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adobe photoshop cs5
create powerful images with the professional standard
Access the unrivalled power of Adobe Photoshop CS5 software through a more intuitive user experience, greater editing freedom, and significant productivity enhancements. Photoshop CS5 features new ways to make image adjustments and create masks, more powerful compositing, improved colour correction, accelerated graphics handling, and enhanced raw image processing.
ideal for …
- Professional Photographers
- Serious Amateur Photographers
- Graphic Designers
top reasons to invest in Adobe® Photoshop CS5
| Adjustments panel | Simplify image adjustment by easily accessing every tool you need to non-destructively adjust and enhance the colour and tone of your images; on-image controls and a wide variety of presets are also included in the new live and dynamic Adjustments panel. |
| Masks panel | Quickly create and edit masks from the new Masks panel. This panel offers all the tools you need to create editable pixel and vector-based masks, adjust mask density and feathering, easily select non-contiguous objects, and more. |
| Non-destructive image editing | Experiment without harming your original photo. Visualize different effects and manipulate objects using non-destructive Smart Filters and Smart Objects. |
| Industry-leading colour correction | Enjoy dramatically enhanced control with reengineered Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools that now intelligently preserve colour and tone details. Make precise adjustments with Brightness/Contrast and Curves controls, the histogram, channel lines, and a clipping preview. |
| Better raw image processing | Enjoy superior conversion quality as you process raw images with the industry leading Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 5 plug-in, which now offers localized corrections, post-crop vignetting, TIFF and JPEG processing, and support for more than 190 camera models. |
| Richer painting and drawing toolset | Create or modify images with a wide assortment of professional, fully customizable drawing tools, paint settings, and artistic brushes. Simply drag to resize brushes and adjust for hardness as you paint and preview brush strokes. |
| Quick Selection tool | Loosely draw on an image area and the Quick Selection tool automatically completes the selection for you. Then use simple sliders to preview and refine your selection. |
| Improved Adobe Photoshop Lightroom® workflow | Select multiple photos in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software (sold separately), and automatically open them in Photoshop CS5 to merge them into a panorama, a high dynamic range (HDR) photo, or a multilayered Photoshop document. And seamlessly roundtrip back to Lightroom. |
| Enhanced auto-alignment of layers | Create accurate composites with the enhanced Auto-Align Layers command. Move, rotate, or warp layers to align them more accurately than ever before. Or use spherical alignment to create breathtaking panoramas. |
| Enhanced auto-blending of images | Easily create a single image from a series of shots that have different focal points with the enhanced Auto-Blend Layers command, which smoothly blends colour and shading and now extends your depth of field, automatically correcting vignettes and lens distortion. |
| Extended depth of field | Combine a range of images, each with a different exposure, colour, and focal point - with options to preserve tones and colours - into a single colour-corrected image. |
| Powerful printing options | Get outstanding prints with superior colour management, tight integration with leading printer models, and the ability to preview out-of-gamut image areas. Support for 16-bit printing on Mac OS offers increased colour depth and clarity. |
| Efficient file management with Adobe Bridge CS5 | Get instant access to Adobe Bridge CS5 with faster start-up, use new workspaces to jump to the right display for every task, easily create web galleries and PDF contact sheets, and more. |
| Broad file format support | Import and export hundreds of file formats, including PSD, AI, PDF, NEF, CRW, TIFF, BMP, Cineon, JPEG, JPEG2000, FXG, OpenEXR, PNG, and Targa. |
| Profiles to support the colour-blind | Design with sensitivity for colour-blind individuals by creating soft proofs of your images using built-in Colour Universal Design Organization profiles. |
| Extensibility | Get and share Adobe Flash® technology-based panels that developers create to accomplish customized tasks. |
top reasons to upgrade to Adobe® Photoshop CS5
| Adjustments panel | Simplify image adjustment by easily accessing every tool you need to non-destructively adjust and enhance the colour and tone of your images; on-image controls and a wide variety of presets are also included in the new live and dynamic Adjustments panel. |
| Masks panel | Quickly create and edit masks from the new Masks panel. This panel offers all the tools you need to create editable pixel- and vector-based masks, adjust mask density and feathering, easily select non-contiguous objects, and more. |
| Enhanced auto-alignment of layers | Create accurate composites with the enhanced Auto-Align Layers command. Move, rotate, or warp layers to align them more accurately than ever before. Or use spherical alignment to create breathtaking panoramas. |
