SAcamera.co.za

Adobe Photoshop Extended CS5 for Mac upgrade from Photoshop CS5

New and Enhanced Features

Features

3D editing

3D extrusions with Adobe Repoussé

Create stunning 3D logos and artwork from any text layer, selection, path, or layer mask with Adobe Repoussé technology. Then twist, rotate, extrude, bevel, and inflate these designs to get the look you want.

Rich 3D materials library and picker

Explore different looks for your 3D objects by applying materials like chrome and gemstones from a rich materials library. Select and apply materials using intuitive tools, and add to your library by downloading materials from the web.

Ability to wrap 2D data around 3D geometry

Use convenient presets to wrap 2D images around common 3D geometric shapes, such as cylinders and spheres.

3D mesh creation

Quickly generate 3D objects from grayscale depth maps.

Depth of field for 3D

Experiment with different focus points in your 3D scene by previewing and adjusting the range for depth of field.

Easy shadow creation

Enhance the realism of your 3D designs by generating shadows in a few clicks with the shadow catcher.

Image-based lighting

Use HDR images or panoramas to light your 3D scene.

Better 3D performance and workflow

Take advantage of a ray tracer for immediate progressive feedback on rendering states. And experience superior 3D performance with improved import, interaction speeds, and merging of 3D objects into a single scene.

OBJ file import

Import Object (OBJ) files up to 50% faster.

3D object painting

Paint directly on 3D models or their unwrapped textures. Edit your textures directly using all the power of Adobe Photoshop, and even view UV overlays on flattened textures for guidance.

3D object and property editing

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.

Volume rendering

Add depth to pixel layers, text, 2D shapes, and DICOM frames with volume rendering.

3D and 2D image compositing

Combine 3D layers into a single scene, or incorporate 3D content into 2D composites. Support for popular 3D formats lets you import and export Collada, OBJ, U3D, and KMZ models, as well as import 3DS models.

Navigating and moving 3D objects

Use the new 3D axis to position objects, cameras, lights, and meshes. Use bounding overlays to easily identify which material or mesh is targeted, and toggle these on or off along with the ground plane and lights.

3D animation

Create 3D animations by mapping object movement, camera position, render settings, and cross sections to keyframes in your timeline. Take this further by using video layers to animate your textures, and include image-based lights.

File roundtripping

Roundtrip common 3D file formats, including COLLADA, OBJ, U3D, and KMZ. Import 3DS.

Integration with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro and After Effects

Collaborate on 3D content easily through tight integration with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended and After Effects. Convert to the robust COLLADA interchange format, enhance models, and embed 3D models into PDF files for review. Use 3D layers from Photoshop Extended in After Effects projects.

Vanishing Point with 3D support

Edit in perspective on multiple surfaces — even those connected at angles other than 90 degrees — with Vanishing Point. Measure in perspective; wrap graphics, images, and text around multiple planes; and output planes as 3D models to use in After Effects projects.

32-bit file support

Create a layer mask directly from the transparency in your 32-bit file.

Intelligent image editing and enhancement

Better selections with Truer Edge

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.

Color decontamination

Eliminate background color around the edges of your selection with the Quick Selection tool's automatic color decontamination capabilities.

Selection and mask refinement tools

Automatically vary selection edges and perfect masks using new refinement tools.

Content-Aware Fill

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.

Puppet Warp

Precisely reposition or warp any image element. Swing a raised arm to a person's side in a photo, stretch text to create new effects, and more.

Content-Aware Scaling

Automatically recompose an image as you resize it, smartly preserving vital areas as the image adapts to the new dimensions. Get the perfect image in one step without time-intensive cropping and retouching.

Expert retouching

Retouch images easily and precisely by previewing source pixels within the cursor of the Clone Stamp and the Healing Brush. Set multiple source points, scale, and rotate in the Clone Source palette.

Perspective-based editing

Create packaging mockups and more with Vanishing Point, which lets you create multiple planes in an image; connect them at any angle; and then wrap graphics, text, and images around them.

