Adobe® Creative Suite® 6 Design Standard software enables lightning-fast creativity thanks to massive performance boosts in both Adobe Photoshop® and Adobe Illustrator®. Tackle new design projects such as video editing with Photoshop and designing for iPads and other tablets with Adobe InDesign®. And speed up repetitive print production tasks with dozens of timesaving enhancements.
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Work with lightning-fast creativity in Photoshop and Illustrator
Discover a host of high-performance drawing, painting, pattern, and image manipulation tools in Adobe® Creative Suite® 6 Design Standard software designed to expand your creative freedom. Adobe Photoshop® CS6 and Illustrator® CS6 have been redesigned to let you work faster than ever before.
Astonishing performance in Photoshop Experience blazing-fast interactions when editing with key tools such as Crop, Transform, Liquify, and Puppet Warp. The Adobe Mercury Graphics Engine delivers unprecedented speed and responsiveness for a fluid feel as you work.
Faster design tasks in Photoshop
Finesse details quickly with new and reengineered tools. Apply type styles, use vector layers to apply strokes and add gradients to vector objects, create custom strokes and dashed lines, quickly search layers, and more.
Adobe Mercury Performance System in Illustrator
Work blazingly fast — even with processing-intensive effects such as blurs, glows, and drop shadows that used to slow you down. Access all the RAM on your system thanks to native 64-bit support on both Mac OS and Windows®.
Easy pattern creation in Illustrator
Easily create seamlessly tiled vector patterns. Experiment freely with repeating patterns that can be edited at any time.
Image Trace in Illustrator
Convert raster images to editable vectors with a completely new tracing engine. Get clean lines, accurate fitting, and reliable results without dealing with complex controls.
Gradients on strokes in Illustrator
Apply gradients to your strokes — along the length, across the width, or within the stroke itself — all with complete control over gradient placement and opacity.
Blur Gallery in Photoshop
Quickly create photographic blur effects using a simple interface with on-image controls. Create tilt-shift effects, blur everything and then sharpen one focal point, or vary the blurriness between multiple focal points.
Realistic painting effects in Photoshop
Paint with lifelike brushstrokes to create expressive images. Blend a photo's colors, use bristle properties such as shape, length, and stiffness, or define multiple colors on a single brush and blend them into your canvas.
Perspective drawing in Illustrator
Draw shapes in accurate 1-, 2-, or 3-point linear perspective to create the look of realistic depth and distance.
Puppet Warp in Photoshop
Precisely warp or stretch graphics, text, or image elements to create unique new looks for your designs.
Create and manage multiple layouts from one set of content in InDesign
Swiftly repurpose your content in Adobe InDesign® CS6 into layouts of different sizes and aspect ratios, suitable for print and a wide range of digital displays, from smartphone to tablet to computer desktop.
Alternate Layout in InDesign
Create and design alternate layouts that reposition content and synchronize text for other page sizes, orientations, or devices within the same document and without losing control.
Liquid Layout in InDesign
Apply liquid page rules to automatically adapt content when you create an alternate layout with a different size or orientation in InDesign.
Content Collector tools in InDesign
Quickly copy groups of content from one layout to another. Select desired text and objects in one layout, and place them in the new layout in the order you want them to appear.
Content linking across InDesign documents
Link content that appears in multiple InDesign documents so that changes made to parent text or objects are applied automatically to all linked children objects. Save time and avoid hassles when making last-minute changes.
Produce video, apps, and more without learning new software
Use familiar tools to easily apply your creative expression to an expanded world of design applications.
Tablet publications in InDesign
Use InDesign to create media-rich publications for iPad and other tablet devices. Add interactive elements such as pan and zoom, slide shows, audio, and video. Upload to Adobe Digital Publishing Suite† for distribution.
Video editing in Photoshop
Edit video in Photoshop to include in your digital publishing projects. Quickly combine clips and stills using transitions, audio, and effects, such as pan and zoom.
eBook authoring in InDesign
Create engaging eBooks with refined typography and images that resize automatically to fit any screen. Add video and audio for eBook mobile devices that support HTML5 video and audio tags, and take advantage of EPUB3 support.‡
PDF forms in InDesign
Use InDesign to add form fields to a layout. Include standard elements such as text fields, radio buttons, and checkboxes, and export the form as a PDF file for online publishing.
Benefit from timesaving enhancements in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign
Stay focused on creativity with more than a dozen improvements that can help boost your efficiency every day.
Content-Aware Patch in Photoshop Patch images with greater control using Content-Aware Patch, which enables you to specify the sample area from which it creates a patch.
All-new Crop tool in Photoshop
Crop images fast and precisely using the hardware-accelerated, nondestructive Crop tool. Manipulate your images on canvas and see the adjustments live.
Improved auto-corrections in Photoshop
Enhance your images with improved Auto Curves, Levels, and Brightness/Contrast controls. Intelligence from thousands of hand-retouched images is built in to provide a better starting point for making adjustments.
Background Save in Photoshop
Protect against losing your work during unexpected shutdowns. Auto-save your edits without interrupting your progress, and keep working while saving even the largest Photoshop files in the background.
Scripted Patterns in Photoshop
Generate geometric pattern fills more easily with new Scripted Patterns.
