Photoshop CS6 = My new love.

We have just upgraded to the latest Adobe suite here at Wiliam, and with that came my new love - Photoshop CS6. I don't even know where to begin explaining how much I love this updated version and how much it has made my life easier when designing.

I have a feeling Abobe was tracking how people worked on pervious versions and added new features and tweaks to better our experience. 

The first thing I love about Photoshop CS6 is it's enhancement to the crop tool. Now the whole canvas is preselected, which is such a big help. It reduces the number of steps needed to alter a canvas size. I know everyone has a different way of doing things in Photoshop, previously I used to click and drag the tool from top left to bottom right, then pull it down to extend my canvas. Now I just pull it down. Perfection.

Another small but life changing enhancement preselected state of the hex code within the colour picker tool. Again this cuts out so many added steps if you wanted to paste in a colour from a brand guideline. Previously, you would have to select the text manually, delete it and then paste. All you need to do now is open the tool and hit paste! Heaven.

Before Photoshop CS6, I would have to keep the Information tab constantly open in order to measure out how many pixel there were between elements. Not anymore! The marquee tool now comes with the Head Up Display system which shows you the measurements as you pull the tool over your canvas. Genius.

I am still yet to try out the new Paragraph and Character Style panels. But I know it will again cut down time when trying to keep headings/text consistent through PSD's. I have to applaud Adobe on their latest release of Photoshop CS6. I didn't think it would have such an impact on me since CS5 was not that much better/different than CS4. Adobe have done so well, I can't wait to try out all the features.