| Enhanced auto-blending of images | Easily create a single image from a series of shots that have different focal points with the enhanced Auto-Blend Layers command, which smoothly blends colour and shading and now extends your depth of field, automatically correcting vignettes and lens distortion. |
| Extended depth of field | Combine a range of images, each with a different exposure, colour, and focal point - with options to preserve tones and colours - into a single colour-corrected image. |
| Smoother panning and zooming | Gracefully navigate to any area of an image with new ultra-smooth zooming and panning. Maintain clarity as you zoom to individual pixels, and easily edit at the highest magnification with the new Pixel Grid. |
| Fluid canvas rotation | Now just click to smoothly turn your canvas for non-destructive viewing at any desired angle - no more tilting your head in the middle of painting and drawing. |
| Content-Aware Scaling | Use the new and revolutionary Content-Aware Scaling feature to automatically recompose an image as you resize it, smartly preserving vital areas as the image adapts to the new dimensions. Get the perfect image in one step without time-intensive cropping and retouching. |
| Industry-leading colour correction | Enjoy dramatically enhanced colour correction with reengineered Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools that now intelligently preserve colour and tone details. |
| Better raw image processing | Enjoy superior conversion quality as you process raw images with the industry leading Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 5 plug-in, which now offers localized corrections, post-crop vignetting, TIFF and JPEG processing, and support for more than 190 camera models. |
| Improved Adobe Photoshop Lightroom® workflow | Select multiple photos in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software (sold separately), and automatically open them in Photoshop CS5 to merge them into a panorama, a high dynamic range (HDR) photo, or a multilayered Photoshop document. And seamlessly roundtrip back to Lightroom. |
| Efficient file management with Adobe Bridge CS5 | Get instant access to Adobe Bridge CS5 with faster start-up, use new workspaces to jump to the right display for every task, easily create web galleries and PDF contact sheets, and more. |
| New file display options | Easily work with multiple open files by using tabbed document display or n-up views. |
| Extensibility | Get and share Adobe Flash® technology-based panels that developers create to accomplish customized tasks. Plus, get tips and tricks from the thriving worldwide community of Photoshop users through the new Adobe Community Help online service. |
| More powerful printing options | Get outstanding prints with superior colour management, tighter integration with leading printer models, and the ability to preview out-of-gamut image areas. Support for 16-bit printing on Mac OS offers increased colour depth and clarity. |
| Enhanced retouching | Retouch images more easily and precisely by previewing source pixels within the cursor of the Clone Stamp and the Healing Brush. Set multiple source points, scale, and rotate in the Clone Source panel. |
| Higher performance on very large images (Windows® only) | Work faster with very large images by taking advantage of even more RAM (requires a 64-bit-capable computer with a 64-bit version of Microsoft® Windows Vista®). |
| Multi-Touch support on Mac laptops | Pinch, swipe, rotate, zoom, and scroll with just the touch of your fingers by taking full advantage of the Multi-Touch trackpad on newer MacBook Pro and MacBook Air laptops (requires Mac OS X v10.5). |
| Profiles to support the colour-blind | Design with sensitivity for colour-blind individuals by creating soft proofs of your images using built-in Colour Universal Design Organization profiles. |
frequently asked questions
- What is Photoshop Lightroom and does it work with Photoshop CS5?
- Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 software helps you quickly import, process, manage, and showcase volumes of photos. Its tight integration with Photoshop CS5 lets you easily take advantage of unrivalled pixel-level retouching and compositing, giving you a complete professional photography solution.
- Is there a new version of Adobe Bridge included with Photoshop CS5?
- Yes, Photoshop CS5 ships with Adobe Bridge CS5, which includes many new features, including faster performance, a streamlined work environment, more efficient output of PDF contact sheets and Web galleries, single-click full-screen previews, and much more.
- I own an older version of Photoshop. Can I upgrade to an edition of Adobe Creative Suite 5?
- If you own a registered copy of Photoshop CS4, CS3, CS2, or CS, you may upgrade to Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Standard software.
- Should I invest in Photoshop CS5 or Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Standard?
- Photoshop CS5 is the professional standard for digital image editing. If your work involves creating and sharing images within page layouts, you may want to consider Creative Suite 5 Design Standard, which includes Photoshop CS5 as well as Adobe Illustrator® CS5, InDesign® CS5, and Acrobat® X Pro. Smooth integration between the components provides an efficient workflow.
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