Noul Photoshop CS5 a fost lansat cu câteva zile în urmă. Acesta a fost îmbunătăţit cu noi unelte pentru uşurarea editării imaginilor ce permit unele tipuri de modificări ce uşurează cu mult munca, sau care aduc îmbunătăţire celor vechi.

Poate cea mai cunoscută este Puppet warp, care permite modificarea domponentelor unei imagini prin selectarea unor puncte de referinţă fixe. Câteva funcţii inportante ce ar putea uşura munca unui fotograf: HDR Toning completează funcţia de HDR, utilizatorul având un conrol mult mai bun asupra imaginilor, Automatic lens correction corectează deformările lentilelor mult mai eficient, sau  integrarea Adobe Camera Raw 6 care oferă o mult mai bună editare sau corectare a imaginilor RAW.

Site-ul lectiips.ucoz.coma făcut o listă cu îmbunătăţirile aduse noului program de editare a imaginilor. Mai departe aveţi toate funcţiile noi cu explicaţii:

What’s New in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Photoshop CS5 redefines image editing with a strong focus on photography. With 20 years under its belt Photoshop has continued to evolve and with CS5, it brings not only evolutionary incremental changes, but what I believe are revolutionary new features that everyone is sure to use every day.

If you haven’t yet seen some sneak peaks of the new Photoshop features, such as Content Aware Fill and Puppet Warp, I’m sure your jaw will drop as you see it and wonder: "how did they do this?”

I was amazed by some of these features and thought that these things always seem to work well with the ideal photos used in the demos, but not in real life examples. But this is simply not the case here. After playing with some of these features in CS5, Photoshop delivers a remarkable job worthy of praise.

1. Complex selections made easier

Removing backgrounds has just become a whole lot easier. You can now make very accurate masks and selections much faster. The always tricky task of selecting hair is now a breeze using the refine radius and erase refinement tools.

2. Content-Aware Fill

This is probably the most exciting new feature in Photoshop CS5. Using this tool, image elements can easily be removed by having them automatically painted over with background details that are intelligently matched from the original image using a proximity match.

It’s super accurate and really feels magical beyond belief. This tool will probably become one of the most used tools in Photoshop from now on, with designers wondering how they ever managed without it.

3. HDR Pro and HDR Toning

Using multiple exposures of an image, you can combine them into a single high dynamic range (HDR) photo that keeps the full tonal range of a scene. With CS5, you get more control over the merging process and more power over the styling. The resulting images can be photo-realistic to highly surreal. This is a big improvement on HDR content merging in Photoshop CS4, which was not too good.

4. Mixer brush

The Mixer Brush lets you define multiple colors on a single tip, and then mix and blend them with the underlying hues on your canvas (similar to having a wet canvas), achieving creative results that rival traditional painting media.

Mixer Brush settings provide extensive control over the wetness of the canvas, the load rate to add paint to the brush, the mixing rate between brush and canvas colors, the angle of the brush and whether the brush is refilled, cleaned, or both after each paint stroke.

In the example below, you can start from a sketch (top), and use the new Mixer Brush and Bristle Tips to layer on colors to create a painting (bottom).

5. Puppet warp

Well, this one can truly be described as ‘magical’ as it’s simply unbelievable. The ‘puppet warp’ tool makes it possible to push and pull different elements of an image. In the image below, you can simply place ‘pins’ along the area you want to move and then simply move it in any direction.

6. State-of-the-art raw image processing

The Adobe Camera Raw 6 plug-on, which supports 275 camera models, provides you with excellent conversion of raw files. Remove noise with the new luminance and color noise reduction tools, achieve better quality sharpening, automatically correct common lens aberrations, and creatively apply new styles of vignettes and film-like grain. See the left example for the original photo and the right example after noise removal.

7. Automatic lens correction

This feature allows you to correct common lens-based errors: geometric distortion, chromatic aberration, and vignetting. Images are corrected with the Lens correction filter. Some lens profiles are included with the installation and there will also be a tool available at Adobe Labs to make your own custom lens profiles.

8. Dozens of workflow improvements

These are some of the improvements that Adobe implemented based on user feedback:

• Default value for Shadows/Highlights changed from 50% to 35%
• The ability to move a selection while the active layer is hidden
• A Neutral Density option is now available from the Gradient Picker presets menu.
• An on/off option for trackpad gesture support on Mac and in Microsoft Windows 7
• A new layer command for deleting all empty layers via scripts
• A Straighten button on the Ruler tool options bar
• A Close All Open Images Without Saving option
• A Save As option for always defaulting to the folder to which you last saved an image
• The ability to drag and drop a file onto an open Photoshop document to create a new layer
• Multiple improvements in Lens Correction filter options
• A new Cache Tile Size control in the Performance section of the Preferences dialog box
• Zoom in and out with the new scrubby zoom tool
• Presets for setting Cache Tile Size and Cache Levels simultaneously
• The ability to use keystrokes to set values in the Adjustments panel text fields
• Performance increases of up to 50% when importing OBJ files
• Sample colors faster using the new on screen color ring built into the eyedropper tool
• Customizable default values for Layer styles The Green/Magenta slider found in the updated Lens Correction filter dialog box provides great control over the manual correction of Chromatic Aberration. You can now simultaneously adjust the opacity of multiple layers.
• New creative resources, including actions, tools, presets, brushes, swatches, shapes, gradients, styles, and tool presets
• Window and Door shapes added to list of meshes that can be created from a layer
• An option for changing the opacity of multiple selected layers
• The ability to create a mask from the transparent areas of a layer
• Pick colors faster using the new on-screen color HUD
• Print settings saved with the image file, allowing one-button printing with user-selected values
• Selecting a printer automatically lists the profiles installed for that printer at the top of the profile list
• Printer-specific profiles are selected automatically when choosing a printer
• Customized print settings can be recorded as part of a Photoshop Action
• An overlay grid can be displayed when using the Crop tool
• Layer groups can be nested more than five levels deep
• New Paste Outside and Paste Inside commands, along with the previously existing Paste In Place option, are included in a new Edit > Paste Special menu

9. 3D extrusions with Adobe Repoussé (Photoshop CS5 Extended only)

You can now easily convert 2D artwork into 3D objects. This is great to extrude text for logos, for example, or 3D artwork.

10. Enhanced 3D realism (Photoshop CS5 Extended only)

Photoshop CS5 Extended comes loaded with a library of presets that you can use to enhance your 3D creations. You can also download more material, create your own or edit existing materials.

11. Better media management and Web Gallery integration with Adobe Bridge CS5 and direct access with Mini Bridge

You can now manage your content more efficiently with the new and updated features in Bridge CS5 software, with your assets being always available in Mini Bridge (a panelized version of Bridge), providing image access and management from within Photoshop CS5.

12. Easier interface management with the new Workspace Switcher and Live Workspaces

New Live Workspaces auto-save any changes you make to a task-specific workspace, so that if you switch to a different workspace and then back again during an editing session, your panels remain exactly where you left them.