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Adobe Releases Photoshop CS6 Beta As A Free Download

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Adobe has released the Adobe Photoshop CS6 beta as a free download from Adobe Labs. Photoshop CS6 beta is available for the Mac OS and Microsoft Windows platforms. The final release is expected in the first half of 2012.

New features in Photoshop CS6 include additions to the Content-Aware tools: Content-Aware Patch allows greater control by letting users select and duplicate an area of an image to fill in or “patch” another, and Content-Aware Move lets users select and move an object to a new place in the image.

 

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