Codenamed Venus In Furs, the first major release of the new millenium was version 6.0, which hit stores in September 2000.

Changes and new features introduced in this version include various changes to the user interface, the Liquify filter, Vector Shape support, and improvements to layer styles interface, to name a few.

Adding to the web-friendly features introduced in 5.5, version 6.0 added layer-based slicing--handy for web-layout work.