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Photoshop can Paint 14 Welcome to this cs5 superguide contributors
Welcome to the Creative Studio CS5 Superguide. Jack Davis: Jack is co-author of the award-winning and best-selling guide to
Camera Raw 18
Here you will find a wealth of information on Adobe’s Photoshop, “The Photoshop Wow! Book.” He is an internationally recognized
expert on digital imagery and the visual communication process. He has
What’s new for Tablet Users? 22 latest release. lectured at conferences and universities throughout the US, and abroad. He
teaches as part of the “Dream Team” at the National Association of Photoshop
Photoshop CS5 3D By: Stephen Burns 28 This is our second Superguide following the huge

CONTENTS
Professional’s Photoshop World Conferences. Jack was recently inducted into
the NAPP Photoshop Hall of Fame.
success of the CS4 Superguide. Expect a Superguide
from us each time Adobe has a major release of a new Jane Conner-Ziser: Jane Conner-Ziser is a photographer, digital artist, pre-
mier educator and independent consultant. She was named as one of Canon’s
Creative Suite. Count this as part of your exploration Explorers of Light in their PrintMaster program, is an Adobe Photoshop Expert,
process. a Corel Painter Master and a Craftsman Photographer of the Professional
Flash CS5 - New Features 34 Photographers of America. In addition, she is past co-chair for the Digital and
Check out our coverage of Photoshop CS5, Camera Advanced Imaging Committee for the Professional Photographers of America.
Packager for iPhone 37 Raw 6, Illustrator, Indesign, Flash, After Effects, Pre- David Blater & Anne-Marie Conception: David Blatner and Anne-Marie
miere and more. We have assembled some of the best Concepción are regarded as the top InDesign experts and have authored a
ton of book and spoken at many events. Together they run the top InDesign
experts in the industry to write these articles for you. Resource and magazine InDesignSecrets.com
While we didn’t manage to cover every application, Colin Smith: Colin Smith is a best-selling author, trainer, and award-winning
we got really close. There have been many sleepless new-media designer. He is founder of the world’s most popular Photoshop
resource site, PhotoshopCAFE.com, which boasts over twenty million visitors.
nights and favor-calling to make this a reality. I have He is a regular columnist for Photoshop User Magazine. He is in high demand
managed to assemble a very elite group of people, across the United States as a lecturer, presenting his Photoshop techniques

Illustrator CS5- New Features 40 some of the smartest minds in the business, including
to Photographers and graphics professionals across the nation. Colin has con-
sulted such companies as Adobe Systems, Apple and Disney Studios.
Jack Davis, Jane Conner-Ziser, Wes Maggio and David
Weston Maggio: An Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop and Application
Blatner. Each contributer is an expert (In many cases Specialist for Wacom Technology, Weston Maggio is an authority on Photoshop
the top expert) in their chosen application. instruction. Wes can be regularly found lecturing and instructing experts-to-enthu-
siasts alike at creative events around the country. For more information about Wes,
We also plan on making Creative Studio a regular check out his website at www.westonimages.com. To learn more about Wacom
and their line of pen tablets, please visit www.wacom.com.
free publication. Thanks for your patience and sup-
port. Also thanks for your support of PhotoshopCAFE. Matt Keefe: Matthew is a new-media designer, developer, author and trainer.
Recently Matt authored the Flash and PHP bible. His work has been published
com. Thanks to you, we are celebrating our 10th year in How To Wow with Flash for which he was a contributing author, and techni-
cal editor. Matt was also a technical editor for Essential ActionScript 3. He holds
as a leading inside resource on Photoshop.
Indesign CS5- New Features 48 an ACE certification for Adobe Photoshop CS3 and works closely on new and
upcoming technologies from Adobe and other technology companies.
If you aren’t a subscriber on our mailing list, make
sure you join up so you don’t miss any of the exclu- Bruce Bicknell: Bruce Bicknell is a video and animation specialist who is the
founder of Digital Blue Productions. He has been an instructor on Adobes in-
sive tips and discounts only on our mailing list. (If you box training as well as published in Photoshop User, Layers Magazine, ATI Red,
signed up for this superguide you’re already a mem- MacTribe and PhotoshopCAFE. His clients include Time Inc., DTCC, KW Media
and has worked with magazines that include People, National Geographic,
ber, it’s free!) Adventure, Photoshop User, and Layers magazines to name a few. Bruce is also
an instructor at Sessions.edu teaching video and graphics courses.
Also check out the free videos on Photoshop CS5.
A lot of the content here has also been compiled into a Stephen Burns: Stephen Burns is the author of several books published by
CS5 microsite at www.PhotoshopCAFE.com/cs5, there Charles River media. They include “Photoshop CS Trickery & FX”, “Advanced
Premiere CS5- New Features 55 are also some videos and other goodies there.
Photoshop CS2 Trickery & FX”, “Advanced Photoshop CS3 Trickery & FX”, “Ad-
vanced Photoshop CS4Trickery & FX” and “The Art Of Poser Pro & Photoshop
CS4.

