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New features introduced in Photoshop CS5

Posted on 31. Mar, 2010 by Editor in Software

As we all know that Photoshop® is a very promising photo editing software. And it’s most popular among us for its eye catching features that make photo retouching in a minute. Recently Adobe has announced their hot new version of creative suite which they named as CS5. New version, Adobe Photoshop CS5 will be released on Monday, April 12, 2010 at 8am PDT / 11am EDT / 4pm GMT. CS5 has promised for lot of new features and improvements. For more news on its lunch, please log on to http://cs5launch.adobe.com/?PID=3387991 and reserve your seat now. Now we have taken a sneak peak on its most crowded product Photoshop®CS5 before its launch.

• Content aware fill

It’s a very handy tool that help a lot in photo retouching that introduces in Phtoshop®CS5. You can say it’s an upgraded version of ‘Spot Healing Tool’. Spot Healing Tool was used to remove a unwanted particle from the image or fill a blank space with surrounding patterns. Now this tool was good but very time consuming as you have to select the surrounding patterns by pressing Alt key so the blank spaces can be filled with same patterns. Now Photoshop® CS5 has introduced a fully automated patching tool. What you have to do is to select the unwanted part of the image or the blank space that you want to fill with the same pattern and Voila! You are done. This tool will automatically fill the space with surrounding patterns and make the image realistic. In the demo video by a product manager of Photoshop® team, he used to remove some trash from the field, remove lance flair and a big tree just with some of click. He vanish a road situated in the desert and feel them with tree with easy. Last but not the least he fix a problem of misshaped edge in panorama photos. If you are wondering how could he done all this, Please check out the video below.

• Wet paint

Photoshop® is claiming that this new tool will enhance your performance and I think it so. Now you can mix two or more colors with brush as you might do in real world. Another enhancement with brush behavior is brush prototypes. You can change the tip of the brush from the available flat brush, pointed brush, angle brush and fan brush. A small window will show you how the brush pretzels  changes when you are dragging your brush pointer over and image.

• Brush Stroke effect

You will get a life like brush strokes when you are converting your image to a hand drawn painting as you might do with the artistic filter.

• Patchmatch

This is mostly like a bone tool used in Maya, 3Ds Max and other 3D image editing software. Just place some control point in the image and move a particular part of the image without disturbing the rest. You can say this is an upgraded version warp tool in transformation.

• Better edge detection & masking results

Newer version has better and more precise edge detection. It can detect and identify complex borders in any image. In the demo below the manager has mask a photo of a hairy cat. This was a very complex edge but the enhanced Photoshop® masking to done that precisely.

• 3D enhancements

Now it’s time to forget use 3ds max, maya, xara 3D and any other 3D modeling tool to create a 3D object and import that design into your photoshop design. Because photoshop has integrated the 3D rendering tool . Now you can create any 3D object within photoshop. You can change width, height, depth and texture of a 3D modeling

• Dueling Paint

Adobe Photoshop CS5 provides an alternative to either use a special tool to interpret a photograph into a painting or to use a “from scratch” tool and create absolutely new objects. You can convert your photo into a hand drawn painting with much more realistic results. And Wet paint is a new Photoshop CS5 feature that lets you mix up colors with brush in the same way you do it in a real world, ‘wet’ paints can be smudged, smeared and blended. The new brush tools aim to match that found within Corel’s Painter application.

• Small but effective enhancement

Now you can choose your default layer option. Just click on ‘make default’ button after creating a custom layer style and this will be your default layer style. Whenever you are changing a layer option in future, layer style will start from your default value. Another option is default closing dialogue box action. You can choose whether to save the file or not and you can make the same action to all the opened files by checking a box in dialogue box.

Another great improvement is on screen color picker. No more dialogue boxes to choose Hue, Saturation or color. With the new eye dropper tool, you can compare between the foreground colors with the color you are picking with a rounded color selecting pointer. Now you can change the size of your brush with the horizontal movements and the softness with vertical movements of your mouse. In the same way you can change your page size with the magnifying tool.

Think you have a photo taken angularly and you want to straighten the image. Just go to skew and draw a horizon line, press Straighten button and your photo will be straight according to your line. Now you can select more than one layer and change the layer opacity and fill for the all selected layers simultaneously with the one click.

Tags: adobe, creative suite, cs4, cs5, image editing, photoshop