Adobe Photo-shop is considered as the de-facto image editing tool by professional imaging artists and amateur photographers alike since its inception in the 1990s. Over the years many rival applications appeared in the horizon but none of them could overthrow Adobe’s Reigning image editor from the numero uno spot. With each version Adobe has implemented unforeseen and useful features in the software that have gone down well with the users. The upcoming CS5 version of the software is going to introduce some compelling new features that will offer the users more creative freedom and quicken up the speed of work-flow.
The CS5 version is still in the making and it remains to be seen how many new features seen in the development stage is retained in the final version. However, the new features confirmed by Adobe are quite exciting and they can consolidate Photoshop’s position further. The new brush features in Photoshop CS5 will be appreciated by the users. The users who have a wacom tablet will be able to create real life brush stroke effects on the digital artworks. To lure away the users of Corel Painter, Photoshop CS5 introduces another new brush feature that simulates real life mixing of colors.
Taking a leaf out from Adobe After effects, Photoshop CS5 brings in a unique puppet feature that enables a user to warp objects by means of a joint skeleton. This takes image retouching abilities to unprecedented heights. Perhaps the most interesting feature of Photoshop CS5 is collaboration between University of Washington, Princeton University and Adobe Labs named Patchmatch. It consists of three new tools-image re-targeting, reshuffling and in-painting. The final version of Adobe CS5 will hit the stores sometimes in 2010.
