Unique World: 05/01/2012

Some new Tools Arrived in Adobe Photoshop CS6... Just take a look...

What's new in Photoshop CS6?

Adobe® Photoshop® CS6 software delivers even more imaging magic, new creative options, and the Adobe Mercury Graphics Engine for blazingly fast performance. Retouch with greater precision, and intuitively create 3D graphics, 2D designs, and movies using new and reimagined tools and workflows.*

Photoshop CS6 Features

Enhance your creativity and boost your productivity. Adobe® Photoshop® CS6 software delivers blazingly fast performance with the new Adobe Mercury Graphics Engine, groundbreaking new Content-Aware tools, simplified 3D artwork creation, reengineered design tools, and more.*

Content-Aware Patch : Patch images with greater control using Content-Aware Patch, which allows you to choose the area that Content-Aware will use to create your patch.

Mercury Graphics Engine : See near-instant results when you're editing images with key tools such as Liquify and Puppet Warp, creating 3D artwork, and working with matte paintings and other large files.*

3D performance boost : Experience enhanced performance throughout your 3D workflows. View shadows and reflections in all editing modes, quickly render final work in Adobe RayTrace mode thanks to the Mercury Graphics Engine, and much more.*

3D controls at your fingertips : Use a vastly simplified user interface to intuitively create and animate 3D artwork. Use in-context and on-canvas controls to manipulate cages for 3D extrusions, change the orientation of scenes and objects, edit lights, and more.*

New and reengineered design tools : Create superior designs faster. Get consistent formatting with type styles, use vector layers to apply strokes and add gradients to vector objects, easily create custom strokes and dashed lines, quickly search layers, and more.

New Blur Gallery : Quickly create photographic blur effects using a simple new interface with on-image controls. Create tilt-shift effects, blur everything and then sharpen one focal point, or vary the blurriness between multiple focal points. The Mercury Graphics Engine delivers immediate results.*

All-new Crop tool : Crop images faster and with greater precision using the all-new, nondestructive Crop tool. Manipulate your images on canvas, and take advantage of the Mercury Graphics Engine to see your adjustments happen live.*

Modern user interface : Work with a fresh, elegant interface featuring dark background options that make your images pop, and benefit from hundreds of design touches that create a smoother, more consistent editing experience.

New reflections and draggable shadows : Quickly achieve 3D realism by adding and enhancing shadows and reflections on your ground plane. Drag a shadow to reposition the light source, and easily edit ground reflections, shadows, and other effects.*

Intuitive video creation : Bring Photoshop image editing power to your videos. Easily enhance any clip using the full range of familiar Photoshop editing tools, and combine clips and stills with transitions, audio, and effects such as pan and zoom.

Background Save : Keep on working even while saving the largest of Photoshop files in the background — a performance improvement that can help your productivity soar.

Auto-recovery : Let the auto-recovery option work behind the scenes to save your edits without interrupting your progress. A copy of your work is saved every 10 minutes and recovered in the event of an unexpected shutdown.

Easy alignment and distribution of 3D objects : Create rich 3D scenes in less time now that you can automatically align 3D objects to the vanishing point in your image and manipulate a group of 3D objects at one time using a new multiselect option.*

Dozens of user-inspired improvements : Save time with more than 65 new creativity and productivity enhancements that originated as suggestions from Photoshop users via Facebook, Twitter, and more.

Preset migration and sharing : Easily migrate your presets, workspaces, preferences, and settings so you can experience Photoshop in the same way on all your computers, share your setup, and bring your customizations from past versions into Photoshop CS6.

Content-Aware Move : Move or extend a selected object to another area of your image, and then watch as Content-Aware Move magically recomposes and blends the object for a stunning visual result.

Revolutionary erodible brushes : Draw more naturally and realistically using drawing tips that erode as you work. Endlessly wear down and sharpen a charcoal pencil or pastel to create different effects, and save favorite blunted tips as presets.

New painting presets : Simplify painting with new presets that offer a good starting point for creating realistic painting effects.

