Create stunning 3D logos and artwork from any text layer, selection, path, or layer mask with Adobe Repoussé technology. Twist, rotate, extrude, bevel, and inflate your designs.

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.

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

Quickly generate 3D objects from grayscale depth maps.

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.

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

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

Take advantage of a new 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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Collaborate on 3D content easily through tight integration with Adobe Acrobat® X Pro and After Effects® CS5.5. 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Create stunning 3D logos and artwork from any text layer, selection, path, or layer mask with Adobe Repoussé technology. Twist, rotate, extrude, bevel, and inflate your designs.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Get better edge detection and masking results in less time with the Quick Selection too - even when you're selecting the trickiest image elements, such as hair.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Remove noise common to high-ISO images and consumer-camera shots while preserving color and detail. Maintain a photo's natural look, avoiding an oversharpened feel as you maximize quality.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Save your individual layer-style settings as defaults.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Create photo-realistic or wildly surreal high dynamic range (HDR) images with unprecedented speed and accuracy. Get stunning results thanks to automatic ghost removal and greater control for tone mapping and adjustments.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 CS5.

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

Gracefully navigate to any area of an image with ultra-smooth zooming and panning. Maintain clarity as you zoom to individual pixels, and easily edit at the highest magnification using the Pixel Grid.

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

Use the collapsible Workspace Switcher to quickly navigate and choose among favorite UI configurations.

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.

Crop with Rule of Thirds or Grid layouts, which draw smoothly thanks to GPU acceleration.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Use Adobe CS Review, an Adobe CS Live online service^1,2, to initiate more secure reviews from within Photoshop Extended. Reviewers add comments to your images from their browsers, and you see those comments immediately.

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.

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

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. Tune designs for mobile screen sizes and lighting conditions.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Take advantage of Adobe Flash® and Zoomify technology to export high-resolution images to the web for viewing with Adobe Flash Player.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Explore exciting ways to interact with Photoshop CS5 from your iPad using apps from Adobe and the developer community. Use your fingertips to mix colors, paint beautiful works of art, activate Photoshop tools, and more³.

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Create custom color swatches and five-swatch color themes on your iPad with Adobe Color Lava for Photoshop CS5, an Adobe Photoshop Touch app. Immediately access your swatches within Photoshop CS5.³

Create paintings with your fingertips using Adobe Eazel for Photoshop CS5, an Adobe Photoshop Touch app. Mix “wet” and “dry” paint for rich color blends, and send paintings directly to Photoshop CS5.³

Work more productively with Adobe Nav for Photoshop CS5, an Adobe Photoshop Touch app, which lets you tap and swipe your iPad to activate Photoshop tools, browse open Photoshop documents, and more.³

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.

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

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

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

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

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 Adobe CS Live online services.*

Easily and accurately tally objects or features in an image with the Count tool. Perform multiple counts in a single image and save them in your PSD file.

Use measurement and counting tools to extract quantitative information from images.
Record and export data for further analysis. Import DICOM files as frames or as a volume to directly analyze and edit your image data.

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.

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

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.