by Corel
Platform:
Windows Vista / 7 / XP
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Review & Description
Corel PaintShop Photo Pro v.X3 Ultimate PSPPRX3ULENMB Software Suite (*)
Get everything you need to create fantastic photos, amazing photo effects and stunning digital paintings with Corel PaintShop Photo Pro X3 Ultimate--your complete photo-editing software collection. Now enhanced for superior speed and performance, this special value package offers more than $200 worth of creative extras. Easily organize, edit and share high-quality photos with the renowned PaintShop Photo Pro editor. Then get ready to have some real fun with Corel KPT Collection, 24 plug-in filters that let you quickly create incredible photo effects, and Corel Painter Essentials 4, the digital art studio that lets you sketch, draw and turn your photos into paintings.
Key Features and Benefits
Powerful photo editing plus over $200 worth of extras
Take your photography to the next level! Get everything you need to easily create professional-looking photos, amazing image effects and stunning digital paintings--all at one low price.
Enhanced for superior performance
This release includes the latest PaintShop Photo Pro, version X3.2, featuring enhanced performance for superior photo-editing speed and stability.
Easy and powerful photo editing
Fix common photo problems automatically or quickly edit groups of photos with the enhanced Express Lab. Express Lab has been updated with a new interface to make photo editing faster than ever. Quickly adjust contrast, apply local tone mapping, remove noise and sharpen images.
Advanced photo-editing tools
Get professional results with advanced photo-editing features like the Smart Carver, which seamlessly removes objects from an image, and Vibrancy, which boosts color in select image areas. Also includes HDR Photo Merge, levels and curves, lens distortion, depth of field and more.
New Photo Organizer
Manage your growing photo collection quickly and intuitively with the new PaintShop Photo Pro X3 Photo Organizer. Use thumbnails and image previews to quickly select your photos for editing. Perform batch edits by making adjustments to one photo, and easily applying the same changes to multiple other photos, right from the Organizer.
A complete RAW workflow
PaintShop Photo Pro X3 makes it faster and easier to work in RAW. Use the RAW Lab to make RAW adjustments during the loading process and work with more than 375 RAW formats.
Creative image effects
Quickly transform images and create impressive photo effects with the 24 creative plug-in filters in Corel KPT Collection. Create lighting effects, add textures and patterns to images, and much more.
3-step photo painting
Sketch, draw and turn your favorite photos into beautiful paintings in 3 easy steps with Corel Painter Essentials 4, the digital art studio. Add your own touch with a wide selection of brushes, paints, pens and paper textures or create your painting in the intuitive workspace.
Instant sharing and stunning projects
Share with anyone, anywhere! Easily send your photos by email or upload them directly to Flickr, Facebook and YouTube. Feeling creative? Select your photos and make great-looking photo books, HD slideshows, collages, cards and more with built-in photo projects.
More learning resources
Learn quickly and get help as you need it with the built-in Learning Center and the comprehensive 144-page User Manual. You also get the Getting Started Guide to get you up and running fast.
If creating great pictures is your passion, Corel PaintShop Photo Pro X3 Ultimate is the photo-editing program for you. Featuring a brand-new RAW Lab and easy batch photo processing, it's the only advanced photo-editing software to combine photo management, creative projects, photo sharing and even HD video slideshows in one package.
Highlights:
- NEW Corel KPT Collection--quickly create amazing effects and graphics with 24 creative plug-in filters
- NEW Corel Painter Essentials 4--sketch, paint and transform your photos into gorgeous digital paintings
- NEW Comprehensive User Manual--this 144-page manual is your step-by-step guide to PaintShop Photo Pro X3 Ultimate
- NEW RAW Lab--manually adjust groups of RAW photos during the loading process
- ENHANCED Express Lab--quickly fix common flaws in this speed-editing mode
- NEW Advanced editing tools--edit fast with Smart Carver, Vibrancy and more
Corel Painter Essentials 4 -- Included!
With its streamlined interface, intuitive workflow, and range of creative options, Corel Painter Essentials 4 is the ideal way to get started with digital art. This simple-to-use home art studio is based on the world's most powerful painting and illustration software--Corel Painter. Whether photo enthusiasts are sketching and painting on a blank canvas, or transforming photos into paintings, Corel Painter Essentials 4 provides everything needed to create stunning artwork. Corel Painter Essentials 4 is a perfect complement to Corel PaintShop Photo Pro X3.
