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Easily select and mask intricate image content, such as hair; intelligently remove, replace, or warp any image element; and paint with realistic strokes and color blends with Adobe® Photoshop® CS5 software.

Extraordinary painting effects

Extraordinary painting effects

Easily change a photograph into a painting or create unique artistic effects with the Mixer Brush, which offers on-canvas color blending, and Bristle Tips, which let you create lifelike, textured brush strokes.

Content-Aware Fill

Content-Aware Fill

Remove any image detail or object and watch as Content-Aware Fill magically fills in the space left behind. This breakthrough technology matches lighting, tone, and noise so it looks as if the removed content never existed.

Puppet Warp

Puppet Warp

Precisely reposition any image element to create a more visually appealing photo. For example, easily straighten an arm that's bent at an awkward angle.

Superior HDR imaging

Superior HDR imaging

Create photo-realistic or surreal HDR images with unprecedented speed and control. Get better-than-ever results thanks to automatic ghost removal and greater control with tone mapping and adjustments, and even give single-exposure photos the look of HDR.

Complex selections made easy

Complex selections made easy

Select specific areas within an image in fewer clicks. Easily select intricate image elements, such as hair; eliminate background color around selection edges; and automatically vary selection edges and perfect masks using new refinement tools.

64-bit performance

64-bit performance

Speed up day-to-day imaging tasks and process very large images up to 10 times faster by taking advantage of cross-platform 64-bit support.

Powerful printing options

Powerful printing options

Get outstanding prints in less time with automation, scripting, and a print dialog box that's easier to navigate.

State-of-the-art raw image processing

State-of-the-art raw image processing

Use the Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 6 plug-in to nondestructively remove image noise while preserving color and detail; add grain to make photos look more organic; enjoy more control in post-crop vignetting; and more.

Efficient workflow

Efficient workflow

Enjoy productivity and creativity boosts thanks to dozens of features and enhancements requested by Photoshop users. Straighten images automatically, pick colors from an onscreen color picker, adjust the opacity of many layers at once, and more.

Streamlined creative reviews

Streamlined creative reviews

Use Adobe CS Review, an Adobe CS Live online service1,2, to initiate more secure reviews from within Photoshop Extended. Reviewers add comments to your images from their browsers, and you see those comments immediately.

Photoshop companion apps for iPad

Photoshop companion apps for iPad

Explore exciting ways to interact with Photoshop CS5 from your iPad using apps from Adobe and the developer community. Use your fingertips to mix colors, paint beautiful works of art, activate Photoshop tools, and more.3

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Adobe Color Lava color mixing app for iPad

Adobe Color Lava color mixing app for iPad

Create custom color swatches and five-swatch color themes on your iPad with Adobe Color Lava for Photoshop CS5. Immediately access your swatches within Photoshop CS5.3

Adobe Eazel painting app for iPad

Adobe Eazel painting app for iPad

Create paintings with your fingertips using Adobe Eazel for Photoshop CS5, an Adobe Photoshop companion app. Mix “wet” and “dry” paint for rich color blends, and send paintings directly to Photoshop CS5.3

Adobe Nav productivity app for iPad

Adobe Nav productivity app for iPad

Work more productively with Adobe Nav for Photoshop, a companion app that lets you tap and swipe your iPad to activate Photoshop tools, browse open Photoshop documents, and more.3

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