Photoshop CS6 a hash of a review.

So I've been contemplating the upgrade to CS6... there is even a free 30day trial from adobe.

So 17 days left, and will I purchase it? Given it's just shy of a grand? No.

Don't get me wrong, it's very pretty, a vast improvement from any before... but it's key thing seems to be it can crop and straighten pictures for you at the same time:

All you do is draw a crop line, like the ruler tool then it rotates and crops to fit.

But to be honest, anyone who could use the ruler tool and arbitrary rotate could do this in previous versions.

However, the functionality of the RAW image processing is amazing, you can even do bulk lens correction it picks out the lens automatically, and you just tick a box. This seems to do an amazing job on the lenses I've tired it on. And it works on .CR2 files by default, which is the file type newer canons kick out.

The other big change I've noticed is under the photo merge and HDR - the HDR is MUCH better and aligns images will even if taken by hand.

But if anything with all these settings it seems to do a worse job of merging! But it is quicker, probably because of the 64bit architecture, allowing it to use a lot more RAM.

So yes, generally prettier than earlier models, 64bit, nice Raw functions, HDR improvement and probably other things I haven't noticed. But £1000, honestly? B would kill me and I'd rather get a 16-35mm F2.8 L and use gimp.

There are a few things you can do to bring down the cost, upgrade prices are lower (about 60% lower) and I think you can buy from the American page - which basically has the same price but different currency... given it's currently (31/05/2012) 1 British pound = 1.5485 U.S. dollars that's a massive saving.

But still no, for now.