Darren (Daz) Winder : Graphic designer, web designer, teacher, technical
Your partner in success, editor of books on Photoshop, Illustrator and PainterX. Darren is widely known
on the internet circuit, a teaching assistant at ed2go.com teaching Photoshop
Colin Smith and Illustrator. Darren can also be found at PhotoshopCafe.com answering
questions on Illustrator and Photoshop. The owner of d.a.w. DESIGN digital art
Publisher studio. dawdesign.com // dawdesign.net.
csmith@photoshopCAFE.com
Creative Studio (CAFE)
Colin Smith Publisher, Editor in Chief, Layout and Design
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Bruce Bicknell Managing Editor. bbicknell@photoshopCAFE.com
Creative Studio (CAFE) // PhotoshopCAFE.com
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the good stuff
Don’t worry though; there are plenty of sexy ad-
ditions too. Check out HDR Pro, the Puppet Warp
Photoshop CS5 New Features (aka Photoshop 12) By: Colin Smith tool, Content Aware Fill, the new Refine Edge tools,
new RAW engine, new brushes and paint mixer and

Photoshop is the cornerstone of the extensive use of the GPU (Graphics Processing much more. Let’s get started with the Refine Edge
Unit). This takes a lot of the graphical load off of the tool.
Creative Suite. Almost every creative professional main processer (CPU) and reroutes it to the Graph-
leans heavily on the use of Photoshop. Designers, making selections
ics card. The GPU is equipped to run these types of
Photographers, 3D artists, Video, Visual Effects, You may well remember that the Refine Edge
processes with effortless ease. So it not only results
Illustration, even forensic scientists, dental, and Quick Select tools were added in CS3. You also
in faster screen redraws, smoother painting etc. but
medical and scientists are using Photoshop. It’s noticed that in CS4 there was a disappearance of
it also opens up the options for on screen resizing of
a word regularly used on TV and films, it’s part the Extract tool. That’s because Adobe had some-
brushes, live updates, faster scrolling, redraws and
of pop culture. Everyone has heard of Photoshop thing up their sleeve in CS5. There is a completely
zooming.
and millions of people are using it. different way that Quick Selection and Refine Edge
For example,with the Brush tool selected. hold work together in CS5 and it was worth the wait. It’s
So what does Adobe have up their sleeve this down Control+Command on Mac and drag side to now really fast and easy to get great looking selec-
time? What wizardry has been engineered into side to chage the brush size. Drag up and down to tions, even on things like hair and fur. This may be
Hold down Control+Option+Cmd on Mac (Right Click+Alt+Ctrl
our favorite app to make it our even more favorite change the softness. my favorite new feature in CS5.
Windows?) with the brush selected. You get an on screen color
app. What have they injected into CS5 to make us picker with Hue/Saturation and Brightness ramps.Very nice!
want, no HAVE to rush out and get the Start by using the Quick Select tool to make a
upgrade? That’s what you will discover selection. Remember to hold down Alt/Option to
On top of this, the CPU is able to perform more remove from a selection if you get a little too heavy
as you read this article. I’ll attempt to
work because of the helping hand of the GPU. I handed.
give you a look at what’s new and also
highly recommend looking into the NVIDIA line of
report what it’s like to use. Any features
cards for a fast upgrade. The Geforce line is a good
that will change your life, or any tips to
cost effective way to gain extra performance. For the
save you time? Read on.
power user, consider the Quadro FX models.

64 bit and gpu
What’s worth mentioning is that
Photoshop is 64 bit native on Mac
and Windows. Actually all the Adobe
CS5 products are 64 bit. What does
this mean? It means a performance
boost. Not the type you are perhaps With the selection active, switch to Refine Edge,
thinking though. 64 bit removes the you can see it in the Options bar. You will see lots of
4Gig of RAM bottleneck. So if you are working on Hold down the alt/Option key while the brush is selected to new options. While refining selections, you will work
large files, or files consisting of multiple composited sample a color. The new Color wheel displays with the current in the top part of the panel. Notice there is a pull
images, you will be able to take advantage of more and selected colors visible.
down menu with lots of viewing options.
RAM. Also on the performance end of things is the
Here is a little tip to simplify the process. Click

