Create powerful images with the professional standard

Employ state-of-the-art editing, enhancement, and output tools as you turn your unique vision into compelling reality. Adobe Photoshop CS5 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 is also available as a component of Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Standard

With Photoshop CS5, you can:

Perfect your photography with breakthrough tools. Photoshop CS5 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 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 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

Intelligent selection technology

Photoshop CS5 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, 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 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 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, 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 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 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.

Top reasons to buy Adobe Photoshop CS5

Easy access to core editing power - Get just the tools you need - exactly when you  need them - as you perform common editing activities. Adjustments and Masks panels guide you in making precise adjustments and masks.

Extraordinary creative tools - Achieve realistic painting effects with the ability to mix colors on canvas and create natural brushstrokes. Merge multiple exposures into stunning high dynamic range (HDR) images. Move, remove, warp, or stretch any image element.

State-of-the-art photography - Easily merge multiple exposures to extend the dynamic range with more power, precision, and fidelity than ever before. Convert to black-and-white in new ways. And use Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools that intelligently preserve color and tone details.

Industry-leading raw image processing - Enjoy superior results when you convert raw images with the Camera Raw 6 plug-in, which offers support for over 275 camera models plus nondestructive editing so you can experiment without harming your original photo.

Automated compositing tools - Easily create a single image from a series of shots that have different focal points, smoothly blending color and shading and extending your depth of field. And take advantage of accurate, automatic layer alignment.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom integration - Enjoy tight integration with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software (sold separately), easily moving files from Lightroom to Photoshop CS5 to create HDR images, panoramas, and multilayered Photoshop documents. Roundtrip your files back to Lightroom.

Efficient media management - Manage your media visually with Adobe Bridge CS5 software. Enjoy more flexible batch renaming plus the ability to access files in the context of your work using the customizable Adobe Mini Bridge panel.

Powerful printing options - Get outstanding prints in less time with automation, scripting, and a print dialog box thats easier to navigate.

Broad file format support - Import and export hundreds of image file formats, including PSD, AI, PDF, NEF, CRW, TIFF, BMP, Cineon, JPEG, JPEG2000, FXG, OpenEXR, PNG, and Targa, and video formats including 3G, FLC, MOV, AVI, DV Stream, Image Sequence, MPEG-4, and FLV.

Extensibility - Personalize Photoshop and extend its capabilities with custom panels that developers create to accomplish specific tasks, the Adobe Photoshop Marketplace for third-party plug-ins and resources, and Adobe Community Help for tips and tricks.


System Requirements

• Multicore Intel processor
• Mac OS X v10.5.7 or v10.6.3
• 1GB of RAM
• 2GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash-based storage devices)
• 1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card, 16-bit color, and 256MB of VRAM
• Some GPU-accelerated features require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0
• DVD-ROM drive
• QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for multimedia features
• Broadband Internet connection required for online services