Hidden Gems

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.