Corel Painter Essentials 4 has two tabbed workspaces: Drawing & Painting for creating original artwork from scratch and Photo Painting for turning images into digital art.
Turn images into digital art: The Photo Painting workspace has three palettes that make it simple to turn a photo into a painting. All brushes within the Photo Painting workspace act as cloners and take their color from the source image.
- The Source Image palette lets users choose a clone source, and includes controls to adjust the opacity of tracing paper and to toggle tracing paper on and off. In addition, the source image is saved with the painting, meaning that users don't have to keep a separate photo open.
- On the Auto-Painting palette, users can simply select a preset and let Corel Painter Essentials 4 do the work, or choose their own auto-painting settings for more control. The Auto-Painting palette includes Smart Stroke technology, which provides more intelligent brush behavior during the auto- painting process.
- The Restore Detail palette helps users put the final touches on a photo painting by providing brushes for restoring some detail from the original photo, such as features in a subject's face.
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Serif WebPlus X5 [Download]
by Serif
Platform:
Windows Vista / 7 / XPBuy new:
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Review & Description
WebPlus X5 is the ultimate website design software for small businesses, organizations and home users. You don't need to know any HTML – drag-and-drop simplicity, an intuitive interface, and powerful tools help you design sites easily, even if you’ve never done it before. Create sites quickly using the fully editable templates or design unique sites from scratch. There’s easy and secure e-commerce, photo galleries, forms, blogs, a booking system and much more. It even comes with 6 months free hosting so you can get your site online in minutes. WebPlus X5 really does have everything you need to create professional-quality websites.
Serif WebPlus X5--Professional-Quality Web Sites Made Easy
WebPlus X5 is the ultimate web-site design software for small businesses, organizations, and home users. You don't need to know any HTML--drag-and-drop simplicity, an intuitive interface, and powerful tools help you design sites easily, even if you've never done it before.
Setting the standard for web-design software!
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Web-site design made easy. No need for HTML!
You can design your web site from scratch or, to get up and running really quickly, use one of the professionally designed templates. There are templates to suit everyone and customizing them is easy because you don't need to know HTML or any other complicated programming language.
Simply drag and drop what you want, such as buttons, photos, text, and more, onto your page. And it's just as easy to add music, videos, Flash banners, or anything else you might want on your web site. You can even change the entire color scheme in just a couple of clicks. When we say easy, we mean it!
Free hosting included
Get online straight away! When you buy WebPlus X5, you'll get six months web hosting absolutely free!
It's not just any hosting, it's six months of our Silver hosting package. That means you'll get 250 MB of web space--enough for all but the largest sites, 2 GB of bandwidth every month, a personalized email address, and a sub-domain that is unique to your web site.
WebPlus Hosting
WebPlus X5 includes six months of Silver hosting with every WebPlus X5 purchase. Free hosting is applicable to new WebPlus.net accounts only.
Your own unique web address
Get an address for free in the format www.yoursite.webplus.net. You can upgrade to a different hosting package if you would like your own .com or similar web address. If you have an existing domain name you can transfer it to a Serif WebPlus.net hosting package.
2 GB monthly bandwidth
This is enough bandwidth volume for a popular website with low demands on traffic (e.g. text and images), or for light traffic if hosting your own video or other large files. Content streamed from other servers e.g. YouTube does not affect your WebPlus.net bandwidth.
250 MB storage
A web site comprised of text and images will not likely ever fill this space, leaving enough room for some of your own video and audio if you wish.
1 email address
In the format yoursite@webplus.net.
Secure e-commerce made easy
Shopping online is more popular than ever. WebPlus X5 gives your customers a secure way to pay by card on your web site. We've teamed up with popular shopping cart providers PayPal, RomanCart, and Mal's so you can be sure it will work smoothly and that all of your customers' details--and money--are safe.
It's easy to set up a store on your web site: a wizard will take you step-by-step through everything you need to do. Add as many items as you like and even include different pricing based on color, size, model--anything! You could be selling your products and services worldwide in minutes!