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Finally, you get to choose how content aWare fill More often than not, it does work, and works well.
the selection will be applied to the Ok, this next feature is really freaky. You may I find that applying it over all, and then reapplying
image. You can apply just as a have seen it before because Adobe leaked it to the to some smaller areas yields the best results. What
selection; copy the selected object public a couple of times before the launch. How it doesn’t work very well on is areas with a strong
to a new layer; add it as a Layer about a magic retouching tool? perspective.
Mask; create a new Layer with a
mask or even a new document.
This is really nice and allows for a
flexible workflow. What I really like
about this, is that it really works.
I was able to get faster, cleaner
edges than ever before.

Simply put, you have something you want
on Show Radius. You will notice
removed from a picture, don’t reach for the Clone
(as you slide the radius slider
Stamp (anymore). Make a rough selection with the
in Edge Detection) an edge
lasso tool.
appears. This is the edge where
Photoshop decides what to
keep and what to erase.

Now change to your pre-
ferred viewing mode and click
the little brush tool to the left.
Paint over any edges that have
background that you want to
remove. Hold down Option/Alt
hdr (high dynamic range)
and paint over areas that you
First of all, let me clear up a misconception of
want to keep. You will notice
what HDR is. The human eye is capable of seeing
the display updates after each
more details in shadows and highlights simultane-
stroke. But look carefully, the
Then choose fill (Keyboard Shortcut is ously than a camera. The range of light to dark with
entire selection updates. The
Shift+Delete, Shift+Backspace on PC). Select the visible detail is called the dynamic range.
more you refine the edge, the
option Content Aware from the drop down menu This image shows what typically happens in a
better the tool works, really
and click Ok. Wait a few seconds. Then like magic high contrast scene. Notice that the exposure is
simple.
the object is removed and replaced by the texture of pretty good. However, I was unable to capture the
The Adjust Edge tools simply allow you to the background. This is a random effect with no real detail outside because it’s too bright. Also some of
choose how crisp or soft the edges will be. options, it either works on the image or it doesn’t. the shadows are plugged up because they are too



The solution is to shoot a series of photos that
covers the entire dynamic range. In this case I took
7 shots, each of them 2 stops apart. (Each F stop is
double the brightness of the previous.)

Using the new HDR Pro (a beefed up Merge to
HDR) we are able to merge the Photos into a 32 bit
image.

There are some significant enhancements in
HDR in Photoshop CS5.

dark. This is known as a Standard or Low Dynamic Anyone who knows anything about HDR knows
Range image. It’s a RAW file. With some adjust- that Photoshop is the best tool for merging images
tone mapping
ments, I could coax some extra detail out of the into HDR. I have heard some instructors, mistakenly
suggest using Photomatix for merging. (Bad idea, The 3rd part and the magic of
shadows, but the Highlights are totally gone.
because Photomatix converts RAW to JPG at merg- HDR is the Tone Mapping. You can’t
Let’s shoot another couple of photos. First of all, use a 32 bit image so we need to get the image looking the way you like.
ing point, thus throwing away ½ the dynamic range.
I set the exposure for the outside area. Notice how choose the tones to display the photograph. Photo-
Now Photomatix for tone mapping is a different You can also use it to create surrealistic looking
dark the interior is now. shop now includes a decent Local Adaption for tone
story altogether). images that people either love or hate. I personally
mapping. In the past we had to use programs such
When there is movement between Photos (cam- like them when done correctly, which sadly is rare.
as Photomatix to do high quality Tone Mapping.
era shake, or blowing clouds, leaves or water etc), There is still a place for Photomatix, but Photoshop It takes a keen eye and some skill to produce
doubling (also called ghosting) occurs. now does a pretty decent job of Tone Mapping. a surrealistic HDR that isn’t ruined by halos and
A new feature in CS5 is the Remove Ghosts but- oversaturation. Check out my full tutorial and DVD
Photoshop CS5 excels in natural looking Tone
ton. When you click this, Photoshop does a pretty for more on HDR.
Mapped HDR photos and contains lots of options to
good job of de-ghosting. Notice that there is a green
box around the de-ghosted image.