Smart Filters

Experiment by adding, adjusting, and removing filters from an image without resaving the image or starting over to preserve quality. Nondestructive Smart Filters allow you to see the changes without altering original pixel data.

Smart Objects

Perform nondestructive scaling, rotating, and warping of raster and vector graphics with Smart Objects. Even preserve the editability of vector data from Adobe Illustrator software.

Extraordinary painting and drawing toolset

Mixer Brush

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.

Bristle Tips

Easily paint with lifelike, naturally textured brush strokes using defined bristle properties like shape, length, and stiffness, and experiment away by adding Bristle Tips to a variety of Photoshop brush tools.

GPU-accelerated painting tools

Click to smoothly resize brushes; adjust bristle hardness; or choose your color hue, saturation, or brightness from an onscreen color picker.

Rich drawing toolset

Create or modify images with a wide assortment of professional, fully customizable drawing tools.

Advanced compositing

Paste in place

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.

Multi-layer Opacity

Save time with the ability to adjust the opacity of many layers at once.

Multi-layer Fill

Save time with the ability to adjust the fill of many layers at once.

Sticky layer styles

Save your individual layer-style settings as defaults.

Auto-blending of images

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.

Easier layer management

Drag and drop a file onto an open PSD document to create a layer; nest up to ten layers; move a selection while the active layer is hidden; and delete all empty layers with one command.

360-degree panoramas

Count on Photomerge technology to automatically stitch horizontal or vertical photos to create amazing panoramas — and even wrap them around 360-degree spheres.

Auto-alignment of layers

Create accurate composites with the Auto-Align Layers command, which lets you move, rotate, or warp layers to align them accurately. Or use spherical alignment to create breathtaking spherical panoramas.

Extended depth of field

Create an image from a series of shots that have different focal points with the Auto-Blend Layers command, which smoothly blends color and shading and even extends your depth of field, automatically correcting vignettes and lens distortion.

State-of-the-art photography tools

Noise removal

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.

Additive grain

Make a digital photo look more organic or film-like by using a simple slider to add grain. Save grain settings as presets that you can apply to other photos to achieve a consistent look.

Post-crop vignetting

Enjoy more control when performing post-crop vignetting, and save favorite vignette effects as presets.

Better conversions with new demosaicing

Process raw images with the industry-leading Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 6 plug-in, which offers new demosaicing technology for unmatched conversion quality.

Support for more cameras and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

Enjoy tight integration with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software as well as support for over 275 camera models.

Automatic lens correction

Save time with automatic correction of lens distortions, chromatic aberration, and vignetting. Photoshop CS5 uses an image file's EXIF data to make precise adjustments based on the type of camera and lens you used.

Lens Correction filter improvements

Work more intuitively with the Lens Correction filter. The Grid display is now off by default; chromatic aberration correction sliders allow decimal point adjustments; a third slider has been added to correct common green/magenta aberrations; and more.

Straighten Image tool

Quickly straighten any crooked image. Simply drag a straight line from the Ruler tool onto your image, and the image will snap to the line.

Gradient tool preset for neutral density

Use the Neutral Density preset to emulate a neutral density filter, clicking once to have the Gradient tool darken an overexposed patch of a photo while leaving the rest unaltered.

Professional color and tone control

HDR Pro

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.

HDR Toning

Give any single-exposure image the photo-realistic or wildly surreal look of an HDR image. The HDR Toning feature offers an easy way to bring the rich aesthetic of high dynamic range to your 8-bit images.

Black-and-white conversion

Explore an endless variety of black-and-white looks. Use the integrated Lab B&W Action to interactively convert color images; create gorgeous HDR black-and-whites with greater ease and speed; and experiment with new presets.

Industry-leading color correction

Use Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools that intelligently preserve color and tone details, Curves controls that let you make automatic adjustments with included presets or those you create, a histogram, color channel lines, and more.

Video and animation design

Preview and export of audio content and frame comments

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.

Single-key shortcuts

Edit motion graphics on video layers efficiently with single-key shortcuts.