Online booking, Google Maps, blogs, forums, and other interactive widgets
Take bookings for your B&B, venue, restaurant, or anything else with the interactive online booking system and make it easy for your customers to see what days and times are available by color-coding available slots on an interactive calendar.
Your customers will find you easily when you put a Google Map on your site. They are free and easy to add, and you can even show the front of your building.
Get direct feedback from your customers and encourage discussion by adding a forum or blog where they can post comments--it's a great way to add reviews without having to ask for them.
Entertain visitors with YouTube videos, slideshows, live Twitter feeds and much more!
Embed or stream your own videos and music on your site--ideal for showing off your products and services, promoting your band, or just as an easy way for friends and family to see your home movies.
Display your photos in stylish galleries or link your Flickr account so uploaded photos are automatically displayed in slideshows on your site. You can even live stream from news sites, Twitter posts, RSS feeds, and more so your site is always up-to-date with fresh content.
Stylish web buttons and graphics
Add some of the many professionally designed styles, fills, instant shapes, logos, and web graphics to your site. Or design your own buttons and graphics from scratch and build intelligent navbars easily in the new Button Studio.
WebPlus X5 also comes with powerful image-editing tools so you can adjust and enhance photos, remove backgrounds, add effects, and more. And because you can do this all in WebPlus, you don't need--or have to learn--any other design software.
Now you really can create a web site to look exactly as you want it to.
Optimize sites: increase ranking for more traffic!
Make sure potential customers can find your site by using the built-in SEO in WebPlus X5. There's no need to pay a professional to improve your page ranking in search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo!.
To help optimize your site even more, we've made it easy for you to add Google Analytics, for free of course. It will report on page view times, site browsing habits, and other visitor behavior patterns to help you understand which pages are working for you and which ones you need to improve.
Web-site design software with total freedom
Create as many web sites as you like with WebPlus X5. There are no limits on anything, including the number of pages you can have, items in your e-commerce stores, or where you host your web sites.
Design your web site in the office, at home, or on the move then publish with one click. And keep your web site up-to-date wherever you are--edit blogs and update content from any computer with an internet connection. WebPlus X5 is as flexible as you are.
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Summary
The flexibility and power of WebPlus X5 makes designing and uploading professional-quality web sites simple and easy--and you don't need to know HTML because it handles all the code writing behind the scenes!
This all-in-one web-site design software works perfectly in Windows 7, Vista, and XP and offers stylish and functional site navigation, e-commerce facilities, and Flash compatibility. It comes with all the tools you need to create attractive graphics and edit your photos, as well as smart web gadgets like blogs, forums, and RSS feeds.
All of this makes WebPlus X5 ideal for creating web sites for businesses, clubs, organizations, hobbies, or specialist sites like blogs, online portfolios, photo galleries, and more.
Read moreAdobe CS5.5 Web Premium Student and Teacher Edition [Mac]
by Adobe
Platform: Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Date first available at Amazon.com: April 11, 2011
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Review & Description
Redefine the extraordinary in web design and developmentExpanded platform and device supportEfficient workflows for multiple screens and devicesPowerful mobile application developmentDesign, develop, and deliver standards-based websites and immersive digital experiences across desktops, smartphones, tablets, and Internet-enabled televisions with Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Web Premium software. Use an industry-leading toolset that includes Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5 for authoring content with HTML5 and CSS3 and Adobe Flash Professional CS5.5 for targeting multiple platforms. Efficiently manage designer/developer workflows with Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5.5 and Adobe Flash Builder 4.5.
Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Web Premium
Create and deliver standards-based websites and immersive digital experiences across desktops, smartphones, tablets, and televisions. Design and develop content for multiple platforms including Android, iOS, and Adobe AIR.
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What is Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Web Premium?
Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Web Premium software provides everything you need to design, develop, and deliver standards-based websites and immersive digital experiences for desktops, smartphones, tablets, and televisions.
Key Features
Design, develop, and deliver standards-based websites and immersive digital experiences across desktops, smartphones, tablets, and Internet-enabled televisions with Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Web Premium software. Use an industry-leading toolset that includes Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5 for authoring content with HTML5 and CSS3 and Adobe Flash Professional CS5.5 for targeting multiple platforms. Efficiently manage designer/developer workflows with Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5.5 and Adobe Flash Builder 4.5, and integrate with Adobe CS Live online services like Adobe BrowserLab to help ensure your designs appear as intended across browsers.