Try clicking a different thumbnail to set a differ-
ent de-ghost and produce a very different result.
Or how about another exposure to show all the
detail in the iron banister. Notice that many parts of
the photo are now over-exposed.



hdr toning on the camera and therefore impossible to recover
This is a filter than can produce a stylized HDR on any type of imaging.
“looking” result on a single image. Personally, I don’t
Having cleared that up, the HDR Toning tool
like the name HDR, because it’s not possible to cre-
does a good job of simulating a tone mapped look
ate a single image HDR. “Wait!” you might say, “I’ve
on a LDR image. For what it does, it does well, just
seen single image HDRs, or Pseudo- HDR.” Reread
don’t expect miracles. HDR toning converts the
the explanation of HDR again and you will notice a
image into a 32 bit space and allows you to make
photo isn’t an HDR because of the Tone Mapping, it’s
some tonal adjustments. When you click Ok it goes
because of the Dynamic Range. A single photo will
back into its 16 or 8 bit space. It’s a cool looking fil-
always be SDR (Standard Dynamic Range) no matter
ter that many people will enjoy when they only have
what you do to it. It’s like taking a mono signal, play-
a single exposure to work with. However I strongly
ing it through 2 speakers and then calling it stereo.
recommend doing real HDR for the best results.

of the most common lens issues. As you can see, it
does an amazing job on removing vignetting. It also
does a good job of geometric distortion. Although
sometime you will prefer the distortion because
we are so used to looking at it. Sometimes a photo
Tip: Hold down shift to automatically select points as you add looks odd without it. This all depends on the photo
them. of course and many wide-angle photos look better
lens correction corrected.
puppet Warp tool The new lens Auto correction is really good.
neW brushes
This is a great tool for people who are into Photo Photoshop contains a database of common cam-
I’m not going to get too much into the brushes
manipulation. This tool allows you to add anchor eras and lenses. It then looks at the metadata and
here because Jane and Wes have written plenty
points to your image. You can then drag the points makes adjustments to the curvature, aberration
Have a look at this Single Image raw file pushed to warp the shape of the image. You can use the (color fringes) and vignette to automatically fix some
through HDR toning. Notice, the blown out areas unselected points as anchor points. You can select
in the doorway, they don’t gain detail, they just turn multiple points by holding down the shift key.
gray. The reason is that the detail wasn’t captured This is a little akin to “rigging” a character for
Inverse Kinematics, a 3D and animation term. The
difference is that you can warp the image anyway
you like. This is a lot better than the liquefy tool for
these types of purposes. I can imagine that people
are going to have a lot of fun with this tool!

To truly understand what it does; watch the free
video I created on it.



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Have you even been working in Photoshop and
demonstrated.
you have the need to quickly grab an image. You
In a nutshell, we now have natural bristles and don’t want to leave Photoshop for Bridge or even
new mixer brush that smudges the colors. You can Watch additional use an open menu. You know, when you’re in the
paint from scratch or you can paint over a photo for free videos that
zone and really focused. They have now added a
a hand painted look. support this article.
small version of Bridge in a panel. It’s called Mini
other changes Bridge and it’s really useful in a jam or when you
http://www.photoshopcafe.com/cs5/videos.htm are working with lots of images. Personally I prefer
There are a lot of other changes in Photoshop
CS5. Let me touch on a few. Big Bridge because it’s faster. You also have to have
Bridge running for Mini Bridge to display.
Work space sWitcher
I do find Mini Bridge really useful for things like
We have had the ability to choose and save
HDR, because I can merge them directly from Mini
different workspaces for some time now. In this re-
Bridge without the clutter of multiple photos on my
lease it has been brought to the forefront. There are
desktop.
now workspace buttons at the top the screen. This
controls panel layout, menus and menu highlighting paste in place
as well as tool presets and menu highlighting. Paste Inside has a few new options.

Paste in Place, Paste Inside and Paste Outside.
These little tweaks are bound to help you out a lot. I
especially will use Paste in Place a lot.

