Graphic designers, Webmasters, and photographers can create original artwork, correct color, retouch and composite scanned images, and prepare professional-quality separations and electronic output with this tool. CS is the new version denominator for Adobe's professional design and layout tools. For example, Photoshop CS is the new, full-upgrade version of Photoshop (instead of Photoshop 8.0).

Photoshop CS offers features including an improved file browser for sorting and browsing images, an enhanced Match Color command, a Histogram palette, and Shadow/Highlight correction tools.