Top Reasons to Buy Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Web Premium
Efficient workflows for desktop and mobile development--Efficiently create websites that display across desktops, smartphones, and tablet devices. Use the Multiscreen Preview panel, along with HTML5, CSS3, and helpful jQuery mobile framework starter templates in Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5.
Expanded platform and device support--Use Adobe Flash Professional to create content optimized for delivery to multiple screens, and reach audiences on the latest Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR runtimes and on Android, Apple iOS, RIM, webOS, and Adobe Digital Home devices.
Website and mobile application development--Build standalone applications targeted at multiple platforms using the new mobile support for ActionScript and Flex projects in Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 Premium Edition. Leverage mobile-ready components optimized for performance and touch input.
Integration with Adobe BrowserLab--Help ensure the integrity of your designs across browsers and screens using Adobe BrowserLab, part of Adobe CS Live online services. Easily highlight layout differences and active links, and integrate with the Firebug Firefox extension.
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Creative Suite integration--Enhance productivity and workflows when using Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended, Illustrator CS5, and Flash Professional CS5.5 software. Leverage the FXG graphics file format and integration with Adobe Mini Bridge for digital asset management.
Full designer/developer workflow--Work collaboratively and confidently on shared Flex based projects with a new bidirectional workflow that allows designers who use Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5.5 to work in parallel with developers who use Flash Builder 4.5.
Easy 3D extrusions with Adobe Repousse--Quickly create stunning 3D artwork and apply rich material textures with Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended. Take your designs even further by leveraging the Adobe 3D Forge engine for advanced editing of 3D models.
Crisp graphics for web and mobile devices--Deliver clean, sharp, pixel-aligned raster artwork with enhanced anti-aliasing features in Adobe Illustrator CS5. Avoid fuzzy graphics by automatically aligning artwork to the pixel grid, and control the appearance of individual text objects.
Enhanced code snippets handling--Utilize over 20 new code snippets in Flash Professional CS5.5, including ones for creating mobile and AIR applications, use of the accelerometer, and multitouch gestures. Use the new pick whip to visually add interactivity with ease.
Approachable interaction design--Use Flash Catalyst CS5.5 to create expressive interfaces and interactive content without writing code. Define behaviors and sophisticated interactions using simple menu-based commands.
Advanced text support--Create print-quality typography using the Text Layout Framework in Flash Professional CS5. Work with columns and bidirectional text, and maintain layout and formatting with greater fidelity when importing from other Adobe products.
CSS inspection--Use Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5 to visually display the CSS box model in detail without reading code or requiring separate utilities. Move the cursor over block-level elements in Live View to see their cascade and context instead of using the Tag Selector.
Redefine the extraordinary in web design and development
Creative Suite 5.5 Web Premium enables web designers, web application developers, and interactive designers to create applications and content with HTML5, CSS3, ActionScript, and Flex, and to reach the widest audience across desktops, tablets, smartphones, and Internet-enabled televisions. With Adobe Dreamweaver, Flash Professional, and Flash Builder Premium Edition for development, and Adobe Photoshop Extended, Illustrator, Fireworks, and Flash Catalyst for design, CS5.5 Web Premium features industry-leading authoring tools.
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CS5.5 Web Premium is more than a collection of component applications—it’s a cohesive solution that offers enhanced productivity and workflow benefits. Powerful integration enables you to easily move content from design to development and through delivery, all while preserving design fidelity and creative intent.
With Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Web Premium, you can:
Manage content for different screen sizes. Use industry-leading tools to simplify the creation of web and mobile experiences for display across screens of all sizes. Optimize your projects by thinking about mobile first. Develop websites and applications with efficient tools in Dreamweaver and Flash Professional.
Develop apps for virtually any mobile device. Extend your reach, and create rich applications for multiple platforms, including Android, iOS, RIM Blackberry, and Adobe AIR. Create compelling, rich content for desktops, smartphones, tablets, and televisions.
