GENUINE ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6 WITH CODE FOR THE MAC

Image editing software with an extensive toolset and powerful new features

Use for graphic and website design, photography and collage, pre-press, and more

Easily combine crisp, resolution-independent type with pixel-based images

Output sharp type edges with your image to produce high-quality results

Includes extensive new type formatting controls to produce the best-looking text

With each new release of Photoshop, Adobe manages both to satisfy the expectations of existing users and to pull a few magic features out of its hat. Version 6 is no exception. Powerful vector editing and masking, improved layer controls, layer styles, incredible typographic control, new web publishing tools and a cleaner more accessible interface are already making version 5.5, itself a groundbreaker, look like ancient history. Photoshop's new vector features provide yet more control when compositing photographic images. You can use the vector drawing tools simply to create polygons and custom shapes, but they can also act as layer clipping paths--vector masks that hide or reveal image areas in underlying layers. Editable layer effects like drop shadow and glow were introduced in version 5.5, in version 6 they have been renamed layer styles. New options include satin, stroke and colour, gradient and pattern overlay. The layer styles dialogue box provides much more control--Bevel and Emboss has five style options as well as adjusters for technique, depth, direction, size, soften, angle, attitude, gloss, contour, highlight mode, opacity--and that's not all of them. And as the name suggests, Layer Styles can easily be saved and applied to other layers. You can enter and edit text directly onto the layer and set style attributes from the new tool options bar. Photoshop 6 seems to have benefited from some of InDesign's superb typographic tools, with character and paragraph palettes providing precise control. Web imaging tools have been revamped, with layer-based slicing now available from within Photoshop itself and a major overhaul of ImageReady introducing weighted optimisation, rollover styles and tweened animation. If you want the best image-editing software that money can buy, look no further. For users of 5.5 there never was a more compelling reason to upgrade. --Ken McMahon

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