Download Adobe Photoshop CS6 Beta Version for Free

Adobe Photoshop is one of the best and most popular image editing software available for Windows and Mac. It allows you to modify and enhance your photographs like professionals. You can create awesome images using this great tool.
Windows theme creators like me use Adobe Photoshop to create image resources to put in themes and skins.
Adobe Photoshop is not a freeware and you need to purchase it but now you can test it for free. The latest beta of Adobe Photoshop version CS6 is available absolutely free to download.
This free beta version is available for Windows and Mac. The final version is expected to release in first half of 2012.
What's New?
According to Adobe, Photoshop CS6 comes with huge performance enhancements, imaging magic and creativity tools that offer users a new experience in digital imaging.
Some of the key features include new additions to the Content-Aware tools. Content-Aware Patch allows greater control by letting users select and duplicate an area of an image to fill in or "patch" another and Content-Aware Move lets users select and magically move an object to a new place in the image.
In addition, the Photoshop CS6 beta offers all the features of Adobe Photoshop CS6 and Adobe Photoshop CS6 Extended, such as new 3D editing features and quantitative imaging analysis capabilities.
System Requirements:

• Processor: Intel P4 or AMD Athlon 64
• RAM: 1 GB
• Hard Disk Space: 1 GB for Windows, 2 GB for Mac
• OpenGL 2.0 capable system
• Screen Resolution: 1024x768 (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit color and 256MB of VRAM
• OS: Windows XP SP3, Windows 7 SP1, Mac OS X v10.0.8 or v 10.7

This free download of Adobe Photoshop is available in English and Japanese languages.
Please note that the setup does NOT require any product key or serial number to enter. Simply select "Try. I want to try Adobe Photoshop CS6 for a limited time" option in the Welcome Screen when you start the installation process. But your Adobe ID login and online activation are required either at installation or within seven days after your first launch of the Photoshop CS6 beta. You can register for a free Adobe ID without any problem using the wizard.
You can download the free beta of Adobe Photoshop CS6 using following direct download links:
Download Adobe Photoshop CS6 Free Beta for Windows (1.7 GB)
Download Adobe Photoshop CS6 Free Beta for Mac (984 MB)

Windows 8 “Win+X” Menu in Windows 7 Desktop Context Menu

When you right-click on extreme bottom-left corner of screen, you get a new hidden menu showing shortcuts to lots of useful system tools such as Task Manager, Control Panel, Run, Power Options, Command Prompt, etc. You can also access this hidden menu using "Win+X" keyboard shortcut, that's why its also called "Win+X Menu".
Following is a screenshot of Win+X menu present in Windows 8:

If you are not using Windows 8 but want to have a similar thing in Windows 7, here is something interesting for you!
Today in this topic, we are going to provide some ready-made registry scripts which will bring Windows 8 "Win+X" Menu to Windows 7 Desktop.
Although we can't get the Win+X Menu at the same location in Windows 7 but we can add it to Desktop context menu so that you can access it quickly and easily by just right-clicking on Desktop.
We have used the same method in creating this Win+X Menu for Windows 7 which was mentioned long time back in following exclusive tutorial:
Add Cascading Menus for Your Favorite Programs in Windows 7 Desktop Context Menu
Using the above mentioned tutorial, we have created a few Registry scripts which can add a new cascading menu in Desktop context menu containing all the shortcuts present in Windows 8 "Win+X" Menu. You can put this Win+X Menu at top, middle or bottom of Desktop context menu.
You can also select whether you want to show icons for all shortcuts or want to have a clean menu without icons similar to Windows 8 Win+X Menu.
Following is a preview of Win+X Menu added in Windows 7:

And following is an example of how the "Win+X" Menu looks in different positions:

To add Win+X Menu in Windows 7 Desktop context menu, you just need to download following ZIP file, extract it and run the appropriate REG file:

Download Registry Scripts to Get Windows 8 Win+X Menu in Windows 7

Once you extract the ZIP file, you'll get 3 folders:

• Add Win+X Menu with Icons
• Add Win+X Menu without Icons
• For German Language Users

All these 3 folders contain REG files to add Win+X Menu in Windows 7 Desktop context menu at top, middle or bottom. Just run the desired REG file, it'll ask for confirmation, accept it. That's it. It'll immediately add "Win+X" Menu at desired position in Desktop context menu. "For German Language Users" folder contains the same registry scripts to add Win+X Menu in German language.
An extra REG file "Uninstall.reg" is also available in ZIP file to remove the Win+X Menu if you don't like it and want to remove it.
You can also watch following video showing this "Win+X" Menu in action in Windows 7 along with a working demo:
Feel free to share your feedback or suggestions in your comment...