conclusion
I am more excited about this release of Photo-
shop than I have been for several upgrade cycles. I
Jdi changes
believe this is the biggest update we have seen for
During the development process, Adobe told all the engineers to take time off what they were working on.
a while and there is something for everyone. Would
During this time the focus was on working on “the little things”. Adobe looked at customer requests and made
I recommend upgrading? Tune in next week to find
many little tweaks that have been requested. They called these JDI (Just Do it). Here are some of the JDI en-
out. Just kidding! I recommend Photoshop CS5
hancements in CS5
without hesitation!
• Delete Empty Layers Script
about the author
• Convert a 16bit file to 8bit without a dialog box on save to jpeg
Colin Smith is a best-selling author, trainer, and award-winning new-
• Neutral Density Gradient Preset media designer. He is founder of the world’s most popular Photoshop
resource site, PhotoshopCAFE.com, which boasts over 20 million visitors.
• Straighten image button added to ruler
He is a regular columnist for Photoshop User magazine. He has been
• Turn off/on Gesture support featured in most major imaging magazines including, Computer Arts,
Macworld, After Capture, PSD Photoshop, Advanced Photoshop, Photo-
• Default for Shadow Highlight changed to 35% shop Creative, Digital Photographer, Web Designer magazine and a host
• Can move a selection while to Active layer is hidden. Doesn’t move the layer, just the selection. of others.
Colin’s graphic design work has been recognized with numerous awards,
• Option to always default to last saved folder
including, MacWorld Digital Design and 3 Guru awards at Photoshop
• You can drag and drop a file into an open PSD to create a layer World 2001 and 2002, for his work in both Illustration and Web Design.
He’s authored or coauthored more than eighteen books on Photoshop.
• Shift+Enter puts focus on the text fields on an adjustment layer. They also open with the focus on the text fields. This He has been a speaker at many national conferences. Colin has con-
saves time because you can apply keyboard commands right away. sulted such companies as Adobe Systems, Edison International, Apple
and Disney Studios.


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make your oWn combinations by adJust- and there’s more!
ing these options yourself: CS5 includes a new set of Bristle
Tips that are capable of delivering a va-
Photoshop Can Paint! By: Jane Conner-ziser Wet = how “wet” the existing paint on the canvas is. A dry can- riety of stroke shapes and opacities that
vas will show a lot of the selected color being applied. A wet can- are user controlled with the direction
and tilt of the Wacom pen. I’ve chosen
Wow! CS5 came out smoking with new square provides the option to Load Solid Colors Only. vas will immediately begin blending existing color into your applied
color. As the wet setting increases, the amount of paint picked up the Round Tip Bristle brush to show
If this option is on, when you sample color from an
features and new ways of doing things! One of the from the canvas while painting also increases. A Dry brush will not you some of the new features.
image (Opt or Alt tap), it will load a solid color based
most talked about features is the new Mixer Brush on the settings for the Eyedropper Tool. When Load pick up paint while painting so no mixing is involved. A Wet set- As soon as you choose one of the
Tool. Nested with the Brush Tool in the vertical Solid Colors Only is not selected, the sample from ting with no color loaded on the brush allows blending of existing new Bristle Tips a Preview of the brush
tool bar as the bottom option, it can be used with the image allows for loading the brush with multiple colors. tip and tilt becomes visible just to the
both the new Bristle Tip brushes and the standard colors. top right of the vertical tool bar and un-
Load = how much paint you have in the brush, or how long
Static Tip brushes. For the first time, Photoshop der the tool options bar. This proxy can
You can also choose to automatically reload a your color will last in a stroke. High loads last longer than low
offers a means of blending colors beyond Smudg- be used to visually learn how the brush
brush after every stroke or automatically clean the loads.
ing whether you want to paint from scratch or responds to the tilt, rotation and pres-
combine paint with photography. brush after every stroke by selecting from the two Mix = how much the color on the canvas blends into the color sure of the Wacom pen. It can also be
options just right of the current brush load icon. being applied. Low mix settings pick up less paint from the canvas
When you choose the Mixer Brush you will im- turned off (upper right corner x) should
CS5 even includes useful brush option combina- so more of the color being applied will show. High mix settings will you prefer not to see it. View / Show /
mediately notice new options available for it.
tions in the next drop down menu that helps jump- not be as pure because the picked up paint will fully cover the Brush Preview will bring it back again.
from left to right the options are: start you into painting. These choices were created brush.
Tool Presets. There are some presets included I chose the Very Wet option from
using the options for Wet, Load, and Mix and are Flow = how fast the paint comes off the brush. Visually it looks
that can be loaded by accessing more options from the drop down brush combinations and
listed under the Custom option. like opacity. High flow gives a lot of paint at one time. Low flow lay-
the upper right corner and selecting Mixer Brush made two strokes, one using the tip of
ers it on more slowly. the pen and the other using the side.
Tool from the drop down menu, or you may prefer
making your own once you become familiar with the The next option is to choose whether or not to use the airbrush These brushes offer great variety of
way the brushes work. option. This option gradually continues to build color as if you stroke and with a bit of practice allow
were using a traditional airbrush. you to paint with more control than is
Next is the option bar’s shortcut to the Brush
possible with static tip brushes.
Presets where you can adjust the size and softness Sample all layers allows you to create your painting on a New
of brushes or load other brush collections. Layer instead of working directly on the background. Many artists The difference between using the
who paint from photographs like to paint on layers so they can standard brushes with the Mixer Brush
The third option is to hide and show the Brush
refer to the original image when needed. Artists who paint from and the new Bristle Tips is that the
Panel (or Palette).
scratch often like to work on layers so they can back up when they standard brushes apply paint more ac-
the next three options are brand neW: need to or make image adjustments to specific parts of the paint- curately for shaping objects and adding
The color square shows the current brush load ing during the painting process. detail while the Bristle Tips offer more
(red). If you choose to “clean” the brush from the variety of stroke and better blending
The last option is for letting the tablet pressure determine the
drop down menu, the square will empty to let you capabilities. This is because Static Tips
size of the brush, overriding settings in the Brush Panel. This
know that there is no color currently on the brush use a single brush shape to gener-
means that if you apply light pressure the brush is small. Harder
and it will behave like a blender. This allows you to ate the stroke while Bristle Tips are 3
pressure makes the brush larger. This settings override option is
add color, then blend it without having to change dimensional models with individual
not available for the Bristle Tip Brushes.
brushes. In addition, the drop down from the color bristles that bend and deform accord-
The above new options are available for all brushes in Photoshop. ing to how you move, tilt and press the


