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Bring out the very best in your photos with Adobe® Photoshop® CS6 software. Use new Content-Aware Patch to retouch photos with astonishing ease, get superior processing with the Adobe Camera Raw 7, and intuitively enhance your videos.

New Blur Gallery

New Blur Gallery

Create photographic blurs in a few clicks using an all-new, utterly simple interface that offers on-image controls. Use Tilt-Shift Blur to simulate shallow depth of field or miniature scenes. Uniformly blur your entire image and then sharpen a single focal point with Iris Blur. Or select multiple focal points and then let Field Blur vary the blurriness between them.*

Content-Aware Patch

Content-Aware Patch

Patch images with greater control using Content-Aware Patch, which allows you to choose the area that Content-Aware will use to create your patch.

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Mercury Graphics Engine

Mercury Graphics Engine

See near-instant results when editing with key tools such as Liquify and Puppet Warp. The new Adobe Mercury Graphics Engine delivers unprecedented responsiveness for a fluid feel as you work.*

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Intuitive video creation

Intuitive video creation

Bring Photoshop editing power to your video footage. Easily enhance any clip using the full range of familiar Photoshop tools, and then create movies using an intuitive set of video tools.

All-new Crop tool

All-new Crop tool

Crop images faster and with greater precision using the all-new, nondestructive Crop tool. Rapidly manipulate your images on canvas and see your adjustments happen live thanks to the Mercury Graphics Engine.*

Improved auto corrections

Improved auto corrections

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

New and reengineered design tools

New and reengineered design tools

Create superior designs faster. Get consistent formatting with type styles, use vector layers to apply strokes and add gradients to vector objects, easily create custom strokes and dashed lines, quickly search layers, and more.

Background Save

Background Save

Keep working even while saving the largest of Photoshop files in the background — a performance improvement that can help your productivity soar.

Auto-recovery

Auto-recovery

Let the auto-recovery option work behind the scenes to save your edits without interrupting your progress. A copy of your work is saved every 10 minutes and recovered in the event of an unexpected shutdown.

Adobe Camera Raw 7

Adobe Camera Raw 7

Bring out the best in your JPEG and raw files with improved processing and an enhanced control set; reveal every detail in the highlights of an image while still retaining rich detail in the shadows; and much more.

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Dozens of user-inspired improvements

Save time with more than 65 new creativity and productivity enhancements that originated as suggestions from Photoshop users via Facebook, Twitter, and more.

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Adaptive Wide Angle

Adaptive Wide Angle

Easily straighten objects that appear curved in panoramas or photos shot with fisheye or wide-angle lenses. New on-canvas tools use the physical characteristics of individual lenses to automatically correct curvatures, and the Mercury Graphics Engine gives you near-instant results.

Modern user interface

Modern user interface

Work with a fresh, elegant interface featuring dark background options that make your images pop, and benefit from hundreds of design touches that create a smoother, more consistent editing experience.

Skin tone–aware selections and masking

Create precise selections and masks, enabling you to easily adjust or preserve skin tones; easily select intricate image elements, such as hair or faces; and more.

Content-Aware Fill

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

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Content-Aware Move

Content-Aware Move

Move or extend a selected object to another area of your image, and then watch as Content-Aware Move magically recomposes and blends the object for a stunning visual result.

Puppet Warp

Precisely reposition any image element to create a more visually appealing photo. For example, easily straighten an awkwardly bent arm. Powered by the Mercury Graphics Engine, Puppet Warp lets you edit with fluid responsiveness.*

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