Adobe Photoshop CS6 beta

[arnica]

For those considering getting Photoshop, here's a beta version of CS6 for free.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/22/28...-download-free

[ameerat42]

Thanks, Arnica. The conditions look benign enough. If I have a spare hour I might give the download a whirl.
(I wonder what it's got over CS2?)
Am.

[agb]

At the moment if you have Lightroom 4 and you go to "photo edit in ... Photoshop CS5" it says that we need the ACR7 which will be available with Photoshop CS6. Does that mean that if we get Lightroom 4 we will have to have CS6 or we won't be able to edit in photoshop without saving as say a tiff and then opening that in photoshop?

[Muzfox]

ACR is usually a freebie, so I think once it's not in beta, you can just update ACR and not necessarily photoshop...but I've been wrong before!

[William]

Well I now have the Beta version of CS6 , Will give it a go over the weekend

[ameerat42]

Good LARK with it William.
My story: Yes, downloaded, read all the T&Cs, did the installation, ran it, and got exception errors of some sort.
Next: uninstalled it, deleted the original zip file and unzipped folder.
(Luckily too, I did a system restore point before all of the above.)

I thought, "Poss Off"! (The name of a possum repellent, but apt in the circumstances.)

How did anyone else fare?

BTW, XP SP2, Quad core, 2GB.
Umphh!

[fess67]

At the moment if you have Lightroom 4 and you go to "photo edit in ... Photoshop CS5" it says that we need the ACR7 which will be available with Photoshop CS6. Does that mean that if we get Lightroom 4 we will have to have CS6 or we won't be able to edit in photoshop without saving as say a tiff and then opening that in photoshop?

I have LR4 and I ignore that message and select open anyway. Opens in CS5 as a CR2 file.

[William]

@ AM, Sorry mate , I had the same problem, Look at the minimum requirement for CS6 , If running XP you need at least SP3 which I had to install as well

Anyway got it working , Looks a little different

[dbax]

be interested to hear of any big changes or new tools etc Bill

[William]

This shows some of the new features David , Still have;nt had a good play yet , BTW I got the 60 day trial, Not bad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTYcRWPsZUg

[William]

You actually get some links to tut's on start up from Adobe

EG :

[agb]

I have LR4 and I ignore that message and select open anyway. Opens in CS5 as a CR2 file.

Does that mean that it has not brought into PS any of the adjustments that you have done in LR4?

[fess67]

It brought the changes in but they did not seem as vibrant in CS5 as they did in LR4. The render using lightroom oprion did bring the changes across much more accurately but as a tif and not CR2

[ameerat42]

@ AM, Sorry mate , I had the same problem, Look at the minimum requirement for CS6 , If running XP you need at least SP3 which I had to install as well

Thanks, WIlliam. For some reason I cannot now remember, I never wanted to install SP3. Well, I might have to just do so

[William]

Thanks, WIlliam. For some reason I cannot now remember, I never wanted to install SP3. Well, I might have to just do so

Same here, I think it had something to do with slowing down the computor at the time , But now I have more ram and a better processor it works fine

[Bax]

So far I'm liking it, but I think I prefer CS4's camera raw editor. There are a lot of options and I'm short of photos to edit.

I like the built in gradient tools, something I use photoshop for quite a lot. But it didn't seem to work in the 5 minute play I had with it earlier. Definitely need to spend more time on it, as at this time I'm thinking about upgrading.

[ameerat42]

Installed SP3, CS6 - I get a 60-day trial - and all is running OK. Now "exploring" CS6.

One thing: how do you "click" an image closed while keeping CS open?
Um.

[William]

Here AM, Though you probably worked that out by now

[ameerat42]

Ta, William. Was in a rush after having a quick squiz. Had to take a trip to airport.
Back now, and having a good look.
Am.

[Tommo224]

I want to give this Beta a whirl. Some of the new features might make my life at work a slightly bit easier going!

But will have to see.