ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS 5 EXTENDED

 

The Adobe Creative Suite CS5 is announced to the public today and part of this Suite is an upgraded Photoshop CS5. As usual with a Photoshop release there has been a fair amount of coverage leaked out over the past few months, this time even some controlled pre-release content from the tech-heads at Adobe. CS5 Extended takes a big step into the world of 3D, and adds some extra video features, but from a photographers point of view we're focusing on  he standard Photoshop CS5 and the most talked about feature is Content Aware Fill. If you thought the Clone tool was good, and were later impressed with the more advanced Heal tool you're likely to be blown away by the Content Aware options.

In this review we won't look at CS5 software as a whole, because if you're interested in Photoshop you're likely to have absorbed reviews of earlier releases or you'll already own, or at least use, an earlier version. Instead we will look in detail at the Content Aware tool and review the other stuff that's been added that may be useful for photographers.

Adobe Photoshop CS5: What's new

Hardly anything has changed in terms of appearance - the familiar clean, but old look remains. The tool bar icons have had not so much a lick of paint, but more like a trickle of water. The hard edged antiquated shapes have a slightly more modern, softer gradient shading so remaining totally recognisable, but with a slightly softer edge.

CS5 has several major new features, namely:

    Content Aware Fill

    Intelligent selection technology

    Advanced HDR processing

    Improved raw processing

    Extended painting effects

    localised Warp tool

    Auto lens correction

    Workspace management

    Advanced 3D options (CS5 Extended)

    and 30 JDI (Just Do it) additions

It's in the tool bar where, among a few new additions, you'll find one entry point for the much talked about Content Aware tool.

If you choose the Spot Healing Brush tool you can now switch from the standard Proximity Match to the new Content-Aware option and start to use Adobe's proud development.

DOWNLOAD LINK : Adobe Photoshop CS 5 Extended(1.19 GB)