Photoshop (Essential Part of Web Designing Tool Kit)

Photoshop (Essential Part of Web Designing Tool Kit)

The newest version of Adobe® Photoshop® CS5 software redefines digital imaging with breakthrough tools for photography, superior image selections, realistic painting, and more. And now, use it with creativity-boosting mobile apps.

Make quick image corrections

Correct lens distortions, chromatic aberration, and vignetting automatically, or customize precise corrections with the improved Lens Correction filter in Adobe® Photoshop® CS5 software. Straighten crooked images quickly, and correct overexposed areas without affecting the rest of the image.

Automatic lens correction

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.

Lens Correction filter improvements

Work more intuitively with the Lens Correction filter. Grid display is off by default; chromatic aberration correction sliders allow decimal point adjustments; a third slider can correct common green/magenta aberrations; and more.

Straighten Image tool

Quickly straighten any crooked image. Simply drag a straight line from the Ruler tool onto your image, and the image will snap to the line.

Gradient tool preset for neutral density

Use the Neutral Density preset to emulate a neutral density filter, clicking once to have the Gradient tool darken an overexposed patch of a photo while leaving the rest unaltered.

Control color and tone To the top Get the color right with industry-leading correction tools, HDR Toning, and superior HDR imaging. When you need to convert color to black-and-white, customize the conversion for exactly the look you want.

Superior HDR imaging

Create photo-realistic or surreal HDR images with unprecedented speed, control, and accuracy. 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.

Black-and-white conversion

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.

HDR Toning

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.

Industry-leading color correction

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.

Process images professionally with Photoshop Camera Raw 6To the top Process raw images, JPEGs, TIFFs, or PNG images with the industry-leading Photoshop Camera Raw 6 plug-in. Remove noise without oversharpening, add grain, or perform post-crop vignetting.

Noise removal

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.

Better conversions with new demosaicing

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

Support for more cameras and Photoshop Lightroom

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

Additive grain

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.

Post-crop vignetting

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

Edit and enhance images intelligentlyTo the top Easily select and mask intricate image elements, eliminate background color, and replace elements with Content-Aware Fill. Apply nondestructive Smart Filters, adjust image elements using Puppet Warp, and recompose an image with Content-Aware Scaling.

Complex selections made easy

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.

Content-Aware Scaling

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.

Content-Aware Fill

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.

Puppet Warp

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.

Selection and mask refinement tools

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

Color decontamination

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

Expert retouching

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.

Perspective-based editing

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.

Smart Filters

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.

Smart Objects

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.

Enjoy an extraordinary painting and drawing toolsetTo the top Bring real-world feel to your digital canvas with the Mixer Brush, Bristle Tips, and GPU-accelerated painting tools. Use the onscreen color picker to adjust colors quickly and easily.

Mixer Brush

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.

Bristle Tips

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.

GPU-accelerated painting tools

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

Rich drawing toolset

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

Onscreen color picker

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

Use advanced compositing featuresTo the top Work creatively with precision and efficiency. Adjust the opacity and fill of multiple layers at once, blend images smoothly, create 360-degree panoramas, extend depth of field, and more.

Paste in place

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.

Multi-layer opacity

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

Multi-layer fill

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

Sticky layer styles

Save your individual layer-style settings as defaults.

Auto-blending of images

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.

Easier layer management

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.

360-degree panoramas

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

Auto-alignment of layers

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.

Extended depth of field

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.

Manage your work efficientlyTo the top Do the work you need to do with fewer obstacles. Cross-platform 64-bit support speeds up day-to-day tasks. Manage and batch-process media with the Adobe Bridge and Mini Bridge. Navigate, crop, and print smoothly. Customize your workspace.

64-bit performance

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.

Powerful printing options

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

Efficient tile sizing and caching

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

Adobe Bridge and Adobe Mini Bridge

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.

Workspace Switcher

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

Live workspaces

Let Photoshop automatically record changes you make to a task-specific user interface so that if you switch to a different configuration and then switch back, your panels will be exactly where you left them.

Smoother cropping

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

Fluid canvas rotation

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

Smooth panning and zooming

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.

Panel management

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.

File display options

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

Customized workspaces

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

One-click color adjustments

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

Multi-Touch support on Mac laptops

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.

Profiles to support the color-blind

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

Take advantage of a streamlined workflowTo the top Keep your projects moving smoothly through every stage of the process. Integration with Photoshop Lightroom (sold separately) and Adobe CS Live online services1,2 lets you manage your images and collaborate more easily.

Streamlined creative reviews

Use Adobe CS Review, an Adobe CS Live online service1,2, to initiate more secure reviews from within Photoshop Extended. Reviewers add comments to your images from their browsers, and you see those comments immediately.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom integration

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.

Adobe PDF file support

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.

Automated production

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.

History panel

Undo and redo any set of editing steps in an open image with the History panel.

Edit History log

Let Photoshop track all editing steps within your files with the Edit History log. Export steps to a text file or save them as part of image metadata for easier documentation, file audits, and more.

Image file format support

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

Video file format support

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

Mobile device support

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.

High-resolution web display

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

Enjoy new timesaving toolsTo the top Perform common and not-so-common image-editing tasks faster, whether you're reversing clone source images, adding adjustment layers, working with masks, or downsampling image files.

16-bit to JPEG conversion

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

File closing enhancement

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

Saving shortcut

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

Easy reversing of clone source images

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

Shadow/Highlight default change

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

Adjustments panel

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.

Masks panel

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.

Extend your reachTo the top Get even more out of Photoshop with third-party plug-ins, custom panels, and Adobe Photoshop Touch companion apps for Photoshop CS5. And, collaborate online using Adobe ConnectNow, part of Adobe CS Live online services.1,2

Photoshop Touch apps for iPad

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.

Adobe Color Lava color mixing app for iPad

Create custom color swatches and five-swatch color themes on your iPad with Adobe Color Lava for Photoshop CS5, an Adobe Photoshop Touch app. Immediately access your swatches within Photoshop CS5.3

Adobe Eazel painting app for iPad

Create paintings with your fingertips using Adobe Eazel for Photoshop CS5, an Adobe Photoshop Touch app. Mix “wet” and “dry” paint for rich color blends, and send paintings directly to Photoshop CS5.3

Adobe Nav iPad productivity app for iPad

Work more productively with Adobe Nav for Photoshop CS5, an Adobe Photoshop Touch app, which lets you tap and swipe your iPad to activate Photoshop tools, browse open Photoshop documents, and more.3

Adobe Configurator

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.

DNG Profile Editor

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

Adobe Pixel Bender

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

Adobe Photoshop Marketplace

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

Adobe Community Help

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.

Adobe ConnectNow from Acrobat.com

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