The announcement of AMD and Adobe’s collaboration on Adobe® Photoshop® and Premiere® Pro CS6 marks an exciting moment. The development effort between AMD and Adobe brings the first implementation of OpenCL™ heterogeneous compute within Adobe Creative Suite software to optimize new and existing features in Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Pro CS6.

This is wonderful news for the millions of creative professionals using Adobe products. Adobe is launching Adobe Premiere Pro CS6, which now includes OpenCL-accelerated features in the Mercury Playback Engine, as well as Adobe Photoshop CS6, featuring breakthrough performance enabled by OpenCL and OpenGL® acceleration in the all-new Mercury Graphics Engine. The benefit for users will be an ever-growing array of hardware-accelerated functions able to offer unprecedented performance and productivity.

There are dozens of GPU-accelerated features in Adobe Photoshop CS6. Here are two great examples of features that have been optimized to take advantage AMD APUs, AMD Radeon™ graphics, and AMD FirePro™ professional graphics through the industry standard OpenCL and OpenGL APIs:

New Blur Gallery A mainstream notebook PC based on the AMD A8-3530MX can get up to 672%* faster results in processing the new Blur Effects when accelerated by the horsepower of AMD Radeon™ graphics technology in the APU. Notebooks with AMD A-Series APUs are widely available from OEMs around the world in notebooks with AMD’s VISION Technology.

Lightning Fast Liquify With the revamped Liquify feature, you can immediately open very large images and start working with more flexibility and options than ever, a task that was impossible without hardware acceleration. Again, taking the example of a mainstream notebook PC based on the AMD A8-3530MX, we achieve up to 456%* faster Liquify results when accelerated by AMD Radeon™ graphics technology in the APU.

Creative Suite 6 is just one great example of the work AMD and Adobe are doing to enable brilliant experiences. Find out more about the AMD-Adobe partnership at www.amd.com/adobe.

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*Testing was performed by AMD using test scripts and a 60.2 MB .psd format source file of a 5616x3744 resolution image provided by Adobe. Time to complete a RGB 300 Blur scripted render test was 51.06 seconds with GPU OpenCL acceleration on versus 394.26 seconds with GPU OpenCL acceleration off. Time to complete scripted Liquify render test was 15.57 seconds with GPU acceleration on versus 86.62 seconds with GPU acceleration off. Test system was a notebook with AMD A8-3530MX APU with AMD Radeon™ HD 6620G Graphics, 1.9GHz, 4G 1600 DDR3 Memory, Windows 7 Pro, 64-bit. SBNB-I99

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Before and After “Liquify” Effect. (Image courtesy of Gary Wilson Photography: garywilsonphoto.com)

Adobe Photoshop CS6 harnesses the compute power of AMD graphics for incredible performance…up to 672% faster for Blur, up to 456% faster for Liquify

Before and After “Iris Blur” Effect. (Image courtesy of Gary Wilson Photography: garywilsonphoto.com)