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pen. Bristle Tips are available for all ing the new color. You can choose to photoshop cs5 photoshop cs5
painting tools. see or not see the Sample Ring by portrait retouching portrait retouching advanced
There are a few other impor-
enabling or disabling this option skin techniques techniques
There is a new HUD Color located in the options bar for the Jane conner-ziser
tant notes and changes for paint- Jane conner-ziser
ing in CS5.
Picker as well. Eyedropper Tool.
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Access it with There is a new HUD Color How to make Faces look amazing... Conquer the most difficult retouching challenges
When regular brushes are
Control+Option+Command Picker as well. Access it with These beyond the basics sessions include step
selected, there are new options This step by step project based DVD leads you
Control+Option+Command (Mac) by step hands on instruction on how to handle
added for controlling brush size (Mac) or Alt+Shift+Right through a variety of techniques to accomplish beau-
or Alt+Shift+Right Click (Win). some of the most common retouching jobs in
and opacity using pressure with- Click (Win). tiful skin retouching. You will work on professional
This is a really fast way to choose portraiture. The projects have been selected spe-
out having to select them from images by some of the world’s best portrait pho-
colors that visually fit in cifically to give you practice using a variety of
within the Brush Panel. tographers, Clay Blackmore, Maz Mashru, Patrick
with the project you are techniques and the files are cropped to isolate the
If you choose to rotate the Ciatto, Brooke Christl – and Jane – and learn how
working on. You can set particular session topics. Included on the disc are a
canvas, the brushes will retain to sculpt faces, blend skin, remove shine, retouch
the size you want to see set of Jane’s Retouching brushes plus her layered
their relative angle. wrinkles … everything pro retouching artists do
the HUD Color Picker in psd files for your reference and visual guides in
on a daily basis. Taught by Jane Conner-ziser, an
Brush Presets are no longer General Preferences. Photoshop.
internationally respected retouching artist with over
required to be size specific. in addition 25 years of professional excellence in the portrait http://www.photoshopcafe.com/video
They will take their size from CS5 is packaged with industry.
the current brush setting. many new features and
Brush Resize and Hard- incredible new technol-
ness, brackets [ ] for size and ogy. The new painting
{ } for hardness can now be capabilities are just one
accessed with a single shortcut of the exciting things you
on screen. Control Opt (Mac) or have to look forward to.
Alt Right Click (Win). Be one of the first to upgrade and experience it for
yourself!
AND there are new Color Picker options. Opt
(Mac) Alt (Win) brings up a new Sample Ring that
allows you to see the color you currently have com-
Jane conner-ziser
pared to the color you are choosing prior to select- Jane is an independent consultant and teacher for the professional
photography industry. With 27 years of experience, 16 of them in digital
imaging and evolving technologies, Jane’s projects have spanned
across a large segment of the studio photography market - freelance art,
photography, lab systems, digital imaging, Internet, teaching PhotoShop
and Painter, fine arts, writing for industry publications and being part of
development teams for marketing/selling software and strategies using
new technologies. Jane has served on the Digital and Advanced Imaging
Committee for the Professional Photographers of America. Considered to
be one of the most talented and well rounded experts in the industry, her
clients include Canon, Art Leather Manufacturing Co, Marathon Press,
Kodak, many of the nations largest professional color labs, and numerous
studios of fine portrait and commercial photography. Her engaging style,
impressive knowledge of her field and her easy and entertaining way of
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but they now take advantage if the new process-
ing engine to achieve even greater detail with less
potential edge artifacts.
Camera Raw 6- A WHOLE NEW PROCESSING ENGINE By Jack Davis
but i Want to add noise!
Actually, when we add noise back into an image

