{"id":17474,"date":"2012-03-28T10:23:26","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T17:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=6306"},"modified":"2012-03-28T10:23:26","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T17:23:26","slug":"photoshop-cs6-beta-500000-downloads-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/28\/photoshop-cs6-beta-500000-downloads-counting\/","title":{"rendered":"Photoshop CS6 beta: 500,000+ downloads &amp; counting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m delighted to see that the <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.adobe.com\/downloads\/photoshopcs6.html\">Photoshop CS6 beta<\/a> has been <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/photoshopdotcom\/2012\/03\/thank-you-for-downloading-the-photoshop-cs6-beta.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter\">downloaded more than half a million times<\/a> in less than a week! \u00a0The response I&#8217;ve seen so far has been overwhelmingly positive.<\/p>\n<p>Nice press quotes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gizmodo: &#8220;Photoshop CS6: <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5895424\/photoshop-cs6-is-the-best-photoshop-release-in-recent-memory\">The Best Update In Recent Memory<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/\">PC Magazine<\/a>:\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;The future of creative image editing is upon us.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;You would think that after a program has been the leader in its field for over 20 years, there wouldn&#8217;t be much to add. But quite the opposite is the case with Adobe Photoshop CS6.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The new version will thrill nearly all categories of users, from photographers to designers.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;All of this adds up to a superb upgrade that should make anyone serious about image editing salivate over Photoshop CS6.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/reviews\/2012\/03\/\">Wired<\/a>:\u00a0&#8220;Content-aware brushes, Liquify filter and new Blur tool will amaze. In-app search is a huge time-saver for sifting through giant stacks of layers.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>USA Today: &#8220;We&#8217;ve been testing CS6 for the last week, and having lots of fun with the new tools. The new interface is a huge improvement \u2014 the images really do look sharper and more pronounced.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And from some designers I follow on Twitter:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;I&#8217;ll use it for a few days so I can give a better assessment, but so far: ball out of the park.&#8221; &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mrgan\/status\/182896394951081984\">Neven Mrgan<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been using PS CS6 for a while, and it&#8217;s been sweet\u2026 The truth is that CS6 has a bunch of changes that make my life a lot better but may piss off some users.\u00a0Which is great. Adobe did well.&#8221; &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sdw\/status\/182738499705901058\">Sebastiaan de With<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I think the community at large agrees: PS6 is an incredible update.&#8221; &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jnack\/status\/184815607189995520\">Cameron Moll<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks for the kind words, guys!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m delighted to see that the Photoshop CS6 beta has been downloaded more than half a million times in less than a week! \u00a0The response I&#8217;ve seen so far has been overwhelmingly positive. Nice press quotes: Gizmodo: &#8220;Photoshop CS6: The Best Update In Recent Memory&#8220; PC Magazine: &#8220;The future of creative image editing is upon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}