Scripted Patterns : Generate geometric pattern fills faster with Scripted Patterns.

Enhanced 3D animation : Animate all 3D properties — including cameras, lights, materials, and meshes — using the Animation timeline. Final rendering performance is now much improved during export of your 3D animation.*

Flexible render modes for shadows : Work more fluidly now that you can preview shadows in both GL and Adobe RayTrace render modes.*

Accurate 3D object merge : Accurately merge multiple 3D objects in a single scene so they can interact with the same lighting and cameras.*

Alternate views : Easily view your 3D artwork from multiple angles while editing.*

3D stereo viewing and printing : Easily import common stereo formats, such as JPS and MPO, into the 3D pipeline, and make simple adjustments to set depth and range. View a stereo image on stereo monitors or TVs, or print it as a lenticular 3D image.*

Adobe Flash 3D export : Easily export 3D artwork in Adobe Flash® 3D format for viewing in web browsers. Also export 3D artwork assets for use in Adobe Flash Builder® software (sold separately).*

3D sketch and cartoon presets : Click once to give your 3D objects the look of sketches or cartoons, and automatically create sketch presets by creating any brush stroke.*

Improved 3D extrusion engine : Create stunning 3D logos and artwork from any text layer, selection, path, or layer mask with the improved 3D extrusion engine, which offers faster editing, on-canvas controls, and better beveling options.*

Type styles : Save time and ensure a consistent look with type styles, which let you apply formatting to selected characters, lines, or paragraphs of text with a single click.

Vector layers : Use vector layers to apply strokes and even add gradients to vector objects.

Sharper vector rendering : Get sharper rendering by clicking once to snap the edges of vector objects to pixels.

Custom strokes and dashed lines : Easily create custom strokes and dashed lines.

Layer search : Use layer search capabilities to quickly zero in on the layer you need.

Lighting Effects Gallery : Get better performance and results with the new, 64-bit Lighting Effects Gallery. The plug-in is powered by the Mercury Graphics Engine and offers on-canvas controls and previews that make it easier to visualize your lighting enhancements.*

Oil Painting filter : Quickly give your work the look of a fine painting with the Oil Painting filter powered by the Mercury Graphics Engine. Control the style of your brush as well as the direction and shine of your lighting for a superior look.

Airbrush tips : Create realistic airbrush effects using fluid, lifelike controls and granular paint particles.

Brush enhancements : Paint more naturally by manually changing the rotation of your paint brush with your mouse. Dynamically resize your brushes with shortcuts, and take advantage of the Mercury Graphics Engine to fluidly adjust opacity or hardness.

10-bit deep color support : Get a more accurate representation of how your images will appear in film with 10-bit monitor support. See just the pixels youâ?™ve captured, reduce or eliminate the need for dithering, and reduce contouring or banding.†

Support for 3D LUTs : Retouch images for film more easily with 3D lookup tables (LUTs) — including Adobe SpeedGrade™ .Look color LUTs — that you can turn on when you need to tweak raw color data.

OpenEXR transparency preferences : Choose whether you'd like to handle alpha channels in OpenEXR files as alpha channels or transparency.

Properties panel : Save time with a context-sensitive Properties panel that lets you make quick updates to the properties of your masks, adjustments, and 3D content.

Adobe Bridge CS6 : Manage your media faster — especially when working with large image files. Adobe Bridge CS6 offers cross-platform 64-bit support and a range of user interface and database enhancements.

Redesigned Adobe Mini Bridge : Access your images and documents more quickly and easily in Adobe Mini Bridge, redesigned as an elegant filmstrip.

New heads-up displays : Use heads-up displays to get greater precision when selecting and transforming objects and text.

Enhanced TIFF support : Work with a larger range of TIFF files. Enhanced TIFF support allows for greater bit depths and larger file sizes.

Automatic resampling : Get great results when resizing an image — the best resample method is automatically selected.

Filler text : Save time with the ability to insert "Lorem ipsum" filler text when working with type.

