Learn to download, install, and launch trial versions of Creative Cloud apps.
How to get the Adobe Photoshop CS6 Full version for free. Adobe Photoshop CS6 is the stable version of the industry standard image editor with some great new features. When you first open Adobe Photoshop CS6, the most eye-catching thing is the revamped colorful user interface. Download Adobe Photoshop for free Adobe Photoshop is the most advanced image editor there is, capable of everything from simple retouching, to complex 3D designs and illustrations.
Welcome to Creative Cloud! To get started, simply download your first trial app from the Adobe website.
The Adobe Creative Cloud desktop app—which you’ll use to manage future app downloads—is installed at the same time.
- Navigate to the Creative Cloud apps catalog. Find an app that you want to download, such as Photoshop, and then click Start free trial.
- Choose one of the following workflows, depending on the screen that is displayed:Answer a few questions about trial usage (You may have to sign in to see this screen)
- Select your plan from the provided options. For example, All Apps Plan or Photography Plan.
- Enter your email address, and then click Continue.
- Enter your payment information, and then click Start free trial.Note:Your trial period is free. You can cancel online anytime, with no fee, during the trial period.Note:Your trial period begins when you click Start free trial.
- If you are a new member, you are prompted to enter a password for your account. Enter your password, and then click Continue.
- Your app begins to download. At the same time, Creative Cloud desktop app is displayed, and it manages the rest of the installation process.
- Your app is installed and launched automatically.You can also launch your new app the same way you launch any app on your computer. Your new app is installed in the same location where your applications are normally installed, such as the Program Files folder (Windows) or the Applications folder (macOS).See Creative Cloud download and installation troubleshooting.
The free trial is available for seven days. During the trial period, you can cancel without any fee. You will be charged once the trial ends and your subscription starts. For information on canceling, see Cancel your Creative Cloud membership.
- A screen appears with a question about how you will use the trial. Select your answer, and then click Continue.Note:If you are not already signed in to your Adobe account, you are prompted to sign in first. If you don't have an Adobe account, click Sign up and then follow the instructions. Once you sign in, the following screen is displayed.
- Your app begins to download. At the same time, Creative Cloud desktop app is displayed, and it manages the rest of the installation process.
- Your app is installed and launched automatically. Your trial also starts at the same time.You can also launch your new app the same way you launch any app on your computer. Your new app is installed in the same location where your applications are normally installed, such as the Program Files folder (Windows) or the Applications folder (macOS).See Creative Cloud download and installation troubleshooting
- To convert your trial to a full membership at any time, see Convert a trial to a paid Creative Cloud membership.Find the Buy Now button under the app name in Creative Cloud desktop app. To purchase a Creative Cloud membership, click Buy Now and follow the onscreen instructions.
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Once you’ve downloaded your first app, you can use Creative Cloud desktop app to easily browse, install, launch, and manage any Creative Cloud app or service.
- Click the Creative Cloud desktop icon to launch the app from the taskbar (Windows) or menu bar (macOS).Note:If you don’t see the Creative Cloud icon, you may have quit Creative Cloud desktop app. To relaunch it:
- Windows: Choose Start > Programs > Adobe Creative Cloud.
- macOS: Choose Go > Applications > Adobe Creative Cloud > Adobe Creative Cloud.
- The All Apps section displays apps that you can install under Trials. Find the app you want to install.
Does your screen look different?See instructions for the earlier version of Creative Cloud desktop app. - Click Try. Your app begins to install.Your new app is installed in the same location where your applications are normally installed, such as the Program Files folder (Windows) or the Applications folder (macOS).Note:Depending on your network’s speed, it could take some time to download your app.
- To launch the app, click the three-dots icon and select Open from the drop-down list.
- To convert your trial to a full membership at any time, see Convert a trial to a paid Creative Cloud membership.The Buy Now button appears next to the app's name in Creative Cloud desktop app. To purchase a Creative Cloud membership, click Buy Now and follow the onscreen instructions.
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Adobe Photoshop CS6 Free Trial Download
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Adobe Photoshop CS6 Free Trial - 30-day Photoshop CS6 Download
The Photoshop CS6 Free Trial is now available.