Ensure design integrity across the entire web. Integrate with Adobe CS Live online services to test your designs across multiple browsers and operating systems. Use the BrowserLab panel in Dreamweaver to quickly and accurately test public and local web content.
Who uses Web Premium?
Web designers use CS5.5 Web Premium to design standards-based websites and create expressive interactive content across a variety of devices. With the help of an enhanced multiscreen preview panel and support for HTML5, CSS3, and the jQuery mobile framework in Dreamweaver, and shared library assets in Flash Professional, they design, redesign, and maintain websites. They also benefit from integration with Adobe BrowserLab, a CS Live online service, to get fast and accurate browser compatibility testing.
Web application developers use CS5.5 Web Premium to help save time and reduce the number of required steps when incorporating data, integrating with other systems, and ultimately in deployment. They benefit from integration with Adobe BrowserLab to get fast and accurate browser compatibility testing. With enhanced integration between Flash Builder Premium Edition, and both Flash Professional and Flash Catalyst, they provide data connectivity for websites and build cross-platform rich Internet applications for delivery virtually anywhere.
Interactive designers use CS5.5 Web Premium to create interactive content with expressive motion. With new pinning support for inverse kinematics in Flash Professional and the ability to create resizable applications and components in Flash Catalyst, they create free-form and immersive interactive web content and experiences.
Adobe Creative Suite 5.5
Make an impact through print, video, and digital experiences for virtually any device and platform. With powerful new creative tools, enhanced performance, simple workflows, and support for cutting-edge standards like HTML5 and EPUB 3, Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 software helps you create rich content for virtually any media. Whether you need to produce printed pages, create high-end video, or design and distribute engaging interactive content for the latest smartphones and tablets, Creative Suite 5.5 is ready to help you boost productivity and keep pace with your creative vision.
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Saturday, August 6, 2011
Adobe Photoshop CS5 [Mac]
by Adobe
Platform:
Mac OS X
(14)Buy new:
11 used & new from $659.00
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Review & Description
Adobe Photoshop CS5 v.12.0 65048331 Graphic Design SoftwareAdobe Photoshop CS5 delivers breakthrough capabilities to help you create images with impact. Refine your images with reengineered photography tools for removing noise, adding grain, and creating high dynamic range (HDR) images. Get precise results when making complex selections. Remove any image element and see the space fill in almost magically. Paint with naturally textured brushstrokes and realistic color blends. Also work fast with cross-platform 64-bit support and dozens of other time-savers.
 Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended provide unparalleled editing and enhancement control with powerful new selection-refinement tools that produce superior results with complex subjects and state-of-the-art noise removal, sharpening, and raw-image processing with Adobe Camera Raw 6. Click to enlarge. |
Create powerful images with the professional standard
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 that's 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.
 The Edge Detection and Decontaminate Colors features help you make highly precise selections of complex subjects quickly and easily, enabling faster, more accurate compositing of multiple images. Click to enlarge. |
 Magically remove unwanted detail in your photographs with Content-Aware Fill. In this example, the boat has been removed from the photo by making a rough selection around the subject (left) and then filling the area with the Content Aware option selected in the Fill dialog box. Click to enlarge. |
 With new tone-mapping and alignment technologies, sophisticated controls, and an updated dialog box, HDR Pro helps you to produce a variety of creative outcomes from a single set of source files. Click to enlarge. |
 Recreate the look of your favorite film with the new Grain feature. Left: Original photo. Right: After grain has been applied. |
Top new features of Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended
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 subject's 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 subject's 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 don't 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.
Together with the existing Photomerge feature (which allows for image stitching), the exposure-merging capabilities of HDR Pro can add up to high-bit-depth, 360-degree panoramas ideal for composite photography, video, and beyond.
The Auto Stack Panorama/HDR files option in Adobe Bridge CS5 and the new panelized Mini Bridge groups source files together into stacks for quicker creation of HDR images in Photoshop CS5. You can even start the creation of an HDR file by choosing Tools > Merge To HDR from the Mini Bridge panel inside Photoshop.
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.
You can now shoot at higher ISO settings with confidence, because the updated controls in the Adobe Camera Raw 6 plug-in remove the noise common in such high-ISO images (as well as in photos captured with long exposures and pictures from consumer cameras) while still preserving excellent color and detail.
