Photoshop CS6 Extended

Photoshop CS6 Extended

Basic System Requirements:
Windows
• Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor
• Microsoft® Windows® XP* with Service Pack 3 or
Windows 7 with Service Pack 1
• 1GB of RAM
• 1GB of available hard-disk space for installation;
additional free space required during installation
(cannot install on removable flash storage devices)
• 1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with
16-bit color and 512MB of VRAM
• OpenGL 2.0–capable system
• DVD-ROM drive
• This software will not operate without activation.
Broadband Internet connection and registration
are required for software activation, validation of
subscriptions, and access to online services.†
Phone activation is not available.
* 3D features and some GPU-enabled features are not
supported on Windows XP.



Mac OS
• Multicore Intel processor with 64-bit support
• Mac OS X v10.6.8 or v10.7
• 1GB of RAM
• 2GB of available hard-disk space for installation;
additional free space required during installation
(cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive
file system or on removable flash storage devices)
• 1024x768 (1280x800 recommended) resolution display
with 16-bit color and 512MB of VRAM
• OpenGL 2.0–capable system
• DVD-ROM drive
• This software will not operate without activation.
Broadband Internet connection and registration
are required for software activation, validation of
subscriptions, and access to online services.†
Phone activation is not available.




As is the case with After Effects, Photoshop CS6 makes significant use of the CPU. Most Photoshop
CS6 features are faster on a multiprocessor system, with some features taking particular advantage
of additional cores including Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) processing, Lens Blur, Radial Blur, and all
the new Blur filters (Field Blur, Iris Blur, and Tilt/Shift) that have been added to CS6. Only a few
functions—such as reading PSD files, or the healing brush—are limited to single core due to the
algorithms they use.
Beyond the CPU, the Mercury Graphics Engine in Photoshop CS6 includes features that use your
GPU for acceleration. In Photoshop CS6, this new engine delivers near-instant results when editing
with key tools such as Liquify, Warp, Lighting Effects and the Oil Paint filter, plus delivers a more
responsive, fluid feel as you work. The Mercury Graphics Engine is new to Photoshop CS6, and
uses both the OpenGL and OpenCL frameworks.
OpenGL GPU-accelerated display and image processing functions in Photoshop CS6 include the
Adobe Color Engine (ACE), Pixel Grid, Smooth Pan/Zoom/Scrubby Zoom, Bird’s Eye View, Flick
Pan, Rotate Canvas, the Heads-Up Display (HUD) Color Picker, on-canvas brush resizing & rich
cursor info, Bristle Tip Preview, 3D (including Extrude, formerly known as Repoussé), Liquify,
Adaptive Wide Angle, Lighting Effects Gallery, Oil Paint Filter, new 3D enhancements such as
Draggable Shadows, Ground Plane and ground plane reflections, Roughness, On-canvas UI
controls, Light widgets, and the image-based light controller, plus GPU previews for Warp and
Transform including Puppet Warp and Content Aware Scale. Additionally, Photoshop CS6 can
take advantage of OpenCL acceleration for its new Blur filters, including Iris Blur, Field Blur, and
Tilt-Shift. OpenCL acceleration is only available on newer GPUs that support OpenCL v1.1 or
higher. (Note that some GPU-enabled features are not supported on Windows XP.)
In order to take advantage of the Mercury Graphics Engine in Photoshop CS6, you must have a
supported video card and updated driver. If you do not have a supported card, performance will
be degraded. In most cases the acceleration is lost and the feature runs in the normal CPU mode.
However, there are some features that will not work without a supported video card.
Tested and Approved Video Cards for Photoshop CS6 (as of early June 2012):
• NVIDIA Quadro 6000, 5000, 4000, 2000, 600, 400, and CX, including “M” series
• NVIDIA GeForce 9000, 8000, 9000, 500, 400, 300, 200, and 100 series
• AMD/ATI Radeon 7000, 6000, 5000, 4000, 3000, and 2000 series
• AMD/ATI FirePro 7900, 5900, 4900, 3900, 9800, 8800, 7800, 5800, 4800, and 3800
• Intel HD Graphics, Intel HD Graphics P3000, Intel HD Graphics P4000