Increased maximum brush sizes : Edit and paint with brush sizes all the way up to 5000px.

System requirements Windows

•Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor
•Microsoft® Windows® XP* with Service Pack 3 or Windows 7 with Service Pack 1
•1GB of RAM
•1GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash storage devices)
•1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit color and 512MB of VRAM
•OpenGL 2.0–capable system
•DVD-ROM drive
•This software will not operate without activation. Broadband Internet connection and registration are required for software activation, validation of subscriptions, and access to online services.† Phone activation is not available.

* 3D features and some GPU-enabled features are not supported on Windows XP.

In this tutorial we’ll show you how to make a realistic rainy window effect using basic Photoshop tools, filters, brush and layer styles.

This is what we ‘ll be creating:

Model

Step 1

Open your model picture. You can use your own image. I crop this picture to make a better effect (for this tutorial purpose). Hit C to active this tool and grab a square around the part you want to take then hit one button to complete this action.

Step 2

Press W to active Magic Wand Tool with settings below. Use Magic Wand Tool to click inside white background of this picture :

Hit Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+I to inverse this selection and we have selection for model

Right click this selection, choose Layer via Copy and we have a new layer with extracted model. Name this layer as “model”:

Step 3

Duplicate model layer we have “model copy”. Go to Filter-Blur-Gassian Blur and set radius as 1,5 px (it depends on the sharpness of your photo):

Add layer mask and use soft black brush with opacity and flow about 50% to make some parts of model more visible:

Step 4

I want to change color of model so I use a Curves layer. Choose Layer-New adjustment layer-Curves:

Step 5

I use a Hue/Saturation layer to reduce red and magenta tone of model:

Step 6

Hit Cmd/Ctr/Shift+N to make a new layer. Choose Edit-Fill with color #605a4b:

Lower opacity of this layer to 30%:

Make a new layer fill again but with color #043157 and opacity 40%:

It’s only my favorite color choice and you’re free to make color you like.

Step 7

In this step we will make a glass window effect. Create a new layer with method used above. Set foreground and background color to white ( #ffffff) and #3a4755.

Go to Filter-Render-Clouds:

We have :

Choose Filter-Distort-Glass:

Change the mode to Soft light 80%:

Add layer mask and use soft black brush with opacity and flow 40% to blur glass effect on model face, hands:

Step 8

In some next steps I’ll show you how to make realistic rain drops. Make a new layer on the top and set foreground color to white. Hit B to active Brush tool, choose size with 3 px then press F5 to make settings of this brush as shown below:

Use brush to paint over the picture:

Name it “small drops”. Right click this layer, choose Blending Options:

Lower opacity of this layer to 50%:

Step 9

Create a new layer and use white brush with same settings but increase brush size to 9px. Paint on the pic as shown below:

Apply layer style like in step 8 but add more Drop Shadow effect:

Change opacity to 30%:

Step 10

To make rain traces on window, I use white brush with changed settings:

Make some random traces on window:

Apply same layer style done in previous step ( Drop Shadow, Inner Shadow, Bevel and Emboss) but set opacity to 20%:

Step 11

The model hands pulsing the window so them need to be clearer, darker, more visible. Come back to model layer, make selection for model hands as shown below (don’t need to be so precise with these selections):

Copy them into a new layer (right click, choose Layer via Copy like we did in step 2) and place this layer on the top. Call it “hands”:

Lower opacity to 10% and use layer mask to hide the edges of them:

Step 12

Click Filter-Distort-Ripple:

Then Filter-Stylize-Diffuse:

Step 13

Choose a Hue/Saturation layer above hands layer with Clipping Mask options:

Down the lightness to -100

Step 14

To darken the hands more, I use a new layer (non-Clipping Mask) and brush with color #3a4755. Paint on right hand with brush 100% opacity and 30% for the left (as it’s darker than the right already). Put the mode as Soft light 50%:

Step 15

To change the light of picture, I use Gradient layer. Make a layer and hit G to choose Gradient Tool (with default color : black and white) with settings below: