Photoshop

Arriving two years after CS5, and a year after CS5.5, CS6 is now available for pre-order, with Adobe promising delivery "within 30 days." Adobe's subscription-based Creative Cloud takes a central role in the massive release, which includes 14 CS6 applications and four Creative Suites. The all-you-can download plan is yours for $49.99 per month, which is the cost if you sign up for an annual contract (it's $74.99 per month for month-to-month membership).

I don't know about you but those increasingly seductive "sneak peeks" of Photoshop CS6, topped by the truly epic Content Aware Move, have made the last few months increasingly hard to get through. Sure, CS5.1 (or 12, using the pre-Suite numbering schema), was not without its charms but most of us chose to pass and wait for the CS6 Suite version.

After being available for months for Android, Adobe has finally released the iPad version of Photoshop Touch in the

Adobe® Creative Cloud™ is a creative hub where you can explore, create, publish, and share your work using Adobe Creative Suite® desktop applications, Adobe Touch Apps, and services together for a complete ideation-to-publishing experience. The vision of Adobe Creative Cloud is to turn previously difficult, disparate workflows into one intuitive, natural experience, allowing you to create freely and deliver ideas on any desktop, tablet, or handheld device.

If you work a lot in Photoshop with large files, be sure to read this article on Adobe about key steps to optimize Photoshop CS5 performance:

Watch this amazing demo about a possible new Photoshop feature that allows you to deblur images with a special algorithm.

Adapted from Photoshop Compositing Secrets (Peachpit Press)

By Matt Kloskowski

Adobe released three cool new iPad apps that work together with Adobe Photoshop CS5.

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