At this month’s Photoshop User’s Group we went over some of the new features of Photoshop CS5.
- Multi-layer opacity control
- Open new image directly placed into already open docu as smart object
- Mini Bridge from within Photoshop
- Can make default certain settings such as default stroke parameters etc. in layer styles
- Straighten button instead of arbitrary canvas rotation
- New paintbrush -> mixer brush tool
- Wet: how wet the underlying image is
- Load: how much paint is on your brush
- Brush bristle options and pressure sensitive
- Puppet warp -> Edit > Puppet Warp
- Anything you don’t pin down will move
- Pin depth layers the pins
- 3d -> Repousse -> Text layer
- Copy materials based on face
- Adds shadows underneath
- Refine edge
- Quick selection tool (decontaminate colors gets rid of matte)
- Edge detection with smart radius and paint area