Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended 12.0 (Mac)

EBook Description: Description: Adobe? Photoshop? CS5 Extended software delivers breakthrough capabilities for superior image selections, image retouching, realistic painting, and 3D extrusions. Experience 64-bit support for fast performance as well as dozens of time-savers throughout your workflow. Go beyond traditional digital imaging. Easily select intricate image elements, such as hair. See space fill in almost magically when you remove image elements. Create 3D logos and artwork by easily extruding text and other 2D graphics. Achieve natural and realistic painting effects with the Mixer Brush, which offers on-canvas color blending; Bristle Tips, which let you create lifelike, textured brush strokes; an onscreen color picker; and more.

Plug-in for Adobe Photoshop to create the HDR-images without the occurrence of luminous halos. Also, using Topaz Detail, you can increase or decrease the sharpness of the image, convert images to greyscale with full control of tonal range. The essence of the plugin is as follows: Topaz Detail share photos on the three types of parts - small parts, medium and large items - and gives full control over every type. This gives unlimited possibilities for beginners and professional photographers, who will be able to achieve high quality and sharpness of the image with just one plug.

Photoshop for Designers Type Essentials

For this installment of Photoshop for Designers Nigel French
explains the fundamentals of working with type in Photoshop
distinguishing when it is appropriate to set type in Photoshop
rather than InDesign or Illustrator and what makes Photoshop
unique for certain type treatments. This course demonstrates
essential techniques such as entering and editing text
interacting with type layers and adjusting the color
transparency character and paragraph formatting of type.
Exercise files are included with the course.

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Micro

Create powerful images with the professional standard!
Adobe Photoshop - the essential software for perfecting your images, Adobe� Photoshop� CS4 now offers productivity and workflow enhancements, powerful new editing tools, and breakthrough compositing capabilities.

Adobe� Photoshop� CS4 software accelerates your path from imagination to imagery. Ideal for photographers, graphic designers, and web designers, the professional standard delivers new features such as automatic layer alignment and blending that enable advanced compositing. Live filters boost the comprehensive, nondestructive editing toolset for increased flexibility. And a streamlined interface and new timesaving tools make your work flow faster.

Adobe� Photoshop� CS4 Extended software delivers all the features in Photoshop CS4, plus new features for working with 3D imagery, motion-based content, and advanced image analysis. If you work in film, video, multimedia, 3D, manufacturing, architecture, engineering, medicine, or science, Photoshop Extended is for you.

Adobe Photoshop CS4 software takes advantage of the latest graphics processing unit (GPU) hardware to deliver superior performance. The software offers a smooth pan and zoom experience that allows users to easily edit images at the highest magnification while maintaining clarity. The new Canvas Rotation tool makes it simple to rotate and work on an image from any angle. Photoshop CS4 helps keep work areas clutter-free with a new unified application frame, tab-based interface and self-adjusting panels that make it easy to quickly access advanced tools, and provide a more fluid way to interact with the application.

Adobe CS4 Extended includes all the new features of Photoshop CS4 plus the ability to manipulate 3D imagery easier than ever before. Now, creativity knows no bounds, as users can paint directly on 3D models and surfaces, merge 2-D files onto 3D images and animate 3D objects. The 3D engine has been rebuilt from the ground up to provide faster performance, allow editing of properties like light and the ability to create more realistic renderings with a new high-quality ray-tracer. Video professionals have the ability to turn any 3D object into a video display zone and can animate 3D objects and properties with ease. In addition, the core motion graphics editing has been improved with more efficient single-key shortcuts.

Photoshop users may take a while to move to the new 64-bit version of Photoshop CS4, but it's an important development; meanwhile, CS4 offers plenty of other significant upgrades to keep 32-bit users happy.
Photoshop now comes in both 32- and 64-bit Windows Vista versions. The 64-bit edition will allow PCs with lots of RAM to work on very large images with less hard-disk swapping (ideally, no swapping at all), thus speeding up operations. With the shrinking amount of RAM available to modern PCs (due to a 4GB limit on 32-bit Windows versions and those operating systems' increasing hunger for RAM), that's a significant update.

