Discover new dimensions in digital imaging

Employ state-of-the-art editing, enhancement, and output tools as you turn your unique vision into compelling reality. Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended software provides precise control with tools and features to help you produce high-quality work and brilliant results quickly, creatively, and efficiently.


Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended is also available as a component of: Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium, Adobe Creative Suite 5 Web Premium, Adobe Creative Suite 5 Production Premium, Adobe Creative Suite 5 Master Collection

With Photoshop CS5 Extended, you can:

Perfect your photography with breakthrough tools. Photoshop CS5 Extended offers state-of-the-art tools to help you refine your images and get superior results faster than ever before. The integrated Adobe Camera Raw 6 plug-in makes it easy to preserve color, detail, and a natural feel when removing noise and adding film-like grain effects, and gives you more control over post-crop vignetting and better results when sharpening images. With HDR Pro, you can easily merge exposures to create gorgeous HDR images. And lens correction is more powerful, lens-specific, and automated to save you time.

Achieve the exceptional. Take your imagery and designs in new artistic directions with the new Mixer Brush and Bristle Tips, which enable you to realistically blend colors and paint with naturalistic strokes. Brush directly onto photographic originals to create eye-catching paintings. Use the powerful new Puppet Warp feature to easily reposition an image element - like an arm thats bent at an awkward angle - and magically remove unwanted subjects in your photos with Content-Aware Fill.

Be productive everywhere. From helping you make the most of todays powerful hardware systems to including user-inspired enhancements that make a big impact on your day-to-day workflow, Photoshop CS5 Extended boosts your productivity at every level. Cross-platform native 64-bit support and higher levels of addressable RAM yield better performance, especially when working with large image files. New selection technology helps you easily make complex selections of difficult subjects with superior results, and Adobe Mini Bridge keeps your photos and media close to hand - right inside Photoshop. Dozens of timesaving features suggested by users like you, more control over settings, enhanced tool functionality, and new options in existing features make Photoshop CS5 Extended easier and more precise to use.


Who uses Photoshop?

Photographers have long relied on Photoshop for the ultimate in creative control and production of high-quality images. With its unrivaled editing and enhancing power, Photoshop helps photographers achieve superior results with its industry-leading features, extensive toolset, and state-of-the-art editing, compositing, and painting capabilities. Photoshop contains everything image makers need to perfect their photos, including tools for retouching, adjusting tones, correcting color, noise removal, and sharpening. Photographers also take advantage of cutting-edge, nondestructive editing workflows with the precise controls in Adobe Camera Raw, non-modal adjustments, and Smart Objects in Photoshop, and tight integration with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software. They use selection tools, layers, and masking technologies to perform advanced compositing, and employ filters and painting features for artistic enhancements.

Web, print, and interactive designers use Photoshop to bring their creative visions to life in print, on mobile devices, and on the web. Working in unison with other Creative Suite tools like Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, and Dreamweaver, Photoshop plays a key role in the designers workflow, providing the necessary tools to retouch or enhance photos, create superior composites, produce complex illustrations, and produce imaging content that is optimized for multiple design outcomes. Designers can port their interface and website creations from Photoshop to Adobe Flash Catalyst software to produce interactive content without having to write any code. Adobe Bridge acts as a cross-program pivot point for managing the wide variety of mixed assets involved in design projects.

Video professionals, motion graphics designers, and VFX artists use Photoshop to help them create and enhance visual effects and motion graphics or to prepare still images and text for inclusion in video projects. Video professionals using Photoshop also enjoy tight integration with other Adobe software such as Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro (sold separately), providing more efficient workflows.


Top new features of Photoshop CS5 Extended

Intelligent selection technology

Photoshop CS5 Extended takes the time and frustration out of making precise image selections and masks, providing you a faster way to extract subjects from their backgrounds and create realistic composites. New intelligent selection technology offers better edge detection and faster, more accurate masking results of complex subjects, like hair. Automatic color decontamination helps you eliminate background color around the edges of a selection, resulting in more seamless compositions when placing extracted subjects on new backgrounds.

Experienced Photoshop users know that the best selections are created by constantly adapting the selection technique for differences in the subjects edges - one method for hair and another for the edge of a building. With Photoshop CS5 Extendd, you can produce highly accurate masks and selections faster and more simply than before with a set of new adaptive selection-edge modification controls. Smart Radius automatically matches the best selection approach with the subjects changing edge characteristics, and the extra view modes assist you in previewing the quality of your selections. The Refine Radius and Erase Refinements tools customize your masks and selections as you make them. These tools, in combination with the color decontamination settings, help eliminate any residual background color from around the edges of your selections.

Content-Aware Fill

One of the most exciting new features in Photoshop CS5 Extended is the remarkable ability to remove an image element and magically replace it with details that match the lighting, tone, and noise of the surrounding area so that it looks like the content never existed. Now, you can make substantial changes to photo composition quickly and easily, as even large complex subjects can be seamlessly erased.

You can use Content-Aware Fill with the Spot Healing Brush or as an option of the Fill feature to replace content in an active selection. Selecting the Content-Aware setting with the Spot Healing brush changes the way the tool fills in the areas you paint. This retouching approach is designed to account more fully for the structure and detail of the image elements that surround the painted area, providing a near-invisible result when removing unwanted objects. Alternatively, you can select the object to be removed, and then replace the area with synthesized details from the area surrounding the selection, simply by using the Content-Aware option in the Fill dialog box.

HDR Pro for creativity and precision with the next generation of high dynamic range imaging

With just a few clicks, you can go beyond the capture capabilities of your camera by combining multiple exposures into a single high dynamic range (HDR) photo that preserves the full tonal range of a scene with high contrast. Photoshop CS5 Extended introduces HDR Pro for more control over the HDR merging process and greater adjustment power over the mapping of tones and the styling of HDR output, resulting in images that range from photorealistic to highly surreal.

HDR Pro offers extended controls, an enhanced dialog box, and improved image processing. New algorithms enable more accurate alignment of source files and automatically deghost any problem areas that occur when trying to merge source photos where subjects have moved during capture. You can even select a source file to be used as the sole reference for any ghosted areas or allow the feature to do this automatically for you.

New tone-mapping tools and adjustment controls give you the power to implement your own HDR vision, producing photos that range in style from fully textured images of high-contrast scenes to wildly hyper-realistic creations. Save your favorite styles as presets and apply them to multiple groups of source files to provide a common look and feel to your HDR photos. And for times when you dont have multiple source files, create the look of an HDR-processed image from a single photo with the new HDR Toning feature that allows you to mimic the tone-mapping results traditionally achieved in high dynamic range photos.

State-of-the-art raw-image processing

The Adobe Camera Raw 6 plug-in, which ships with Photoshop CS5 Extended, now supports more than 275 camera models as it continues to provide you with the industry-leading conversion of raw files. In addition, the utility provides advanced, nondestructive image editing and enhancement for raw files, as well as for other standard formats, including JPEG and TIFF. Now you can remove noise, achieve better quality sharpening, and creatively apply new styles of vignettes and film-like grain.

Extraordinary painting effects

With a new Mixer Brush, a Bristle Tips feature, and a new mechanism for blending colors, Photoshop CS5 Extended redefines the way you paint. You can take advantage of more natural and realistic painting effects, making it easy to take your imagery and designs in new artistic directions.

The Mixer Brush lets you define multiple colors on a single tip, and then mix and blend them with the underlying hues on your canvas, achieving creative results that rival traditional painting media. When starting with a photo original, you can use a dry, empty brush to blend the existing colors while at the same time adding a painterly effect to the image. Mixer Brush settings provide extensive control over the wetness of the canvas colors, the load rate that determines amount of paint loaded on the brush, the mixing rate between brush and canvas colors, and whether the brush is refilled, cleaned, or both after each painting stroke.

Puppet Warp

Puppet Warp gives you more freedom when pushing and pulling elements within an image. The feature lets you recompose an image to make it more appealing, or to fit a specific layout, by allowing the precise repositioning of any element within a Photoshop document, or selection, by simply clicking and dragging. After you reposition an object, Photoshop adjusts the rest of the image to account for the shifted pixels.

After choosing Edit > Puppet Warp, click on your image to drop pins establishing anchor points where you want image parts not to move, and handles that you can use for warping. Then drag any of the pins to reposition the picture elements. Use Puppet Warp to swing a raised arm to a persons side, warp and stretch text to create new effects, or reposition intrusive objects in a photo to create a more pleasing composition.

Automated lens correction

The Lens Correction features in Photoshop CS5 Extended create better quality captures by removing or correcting the three most common lens-based errors: geometric distortion, chromatic aberration, and vignetting. This means you can use a wider range of lenses with the confidence of producing images of the highest quality. With the aid of the Adobe Lens Profile Creator (available separately as a free download from labs.adobe.com) you can produce custom profiles characterizing the optical aberrations of your camera lenses. When installed and selected in the Lens Correction filter in Photoshop CS5, the profile automatically removes or corrects the three types of distortion.

