Photoshop CS6 Extended / Buying guide
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Photoshop CS3 Extended
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Photoshop CS4 Extended
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Photoshop CS5 Extended
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Photoshop CS6 Extended
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| Simplified 3D design* | ||||
| On-canvas 3D controls at your fingertips |
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| Reflections and draggable shadows |
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| Easy alignment and distribution of 3D objects |
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| 3D performance boost |
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| Enhanced 3D animation |
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| 3D stereo viewing and printing |
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| Adobe Flash® Professional 3D export |
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| 3D Sketch and Cartoon presets |
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| Extrude option |
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| 3D materials library and picker |
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| Depth of field for 3D |
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| Easy-to-use shadow catcher |
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| Image-based lighting |
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| 3D object painting |
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| Photoshop 3D engine |
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| 2D and 3D compositing |
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| Imaging magic | ||||
| Content-Aware Patch |
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| Content-Aware Move |
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| All-new Crop tool |
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| Skin tone–aware selections and masking |
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| Improved auto-corrections |
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| Adaptive Wide Angle |
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| Content-Aware Fill |
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| Puppet Warp |
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| Content-Aware Scaling |
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| Maximum creativity | ||||
| Intuitive video creation |
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| Reengineered design tools |
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| Layer search |
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| Blur Gallery |
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| Erodible brushes |
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| Enhanced airbrush tips |
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| Oil Painting filter |
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| Scripted Patterns |
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| Local corrections and Shadows and Highlights controls in Adobe Camera Raw 7 plug-in |
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| Lighting Effects Gallery with 64-bit support |
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| Support for Photoshop companion apps |
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| Tools for intelligent selections |
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| Color decontamination for selections |
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| Selection and mask refinement tools |
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| Additive grain in Camera Raw |
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| Noise removal in Camera Raw |
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| Superior HDR imaging and HDR Toning |
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| Mixer Brush |
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| Bristle Tips |
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| Automatic lens correction |
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| Straighten Image tool |
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| Post-crop vignetting |
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| Fluid canvas rotation |
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| Ultra-smooth zoom and pan |
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| Extended depth of field |
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| Creative content (shapes, styles, swatches, and so on) |
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| Industry-leading color correction |
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| Auto-alignment of layers |
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| Auto-blending of images |
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| Peak performance | ||||
| Adobe Mercury Graphics Engine* |
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| Preset migration and sharing |
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| Background Save |
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| Auto-recovery |
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| Modern user interface |
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| 10-bit deep color support |
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| Support for 3D LUTs |
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| Properties panel |
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| Adobe Mini Bridge |
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| Paste in Place |
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| 64-bit support † |
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| Multitouch support ‡ |
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| Custom panels |
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| Tabbed interface with self-adjusting panels |
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| Adobe Photoshop Lightroom® integration |
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| Powerful printing options |
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| Broad file format support |
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| Mobile device support |
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| High-resolution web display |
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| Powerful extensibility |
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| Quantitative image analysis | ||||
| DICOM directory support |
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| DICOM volume rendering |
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| Quantitative data extraction |
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| Scale markers |
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| Count tool |
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| Edit tracking |
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| MATLAB support |
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| Image Stacks |
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3D features and some GPU-enabled features are not supported on Microsoft® Windows® XP.
Photoshop CS5 Extended and CS6 Extended: Mac OS and Windows; Photoshop CS4: Windows only
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