New controls for adding grain and additional post-crop vignetting settings join many creative options already available in this utility, such as the Adjustment Brush and the Graduated Filter. For the first time, you can add grain-like texture to photos as part of your nondestructive editing workflow. Adjust amount, size, and roughness of grain to easily give composites a more natural, seamless appearance by matching levels of grain across all source images--or simply use the feature to make a digital photo look more organic or film-like.
Updated post-crop vignetting options offer more creative control over the corner darkening and lightening process, and your favorite vignette effects can be saved as presets for quick application across multiple files.
Upgraded sharpening options produce clearer photos with fewer artifacts while providing better control over key details, especially when working with high-resolution pictures produced by multi-megapixel cameras.
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.
In conjunction with these new mixing features, Photoshop CS5 incorporates unprecedented control over stroke characteristics of its painting tools with Bristle Tips. Bristle Qualities define key bristle properties such as shape, length, stiffness, thickness, angle, and spacing, which affect how the color is laid on the image as you paint.
The Bristle Brush Preview feature provides a visual representation of these changes, and you can save your tip configurations for future use, allowing you to build a customized collection of Bristle Tips to experiment with when using Photoshop brush tools.
 The Adobe Camera Raw 6 plug-in includes new features for better sharpening, adding grain, removing noise, and producing creative vignette effects. Click to enlarge. |
 You can use Puppet Warp to interactively reposition, reshape, and transform key objects in your photos. In this example, rose photos, like the one above, were twisted and layered to form a wreath and the letters in the center of the composition (left). |
 The Lens Correction feature located in the Photoshop CS5 Lens Correction filter provides camera- and lens-specific correction for three of the most common lens-related aberrations. |
 Black & White Technique action both converts and tints color photos to produce sophisticated monochrome images. |
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 person's 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.
The Lens Correction filter in Photoshop CS5 is redesigned to include manual adjustment controls under the Custom tab, and settings for locating and applying custom Lens Correction Profiles (LCP files) under a new Auto Correction tab. Installed profiles that match your camera and lens combination are used to apply precise distortion corrections to your photos. Suitable profiles can be located easily based on the EXIF data automatically recorded with the image, and if a suitable profile is not present in the Lens Correction filter, then with a single click within the dialog box, you can search online for the correct profile to meet your needs.
Individual error types can be selected in the filter's settings, as can options for handling any transparent areas that surround the corrected image.
User-inspired productivity enhancements
Photoshop CS5 helps boost productivity and creativity throughout the editing workflow with dozens of enhancements inspired by Photoshop users. Some of these include:
- A neutral-density preset for the Gradient tool
- The ability to save 16-bit Photoshop documents in 8-bit JPEG format in a single step
- An option for reversing the clone source using the flip buttons in the Clone Source panel
- A Don't Show This Message Again option when saving files with maximum compatibility
- Default value for Shadows/Highlights changed from 50% to 35%
- The ability to move a selection while the active layer is hidden
- An on/off option for trackpad gesture support on Mac and in Microsoft® Windows® 7
- A new layer command for deleting all empty layers via scripts
- A Straighten button on the Ruler tool options bar
- A Close All Open Images Without Saving option
- A Save As option for always defaulting to the folder to which you last saved an image
- The ability to drag and drop a file onto an open Photoshop document to create a new layer
- Multiple improvements in Lens Correction filter options, including:
- Grid Display is off by default
- Show Grid, Grid Size, and Grid Color settings are now sticky
- Default grid size is increased from 16 to 64 pixels
- Decimal point adjustments are allowed as values for the Chromatic Aberration sliders
- A third Chromatic Aberration slider enables the correction of green/magenta fringing
- The Background Color Edge setting is replaced with the Black Color entry
- A White Color option is available in the Edge menu
- Reset options are changed so that only the calibration settings are reset, not the Grid options
- A new Cache Tile Size control in the Performance section of the Preferences dialog box
- Zoom in and out with the new scrubby zoom tool
- Presets for setting Cache Tile Size and Cache Levels simultaneously
- The ability to use keystrokes to set values in the Adjustments panel text fields
- Performance increases of up to 50% when importing OBJ files
- Sample colors faster using the new on screen color ring built into the eyedropper tool
- Customizable default values for Layer styles
- New creative resources, including actions, tools, presets, brushes, swatches, shapes, gradients, styles, and tool presets
- Window and Door shapes added to list of meshes that can be created from a layer
- An option for changing the opacity of multiple selected layers
- The ability to create a mask from the transparent areas of a layer
- Pick colors faster using the new on-screen color HUD
- Print settings saved with the image file, allowing one-button printing with user-selected values
- Selecting a printer automatically lists the profiles installed for that printer at the top of the profile list
- Printer-specific profiles are selected automatically when choosing a printer
- Customized print settings can be recorded as part of a Photoshop Action
- An overlay grid can be displayed when using the Crop tool
- Layer groups can be nested more than five levels deep
- New Paste Outside and Paste Inside commands, along with the previously existing Paste In Place option, are included in a new Edit > Paste Special menu
Streamlined creative reviews through integration with Adobe CS Review
Collaborate with colleagues and seek client comment quickly and easily with Adobe CS Review, a new CS Live online service* designed to simplify and accelerate the design review process.
