Anyone bought CS5 yet?
Anyone bought CS5 yet?
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.
Criticism is always welcome..... Training in Progress
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
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.
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!
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.
"Knowledge is a single point, but the ignorant have multiplied it."
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.
Graham
Canon- EOS 7D with BG-E7 grip, 10-22 f/3.5-4.5, 24-105L f/4; Speedlites 580EX II, 550EX, 430EX.
Sigma- 18-50 f/2.8, 50-150 f/2.8, 120-300 f/2.8, 50-500 f/4.5-6.3 APO DG OS, 30 f/1.4, 150 f/2.8 macro, Sigma APO 1.4x and 2x Teleconverters;
Kenko Extension tubes; Benro- M-257 tripod & B-1 ballhead; Wimberley- Sidekick.
Home made "bag" on wheels; heaps and heaps of other minor stuff!
just need to have somebody on here have a test pano and show us gold!
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Canon EOS 7D| Tokina 10-17 f/3.5-5.6| Canon 24-105 F/4 L
Canon 580 EX II | Canon 430 EX II | Canon ST-E2|
Photoshop CS5 | Lightroom 3|
"It is one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it is another thing to make a portrait of who they are" - Paul Caponigro
Constructive Critique of my photographs is always appreciated
Nikon, etc!
RICK
My Photography
anyone got any good links to CS5 training videos?
thanks
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.
Some photo's i find it really hard to believe what is real or not...but now i don't believe anything anymore.
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.
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.