Adobe Photoshop CS6

Adobe Photoshop CS6 software delivers even more imaging magic, new creative options, and the Adobe Mercury Graphics Engine for blazingly fast performance. Retouch with new Content-Aware features, and create superior designs as well as movies using new and reimagined tools and workflows.

Photoshop CS6 for unparalleled speed, power, and productivity. A fresh, elegant interface features groundbreaking new design tools — including Content-Aware Patch, a new Blur Gallery, a faster and more precise Crop tool, intuitive video creation, and more.

Pixel snapping behaviour has been drastically improved in Photoshop CS6, negating the need for some of the workflows required when editing vector points in CS5.

There’s two main settings to control everything, Align Edges and Snap Vector Tools and Transforms to Pixel Grid.

Align Edges snaps the edge of entire objects to the pixel boundary, while maintaining the relationship of non-edge points. This means crisp edges, without rounding any of the inner points. It can be found in the Options Bar and is enabled on a per-layer basis. If my description doesn’t make sense, don’t worry. It’s easier to use than it is to explain.

Snap Vector Tools and Transforms to Pixel Grid controls all vector creation and editing. All vector tools can now snap to pixel boundaries, including the pen and ellipse tools (yep, pixel snapped circles). For me, these changes alone are worth the upgrade price. Snap Vector Tools and Transforms to Pixel Grid can be found in Preferences under the General tab. My only complaint would be that the setting is pretty well hidden. It’s actionable though, so that’s exactly what I’ve done.