Here's a quick look at some of the top new features in Photoshop CS6. Estimated street price for Photoshop CS6 is US$699 and US$999 for Photoshop CS6 Extended. Upgrade pricing is also available to eligible customers.
Content-Aware Patch—Patch images with greater control using Content-Aware Patch, the latest addition to the Content-Aware family of technologies, which allows you to choose the sample area it will use to create your patch.
Mercury Graphics Engine and 64-bit support—Count on the new Mercury Graphics Engine for blazingly fast performance when editing with key tools, and take advantage of cross-platform 64-bit support to speed up imaging tasks and process very large images faster.*
New and reengineered design tools—Create superior designs fast. Get consistent formatting with type styles, use vector layers to apply strokes and add gradients to vector objects, easily create custom strokes and dashed lines, quickly search layers, and more.
Intuitive video creation—Bring Photoshop editing power to your video footage. Easily enhance any clip using the full range of familiar Photoshop tools, and create videos using an intuitive set of video tools.
Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 7 plug-in—Bring out the best in your JPEG and raw files with improved processing and an enhanced control set; reveal every detail in the highlights of an image while still retaining rich detail in the shadows; and much more.
All-new Crop tool—Crop images fast and with greater precision using the all-new, nondestructive crop tool. Manipulate your images on canvas, and take advantage of the Mercury Graphics Engine to see your adjustments happen live.
Superior auto-corrections—Quickly enhance your images with powerful Auto Curves, Levels, and Brightness/Contrast controls. Intelligence from thousands of hand-retouched images is built in to give you a better starting point for making adjustments.
Intelligent lens correction—Easily straighten objects that appear curved in panoramas or photos shot with fisheye or wide-angle lenses—and perform automatic lens corrections—using tools that make adjustments based on your lenses' characteristics.
Superior HDR imaging—Create photo-realistic or surreal HDR images with exceptional speed and control. Get great results with automatic ghost removal, and precisely control tone mapping and adjustments.
Rich painting toolset—Simply by painting with presets, get realistic color blends with the Mixer Brush, use Bristle Tips for lifelike strokes, draw naturally with erodible pencils and pastels, easily create the look of an oil painting, and much more.
Tools for intelligent selections—Create precise selections and masks, enabling you to easily adjust or preserve skin tones; easily select intricate image elements, such as faces, hair; and more.
Puppet Warp—Precisely reposition any image element to create a more visually appealing photo. For example, easily straighten an awkwardly bent arm. Powered by the new Mercury Graphics Engine, Puppet Warp lets you edit with fluid responsiveness.*
Background save and Auto-recovery—Let the auto-recovery option preserve your edits without interrupting your progress. And keep working even while saving the largest of Photoshop files in the background.
New Blur Gallery—Quickly create photographic blur effects using a simple new interface with on-image controls. Create tilt-shift effects, blur everything and then sharpen one focal point, or vary the blurriness between multiple focal points. The new Mercury Graphics Engine delivers immediate results.*
Dozens of user-inspired improvements—Save time with more than 65 new creativity and productivity enhancements that originated as suggestions from Photoshop users via Facebook, Twitter, and more.
Modern interface—Work with a fresh, elegant Photoshop interface featuring dark background options that make your images pop, and benefit from hundreds of design touches that create a smoother, more consistent editing experience.
Preset migration and sharing—Easily migrate your presets, workspaces, preferences, and settings so you can experience Photoshop in the same way on all your computers, share your setup, and bring your customizations from past versions into Photoshop CS6.
Adaptive Wide Angle—Easily straighten objects that appear curved in panoramas or photos shot with fisheye or wide-angle lenses. New on-canvas tools use the physical characteristics of individual lenses to automatically correct curvatures, and the Mercury Graphics Engine gives you near-instant results.
Skin tone–aware selections and masking—Create better selections and masks with a new option that easily enables you to select skin tones or, conversely, preserve skin tones while you adjust the color of everything else.
Revolutionary erodible brushes—Draw more naturally and realistically using drawing tips that erode as you work. Endlessly wear down and sharpen a charcoal pencil or pastel to create different effects, and save favorite blunted tips as presets.
Rich painting toolset—Simply by painting with presets, get realistic color blends with the Mixer Brush, use Bristle Tips for lifelike strokes, draw naturally with erodible pencils and pastels, easily create the look of an oil painting, and much more.
Type styles—Save time and help ensure a consistent look with type styles, which let you apply formatting to selected characters, lines, or paragraphs of text with a single click.
Sharper vector rendering—Get sharper rendering by clicking once to snap the edges of vector objects to pixels.
Layer search—Use layer search capabilities to quickly zero in on the layer you need.
Lighting Effects Gallery—Get better performance and results with the new, 64-bit Lighting Effects Gallery. The plug-in is powered by the Mercury Graphics Engine and offers on-canvas controls and previews that make it easier to visualize your lighting enhancements.
Oil Painting filter—Quickly give your work the look of an oil painting with the Mercury Graphics Engine–accelerated Oil Painting filter.* Control the style of your brush as well as the direction and shine of your lighting for a superior look.
Enhanced airbrush tips—Create realistic airbrush effects using fluid, lifelike controls and granular paint particles.
New painting presets—Simplify painting with new presets that offer a good starting point for creating realistic painting effects.
Properties panel—Save time with a context-sensitive Properties panel that lets you make quick updates to the properties of your masks, adjustments, and video layers.
Adobe Bridge CS6 —Manage your media faster—especially when working with large image files. Adobe Bridge CS6 offers cross-platform 64-bit support and a range of user interface and database enhancements.
Redesigned Adobe Mini Bridge—Access your images and documents more quickly and easily in Adobe Mini Bridge, redesigned as an elegant filmstrip.
Automatic resampling—Get great results when resizing an image—the best resample method is automatically selected.
Latest Adobe Photoshop CS6 News & Photoshop CS6 Tutorials
See much more on our Photoshop CS6 Tutorials Page. We have many free videos and free tutorials for you to learn from.
The Photoshop Blog offers the latest Photoshop and Digital Photography news and software updates, tips and tutorials, and random thoughts from graphic artist, digital photographer and Photoshop expert Jennifer Apple. Also includes Photoshop CS3 news!
(jump to: CS6 main page, Photoshop CS6 tutorials
Looking for Photoshop CS6 info? See our CS6 Resource Page for the latest news.
Adobe Photoshop CS6 Free Trial - 30-day Photoshop CS6 Download
The Photoshop CS6 Free Trial is now available.
Here's a quick look at some of the top new features in Photoshop CS6. Estimated street price for Photoshop CS6 is US$699 and US$999 for Photoshop CS6 Extended. Upgrade pricing is also available to eligible customers.
Content-Aware Patch—Patch images with greater control using Content-Aware Patch, the latest addition to the Content-Aware family of technologies, which allows you to choose the sample area it will use to create your patch.
Mercury Graphics Engine and 64-bit support—Count on the new Mercury Graphics Engine for blazingly fast performance when editing with key tools, and take advantage of cross-platform 64-bit support to speed up imaging tasks and process very large images faster.*
New and reengineered design tools—Create superior designs fast. Get consistent formatting with type styles, use vector layers to apply strokes and add gradients to vector objects, easily create custom strokes and dashed lines, quickly search layers, and more.
Intuitive video creation—Bring Photoshop editing power to your video footage. Easily enhance any clip using the full range of familiar Photoshop tools, and create videos using an intuitive set of video tools.
Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 7 plug-in—Bring out the best in your JPEG and raw files with improved processing and an enhanced control set; reveal every detail in the highlights of an image while still retaining rich detail in the shadows; and much more.
All-new Crop tool—Crop images fast and with greater precision using the all-new, nondestructive crop tool. Manipulate your images on canvas, and take advantage of the Mercury Graphics Engine to see your adjustments happen live.
Superior auto-corrections—Quickly enhance your images with powerful Auto Curves, Levels, and Brightness/Contrast controls. Intelligence from thousands of hand-retouched images is built in to give you a better starting point for making adjustments.
Intelligent lens correction—Easily straighten objects that appear curved in panoramas or photos shot with fisheye or wide-angle lenses—and perform automatic lens corrections—using tools that make adjustments based on your lenses' characteristics.
Superior HDR imaging—Create photo-realistic or surreal HDR images with exceptional speed and control. Get great results with automatic ghost removal, and precisely control tone mapping and adjustments.
