New Tools to Create Professional Results

Background Eraser Tool

Use the new Background Eraser tool to select a colored area of the image and replace it with transparency.

Warp Brush

Create fun or dramatic effects by altering your photos. Stretch, pull, push, tug, or swirl to create unlimited effects.

Straighten Tool

Align crooked photos. Simply draw a horizontal or vertical line specifying the direction in which to align the image.

Enhanced Deform Tool

The new handles that are easier to use. Use the tool to scale, shear, distort, rotate, and apply perspective to images.

Enhanced Painting Engine

Enjoy better photo retouching with greater precision and smoother blending of brush strokes.

Enhanced Retouch Brushes

All of the retouch brushes that were formerly part of the Retouch tool are now separate brushes. For example, use the Dodge brush to lighten images and bring out details, use the Burn brush to darken areas of images, or use the Saturation brush to increase or decrease the saturation.

Enhanced Crop Tool

Choose from preset crop sizes, such as 4 x 6 or 8 x 10. This tool now also provides aspect ratio control to make it even easier to achieve the perfect crop.

Enhanced Selections

New Edge Seeker mode adds more intelligence as the Freehand Selection tool automatically seeks an edge between mouse click points along an object. You also have a wide choice of ways to modify selections, such as removing holes and specks and adding an inside feather.

Versatile Tablet Options

Explore your freedom and creativity with additional options for pen tablets—vary the color, density, opacity, rotation, size, and thickness of brush strokes based on pressure, tilt, altitude, and more.

Layer Groups

Place layers in layer groups to organize the Layer palette, apply settings (such as opacity) to all layers within a group, and have mask and adjustment layers affect only layers within the group (rather than all underlying layers).

Mask Layers

Masks are now separate layers rather than attributes of other layers. Mask layers mask all image data below them at the same level; for example, all layers within a layer group.