Adobe Photoshop CS5 Video

Adobe Photoshop CS5 Video Transcript

>>Photoshop has been in the English lexicon as a term to edit images for a long, long time but the latest version of Adobe's flagship program stretches the canvas of manipulation much farther than ever before. Hi, I'm Seth Rosenblatt for CNET Download.com and in this first look video we're taking a quick peak at Adobe's major update to Photoshop. The look of the program has changed so little from Photoshop's CS4 that users of that version should be instantly comfortable with this major update but Photoshop's Creative Suite 5, also known as Photoshop version 12, gives photographers, artists, designers and LOLcats obsessives with too much money on their hands a stunning array of new tools. Among the new features in Adobe's flagship image-editing software are automatic lens correction, high dynamic range toning, automated editing tools and significant improvements to creating 3D images. Let's look at the new automatic lens correction option which will fix an image that has been distorted by a geometric distortion, chromatic aberration or vignetting. Go to Filter lens correction and exam the tabs. As you can see, the panel is loaded with options and the process to fix this photo can be complex. You're pretty much required to read or watch a tutorial to get it right. If you need high-end image manipulation though, this and many of the other new features are killer must haves. One of the new automated editing tools that's been getting rightfully a lot of attention is the Content Aware Fill option. It let's you remove an object from an image with a simple mouse stroke and replace it with pitch perfect approximations to match the surrounding light color and noise of the area. It can be used as part of the spot healing brush or with the Selection tool. While the spot healing brush isn't new to CS5, the Content Aware function is and it makes spot healing much more accurate than before. An excellent improvement to the Photoshop workflow in CS5 is the introduction of the Mini Bridge. Mini Bridge creates a panel within Photoshop for directly accessing all of Bridge's features both have the hassle of having to switch windows. It's a long overdue and logical improvement. Users who need Photoshop's 3D features will be impressed by the ones available in Photoshop CS5 Extended. This is a pricier version of the program that includes all the features of the standard Photoshop along with 3D editing tools. Part of Extended is Adobe Repousse which allows users to convert 2D images to 3D and then edit the extrusion properties. Photoshop CS5 is nothing less than a boundary pushing leap forward for the premier image editor. At $199 for an upgrade or $699 for a brand-new version and a multitude of lower priced and even free alternatives with varying degrees of less power, you really should think twice about whether you need this multi-facet, complex but undeniably excellent program. With a first look at Photoshop CS5 I'm Seth Rosenblatt for Download.com.