Overall product features
� Revolutionary new features, a fluid user experience, and improved access to the unrivaled power of Photoshop
� A more intuitive user interface and new nondestructive editing features that put you in control, including the new Adjustments and Masks panels
� New and revolutionary Content-Aware Scaling, advanced auto-blending that extends depth of field, and industry-leading editing and compositing with reengineered color-correction tools
� Significant productivity enhancements that provide increased flexibility and enable you to leverage the power of today's faster graphics processors
� Breakthrough 3D editing and compositing capabilities and improved video controls to dramatically expand your creative options
� Comprehensive image analysis with enhanced measurement and counting tools, as well as support for DICOM images and MATLAB processing routines

Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended

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Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended software helps you create the ultimate images for print, the web, and video. Get all the state-of-the-art editing, compositing, and painting capabilities in industry-Standard Photoshop CS5 plus tools that let you create and edit 3D images and motion-based content
Discover new dimensions in digital imaging
Design Amazing Images: Keep pushing creative boundaries with world-class 2D and 3D design. Use powerful new selection, painting, and warping capabilities to create standout images.
Make your web pages pop: Get just the right look for each client's site. Easily select intricate image elements for placing in layout. Create 3D artwork for logos and buttons.
Create Rich Interactive Experiences: Design cutting-edge looks for interactive web content and experiences. Create 3D artwork, warped graphics, and realistic painting effects for all your projects.
Enhance 3D for video: Create and enhance 3D and motion-based content and prepare still images and text for all your projects. Work fast with cross-platform 64-bit support, and create stunning HDR images for video backdrops.
FEATURES
Innovate in 3D
Go beyond traditional image editing by bringing 3D elements to your 2D artwork directly within your favorite digital imaging application, which now offers an easy on-ramp to 3D image creation.
3D editing: Create stunning 3D logos and artwork from any text layer, selection, path, or layer mask with Adobe RepoussÃf© technology. Then twist, rotate, extrude, bevel, and inflate these designs to get the look you want. Edit, enhance, and manipulate 3D scenes in a streamlined interface without dialog boxes. Enjoy a single, easy-to-use panel that contains all your 3D controls for meshes, materials, and lights.
Maximize creative impact
Explore new creative possibilities with tremendous precision and freedom. Easily select intricate image elements, such as hair. Create realistic painting effects. Remove any image element and see the space fill in almost magically.
Intelligent image editing and enhancement: Get better edge detection and masking results in less time with the Quick Selection tool -- even when you're selecting the trickiest image elements, such as hair. Eliminate background color around the edges of your selection with the Quick Selection tool's automatic color decontamination capabilities.
Extraordinary painting and drawing toolset: Define multiple colors on a single Mixer Brush tip to paint with realistic color blends. Or use a dry Mixer Brush to blend a photo's colors and transform it into a beautiful painting. Create or modify images with a wide assortment of professional, fully customizable drawing tools.
Advanced compositing: Paste an element into a Photoshop file in the same position it held in the original file, for example, when you create something on the wrong layer and need to move it to the exact same place on a new layer. Combine a range of images, each with a different exposure, color, and focal point -- with options to preserve tones and colors -- into a single, color-corrected image.
State-of-the-art photography tools: Remove the noise common to high-ISO images and consumer-camera shots while preserving color and detail. You won't need more than this reengineered noise removal technology to maintain a photo's natural look, avoiding an oversharpened feel as you maximize quality.
Professional color and tone control: Create either photo-realistic or wildly surreal high dynamic range (HDR) images with unprecedented speed, control, and accuracy. Get stunning results thanks to automatic ghost removal and greater control with tone mapping and adjustments.
Video and animation design: Move through and edit video layers quickly and precisely using single-key shortcuts, and preview and export audio tracks in addition to exporting frame comments. Paint, add text, and clone over multiple frames of an imported video sequence using Movie Paint.
Creative tools and content: Give your images and designs fresh looks using a variety of custom shapes, color swatches, styles, gradients, and 3D meshes.
Boost productivity
Accelerate your workflow with fast performance on 64-bit Windows and Mac hardware systems, smoother interactions thanks to more GPU-accelerated features, and dozens of time-savers requested by Photoshop users.
Easy access to core editing power: Use the convenient Adjustments panel to easily access every tool you need to nondestructively adjust and enhance color and tone. Open the On-image Adjustment tool with a keyboard shortcut.
Efficient and flexible work environment: Easily control tile size, and use presets for simultaneously setting cache and tile size based on whether your output is for print or web.
