Hidden Gems

Using Masks to Tune Content-Aware Fill

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:59:00 +0000

Avoid having Content-Aware Fill introduce unwanted details when it fills in areas of your image. Create a new layer, add a mask, and mask out areas you don't want Content-Aware Fill to sample from.

Cross-Platform 64-bit Support

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:58:00 +0000

Experience faster performance now that Photoshop CS5 offers cross-platform 64-bit support. Edit very large files - such a HDR images, panoramas, and multi-layered digital paintings and composites - up to 16 times faster than ever before.

Enhancements for Designers

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:57:00 +0000

Design more quickly and fluidly using Photoshop CS5. Save time with the ability to adjust the opacity or the fill of many image layers at once, and use sticky layer styles to save your individual layer-style settings as defaults.

Painting Effects with Adobe Camera Raw

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:22:48 +0000

Easily make a photo look like a painting by exaggerating your image processing in Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 6. Adjust noise reduction sliders to instantly apply beautiful painterly effects to your raw images, JPEGs, or TIFFs.

Dozens of New Timesavers

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:23:33 +0000

Work more efficiently using a wide variety of small Photoshop CS5 features and enhancements that save you significant editing time. Directly requested by Photoshop customers, these enhancements include automatic downsampling of 16-bit files so you can save them as 8-bit JPEGs, the ability to save all open images to the last folder to which you saved them, and dozens more.

Editing Video in Photoshop CS5 Extended

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:06:25 +0000

Get creative with your digital video using the Motion workspace in Photoshop CS5 Extended. Make basic adjustments to color balance, tone, curves and more.

Easy Image Access with Mini Bridge

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:39:42 +0000

Exclusive to Photoshop CS5, Mini Bridge lets you harness the power of Adobe Bridge to look at different file formats within Photoshop. Multi-select images, drag and drop images, and send your files to HDR Pro with ease.

Automated Lens Correction

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:35:49 +0000

In the eighth Hidden Gems tutorial, Photoshop Senior Product Manager Bryan O'Neil Hughes shares how common lens artifacts like distortion, chromatic aberration and vignetting can be easily corrected with Photoshop CS5.

Tablet Painting Connection

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 21:00:13 +0000

In the seventh Hidden Gems tutorial, Photoshop Senior Product Manager Bryan O'Neil Hughes shares how applications in the iTunes store, like Eazel, communicate with Photoshop CS5. See how you can use your tablet and Photoshop to create unique images. Learn more about Photoshop Hidden Gems:

Selective Sharpening

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:06:22 +0000

Quickly, easily and powerfully sharpen or recover focus in isolated areas without having artifacts...it just works!

Remove Power Lines

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:59:42 +0000

This video shows how to quickly and easily remove power lines - the bane of any retoucher's existence!

Restore Old Photos and Other Images

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:59:41 +0000

This video shows how Content-aware fill makes the restoration of old or damaged images easier than ever before; and what to do if you run into problems along the way.

Pixel Bender

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:59:40 +0000

This video shows the power of Pixel Bender, a free plug-in for hardware-accelerated filtration.

Puppet to straighten images

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:59:39 +0000

This video shows a lesser known way of using CS5's new Puppet Warp feature to make subtle, direct manipulations of your image.

Hidden Gems Puppet and Content-Aware Fill

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:01:43 +0000

This video shows a lesser known work flow between Photoshop CS5's Puppet Warp and Content-Aware Fill.