Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Mac)

I've been using Photoshop for years, pretty much always the latest version, and it's fair to say that not all upgrades have been equally significant. CS6 is genuinely a solid new version, with some very useful additions and tweaks.I primarily use PS for software and web user interface designs and mockups, rather than photo editing or retouching. I work with large documents, dozens or hundreds of layers, and make heavy use of Layer Styles. If your job involves retouching, I'm still sure you'll find many worthwhile new features here (Content-Aware Patch, and Blur Gallery are prime examples), but my own experience naturally focuses on the type of work I do. Here's what I'm most enjoying in CS6:1. True vector shapes. Shapes created with the various Shape tools now have genuine strokes as well as fills, as you may be familiar with from Adobe Illustrator. These are entirely independent of the Stroke Layer Style. You can apply a colour, gradient or pattern stroke to a shape (or disable the stroke entirely), and you can apply dashed, dotted and even custom line-gap-line-gap styles of line with your own choice of corner types, mitering etc. It opens up a lot of possibilities for scaleable graphic effects without using a lot of layers.2. Global pixel-snapping. There's finally a global option (in Preferences) to make all vector tools and transforms auto-snap to the pixel grid, for sharp edges. They've also correspondingly refined the relationship between zoom-level and nudging (you can still get the old behaviour too). This saves so much hassle with partial-pixel anti-aliasing mess around the edges of shapes.3. Layer search. You can now search the Layers palette, by Kind (pixel-based, adjustment, text, shape, or Smart Object), Name, Effect (Layer Style), compositing mode, label colour, and even a host of other properties like visibility, locked status, whether it has a layer mask applied, and more. Layers which don't match your search disappear from the Layers palette until you clear the search. It's incredibly useful, and instantly gets rid of the need to flip Groups open or closed just because you want to, say, copy a Layer Style from a particular layer that's deeply nested.4. Layer Styles for Groups. You can now apply Layer Styles to Groups (the folders in the Layers palette), as well as to Layers themselves. You can do both, and the styles accumulate. You can achieve some previously pretty much impossible effects with this conceptually simple but incredibly powerful feature. You can even nest Groups and apply Layer Styles to them all, just as you'd want.5. Editing improvements. You can now click on the canvas to create a shape, as well as dragging the shape out as before. You'll see a dialog letting you enter precise dimensions, which is a huge time-saver. When creating, moving or transforming shapes you'll see a mini-display beside the mouse pointer, showing appropriate information like width and height, or horizontal and vertical movement. Much nicer than having to watch the Info palette out of the corner of your eye while mousing around.6. Speed. PS CS6 is noticeably faster to launch than CS5, and interactive effects are similarly faster. It also saves files in the background, so there's no delay before continuing work (you can switch that off too, if you like - which you might want to if you're saving enormous files regularly, or over the network).It really seems to me that Adobe have (for once!) focused on improving the core features of Photoshop, rather than just adding esoteric things that only a handful of users will ever touch. CS6 is better in almost every way for about 70% of the stuff I do. I can recommend it without hesitation.

It hasn't turned up may sound stupid but don't know how to contact anyone to get it - is there something Obvious I am missing?

How nice it is to have an actual software in your hand. Pricey, but Photoshop is just great. The downside is that it is very expensive.

Very good product which you would expect from Adobe but a hell of a lot to learn to be able to use it correctly.

I have been using photoshop for years now and I love it. There is nothing else which comes near to this. User friendly. Please do not stop making discs for this. I am not a fan of downloads or monthly subscriptions.

AS a freelance press photographer this is a vital tool to ensure my photographs look their best before I send them off to editors ( now we're no longer using film, yes I'm that old ! ).

So much better than CS4 and CS5 and great with Efex Pro Plug-ins. I got the CD version as I don't like the Cloud versions

Adobe Photoshop is the best photo editing application ever. I have been using Adobe Photoshop since my first time using it back in 2007 and I have also used other photo editing apps such as Windows Live Photo Gallery on my old HP laptop and they were ok for basic essential photo editing but Adobe Photoshop has always been better than those other photo editing apps. I have a lot of Adobe apps on my MacBook Pro and judging by the apps that I have used already Adobe always makes the best creative products in the world such as Adobe Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, After Effects, Audition and Bridge so trust me when I say that Adobe Photoshop CS6 is a great application to have on your PC or Mac. I am currently using Adobe Photoshop CS6 on my MacBook Pro and I love it so much.