Streamlined workflow: Use Adobe CS Review, part of new Adobe CS Live online services, to initiate a more secure review without leaving Photoshop Extended. Reviewers can add comments to your images from their browsers, and you see the comments appear automatically on your screen. CS Live services are complimentary for a limited time.
New time-savers: Let Photoshop CS5 automatically downsample your 16-bit image files so you can save them as 8-bit JPEGs.
Powerful extensibility: Get and share custom panels that developers create to accomplish specific tasks -- and easily create your own panels of tools, menu items, actions, and more -- with Adobe Configurator software.
Analyze images with precision
Work with specialized images for architecture, manufacturing, engineering, science, and medicine. Extract quantitative data from images, and experience support for DICOM images and MATLAB processing routines.
Measurement, counting, and edit-tracking tools: Easily calibrate or set the scale of an image, and even set measurements to the scale information in the header of DICOM files. Use selection tools to define and calculate distance, perimeter, area, and many other measurements. Record data points in a Measurement Log and then export the data -- including histogram data -- to a spreadsheet for further quantitative analysis.
Support for manufacturing, medical, and scientific workflows: Quickly render a stack of related images into a single view using a variety of rendering calculations, such as median and maximum. Adobe Photoshop Extended automatically analyzes and combines the images while preserving the originals. Image Stacks are extensible, so third parties can write their own render modes.
What's New in Photoshop CS5 Extended
Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended software delivers breakthrough capabilities for superior image selections, image retouching, realistic painting, and 3D extrusions. Experience 64-bit support for fast performance as well as dozens of time-savers throughout your workflow.
FOR DESIGN PROJECTS
Go beyond traditional digital imaging. Easily select intricate image elements, such as hair. See space fill in almost magically when you remove image elements. Create 3D logos and artwork by easily extruding text and other 2D graphics.
Extraordinary painting effects - New: Achieve natural and realistic painting effects with the Mixer Brush, which offers on-canvas color blending; Bristle Tips, which let you create lifelike, textured brush strokes; an onscreen color picker; and more.
Content-Aware Fill New: 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.
Complex selections made easy - New: Easily select intricate image elements, such as hair, for refinements, compositing, or placing in layout. Eliminate background color around selection edges, and automatically vary selection edges and perfect masks using new refinement tools.
Puppet Warp - New: Precisely warp or stretch graphics, text, or image elements to create unique new looks for your designs.
Superior HDR imaging - Enhanced: Create photo-realistic or surreal 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.
Efficient workflow - Enhanced: 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.
Better media management - Enhanced: Easily manage media with more flexible batch renaming, and access your assets in the context of what you're working on by using the customizable Adobe Mini Bridge panel in Photoshop Extended.
3D extrusions with Adobe Repousse - New: Create 3D logos and artwork from any text layer, selection, path, or layer mask with Adobe Repousse technology. Twist, rotate, extrude, bevel, and inflate your designs.
State-of-the-art raw image processing - Enhanced: 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.
Enhanced 3D realism and rich materials - New: 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
Faster performance across platforms - Enhanced: 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.)
FOR WEB PROJECTS
Explore new web design possibilities. Easily select intricate image elements, such as hair, for placing in layout, and make pages pop with 3D artwork.
Content-Aware Fill - New: 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.
3D extrusions with Adobe Repousse - New: Design with greater flexibility thanks to Adobe Repousse technology. Create 3D logos, web buttons, and artwork from any text layer, selection, path, or layer mask, and then twist, rotate, extrude, bevel, and inflate your designs.
Extraordinary painting effects - New: Achieve natural and realistic painting effects with the Mixer Brush, which offers on-canvas color blending; Bristle Tips, which let you create lifelike, textured brush strokes; an onscreen color picker; and more.
Puppet Warp - New: Precisely warp or stretch graphics, text, or image elements to create unique new looks for your web designs.
Streamlined creative reviews - New: Use Adobe CS Review -- an Adobe CS Live online service -- to initiate a more secure review from within Photoshop Extended. Reviewers add comments to your images from their browsers, and you see those comments immediately. CS Live services are complimentary for a limited time.
Efficient workflow - Enhanced: Enjoy productivity and creativity boosts thanks to dozens of features and enhancements requested by Photoshop users. Straighten images automatically, choose colors from the onscreen color picker, adjust the opacity of many layers at once, and more.
Faster performance across platforms - Enhanced: Speed up day-to-day imaging tasks and process very large images up to ten 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.)
