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Adobe Photoshop CS4

Adobe Photoshop CS4

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Create powerful images with the professional standard

Adobe® Photoshop® CS4 software provides improved access to its unrivaled power through a more intuitive user experience, greater editing freedom, and significant productivity enhancements.

New features

Adjustments panel

Adjustments panel new

Simplify image adjustment by easily accessing every tool you need to nondestructively adjust and enhance the color and tone of your images; on-image controls and a wide variety of presets are also included in the live and dynamic Adjustments panel.

Masks panel

Masks panel new

Quickly create and edit masks from the new Masks panel. This panel offers all the tools you need to create editable pixel- and vector-based masks, adjust mask density and feathering, easily select noncontiguous objects, and more.

Content-Aware Scaling

Content-Aware Scaling new

Use the revolutionary Content-Aware Scaling feature to automatically recompose an image as you resize it, smartly preserving vital areas as the image adapts to the new dimensions. Get the perfect image in one step without time-intensive cropping and retouching.

Improved Adobe Photoshop Lightroom workflow

Improved Photoshop Lightroom workflow enhanced

Select multiple photos in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom® software (sold separately) and automatically open them in Photoshop CS4 to merge them into a panorama, a high dynamic range (HDR) photo, or a multilayered Photoshop document. And seamlessly roundtrip back to Lightroom.

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There's a lot under the hood

If you're a Photoshop power user, or aspiring to be one, check out these in-depth feature spotlights that offer useful tips and explain important, often overlooked new capabilities of Photoshop CS4. Learn about panel customization, optimizing performance, printing enhancements, and more.
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Images can be adjusted in half the time

According to independent third-party research, making several adjustments in Photoshop CS4 using the new Adjustments panel is more than twice as fast as using Adjustment Layers in previous versions to achieve the same results.


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Photoshop supports the DNG raw format

The DNG format helps promote archival confidence, since digital-imaging software solutions will be able to open your raw files more easily in the future.
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Highlights

Using Photoshop CS4

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