Photoshop CS5

[ProPho]

Anyone bought CS5 yet?

[RLeadbetter]

holy moly.... one step forward for processing one step back for better photography.

Man I only just last year got cs4. Apple pulled this stunt with the iphone 3g then 3gs .... shits me.

The upgrades aren't to bad I guess.

[bizco]

Some more info and how it works but apparently not quite as easy as the video shows.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgKjs...layer_embedded

Henry

[Omytion]

agreee whole heartedly !
as more post processing tools become available, I quite fear that getting it right at the scene (eg taking panoramic shots correctly) will lose emphasis because "ah what the heck, CS5 will fix it up"

If you consider the end result being the art you've created, it's not so much of a quandry. Cameras are in many respects a bit rubbish compared with our eyes and brains anyway, we've been helping them along all along to try and communicate. Each time there's a new development the same discussions start all over.

Regardless, on this point though I wouldn't worry too much. I downloaded CS5 last night and no surprises that the marketing videos make the content aware function seem a lot more seamless that the reality of using it. I feel it's going to be a very case-specific tool and simply a relation to the clone tool in the same way that the patch tool is. The increased Selection tools and the Puppet Deform tools are pretty cool though.

[Jhpomyzen]

I have CS4 master Collection and have now used CS5 (don't own it) But for me I think I will wait as has been said the demo on line about Content aware fill It was very impressive but in terms of working on everything No No No not yet!

[nisstrust]

Just brought cs5, having never used Photoshop and relying entirely on LR and only rarely PS elements, will be a huge but welcome learning curve.

[bowjac]

Just brought cs5, having never used Photoshop and relying entirely on LR and only rarely PS elements, will be a huge but welcome learning curve.

I found video tutorials to be a fantastic learning tool when trying to get into photoshop. I learned infinitely faster than when reading books on the subject.

[Riverlander]

My copy of CS5 arrived earlier in the week and I took one month's subscription to www.lynda.com (No! It is not that sort of site! ) as a free gift from Adobe.
The training videos are Phenomenal.
At this stage I fail to see how "content aware fill" could be much better.

[Jordan Compte]

just need to have somebody on here have a test pano and show us gold!

[ricktas]

just need to have somebody on here have a test pano and show us gold!

Won't be me. I would rather take extra frames at the time of shooting and stitch that into my photograph, than have a computer programme generate digital art and add it to my photo.

[nisstrust]

anyone got any good links to CS5 training videos?
thanks

[Riverlander]

As part of my purchase of CS5 I got one month's free subscription to www.lynda.com and their Training Videos are very good and easy to follow. The CS5 Essential Training Course of 150 short videos, will be enough for me for quite some time - maybe forever.

Some of them (not many) are free for everyone.

[Roof]

Some photo's i find it really hard to believe what is real or not...but now i don't believe anything anymore.

[mcdesign]

Have just tried out the new refine mask tool, it is very good particularly where you have feathers etc that are hard to get around.
image 1, original
image 2 masked and the background blurred a bit.

The content aware tool I haven't found very satisfactory to date but the healing tool in much improved, overall, I like it very much. Now waiting for the Scott Kelby book to come out!

PS. I need more practise at this.

[mcdesign]

This is a tutorial by Russell Brown, I hadn't watched this when I did mine, think I will go back and do it again.

[Big Pix]

This is a tutorial by Russell Brown, I hadn't watched this when I did mine, think I will go back and do it again.

...... this has got to make life easy