• Professional toolset
  Create original images or modify photos using a full assortment of painting, drawing, and retouching tools.
• Improved File Browser
  Quickly preview, tag, and sort images; search and edit metadata and keywords; and automatically share batches of files from the improved File Browser.
• Customized workspace
  Work the way that's best for you by saving personalized workspace and tool settings and creating customized keyboard shortcuts.
• History palette
  Experiment freely knowing you can instantly undo or redo multiple steps with the History palette.
• Filter Gallery
  Browse Photoshop filters from the Filter Gallery, where you can preview stacked effects.

Graphic Design Features

• Layers
  Achieve sophisticated results by compositing images, text, and effects on hundreds of layers that you control by grouping into sets, color coding, and locking.
• Layer Comps
  Create design variations for clients more efficiently by saving different combinations of layers within the same file as Layer Comps.
• Text on a path
  Create eye-catching typography by placing text on paths or within shapes. Edit the text at any time, even in Adobe Illustrator software.
• Artistic brushes
  Simulate traditional fine-art techniques with dry and wet brush effects, pastel, charcoal, and more. Even use brushes to add special effects such as grass and leaves.
• Special effects filters
  Easily experiment and achieve amazing results by accessing more than 95 special effects filters. Preview and apply more than one filter at a time with the new Filter Gallery.

Photography Features

• Color correction
  Improve the color, contrast, and dynamic range of any image with a comprehensive set of professional color-correction tools.
• Match Color command
  Achieve a consistent look between package shots, fashion photos, and more by instantly matching the color scheme of one image to another.
• Histogram palette
  Monitor changes to your image in the Histogram palette, which dynamically updates as you make adjustments
• Healing Brush
  Effortlessly remove dust, scratches, blemishes, wrinkles, and other flaws with the Healing Brush.
• Shadow/Highlight correction
  Quickly improve the contrast of over- or underexposed areas of an image while preserving the overall balance of the photo using Shadow/Highlight correction.
• Comprehensive 16-bit support
  Perform more precise editing and retouching with expanded support for 16-bit images in core features, including layers, brushes, text, shapes, and more.
• Integrated digital camera raw file support
  Get truer, higher quality output by working with the complete raw data files from most major digital camera models.
• File Browser tagging
  Protect your images by adding key copyright information in the editable metadata panel of the File Browser.

Web Production Features with ImageReady CS

• Enhanced ImageReady user interface
  Create and modify Web designs faster with multiple object selection, object grouping, and smart guides.
• Improved Photoshop integration
  Enjoy quicker, more seamless integration between Photoshop and ImageReady, plus automated file saving and common commands, tools, and shortcuts.
• Image slicing
  Slice complex, layered images and apply appropriate format and compression settings to each area before exporting as an HTML table.
• Variable data support
  Easily import database and spreadsheet information to automate the production of Web graphics.
• Macromedia Flash file export
  Use ImageReady CS to create Macromedia Flash (SWF) animations, complete with vector artwork and variable text.

Video Features

• Non-square pixel support
  Create and work with different aspect ratios to accommodate non-square pixels without distortion.
• Guide presets
  Easily design using video-specific presets that show action-safe and title-safe areas of the screen.
• Enhanced 16-bit compositing
  Perform more precise matte painting, 3D rendering, and other advanced film compositing with expanded support for 16-bit images in core features, including layers, brushes, and more.
• Layers-to-files export
  Quickly integrate layered Photoshop artwork with a variety of video editing and compositing systems using the built-in Export Layers to Files command.