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Deliver eye-catching results with the industry standard in digital imaging. Enjoy creative freedom and precise control when refining and compositing images, applying artistic effects, and painting with versatile brush tools.

Quickly add depth and create unusual effects using powerful 3D editing tools. Create attention-getting 3D logos and artwork from text and shapes and edit, manipulate, and paint directly on 3D models.*

Edit video to include in your digital publishing projects. Quickly combine clips and stills using transitions, audio, and effects such as pan and zoom.

Create top-quality vector artwork for any project, from logos to illustrations for advertising, packaging, signage, and more. Use precise drawing tools and expressive natural brushes to create graphics that get noticed.

Patch images with greater control using Content-Aware Patch, which enables you to specify the sample area from which it creates a patch.

Experience blazing-fast interactions when editing with key tools such as Crop, Transform, Liquify, and Puppet Warp. The Adobe Mercury Graphics Engine delivers unprecedented speed and responsiveness for a fluid feel as you work.*

Finesse details quickly with new and reengineered tools. Apply type styles, use vector layers to apply strokes and add gradients to vector objects, create custom strokes and dashed lines, quickly search layers, and more.

Perform common digital imaging tasks faster thanks to numerous UI enhancements. Easily adjust and enhance color and tone from the Adjustments panel, and quickly create and edit masks from the Masks panel.

Work blazingly fast — even with processing-intensive effects such as blurs, glows, and drop shadows that used to slow you down. Access all the RAM on your system thanks to native 64-bit support on both Mac OS and Windows®.

Easily create seamlessly tiled vector patterns. Experiment freely with repeating patterns that can be edited at any time.

Convert raster images to editable vectors with a completely new tracing engine. Get clean lines, accurate fitting, and more reliable results without dealing with complex controls.

Apply gradients to your strokes — along the length, across the width, or within the stroke itself — all with complete control over gradient placement and opacity.

Crop images faster and more precisely using the hardware-accelerated, nondestructive Crop tool. Manipulate your images on canvas and see the adjustments live.

Quickly create photographic blur effects using a simple interface with on-image controls. Create tilt-shift effects, blur everything and then sharpen one focal point, or vary the blurriness between multiple focal points.

Enhance your images with improved Auto Curves, Levels, and Brightness/Contrast controls. Intelligence from thousands of hand-retouched images is built in to provide a better starting point for making adjustments.

Paint with lifelike brushstrokes to create expressive images. Blend a photo's colors, use bristle properties such as shape, length, and stiffness, or define multiple colors on a single brush and blend them into your canvas.

Work on up to 100 artboards of varying sizes in one Illustrator file — named, organized, and viewed the way you want.

Dynamically create and edit strokes with infinitely adjustable widths, precisely position and scale arrowheads and dashes, and finely control the scaling of art brushes along a path in Illustrator.

Draw shapes in accurate 1-, 2-, or 3-point linear perspective to create the look of realistic depth and distance.

Intuitively combine, edit, and fill shapes directly on your artboard without accessing multiple tools and panels.

Remove any image detail or object and watch as Content-Aware Fill in Photoshop magically fills in the space left behind. Match lighting, tone, and noise so it looks as if the removed content never existed.

Precisely warp or stretch graphics, text, or image elements to create unique new looks for your designs.

Get better edge detection and masking results in less time with the Quick Selection tool — even when you're selecting the trickiest image elements, such as hair.

Explore an almost endless variety of black-and-white looks. Use the integrated Lab B&W Action to interactively color images, create gorgeous HDR black-and-whites with greater ease and speed, and experiment with a variety of presets.

Create eye-catching 3D artwork more easily with intuitive on-canvas and in-context scene editing. Easily drag shadows into place, animate 3D objects, give 3D objects the look of sketches or cartoons, and more.

Help protect against losing your work during unexpected shutdowns. Auto-save your edits without interrupting your progress, and keep working while saving even the largest Photoshop files in the background.

Generate geometric pattern fills more easily with new Scripted Patterns.

Easily migrate your presets, workspaces, preferences, and settings so you can experience Photoshop in the same way on all your computers.

Automatically recompose an image as you resize it, preserving vital areas as the image adapts to the new dimensions. Get the perfect image in one step without cropping and retouching.

Gracefully navigate to any area of an image with ultra-smooth zooming and panning. Maintain clarity as you zoom to individual pixels, and easily edit at the highest magnification using the Pixel Grid.

Experience more than 50 creativity and productivity boosts directly requested by users.

Draw more naturally and efficiently using airbrush tips, drawing tips that wear down as you work, an Oil Painting filter, and painting presets and brush enhancements.

Efficiently edit layers, swatches, brushes, artboards, and more directly in panels without intermediate dialog boxes.

Sample colors faster and more precisely using an expandable color spectrum in the Color panel. Quickly copy and paste Hex values into other applications.

Create and align vector objects precisely on the file's pixel grid for clean, sharp raster graphics that look great on any screen. Use text anti-aliasing options for individual text frames.

Interact with gradients directly on your objects and control the transparency of individual colors in gradients and gradient meshes.

Draw behind elements, disregarding stacking order. Draw or place an image inside an element, instantly creating a clipping mask.

Use the Blob Brush in Illustrator to draw a stroke that generates a clean, filled, vector shape as you sketch, even when strokes overlap.

Experience numerous refinements for crafting beautiful graphics and illustrations in fewer steps and less time.

Perform daily tasks such as editing layer names and selecting fonts in fewer steps. Keep the focus on your artwork with an adjustable-brightness “dark UI.”

Sketch with Adobe Ideas and refine in Photoshop or Illustrator. Edit images with Adobe Photoshop Touch and refine in Photoshop. Create color themes in Adobe Kuler® for use in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.§