Movie Paint

Paint, add text, and clone over multiple frames of an imported video sequence using Movie Paint.

Smooth animation workflow

Easily create animations from a series of still images or video frames with the Animation panel, which enables onion skinning.

Broad video file format support

Work with video files thanks to support for 3G, FLC, MOV, AVI, DV Stream, Image Sequence, MPEG-4, and FLV formats.

Video color management

Create and edit images for video with maximum quality and a broad range of color models. Edit and enhance grayscale, RGB, CMYK, and LAB models at 8-, 16-, and 32-bit depths with color management.

Familiar editing workflow

Edit video images quickly using familiar frame- and timeline-based editing tools.

Creative tools and content

New shapes, swatches, and gradients

Give your images and designs fresh looks using a variety of custom shapes, color swatches, styles, gradients, and 3D meshes.

New Actions and brushes

Quickly try out different editing effects and techniques using new Actions for black-and-white conversion and surreal Stars effects, and paint with a new set of brushes.

Easy access to core editing power

Adjustments panel

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.

Masks panel

Quickly create and edit masks from the Masks panel. This panel offers all the tools you need to create editable pixel- and vector-based masks, adjust mask density and feathering, easily select noncontiguous objects, and more.

Efficient and flexible work environment

Faster performance across platforms

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.)

Efficient tile sizing and caching

Easily control tile size, and use presets for simultaneously setting cache and tile size based on whether your output is for print or web.

Adobe Bridge CS5 and Adobe Mini Bridge

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.

Workspace Switcher

Use the new, collapsible Workspace Switcher to quickly navigate and choose among your favorite user interface configurations.

Live workspaces

Let Photoshop automatically record changes you make to a task-specific user interface so that if you switch to a different configuration and then switch back, your panels will be exactly where you left them.

Powerful printing options

Get outstanding prints in less time with automation, scripting, and a print dialog box that's easier to navigate.

Better crop guides

Use Rule of Thirds or Grid layouts for better guides while cropping.

Fluid canvas rotation

Just click to smoothly turn your canvas for nondestructive viewing at any desired angle — no more tilting your head when painting and drawing.

Smooth panning and zooming

Experience ultrasmooth zooming and panning, maintaining clarity as you zoom to individual pixels. Click an image and drag left or right to zoom in or out, and edit at the highest magnification using the Pixel Grid.

Panel management

Maximize screen space while keeping essential tools accessible. Arrange panels in convenient, self-adjusting docks that can be widened to full size or narrowed to icons or even a thin strip at the edge of your monitor.

File display options

Easily work with multiple open files by using tabbed document display or n-up views.

Onscreen color picker

Easily adjust the hue, saturation, or brightness of your foreground color without having to jump into the Color Picker dialog box.

Customized workspaces

Set up and save custom menus, keyboard shortcuts, and workspaces for quick access to exactly what you need.

One-click color adjustments

Make sophisticated color adjustments instantly with one-click presets in Curves and the Channel Mixer.

Multi-Touch support on Mac laptops

Pinch, swipe, and rotate images using the Multi-Touch trackpad on newer MacBook Pro and MacBook Air laptops (requires Mac OS X v10.5 or later). And now, easily turn off Multi-Touch support if you wish.

Profiles to support the color-blind

Design with sensitivity for color-blind individuals by creating soft proofs of your images using built-in Color Universal Design Organization profiles.

Streamlined workflow

Streamlined creative reviews

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.

Adobe PDF file support

Precisely control the size of PDF pages opened in Photoshop; add security controls and metadata, such as copyright and exposure details, to images within PDF presentations; and create a rich image display in PDF presentations and documents.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom integration

Enjoy tight integration with Photoshop Lightroom (sold separately), easily moving files from Lightroom to Photoshop CS5 to create HDR images, panoramas, and multilayered Photoshop documents. Roundtrip your files back to Lightroom.

Automated production

Automate routine production tasks in a variety of ways. Set up event-based scripts, record a series of steps as an Action for efficient batch processing, and design repetitive graphics faster with Variables.

