WHAT'S NEW IN PHOTOSHOP CS6 BETA

Wow! CS6 can do amazing things with Camera Raw and the Content Aware feature. They've incorporated Premier-type video editing into the program which is great, but you better have a fairly recent computer to run it. That's a guess, I haven't checked the specs.



Above, the very same features explained by a different filmmaker. Sometimes it helps to see more than one example.



Here's (above) a demonstration of the new oil paint feature in CS6. The presentation is too chatty, and it takes a couple of minutes to get started, but the example is amazing. The presenter takes a simple photo of some tree branches and in only a couple of minutes transforms them into an oil-like graphic that you'd expect to see on a book cover...and it's all done with a few sliders.

BTW: skip the ad in the beginning.



Above: speculation about the release date of the new MacBook Pro laptop. On another subject, if you can afford $3-4,000 for a top of the line animation desktop, the latest Mac Xeon should be out this year. Some speculate that Mac will discontinue it. If true, too bad...it would come in handy for the new Toon Boom programs which are reputed to be power hogs.

From what I hear, Toon Boom programs aren't written very well. Photoshop has a lot more functions but still manages to take up less space.