Photoshop 6.0
The world-standard image editing solution
Adobe® Photoshop® 6.0 software introduces the next generation of image editing with powerful new features that offer something for every user. Delivering the broadest and most productive toolset available, Photoshop helps you explore your creativity, work at peak efficiency, and achieve the highest quality results across all media.
Adobe® Photoshop® 6.0 provides integrated tools for creating and outputting crisp, editable vector shapes and text. With these new tools, you can incorporate resolution-independent, vector-based graphics and type into pixel-based images to achieve an unparalleled range of design effects.
The new rectangle, rounded rectangle, ellipse, polygon, and line tools let you create a wide variety of vector-based shapes. These tools can be used to create shape layers. Like Adobe Illustrator®, Photoshop 6.0 provides pathfinder operations — Add, Subtract, Restrict, and Invert — for quickly combining basic vector shapes into complex shapes.
With Photoshop 6.0, you can easily combine crisp, resolution-independent type with pixel-based images, and then output sharp type edges with your image to produce high-quality results. What's more, Photoshop includes extensive new type formatting controls to help you produce the best-looking text possible, including the new type-warping that lets you twist and pull type to produce cool effects. Best of all, the type remains directly editable in the image no matter how you manipulate it.
Photoshop 6.0 extends its integration with Adobe products by offering enhanced support for Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), including the ability to save transparency, layers, and vector objects in PDF files. Any service provider with Adobe Acrobat® InProduction™ (or other Acrobat prepress plug-ins) can then prepare those PDF files for high-end printing.
Photoshop 6.0 presents an intuitive new layer effects interface, a new selection of effect options, and new support for saving your layer effect designs as layer styles for ongoing use. The new Layer Styles dialog box shows at a glance which effects are applied to the currently selected layer and lets you define which effects to use in a layer style. Once you save a layer style, it appears in the new Styles palette.
Applying layer styles is easy: You create type, shapes, and other artwork elements on a layer, and then click a style in the Styles palette to apply it. Or, select a shape tool, choose a layer style from the context-sensitive tool options bar, and then start drawing; Photoshop applies the style as you draw. The combination of layer styles and the new shape tools opens up a wide array of creative opportunities for print and Web designers alike.
With the new Liquify command in Photoshop 6.0, you can quickly distort or warp an image by interactively pushing, pulling, rotating, enlarging, and shrinking different image areas. These distortion controls are ideal for a wide range of tasks from making fine warping adjustments to a small image area to making sweeping adjustments for a wildly warped-out effect. When you open the Liquify dialog box, you can display a fine mesh over the image to help you achieve precise adjustments. To prevent unwanted changes, freeze certain parts of the image and zero in on the areas you want to modify. To switch between large-scale changes and finer adjustments, vary the size of the brush you're using. The Liquify command also provides options for reconstructing the original image as needed.