History panel

Undo and redo any set of editing steps in an open image with the History panel.

Edit History log

Let Photoshop track all editing steps within your files with the Edit History log. Export steps to a text file or save them as part of image metadata for easier documentation, file audits, and more.

Image file format support

Import and export hundreds of image file formats, including PSD, AI, PDF, NEF, CRW, TIFF, BMP, Cineon, JPEG, JPEG2000, FXG, OpenEXR, PNG, and Targa.

Video file format support

Work with video files thanks to support for 3G, FLC, MOV, AVI, DV Stream, Image Sequence, MPEG-4, and FLV formats.

Mobile device support

Create compelling mobile content, such as wallpapers and screen savers, and then preview how it will render on mobile devices using built-in Adobe Device Central CS5. Tune your designs for mobile screen sizes and lighting conditions.

High-resolution web display

Take advantage of Adobe Flash and Zoomify technology to export high-resolution images to the web for viewing with the Adobe Flash Player runtime. Flash Player displays images quickly and efficiently, letting viewers zoom in with minimal delay.

Paste in place

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.

New time-savers

16-bit to JPEG conversion

Let Photoshop CS5 automatically downsample your 16-bit image files so you can save them as 8-bit JPEGs.

File closing enhancement

Save clicks with the ability to close all open images without saving.

Saving shortcut

Add a preference that helps ensure you'll save all open images to the last folder to which you saved an image.

Easy reversing of clone source images

Clone any image element, and then click once to reverse the cloned element so it faces in the opposite direction.

Shadow/Highlight default change

Get more natural-looking results from the Shadow/Highlight command's default setting, which now decreases shadows by 35% instead of 50%.

Maximize Compatibility dialog box improvement

Check the "Don’t show this message again" box to avoid repeat appearances of the Maximize Compatibility dialog box.

Powerful extensibility

Adobe Configurator

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.

DNG Profile Editor

Create your own color profiles using the publicly available DNG Profile Editor.

Adobe Pixel Bender

Develop and/or share filters with publicly available, GPU-accelerated Adobe Pixel Bender technology.

Adobe Photoshop Marketplace

Explore Adobe Photoshop Marketplace for a huge range of third-party plug-ins and resources.

Adobe Community Help

Access the power of an online search engine from within Photoshop, but with more targeted results. Searchable content includes the in-depth Photoshop Help, plus additional Adobe and third-party content chosen by Adobe and community experts.

Adobe ConnectNow from Acrobat.com

Share ideas and discuss project details with clients and colleagues — all online — using Adobe ConnectNow, an Acrobat.com web conferencing service. Acrobat.com is part of new Adobe CS Live online services.

Measurement, counting, and edit-tracking tools

Quantitative data extraction

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.

Scale markers

Easily add scale markers to any image or series of images for presentations or publication.

Count tool

Easily and accurately tally objects or features in any image with the Count tool, which eliminates the need to perform manual calculations or rely on visual assessments of changes from image to image. Save time by performing multiple counts in a single image. Use separate colors for each count and save your counts in the PSD file.

Edit tracking

Let Photoshop track all editing steps within your files with the Edit History log. Export steps to a text file or save them as part of image metadata for easier documentation of your work, file audits, and more.

Support for manufacturing, medical, and scientific workflows

Image Stacks

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.

DICOM image support

Import, correct, annotate, analyze, and create animations from DICOM images. Have confidential patient data automatically removed from DICOM metadata, and batch save JPEG files for presentations.

DICOM volume rendering

Volume render a DICOM image stack into a 3D anatomical image that can be viewed and explored from all angles and depths.

MATLAB support

Pass image data directly between Photoshop Extended and MATLAB with the ability to call Photoshop Extended directly from the MATLAB command line. Visualize results of MATLAB algorithms in the software, and combine MATLAB processing with Photoshop Extended image editing to render, test, and refine algorithms for image processing, analysis, and more.

System Requirements

If you would like to send this product to a friend, please fill out the form below:

If you have a query relating to this product please fill out the form below: