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[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]An major update with impressive new features to aid productivity and creativity

By Keith Joseph

Given the major improvements within Photoshop CS4 over previous
versions it seemed Photoshop had fully matured into the de facto
industry standard image editing software, and any further releases would
be more about tweaking the interface. So it's a bit of a surprise that
the latest version Photoshop CS5 [now shipping] has proved to be a major
update, with impressive new features that save more time and further
boost productivity, leading to techie magazine 'PC Shopper' rating
Photoshop CS5 a maximum 5 stars. Although Photoshop CS5's myriad of
image editing features require considerable effort for newcomers to
master, particularly compared to the cheaper cut-down consumer version
'Adobe Photoshop Elements 9', there is plenty of on-line help and even
videos to aid you.


Major new features in CS5 include better intelligent edge detection
for selecting, cutting out and pasting complex shapes [i.e. hair, and it
blends the pasted bit in for you], the 'puppet warp tool' which imposes
a mesh onto objects to do sophisticated transformations [to say curl up
an elephants trunk], and 'context aware fill' added to the spot healing
brush to greatly improve removal of dust/hairs, blemishes, unwanted
objects etc from photos and replace them with colour and shade matched
pixels derived from nearby regions of the image. You could do all of
this manually with older versions of Photoshop, but it could take ages.
Context aware fill doesn't always work perfectly, although the results
with the likes of natural scenes with lakes, clouds and woodland are
impressive - plus carefully reselecting the object to be deleted often
helps. There's a new `mixer' brush which mimics natural paint brush
shapes and produces various `painting' effects (although it's still no
match for Corel Painter 11). Black and white conversion from colour
images is also 'improved'. Plus `Adobe bridge' media file management has
been updated, and now allows a customizable panel within Photoshop.



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