Complex selections made easy - New: Easily select intricate image elements, such as hair, for refinements, compositing, or placing in layout. Eliminate background color around selection edges, and automatically vary selection edges and perfect masks using new refinement tools.
Superior HDR imaging - Enhanced: Create photo-realistic or surreal 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 - New: 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.
Better media management - Enhanced: Easily manage media with more flexible batch renaming, and access your assets in the context of what you're working on by using the customizable Adobe Mini Bridge panel in Photoshop Extended.
FOR VIDEO PROJECTS
Create and enhance 3D and motion-based content and prepare still images for video projects. Leverage 64-bit support, create stunning HDR images, and add natural painting effects with lifelike Bristle Tips.
3D extrusions with Adobe Repousse - New: Design with greater flexibility thanks to Adobe Repousse technology. Create 3D logos, web buttons, and artwork from any text layer, selection, path, or layer mask, and then twist, rotate, extrude, bevel, and inflate your designs.
Faster performance across platforms - Enhanced: Speed up day-to-day imaging tasks and process very large images up to ten 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.)
Superior HDR imaging - Enhanced: Create photo-realistic or surreal 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.
Extraordinary painting effects - New: Paint natural, realistic backdrops and digital mattes with the Mixer Brush, which offers on-canvas color blending, and Bristle Tips, which let you create lifelike, textured brush strokes.
Complex selections made easy - New: 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.
Streamlined creative reviews - New: Use Adobe CS Review -- a new Adobe CS Live online service -- to initiate a more secure review from within Photoshop Extended. Reviewers add comments to your images from their browsers, and you see those comments immediately. CS Live services are complimentary for a limited time.
Content-Aware Fill - New: 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.
Enhanced 3D animation and realism - Enhanced: Animate effects such as depth of field; use video layers to animate image-based lights; and easily keyframe 3D object position, camera position, textures, and render settings. Enhance 3D objects and designs with easy shadow creation and materials like glass and chrome.
Efficient workflow - Enhanced: Work smarter with an increased limit for nested layers, the ability to drag and drop a file onto an open PSD document to create a layer, a keyboard shortcut for the On-Image Adjustment tool, and more.
Improved 32-bit file support - Enhanced: Create a layer mask directly from the transparency in your 32-bit file.
FOR INTERACTIVE PROJECTS
Create cutting-edge looks for interactive web experiences with 3D artwork, warped graphics, and realistic painting effects.
Complex selections made easy - New: Get better-than-ever results when selecting tricky image elements, such as hair, and eliminate background color around selection edges. Automatically vary selection edges and perfect masks using new refinement tools.
3D extrusions with Adobe Repousse - New: Design with greater flexibility thanks to Adobe Repousse technology, which lets you create 3D logos, buttons, and artwork from any text layer, selection, path, or layer mask. Twist, rotate, extrude, bevel, and inflate your designs.
Puppet Warp - New: Precisely warp or stretch graphics, text, or image elements to create unique new looks for your interactive designs.
Content-Aware Fill - New: 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.
Streamlined creative reviews - New: Use Adobe CS Review -- an Adobe CS Live online service -- to initiate a more secure review from within Photoshop Extended. Reviewers add comments to your images from their browsers, and you see those comments immediately. CS Live services are complimentary for a limited time.
Efficient workflow - Enhanced: Enjoy productivity and creativity boosts thanks to dozens of features and enhancements requested by Photoshop users. Straighten images automatically, pick colors from an onscreen color picker, adjust the opacity of many layers at once, and more.
Faster performance across platforms - Enhanced: Speed up day-to-day imaging tasks and process very large images up to ten 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.)
Extraordinary painting effects - New: Achieve natural and realistic painting effects with the Mixer Brush, which offers on-canvas color blending; Bristle Tips, which let you create lifelike, textured brush strokes; an onscreen color picker; and more.
Superior HDR imaging -Enhanced: Create photo-realistic or surreal 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 - Enhanced: 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.
Better media management - Enhanced: Easily manage media with more flexible batch renaming, and access your assets in the context of what you're working on by using the customizable Adobe Mini Bridge panel in Photoshop Extended.


SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Windows
Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64 processor
Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 3; Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1 (Service Pack 2 recommended); or Windows 7
1GB of RAM
1GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install 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*

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