Adobe has released its Photoshop CS6 beta, which is available for download for the Mac OS and Microsoft Windows platforms.

Photoshop CS6 beta offers customers with a new digital imaging with enhancement in performance, and upgrade of imaging magic and creativity tools.

It includes new additions to the Content-Aware tools, such as Content-Aware Patch that allows users select and duplicate an area of an image to fill in or patch another, and Content-Aware Move that enables users select and move an object to a new place in the image.

The beta version also offers new 3D editing features and quantitative imaging analysis capabilities, all of which will be included in Adobe Photoshop CS6 and Adobe Photoshop CS6 Extended.

Adobe said the final release is expected to be available in the first half of 2012.