opened correctly.
• After editing an image in Photoshop CS2 via the TouchUp tool in Adobe Acrobat software, the image no longer gets repositioned.
• XMP metadata from AI and PDF files is now retained in Photoshop.
• Slow performance when toggling layer visibility has been fixed.
• Info palette numbers are now displayed and updated when moving a curve point in Curves via the cursor keys.
• Problems opening certain TIFF and PSB files greater than 2GB have been resolved.
• The Merge to HDR command now functions properly when using high-ASCII characters in user login.

Download update here

Photoshop CS2Adobe has released the Disable VM Buffering plug-in for Mac users, which can be installed to eliminate pauses during painting on Macintosh machines with more than 4GB of memory.

Photoshop PerformanceIn this third and last part where going to end with some suggestions from Adobe to improve performance:

Optimize performance in Photoshop (Mac OS)

Optimize performance in Photoshop (CS2 on Mac OS)

Optimize performance of Photoshop (CS on Windows)

Optimize performance of Photoshop (CS2 on Windows)

Memory allocation and usage (Photoshop CS)

Memory allocation and usage (Photoshop CS2)

Slow performance and screen redraw problems in Photoshop (CS2 on Windows)

Improve performance in Photoshop CS2 on computers with more than 1 GB RAM

  

Related articles:

Making Photoshop run faster
Making Photoshop run faster (part 2)

In one of our previous blog posts we mentioned Scott Byer who showed how to use standard Mac and Windows tools to make Photoshop run faster.

Mac World explains in a recent article how you can increase the performance of Photoshop in other areas;

- Adjusting Cache Levels
- Reducing History States
- Reducing palette thumbnail size
- Do you really need that snapshot?
- Assigning RAM
- Assigning Scratch Disks

You can find the article here

Adobe is working hard according to Think Secret , to release Creative Suite 3 before the end of this year.
Unkown is still what kind of changes we can expect, but performance and integration seem to be two keywords.
Check out the article to get an idea what to expect for Adobe Photoshop.