Adobe Photoshop CS5 / Features

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Use the collapsible Workspace Switcher to quickly navigate and choose among favorite UI configurations.

Save time with automatic correction of lens distortions, chromatic aberration, and vignetting. Photoshop CS5 uses an image file's EXIF data to make precise adjustments based on the type of camera and lens you used.

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.

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.

Take advantage of GPU-enabled enhancements to everyday tools. Crop with the Rule of Thirds grid; zoom with click-and-scrub functionality; and sample colors with better visualization and the onscreen color picker.

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.

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 more³.

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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, a companion app for Photoshop CS5 that lets you tap and swipe your iPad to activate Photoshop tools, browse open Photoshop documents, and more.³