First Contact With Adobe Photoshop CS5
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 at 13:51 
As most of you will know, Adobe release its latest Creative Suite (CS5) a couple of days ago. Personally, I only use Photoshop and Dreamweaver. For the casual photographer, the CS2 or CS3 version of Photoshop is probably more than you ever need. So are there reasons for upgrading (or reinstalling)?
First, Adobe doesn't really support the older versions of Photoshop anymore, or the operating system you run at this moment has some issues with an older version. So an upgrade will happen sooner or later. But apart from compatibility issues with the OS, there are some new features available for the (casual) photographer. The following features are the ones I'm most interested in;
- Easier ways of doing complex selections
Basically a tedious job in every earlier version, so I have my reservations on this feature. - Content Aware Fill
Create-photos-in-Photoshop-instead-of-by-using-a-camera feature. - HDR Imaging
Let's see if it beats Photomatix Pro. - Automatic Lens Correction
I now use PTLens on the photos that need the correction. - 64bit support (!!!!)
A feature that's long overdue. - Better Black and White conversion
I mostly use Nik Silver Efex Pro at the moment.
In this post I'll be evaluating Photoshop CS5 on some of the points I mentioned above. Others will become a separate blogpost later on. For the moment, I'll be starting with 'upgrading' from CS4 to CS5, and see if that goes well (after I've cloned my MacBook disk with SuperDuper! to make sure I can always go back if things go sour).
Another thing that I need to check out is compatibility with earlier versions of Action scripts, and (older) plugins. Just check the CS5 or Photoshop tag for all the related posts about Photoshop CS5.
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