New Features in Photoshop CS5

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Here is a general list of some of the great new features of Adobe Photoshop CS5, some of these will blow your mind!

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Better Selections –

Use quick selection on any object, for example a person. Normally you would loose edge definition and hair would end up looking very jagged. The quick selection tool was never designed for both hard and soft edges, but now we have a solution. Refine Edge command is the new god. It has Edge Detection which has better definition and goes out further than before. It also includes a new Refine tool which allows you to go over the extra bits that you have missed in your selection and Photoshop does the rest!

Content Aware –

If you lasso an object, for example a person in a field, then hit delete you don’t just automatically delete the person and get the standard white background. Now when you hit the delete button Photoshop brings up a new option asking if you want to just delete or whether you want Photoshop to fill in the background with what would have been there if the person wasn’t there.

Healing Brush Content Aware –

When you would usually use the healing brush on your photos sometimes you still get blurred parts when old Photoshop couldn’t handle the different tones and textures. Now when you use the Healing Brush Tool you have the added option of selecting Content Aware which does a much better job of replacing parts that you wanted to remove over all textures and contrasts.

Puppet Warp –

Select an object, for example a person again, using the same process as before and select them and place them on a new layer. Now if you select Puppet Warp from the menu and your person will have a set grid on them. Select a certain part of a person, for example if they have their arms down by their side, select the hand, elbow and shoulder. You can now pivot those points so that the person now is waving or pointing, or just generally going in a different direction.

Noise Reduction –

The new noise reduction capabilities are superb. If you have taken a photo with a lot of grain and noise in it then try out the new Noise Reduction. Changing the sliders on the Luminescence and Colour Detail selection can reduce the amount of noise substantially without loosing detail in the actual image.

HDR Pro –

If you select some images you have taken of the same thing, with different exposures, then you can put them into the new HDR Pro Tool. Once selected and the tool has composed them all together you can then play with various adjustment sliders. You can also set your own Custom Presets which you can use over and over again, for example you like them to be saturated or with higher contrast, you can set it all to whatever you desire. You can also put an HDR effect on a single photo, playing with all the different effects and sharpness. I know this isn’t real HDR, but it allow you to simulate the great properties of the HDR style with shots you wish you’d taken in HDR.

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5. Removing red eye

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