As you know, Photoshop is the most famous photography and image editor available. It is the most comprehensive as well as the number 1 in use throughout the world.

In fact, when one thinks about manipulating an image in any way, Photoshop will come to the mind instantly, even to non-users!

The following article will display the improvements added to the new version of Photoshop, known as Photoshop cs5 which was brought to market in April 2010. The main techniques are called Photoshop Elements, and you will see the most up-to-date of them:

1. Better Black and White: an outstanding LAB B & W Action set which allows personalized toning, HDR special effects as well as a variety of new presets.

2. Content-Aware Fill: In case an item is delimited by a plain background section such as texture or any kind of surface, this Element will allow any object to disappear in the most realistic manner.

3. Adobe Camera Raw 6: Photoshop's RAW conversion plug-in displays a brand-new processing engine including enhanced features, such as noise reduction commands.

4. Puppet Warp: a clean way of distorting shapes that works best when those appear on a independent layer with a transparent setting, and which happens to be ways more handy than the existing Liquify filter.

5. Improved HDR: Standard HDR devices are much more superior to prior versions and give therefore superior results. CS5 can also add tone mapping and other HDR techniques to solo images, like high dynamic range RAW files.

6. Automatic Lens Corrections: these use profiles which can be positioned and downloaded precisely within the Lens Correction dialog. Several lenses have already been profiled and Sigma has taken care of supplying data for its own lenses.

7. Mini Bridge: comes as a new palette displaying several browsing/filtering/metadata tools from Bridge itself. Also it allows refraining the need to keep swapping windows while working.

8. Selection Refinement Tools: They allow modifying selections after you've created them as well as and to managing complexities like the human hair outline.

There are several other Elements to Photoshop CS5 of course, and this is just an overview of the many possibilities available. You will certainly find the right ones for you.

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