Adobe has done it again - they’ve taken (using something like Photoshop’s Add Noise filter)
what we are usually trying to imitate is the organic
the foundational image processing engine of the
“patina,” the texture, the finger print, of certain
world’s most popular raw converter and rewritten
what they do. Every time film grains of yesteryear. Film grain is visually very
it from the ground up. The algorithms for this new
you open an image that different from digital camera noise, with its inher-
“demosaicing” process allows Adobe Camera
was processed with ACR 5 ent randomness, “clumpyness” and size variations
Raw 6 (like it’s cousin Lightroom 3) to achieve
or before, you’ll see a little caused by the small grains of metallic silver halide
sharper, cleaner detail while also dramatically
exclamation mark in the
reducing noise in high ISO images. This quality
lower right hand corner of
boost would be worth the price of upgrade alone
ACR’s preview window telling you that new process-
but the ACR team has also added new improved
ing enhancements like Noise Reduction wont be
blending options for the Post-Crop Vignette
available to you unless you click on the icon and
feature and also the ability to add a simulated
indispensable control) because the ability to get ac- give ACR permission to use it’s new capabilities.
“grain” back into images to obtain a range of
curate, saturated, yet non “Christmas Tree Lights” Of course, if for some reason you don’t like the
traditional film looks.
color, while maintaining smooth detail, is apparent changes (most of which are subtle and hard to see
even at the default settings of the new sliders. without zooming in on the file) you can always Undo
and continue to work with the file as in the past. But
With the results you’ll see you will be tempted to as mentioned, if you DO click the icon, the file with
go back to some of your older portfolio files just to gain a cleaner overall look (especially in shadow
see what quality increase is possible. But there is a and highlight areas), and all the new Noise Reduc-
decision to be made: Adobe couldn’t just arbitrary tion features will become available.
go back to your already adjusted files (processed
using the current 2003 engine) and update them staying sharp
to the new 2010 profiles. Well they could, but it The sliders in the Sharpening section of ACR
wouldn’t be polite without asking, and that’s exactly 6’s Detail panel look and work exactly the same as
in ACR 5 (and if you’re not familiar with the subtle-
ties of the Radius, Detail and Masking options, you
reduced noise, clean detail should be - they offer incredible control over where
How to get both has been the digital photogra- and how sharpening is - and is NOT - applied),
phers’s balancing act for the last decade - especially
if one didn’t want to rely on opening a file and ap-
plying pixel-based noise reduction/sharpening filter.
ACR 6’s updated Detail panel gives you three new
sliders to control Color Detail, and Luminance Detail
and Contrast, but you may not need to play around
much with these new options (though they do add