Rich painting toolset—Simply by painting with presets, get realistic color blends with the Mixer Brush, use Bristle Tips for lifelike strokes, draw naturally with erodible pencils and pastels, easily create the look of an oil painting, and much more.
Tools for intelligent selections—Create precise selections and masks, enabling you to easily adjust or preserve skin tones; easily select intricate image elements, such as faces, hair; and more.
Puppet Warp—Precisely reposition any image element to create a more visually appealing photo. For example, easily straighten an awkwardly bent arm. Powered by the new Mercury Graphics Engine, Puppet Warp lets you edit with fluid responsiveness.*
Background save and Auto-recovery—Let the auto-recovery option preserve your edits without interrupting your progress. And keep working even while saving the largest of Photoshop files in the background.
New Blur Gallery—Quickly create photographic blur effects using a simple new interface with on-image controls. Create tilt-shift effects, blur everything and then sharpen one focal point, or vary the blurriness between multiple focal points. The new Mercury Graphics Engine delivers immediate results.*
Dozens of user-inspired improvements—Save time with more than 65 new creativity and productivity enhancements that originated as suggestions from Photoshop users via Facebook, Twitter, and more.
Modern interface—Work with a fresh, elegant Photoshop interface featuring dark background options that make your images pop, and benefit from hundreds of design touches that create a smoother, more consistent editing experience.
Preset migration and sharing—Easily migrate your presets, workspaces, preferences, and settings so you can experience Photoshop in the same way on all your computers, share your setup, and bring your customizations from past versions into Photoshop CS6.
Adaptive Wide Angle—Easily straighten objects that appear curved in panoramas or photos shot with fisheye or wide-angle lenses. New on-canvas tools use the physical characteristics of individual lenses to automatically correct curvatures, and the Mercury Graphics Engine gives you near-instant results.
Skin tone–aware selections and masking—Create better selections and masks with a new option that easily enables you to select skin tones or, conversely, preserve skin tones while you adjust the color of everything else.
Revolutionary erodible brushes—Draw more naturally and realistically using drawing tips that erode as you work. Endlessly wear down and sharpen a charcoal pencil or pastel to create different effects, and save favorite blunted tips as presets.
Rich painting toolset—Simply by painting with presets, get realistic color blends with the Mixer Brush, use Bristle Tips for lifelike strokes, draw naturally with erodible pencils and pastels, easily create the look of an oil painting, and much more.
Type styles—Save time and help ensure a consistent look with type styles, which let you apply formatting to selected characters, lines, or paragraphs of text with a single click.
Sharper vector rendering—Get sharper rendering by clicking once to snap the edges of vector objects to pixels.
Layer search—Use layer search capabilities to quickly zero in on the layer you need.
Lighting Effects Gallery—Get better performance and results with the new, 64-bit Lighting Effects Gallery. The plug-in is powered by the Mercury Graphics Engine and offers on-canvas controls and previews that make it easier to visualize your lighting enhancements.
Oil Painting filter—Quickly give your work the look of an oil painting with the Mercury Graphics Engine–accelerated Oil Painting filter.* Control the style of your brush as well as the direction and shine of your lighting for a superior look.
Enhanced airbrush tips—Create realistic airbrush effects using fluid, lifelike controls and granular paint particles.
New painting presets—Simplify painting with new presets that offer a good starting point for creating realistic painting effects.
Properties panel—Save time with a context-sensitive Properties panel that lets you make quick updates to the properties of your masks, adjustments, and video layers.
Adobe Bridge CS6 —Manage your media faster—especially when working with large image files. Adobe Bridge CS6 offers cross-platform 64-bit support and a range of user interface and database enhancements.
Redesigned Adobe Mini Bridge—Access your images and documents more quickly and easily in Adobe Mini Bridge, redesigned as an elegant filmstrip.
Automatic resampling—Get great results when resizing an image—the best resample method is automatically selected.
Latest Adobe Photoshop CS6 News & Photoshop CS6 Tutorials
See much more on our Photoshop CS6 Tutorials Page. We have many free videos and free tutorials for you to learn from.
The Photoshop Blog offers the latest Photoshop and Digital Photography news and software updates, tips and tutorials, and random thoughts from graphic artist, digital photographer and Photoshop expert Jennifer Apple. Also includes Photoshop CS3 news!