Photoshop is a very promising photo Editing Software. And it’s most popular among us for its eye catching features that make photo retouching in a minute.
Content aware fill
It’s a very handy tool that help a lot in photo retouching that introduces in Phtoshop®CS5. You can say it’s an upgraded version of ‘Spot Healing Tool’. Spot Healing Tool was used to remove a unwanted particle from the image or fill a blank space with surrounding patterns. Now this tool was good but very time consuming as you have to select the surrounding patterns by pressing Alt key so the blank spaces can be filled with same patterns. Now Photoshop® CS5 has introduced a fully automated patching tool. What you have to do is to select the unwanted part of the image or the blank space that you want to fill with the same pattern and Voila! You are done. This tool will automatically fill the space with surrounding patterns and make the image realistic.
Wet paint
It is claiming that this new tool will enhance your performance and I think it so. Now you can mix two or more colors with brush as you might do in real world. Another enhancement with brush behavior is brush prototypes. You can change the tip of the brush from the available flat brush, pointed brush, angle brush and fan brush. A small window will show you how the brush pretzels changes when you are dragging your brush pointer over and image.
Patchmatch
This is mostly like a bone tool used in Maya, 3Ds Max and other 3D image editing software. Just place some control point in the image and move a particular part of the image without disturbing the rest. You can say this is an upgraded version warp tool in transformation.
Better edge detection & masking results
Newer version has better and more precise edge detection. It can detect and identify complex borders in any image. In the demo below the manager has mask a photo of a hairy cat. This was a very complex edge but the enhanced Photoshop® masking to done that precisely.
3D enhancements
Now it’s time to forget use 3ds max, maya, xara 3D and any other 3D modeling tool to create a 3D object and import that design into your photoshop design. Because photoshop has integrated the 3D rendering tool . Now you can create any 3D object within photoshop. You can change width, height, depth and texture of a 3D modeling
Patchmatch
This is mostly like a bone tool used in Maya, 3Ds Max and other 3D image editing software. Just place some control point in the image and move a particular part of the image without disturbing the rest. You can say this is an upgraded version warp tool in transformation.
Small but effective enhancement
Now you can choose your default layer option. Just click on ‘make default’ button after creating a custom layer style and this will be your default layer style. Whenever you are changing a layer option in future, layer style will start from your default value. Another option is default closing dialogue box action. You can choose whether to save the file or not and you can make the same action to all the opened files by checking a box in dialogue box.
