The new startup screens for all of the Adobe Products are the same, with this fancy 3D box!
While lovely to look at, this is just the packaging – what’s important is what has changed under the hood. What new tools can I use? Is it worth upgrading?
If you are a Photoshop fan then you will already know about the Content Aware Fill button. To put it simply it is amazing! Imagine that you wanted to easily get rid of an element of a photo and replace it with the background. Back in the old days you would have had to use the clone tool and spend hours of painstaking work to get it right. Well, fear no more!
Let’s take this picture below for example, say you wanted to remove the horse. All you need to do is select the outside of the horse, press delete and choose to fill it with the Content-Aware option.
And wallah, the horse is gone and replaced with the background. It really is magic and you have to see it to believe it.
This tool is perfect for manipulating everything from family photos to business photos that just aren’t right. Delete (or ‘content fill’) your ex-girlfriend from that awesome panoramic picture or tweak that istockphoto pic that is almost perfect but not quite right!photoshop updates
Say you wanted to move his arms up and down, so it would look like he was waving for instance. All you need to do is press the Puppet Warp tool from the ‘Edit’ menu.photoshop updates
This will create a mesh of the image, so that you can then place pivots of where the characters points of movement are.
Now all you do is click on the pivot you wish to move, in this example when are choosing his arm, and you move it in the direction you want it to go. I made a only a couple of changes and managed to make this animated GIF below in a few seconds, WOW!
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While lovely to look at, this is just the packaging – what’s important is what has changed under the hood. What new tools can I use? Is it worth upgrading?
The Content Aware Fill Button
If you are a Photoshop fan then you will already know about the Content Aware Fill button. To put it simply it is amazing! Imagine that you wanted to easily get rid of an element of a photo and replace it with the background. Back in the old days you would have had to use the clone tool and spend hours of painstaking work to get it right. Well, fear no more!
Let’s take this picture below for example, say you wanted to remove the horse. All you need to do is select the outside of the horse, press delete and choose to fill it with the Content-Aware option.
And wallah, the horse is gone and replaced with the background. It really is magic and you have to see it to believe it.
This tool is perfect for manipulating everything from family photos to business photos that just aren’t right. Delete (or ‘content fill’) your ex-girlfriend from that awesome panoramic picture or tweak that istockphoto pic that is almost perfect but not quite right!photoshop updates
Puppet Warp
If you have ever wanted to do an animation but didn’t know how, then this tool is for you. Let’s say you had the below image for example.Say you wanted to move his arms up and down, so it would look like he was waving for instance. All you need to do is press the Puppet Warp tool from the ‘Edit’ menu.photoshop updates
This will create a mesh of the image, so that you can then place pivots of where the characters points of movement are.
Now all you do is click on the pivot you wish to move, in this example when are choosing his arm, and you move it in the direction you want it to go. I made a only a couple of changes and managed to make this animated GIF below in a few seconds, WOW!
Conclusion
I have only really just touched the tip of the iceberg, there are so many new features in CS5 – too photoshop updates many to list! No doubt there are many other features in the pipeline from the scores of vendors out there creating yet more plug-ins and filters. Personally I can’t to see what they can come up with next!sr:designinstruct
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