
If you're a casual photographer, there's nothing about Photoshop CS6 (a.k.a. These ergonomic improvements, like the new Crop Tool, let us make more pictures faster, so we make more money, which makes the price of this software irrelevant to the full-time professional. We don't want to be using Photoshop at all we want to be out shooting, delivering final product and making money, not playing on a computer. While Photoshop CS6 has 62% more features than Photoshop CS5, what really maters to professionals are the simple improvements that let us get more done faster. Sometimes I've even dreamt in Photoshop, which scared the heck out of me when I woke up and realized how much of my life is spent in Photoshop, instead of outdoors.

I earn my living using Photoshop about six days a week. CS4 was very buggy, and otherwise, every version of Photoshop has been the world standard for image editing.

Photoshop is one of the longest running franchises in consumer software.įirst there was Photoshop (1990), then Photoshop 2 (1992), then Photoshop 3 (1994), then Photoshop 4 (1995), then Photoshop 5 (1997), then Photoshop 6 (1999), then Photoshop 7 (2000), then Photoshop CS (v.8, 2001), then Photoshop CS2 (v.9, 2002), then Photoshop CS3 (v.10, 2005), then Photoshop CS4 (v.11, 2008), then Photoshop CS5 (v.12, 2010), and now Photoshop CS6 (v.13, 2012).

Photoshop CS6 is really Photoshop 13 Adobe changed the name to CS, "Creative Suite," back at version 8 to make it seem bright and new, as opposed just to a perennial update. Photoshop has been the world's top computer program for editing and optimizing images for over twenty years.