Easy 3D extrusions with Adobe Repoussé

Repoussé is an ancient metalworking technique for embossing artwork on the surface of metals such as gold, silver, copper, tin, and bronze. Photoshop Extended offers a powerful new feature, inspired by this traditional technique, for creating eye-catching 3D artwork.

Use Adobe Repoussé to easily convert 2D artwork into 3D objects and then create depth by altering the extrusion properties of the 3D model. Easily extrude text to create logos and 3D artwork for use in websites, video frames, or layouts.

Starting with a text layer, a path, a selection, or a layer mask, you can convert the content to 3D with the Create New 3D Object section of the 3D panel. After the conversion is complete, you can alter the look of your 3D model by manipulating its key extrusion properties - depth, scale, bend, shear, inflate, or twist - in the Repoussé dialog box.

In addition to manipulating these properties, you can inflate the front or back of the extrusion and/or apply a custom bevel. Sections of objects (internal subpaths) can also be inflated by creating a selection first and then adjusting the Internal Constraints settings in the Repoussé dialog box. The 3D Axis widget allows on canvas rotation of the of the model.

Enhanced 3D realism and rich materials

Bring your 3D creations to life with the materials that ship with Photoshop CS5 Extended. You can select materials from the library of included presets, download additional materials by choosing 3D > Browse 3D Content, create your own, or even edit existing materials to customize them for your needs (in the materials section of the 3D panel). Test a variety of looks for your 3D models and extruded designs by adding different materials or textures to their surfaces. Materials that feature reflection or refraction properties can be rendered with the new Adobe Ray Tracer engine. The Repoussé dialog box, and the Materials section of the 3D panel, both contain options for applying a single material to all surfaces - as well as choosing different treatments - for individual sections and surfaces of your models.

Better 3D performance and workflow

Take advantage of better performance and immediate rendering feedback thanks to the improved Adobe Ray Tracer (ART) engine in Photoshop CS5 Extended. ART 2.0 brings substantial improvements in performance when you interact with and edit 3D models. ART 2.0 progressively renders 3D scenes with an option to re-render after a pause, or even perform selective renderings, all while providing more immediate feedback and dramatically reducing the time it takes to preview key areas in high quality.

Top reasons to upgrade to Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended

Complex selections made easy - Get better-than-ever results when selecting intricate image elements, such as hair, and eliminate background color around selection edges. Automatically vary selection edges and perfect masks using new refinement tools.

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.

Extraordinary painting effects - Achieve natural and realistic painting effects with the Mixer Brush, which offers on-canvas color blending, and Bristle Tips, which let you create lifelike, textured brushstrokes.

3D extrusions with Adobe Repoussé - Create 3D logos and artwork from any text layer, selection, path, or layer mask with Adobe Repoussé technology. Twist, rotate, extrude, bevel, and inflate your designs.

Puppet Warp - Precisely reposition or warp any image element. Swing a raised arm to a persons side in a photo, stretch text to create new effects, and more.

State-of-the-art raw image processing - Use the Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 6 plug-in to nondestructively remove image noise while preserving color and detail; add grain to make digital photos look more organic; enjoy more control when performing post-crop vignetting; and more.

Superior HDR imaging - Create photorealistic or surreal high dynamic range (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.

Enhanced 3D realism and rich materials - Enhance 3D objects and designs with easy shadow creation, image-based lights, and materials like glass and chrome. Explore with different focus points in your 3D scene by adjusting the range for depth of field.

Efficient workflow - Enjoy productivity and creativity boosts thanks to dozens of features and enhancements requested by Photoshop users. Straighten images automatically, choose colors from an onscreen color picker, adjust the opacity of many layers at once, and more.

Faster performance across platforms - 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. (Requires a 64-bit-capable computer with a 64-bit version of Mac OS, Microsoft Windows 7, or Windows Vista. Actual performance varies depending on amount of RAM, driver types, and other factors.)

Better media management - Easily manage media with more flexible batch renaming, and access your assets in the context of what youre working on by using the customizable Adobe Mini Bridge panel in Photoshop.

Streamlined creative reviews through integration with CS Live services - Use Adobe CS Review, part of new CS Live online services, to initiate a secure review without leaving Photoshop. Reviewers can add comments to your images from their browsers, and you see those comments appear automatically on your screen.