ACR 6 to the rescue! With two new Priority adobe camera raW 6
“blend modes” (Highlight or Color Priority) and an for digital photographers
additional Highlights protection slider, it is much Jack davis
easier to get subtitles like skies to “burn” gracefully, 6.7 hours $99.00
while maintaining the crisp highlights of the subject With Photoshop CS5’s new ACR 6, Adobe has
matter that extends into the edge area. And if you introduced tools that have the power to completely
want a framing effect, the Paint Overlay option is change the way we shape our photography. Instead
still there (and very useful at a low Roundness and of working one image at a time, one step at a time,
Feather setting) now the vast majority of our photographic finishing
and don’t forget the game-changers that can be done quickly, elegantly and nondestructively
came in With acr 5! in one place! - without even opening Photoshop!
Yes, you combine these incredibly useful (I’d say This includes such universal tasks as dodging &
of the original medium. And it’s these subtle varia- completely indispensable!) improvements in ACR burning, skin softening or even targeted sharpen-
tions of Amount, Size and Roughness that the new 6, with the paradigm shift that came in with the tar- ing! That’s what Adobe Camera Raw 6’s Localized
Effects panel in ACR 6 puts at your fingertips. geted adjustment tools in ACR 5 (not to mention it’s Correction tools have brought with it to yield a highly
What would be an example of when you might incremental updates that brought us lifesavers like increased workflow. You will have to see these tech-
choose to actually add grain into a file? For me, it’s the Targeted Adjustment Tool and the Snapshots niques in action to understand just how powerful
when I’m imitating a traditional photography look - panel!) and you have a complete procedural, non- they are.
like something taken with a high speed film (like in- destructive, quick and easy, one-stop shop for 90% http://www.photoshopcafe.com/video
frared), or a chemical developing effect (like cross- of your photographic post processing needs! Quality,
processing) or an antique printing process (like Flexibility and Speed - Thank you Adobe for ACR!!!
sepia toning). In this before & after sample here I’ve become a tool (some would say an overused tool)
added a course grain back into a color photograph in the photographers Bat Utility Belt to intention-
Jack davis
that has been converted to black & white, in such a ally darken the edges of an image to help draw the
Jack is co-author of the award-winning and best-selling guide to Photo-
way as to imitate an infrared shot. viewers eye into the subject of the photograph. shop, “The Photoshop Wow! Book,” as well as an award winning designer
/ illustrator / photographer and contributing editor to numerous other
vignettes done right The problem was that since it was designed to books on digital imagery, design, and on-line communication. He is
an internationally recognized expert on digital imagery and the visual
Originally added to the Lens Corrections panel fix an issue with the full frame of the shot as it was communication process. He has lectured at conferences and universities
in ACR to help get rid of the inconsistent darkening captured, when a composition was cropped, the throughout the US, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Canada, Brazil and
Australia, as well as leading numerous workshops around the US and
tone at the edge of wide angle shots, vignetting has edge effect didn’t “rewrap” to follow the new size. abroad. He teaches as part of the “Dream Team” at the National Associa-
Hence ACR 5’s Post Crop Vignette option that would tion of Photoshop Professional’s Photoshop World Conferences. Jack
was recently inducted into the NAPP Photoshop Hall of Fame. Jack has
follow along with the new image size. The only recorded several DVDs for Software-Cinema.com.
problem was that while the original Vignette feature
has a beautiful dodge and burn result that lightened
or darkened the original colors of the photograph, For excellent Lighting and Photographic DVDs check out
while maintaining the integrity of the highlights of the www.software-cinema.com
scene, the ACR 5 Post Crop Vignette was just a layer
of blurry white or black “paint overlay.” This was great
if you wanted an opaque frame effect (with muddy
grey highlights), but poor for the intended aesthetics
associated with a quick dodging and burning of edges.


photoshop cs5

Photoshop CS5 – What’s in it for tablet users? By Weston Maggio
This tool offers an extensive set of controls to
alter the effects of the brush. For example, you can
A lot will be written about Adobe Creative Suite Photoshop CS5 is pen-centric through and
through. We see this first hand with a new tool,
determine the wetness of the brush, how much
5 and all it’s goodness for months to come. As paint is held on the tip, how much of that paint mix-
The Mixer Brush. This brush emulates the effects
it should be, seeing as CS5 represents one of es between the tip and the canvas, and how clean
of a traditional artist’s brush whose tip was dipped
the biggest updates to the Creative Suite since the brush is after each stroke. Every characteristic
in multiple colors and then blended together. This
it has been bundled as a suite! But beyond all that you would expect from a traditional paintbrush.
blending of colors can be applied to a blank canvas
the marketing-speak, with each new release of to achieve the look and feel of various traditional And speaking of
the Creative Suite, what I really want to know is, media. Alternatively, you can use the Mixer Brush traditional brushes,
“What’s in it for tablet users?” And I’m happy to on a photo, picking up the underlying colors as if you are going to
say, “A whole lot!” they were wet media, adding an artistic or painterly love new Bristle tips.
effect to any image. Once you’ve se-
lected a brush tool,
you need to choose
a brush tip (in the
Brush panel, which
I’ll get to in a mo-
ment). New Bristle
tips offer stroke characteristics that rival traditional
artist’s brushes. Brushes with a round, blunt tip or
a flat fan brush for example. Beyond the shape of
the brush, every aspect of a brush’s behavior can
be modified to give you the most natural effects
imaginable. Including the length of it’s bristles, their window is not only effective in the creation of new
thickness, stiffness and angle of the brush tip. All of brushes, but also flat out fun!
these characteristics affect the way in which color is
applied on the image. These new painting tools and features are excit-
ing stuff for literally every type of Wacom tablet and
You can use one of the ten standard Bristle tip Photoshop user. Whether you are a photographer
presets, or create and save your own to match your seeking the addition of artistic enhancements to
preferred look or style. your images, or an illustrator/artist wishing to extend
Assisting you in the creation and use of your their creative vision, or a designer who makes dy-
new Bristle tip brushes is a Bristle Brush Preview namic composites and effects. These new painting
feature which provides you with a real-time refer- tools and functions are going to change the way you
ence of the brushes look and behavior. This float- work!
ing window gives you a visual representation of New is cool, but with CS5 newly redesigned is
your brush when selected and active. This preview


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