[Macworld]

Post your comments for Photoshop CS6 dazzles with technical prowess and artistic inspiration here

[jazzace]

Further cons (based on experience with the Beta and public statements by Adobe employees):

• Cannot disable desktop-blocking background
• Dual display support not as good as previous versions
• New serialization/copy protection method makes enterprise deployment much more difficult
• 1280 x 800 minimum resolution limits use in education and other environments using data projectors

And one further pro:

• Improved print dialog allows larger preview

We've weighed the pros and cons of this new release, and as much as that new print dialog box would have made a great difference for us, the cons trump that. We'll continue to use Photoshop CS 5.1, even though we already own licenses for CS 6 through an upgrade subscription program.

[randrade]

It still cracks me up how anyone proclaims Photoshop as being a "must have" for Photographers. Photoshop was a photographer's application back with version 2.5 or even version 3. A more appropriate name for this application would be CompositeShop or FantasticalShop or GraphicDesignerShop or something.

Pro photographers would do well with less costly apps designed for photographers such as Apple Aperture or Adobe Lightroom (oops, excuse me, Adobe renamed it to "Photoshop Lightroom" to capitalize on the Photoshop name - go figure). For less that $700 I have Aperture and PhotoTools plug-in, which - for a photographer's needs - does everything I can do in PhotosShop just as well, faster and easier - and truckloads of photographer-centric tools and abilities.

Photoshop is designed now for Graphic Designers, not Photographers. Don;t get me wrong here, I have Photoshop and it's excellent software. But as a photographer, using Photoshop is actually too rare an occasion to justify even the upgrade cost for the "standard" edition.

Only my own 2-cent comment here.

[pxforti]

My main question is: do cs6 apps play well with multiple desktops? Cs5 apps don't and of course adobe blames apple for the problem. The problem is the cs5 apps won't stay in a desktop. They keep jumping around and make it impossible to use multiple desktops.

[roark1]

Is Adobe Cloud mandatory with CS6?

[gwbeers]

3D in release version is literally useless. It worked in the Beta CS6 with OSX 10.7.4 and still works fine in CS5, but the CS6release version crashes like crazy. It doesn't allow me to save, alter a color, reposition an extrusion and randomly just quits. Very frustrating. Adobe says it's a glitch in the video card driver that was effected by the 10.7.4 upgrade, but they don't know why my CS 5 works flawlessly. There's a few discussions about this in Adobe's forums. Best to wait for a fix before laying out hundreds of bucks.

[davidhenry]

It's nice to read that CS6 is faster though that makes me wonder, "faster on what kind of computer?". I have a 21 inch iMac I bought in February 2008 with 4 gb of Ram (the most that can be installed on it). Will Photoshop CS6 be faster on my computer?

[garyoa1]

davidhenry, on 14 May 2012 - 01:21 PM, said:

It's nice to read that CS6 is faster though that makes me wonder, "faster on what kind of computer?". I have a 21 inch iMac I bought in February 2008 with 4 gb of Ram (the most that can be installed on it). Will Photoshop CS6 be faster on my computer?

You have to remember, an Imac is essentially a laptop on a stand without a cover. A laptop will never have the power a full size desktop will have.

[johngettler]

Yes you can get rid of the desktop blocking background. Go to Window, and uncheck "Application Frame."