Adobe Photoshop CS5 / Features

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.

Explore an endless variety of black-and-white looks. Use the integrated Lab B&W Action to interactively color images, create gorgeous HDR black-and-whites with greater ease and speed, and experiment with a variety of presets.

Give any single-exposure image the photo-realistic or wildly surreal look of an HDR image. The HDR Toning feature offers an easy way to bring the rich aesthetic of high dynamic range to your 8-bit images.

Use Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools that intelligently preserve color and tone details, Curves controls that let you make automatic adjustments with included presets or those you create, a histogram, color channel lines, and more.

Remove noise common to high-ISO images and consumer-camera shots while preserving color and detail. Maintain a photo's natural look, avoiding an oversharpened feel as you maximize quality.

Process raw images with the industry-leading Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 6 plug-in, which offers powerful demosaicing technology for unmatched conversion quality.

Enjoy tight integration with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom® software as well as support for over 275 camera models.

Make a digital photo look more organic or film-like by using a simple slider to add grain. Save grain settings as presets that you can apply to other photos to achieve a consistent look.

Enjoy more control when performing post-crop vignetting, and save favorite vignette effects as presets.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Automatically vary selection edges and perfect masks using convenient refinement tools.

Eliminate background color around the edges of your selection with the Quick Selection tool's automatic color decontamination capabilities.

Retouch images 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 palette.

Create packaging mockups and more with Vanishing Point, which lets you create multiple planes in an image; connect them at any angle; and then wrap graphics, text, and images around them.

Add, adjust, and remove filters on an image without resaving the image or starting over to preserve quality. Nondestructive Smart Filters allow you to see changes without altering original pixel data.

Perform nondestructive scaling, rotating, and warping of raster and vector graphics with Smart Objects. Even preserve the editability of vector data from Adobe Illustrator® software.

Define multiple colors on a single Mixer Brush tip to paint with realistic color blends. Or use a dry Mixer Brush to blend a photo's colors and transform it into a beautiful painting.

Easily paint with lifelike, naturally textured brush strokes using defined bristle properties like shape, length, and stiffness, and experiment away by adding Bristle Tips to a variety of Photoshop brush tools.

Click to smoothly resize brushes; adjust bristle hardness; or choose your color hue, saturation, or brightness from an onscreen color picker.

Create or modify images with a wide assortment of professional, fully customizable drawing tools.

Easily adjust the hue, saturation, or brightness of your foreground color without having to jump into the Color Picker dialog box.

Paste an element into a Photoshop file in the same position it held in the original file, for example, when you create something on the wrong layer and need to move it to the exact same place on a new layer.

Save time with the ability to adjust the opacity of many layers at once.

Save time with the ability to adjust the fill of many layers at once.

Save your individual layer-style settings as defaults.

Combine a range of images, each with a different exposure, color, and focal point — with options to preserve tones and colors — into a single, color-corrected image.

Drag and drop a file onto an open PSD document to create a layer; nest up to ten layers; move a selection while the active layer is hidden; and delete all empty layers with one command.

Count on Photomerge technology to automatically stitch horizontal or vertical photos to create amazing panoramas — and even wrap them around 360-degree spheres.

Create accurate composites with the Auto-Align Layers command, which lets you move, rotate, or warp layers to align them accurately. Or use spherical alignment to create breathtaking spherical panoramas.

Auto-Blend layers to create an image from a series of shots that have different, smoothly blending color and shading and even extending your depth of field while automatically correcting vignettes and lens distortion.

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.

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

Easily control tile size, and use presets for simultaneously setting cache and tile size based on whether your output is for print or web.

Easily manage media with more flexible batch renaming, and access your assets in the context of what you're working on by using the customizable Adobe Mini Bridge panel in Photoshop.

Crop with Rule of Thirds or Grid layouts, which draw smoothly thanks to GPU acceleration.

Just click to smoothly turn your canvas for nondestructive viewing at any desired angle — no more tilting your head when painting and drawing.

Gracefully navigate to any area of an image with ultra-smooth zooming and panning. Maintain clarity as you zoom to individual pixels, and easily edit at the highest magnification using the Pixel Grid.

Maximize screen space while keeping essential tools accessible. Arrange panels in convenient, self-adjusting docks that can be widened to full size or narrowed to icons or even a thin strip at the edge of your monitor.

Easily work with multiple open files by using tabbed document display or n-up views.

Set up and save custom menus, keyboard shortcuts, and workspaces for quick access to exactly what you need.

Make sophisticated color adjustments instantly with one-click presets in Curves and the Channel Mixer.

Pinch, swipe, and rotate images using the Multi-Touch trackpad on MacBook Pro and MacBook Air laptops (requires Mac OS X v10.5 or later). Easily turn off Multi-Touch support if you wish.

Design with sensitivity for color-blind individuals by creating soft proofs of your images using built-in Color Universal Design Organization profiles.

Use Adobe CS Review, an Adobe CS Live online service^1,2, to initiate more secure reviews from within Photoshop Extended. Reviewers add comments to your images from their browsers, and you see those comments immediately.

Enjoy tight integration with Photoshop Lightroom (sold separately), easily moving files from Lightroom to Photoshop CS5 to create HDR images, panoramas, and multilayered Photoshop documents.

Precisely control the size of PDF pages opened in Photoshop; add security controls and metadata to images within PDF presentations; and create a rich image display in PDF presentations and documents.

Automate routine production tasks in a variety of ways. Set up event-based scripts, record a series of steps as an Action for efficient batch processing, and design repetitive graphics faster with Variables.

Import and export hundreds of image file formats, including PSD, AI, PDF, NEF, CRW, TIFF, BMP, Cineon, JPEG, JPEG2000, FXG, OpenEXR, PNG, and Targa.

Work with video files thanks to support for 3G, FLC, MOV, AVI, DV Stream, Image Sequence, MPEG-4, and FLV formats.

Create compelling mobile content, such as wallpapers and screen savers, and then preview how it will render on mobile devices using built-in Adobe Device Central. Tune designs for mobile screen sizes and lighting conditions.

Take advantage of Adobe Flash® and Zoomify technology to export high-resolution images to the web for viewing with Adobe Flash Player.

Let Photoshop CS5 automatically downsample your 16-bit image files so you can save them as 8-bit JPEGs.

Save clicks with the ability to close all open images without saving.

Add a preference that helps ensure you'll save all open images to the last folder to which you saved an image.

Clone any image element, and then click once to reverse the cloned element so it faces in the opposite direction.

Get more natural-looking results from the Shadow/Highlight command's default setting, which now decreases shadows by 35% instead of 50%.

Use the convenient Adjustments panel to easily access every tool you need to nondestructively adjust and enhance color and tone. Open the On-image Adjustment tool with a keyboard shortcut.

Quickly create and edit masks from the 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 noncontiguous objects, and more.

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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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

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

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

Get and share custom panels that developers create to accomplish specific tasks — and easily create your own panels of tools, menu items, actions, and more — with Adobe Configurator software.

Create your own color profiles using the publicly available DNG Profile Editor.

Develop and/or share filters with publicly available, GPU-accelerated Adobe Pixel Bender® technology.

Explore Adobe Photoshop Marketplace for a huge range of third-party plug-ins and resources.

Get the power of an online search engine from within Photoshop, but with more targeted results. Searchable content includes Photoshop Help and additional Adobe and third-party content chosen by Adobe and community experts.

Share ideas and discuss project details with clients and colleagues — all online — using Adobe ConnectNow, an Acrobat.com web conferencing service. Acrobat.com is part of Adobe CS Live online services.^1,2