Lynda.com - Photoshop CS6 Beta Preview (2012)

In this course, Deke McClelland offers a sneak peak at the new features in the free public beta of Photoshop CS6. He reveals the secrets behind the new dark interface, searchable layers, the powerful Blur Gallery, Camera Raw 7, video editing, and the Adaptive Wide Angle filter, which removes distortion from extreme wide-angle photographs and panoramas. Deke also covers the new nondestructive Crop tool, dashed strokes, paragraph and character styles, editable 3D type, and the exciting Content-Aware Move tool, which moves selections and automatically heals the backgrounds.

Introduction
• Introducing Photoshop CS6

1. The New Features
• The secrets of the dark interface
• Saving with Background Save and Auto Save
• Cropping with the altogether revamped Crop tool
• Using the consolidated Properties panel
• Exploring the searchable Layers panel
• Modifying multiple layers at a time
• Exploring the wide world of layer enhancements
• Using Content-Aware Move and Extend
• Using Content-Aware Patch
• Making powerful automatic color adjustments
• Exploring the brave new world of Camera Raw 7
• Using the new three-part Blur Gallery
• Working with the Adaptive Wide Angle filter
• Correcting wide-angle panoramas
• Exploring text and style enhancements
• Filling and stroking shape layers
• Aligning and stacking vector-based shapes
• Working with the Scripted Patterns feature
• Using erodible brush tips and airbrushes
• Working with the enhanced Liquify filter
• Exploring the new Oil Paint filter
• Selecting skin tones and faces
• Using the new Lighting Effects filter
• Editing videos in the Timeline panel
• Making editable 3D type
• Exploring 3D shadows and reflections
• Aligning and distributing meshes in 3D

Conclusion
• Goodbye

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