With CS Review, you can avoid the hassles of large email attachments, logon problems with FTP servers, and time-consuming next-day air deliveries usually associated with client reviews by instead initiating a secure, shared review. Comments are displayed in near-real time and in context, providing convenient feedback on your images and designs. You can access the CS Review service from within Photoshop CS5.
Faster performance with cross-platform native 64-bit support
Tight deadlines and large file sizes make performance a high priority for many Photoshop users. Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended deliver cross-platform 64-bit support, allowing you to perform day-to-day imaging tasks up to 10 times faster. Video and photo professionals, especially, benefit from the extra performance, as gains are even greater if you regularly work with very large files, where processing can be up to ten times faster when you take advantage of higher addressable RAM amounts--limited only by what your hardware accommodates.
To help you tweak the performance of your setup, Photoshop CS5 lets you adjust history, tile, and cache controls in combination.
Greater access to key resources via flexible custom panels
Photoshop CS5 offers easy ways to integrate and extend your workspace with customized panels. With the aid of the Configurator 2.0 panel utility (available separately as a download from labs.adobe.com) you can produce your own panels, bringing together your most used tools and menu selections and incorporating your favorite web feeds or video tutorials.
Stay connected to the greater Photoshop community and all facets of your digital life directly from within Photoshop CS5 by using panels you create or those produced and distributed by other users. You can access anything that lives on the web--favorite blogs, video content, even your email--with these integrated panels. You can even expand content beyond a panel's standard viewing area when you need a magnified view.
Easier interface management with Live Workspaces and Workspace Switcher
Creating dedicated, task-specific workspaces that mimic your individual workflow increases productivity and efficiency by hiding the features you don't use and exposing the ones you do. New Live Workspaces auto-save any changes you make to a task-specific workspace, so that if you switch to a different workspace and then back again during an editing session, your panels remain exactly where you left them. The number of entries displayed in the collapsible Workspace Switcher can be altered, and the position of each workspace can be rearranged. This provides quicker navigation between frequently used setups.
Superior black-and-white conversion
Photoshop CS5 continues to support the tradition of producing finely crafted monochrome photos with the inclusion of new ways to explore an endless variety of black-and-white looks. You can use the integrated Lab Black & White Technique action, located in the Default Actions group of the Actions panel, for an easy and interactive way to convert color images. Create gorgeous HDR black-and-whites with greater ease and speed by taking advantage of the new and updated features in HDR Pro. Take your monochrome creations in new directions with conversion presets in the Black & White panel. Read more
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From inspiration to applause, music comes alive with Finale. Easily compose, arrange, notate, and print publisher-quality sheet music that plays back with world-class sounds. Whether you're creating orchestral film scores or .MP3 files for your iPod, Finale offers you the power, flexibility, and freedom to create any music you can imagine. Finale 2011 frees you from software constraints so you can focus on music. This new version includes many new features including: improved lyric entry and spacing, easier staff layout, new Garritan sounds with an updated Aria Player, new music education worksheets, expanded percussion playback and much more. From lyrics and staff layout to Garritan sounds and new fonts, Finale 2011 is more intuitive, efficient, and flexible. Read more