Adobe Photoshop CS5

[pelathais]

Originally Posted by Mr. Steinway

I started out with Elements and graduated to CS4. I do like the extra control that I have with CS4, but Elements was much easier! It took a learning curve, but I'm now pretty comfortable with CS4 and prefer it over Elements.

You can turn the wizards off can't you? I don't use most of CS2's functionality, I just touch up and balance the color scales. I sometimes, but rarely do really "creative" touches.

The only reason I'm getting the Elements package with the Acrobat add on is that my CS2 didn't come with Acrobat way back whenever. Otherwise I'd just reinstall CS2.

My camera gear is pretty tricked out. I can do original gray scales with that or convert it withing CS2 and now Elements.

[RandyWayne]

Just got the email! It FINALLY shipped!! (Only 1 1/2 weeks later.)

[RandyWayne]

Received it in yesterday and spent the night playing around. It is really incredible, but also a little hard to use since a number of items have moved around since my previous version, CS2. The Content Aware Fill works great although you still have to know how and when to use it to get the best results. One of the single most useful changes it the 'better' magic lasso for making image selections from within the pic. You roughly select an item but then you use the mouse pointer as a sort of magnet and push the select line around the item you want. It is a godsend!

More coming as I continue to dive in head first.....

[RandyWayne]

OK, still playing around and learning the ins and outs. Here are just a few things I whipped out in no time. These would have all been possible (and easy) in previous versions of PS but they took me just minutes with CS5.

At my dads recent 60th birthday party. The man standing is his cousin and "roasting" him.


I think it's appropriate.


Self portrait

[RandyWayne]

After new and much higher resolution photos were taken of the Cydonia region on Mars, location of the famous "face on Mars", we find the original pic is replaced by something much more interesting.

Original




New high resolution (with enhancement).