Preset sharing in Photoshop
Easily migrate your presets, workspaces, preferences, and settings so you can experience Photoshop in the same way on all your computers.
Content-Aware Fill in Photoshop
Remove any image detail or object and watch as Content-Aware Fill magically fills in the space left behind. Match lighting, tone, and noise so it looks as if the removed content never existed.
Truer Edge selection in Photoshop
Get better edge detection and masking results in less time with the Quick Selection tool — even when you're selecting the trickiest image elements, such as hair.
Black-and-white conversion in Photoshop
Explore an endless variety of black-and-white looks. Use the integrated Lab B&W Action to interactively color images, create gorgeous HDR black-and-whites with greater ease and speed, and experiment with a variety of presets.
Content-Aware Scaling in Photoshop
Automatically recompose an image as you resize it, preserving vital areas as the image adapts to the new dimensions. Get the perfect image in one step without cropping and retouching.
Smooth pan and zoom in Photoshop
Gracefully navigate to any area of an image with ultra-smooth zooming and panning. Maintain clarity as you zoom to individual pixels, and easily edit at the highest magnification using the Pixel Grid.
Dozens of time-savers in Photoshop
Experience more than 50 creativity and productivity boosts directly requested by users.
Faster effects processing in Illustrator
Apply blurs, glows, drop shadows, and other effects with astonishing speed.
Inline editing in panels in Illustrator
Efficiently edit layers, swatches, brushes, artboards, and more directly in panels without intermediate dialog boxes.
Enhanced Color panel in Illustrator
Sample colors faster and more precisely using an expandable color spectrum in the Color panel. Quickly copy and paste hex values into other applications.
Multiple artboards in Illustrator
Work on up to 100 artboards of varying sizes in one Illustrator file — named, organized, and viewed the way you want.
Beautiful strokes in Illustrator
Dynamically create and edit strokes with infinitely adjustable widths, precisely position and scale arrowheads and dashes, and finely control the scaling of art brushes along a path in Illustrator.
Shape Builder tool in Illustrator
Intuitively combine, edit, and fill shapes directly on your artboard without accessing multiple tools and panels.
Blob Brush in Illustrator
Use the Blob Brush to draw a stroke that generates a clean, filled vector shape as you sketch, even when strokes overlap.
Drawing enhancements in Illustrator
Draw behind elements, disregarding stacking order. Draw or place an image inside an element, instantly creating a clipping mask.
Gradients and transparency in Illustrator
Interact with gradients directly on your objects and control the transparency of individual colors in gradients and gradient meshes.
Bristle Brush in Illustrator
Create natural and fluid brush strokes that simulate the effects of painting with real brushes and media, such as watercolor.
Productivity enhancements in Illustrator
Experience numerous refinements for crafting beautiful graphics and illustrations in fewer steps and less time.
Multiple page sizes in one InDesign file
Include different page sizes in a single InDesign document, and apply the same master page to different-size layouts.
Live Preflight in InDesign
Prepare InDesign files for hassle-free production. Receive immediate alerts about potential production problems, allowing you to catch and fix errors as they arise.
Split window in InDesign
View two side-by-side layouts within the same document to compare their look and feel and help ensure consistency.
Recently used fonts in InDesign
Quickly access the fonts you use most often. Recently used fonts appear at the top of the font list.
Smart text frame fitting in InDesign
Set frames that grow to accommodate additional text, using simple parameters. Grow and shrink frames automatically for headlines, callouts, or other variable content.
Efficient delivery of accessible documents
Apply accessibility rules in InDesign — including tab and read-aloud order — and then check, adjust, and validate accessible PDF documents in Adobe Acrobat Pro.
Articles panel in InDesign
Control the sequence of text, images, and graphics when you export to EPUB or HTML without changing your InDesign layout. Organize your content by dragging it into the new Articles panel to define the export order.
Drag-and-drop support for anchored objects in InDesign
Add inline graphics and other anchored objects quickly and intuitively by simply dragging them to the desired anchor location in the text.
Paragraphs that span or split columns
Quickly create text that spans or splits into multiple columns in just a few steps.
Gap tool in InDesign
Quickly adjust the size of a gap between two or more items. The Gap tool is a one-step way to adjust your layout by directly manipulating the white space.
Intuitive object selection and editing in InDesign
Manipulate frames and frame content without switching tools. Dynamically adjust space between objects to reposition page items. Use on-object controls to modify frame corners directly in the layout.
Small, high-impact enhancements in InDesign
Take advantage of over a dozen enhancements — including page-specific PPI, split window views, a recently used fonts list, and persistent text frame fitting options— to help you fly through production tasks without compromising quality.
Integrate with other Adobe tools and services
Go beyond Creative Suite 6 with other tools from Adobe that expand your ability to create, publish, and collaborate with others.
Integration with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite
In InDesign, lay out media-rich publications for delivery as apps for iPad and other tablet devices. Upload to Adobe Digital Publishing Suite† for further production and distribution.
Integration with Adobe Touch Apps
Sketch with Adobe Ideas and refine in Photoshop or Illustrator. Edit images with Adobe Photoshop Touch and refine in Photoshop. Create color themes in Adobe Kuler® for use in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.§