Presenting “What’s New in CS5: A Series of Ten Video Tutorials That Introduce Photoshop CS5’s Most Notable New Features”
Please join me for the next ten days as we explore Photoshop CS5’s most interesting and useful new features. Each day, we’ll examine one of CS5’s remarkable additions.
If you’re too excited to wait ten days (or if you’d like to support this site), click here to download the entire ten tutorial series for $9.95. For the next two Thursdays, these CS5 videos will replace the Photoshop Workbench, but don’t worry, the Workbench will return to its regular spot on Thursday, May 27.
Here’s a schedule of upcoming tutorials:
Thursday, May 13 – Content-Aware Fill and Heal – 9:52
Learn secrets for retouching with Content-Aware Fill and Content-Aware Spot Healing.
Friday, May 14 – Refine Edge Refinements – 12:39
Discover how to use the Refine Edge (Refine Mask) dialog in a compositing workflow, while exploring the dialog’s new Edge Detection, Smart Radius, Refine Radius, Erase Refinements, Decontaminate Colors, and Output To features.
Saturday, May 15 – Tools Enhancements – 9:45
Take a journey into CS5’s tools enhancements, including a Crop tool Rule of Thirds overlay, a straightforward Straighten button, a scrubby Zoom tool, a Neutral Density Gradient preset, and several others.
Sunday, May 16 – Camera Raw Improvements – 8:02
Take a look at Adobe Camera Raw 6.0’s new features, including 2010 Processing, vastly improved Noise Reduction, Add Grain, and two significantly improved styles of Post Crop Vignetting.
Monday, May 17 – Automated Lens Correction – 7:08
Learn how to use the Lens Correction Auto Correction panel to search by lens criteria and automatically remove geometric distortion, chromatic aberration, and vignetting.
Tuesday, May 18 – Layers Enhancements – 6:57
Take a peek at several new and improved layers features, including Paste in Place, drag-and-drop smart object layering, Layer Styles defaults, and many others.
Wednesday, May 19 – Puppet Warp – 6:16
Discover secrets for realistically warping parts of a subject using Puppet Warp’s remarkable (almost sci-fi) features.
Thursday, May 20 – A Giant Leap for HDR – 16:38
Take a look at the revamped Merge to HDR Pro feature and the new single image HDR Toning dialog, including HDR presets, ghost removal, and a powerful new slider-based interface.
Friday, May 21 – Bridge Enhancements – 14:28
Explore improvements to the Batch Rename dialog and learn how to watermark in the Output module.
Saturday, May 22 – Painting on a Photograph with the Mixer Brush – 14:30
Learn secrets for using CS5’s Mixer and Bristle brushes to realistically blend paints with colors in a photograph.
In other noteworthy news, I’ve decided not to write a Photographer’s Photoshop CS5 Companion eBook. Instead, I’m pouring my energy into two other exciting projects.
In addition to releasing the “What’s New in CS5″ videos, I’m making wonderful progress on an eBook about the spectacular world of HDR. It will feature both Photomatix and Photoshop tutorials, as well as useful workflow information that is absent in many other HDR books. The eBook will also include an image showcase packed with evocative images designed to inspire ideas for your own work. I’m hoping to release the HDR eBook this summer.
My other project is a complete departure from anything I’ve ever done. If you have children (or a child inside), they’ll be intrigued by my upcoming children’s book about a boy who dreams of flying. I’m co-writing and co-illustrating the book which features camera-based illustrations that employ HDR and several other creative techniques never seen before in children’s books.
Thanks for all of your support and encouragement!
Mark
Thursday, May 13, 2010 at 8:00 am
Hi Mark,
THANK YOU FOR THE UPDATE. I would have never known this great content was here had you NOT made an announcement to those on your opt in mailing list.
Thanks again for all the wonderful effort you give to educating us.
Thursday, May 13, 2010 at 9:36 am
Although I was one of the hundreds (thousands?) of “public beta testers” for PS CS 5, your videos show me what I missed or didn’t dig into sufficiently. PS CS 5 is an upgrade that’s a no-brianer for serious photographers. Your videos are a great introduction to the new features that are valuable for photographers.
Friday, May 14, 2010 at 8:36 am
Mark,
Thanks for your intro tutorial to this new feature. One observation: I think Mr. Owl may have been missing some back feathers. A possible suggestion that a geek friend told me was to cycle through the black, white and layer view to check the selection. Does that make sense?
Friday, May 14, 2010 at 9:06 am
Wow! Is PS CS5 amazing or what??????? Love it! Thank you so much for this series!
Friday, May 14, 2010 at 10:25 am
Thanks for this video tutorial series, Mark. I just had to “Tweet” about it this morning! I really appreciate your easy-to-follow instructions and workflow tips. As always, your enthusiasm is infectious!
Saturday, May 15, 2010 at 10:27 pm
You have the best, easy to follow tutorials out there (including Kelby Training). Also, I love your enthusiasm.
Thanks a bunch.
Monday, May 17, 2010 at 10:47 am
Still a big fan of yours. Nobody makes it as fun as you do, Mark. Thanks for introducing all of us to the great new features of CS5. Will be looking for your future installments with enthusiasm. You are the greatest!
Saturday, May 22, 2010 at 8:38 pm
Thank you for these WONDERFUL CS5 tutorials; I am CRAZY about CS5, and would have never visited some of the little goodies you’ve already shared with us. I’m so glad a recent student in your “Spirit of Boulder” Class told me about your site, your wonderful class, and how much I would enjoy looking into what you have to offer us. She’s very right! THANK you!
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 at 7:46 am
I enjoyed the videos so much I wanted a copy. I paid my money, received the link and downloaded a copy.
Guess what, THEY DON”T WORK. The audio is fine, the video stays frozen on the opening shot.
I hesitated to post this comment here but I have sent emails and received no answer.
Lew
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 at 11:16 pm
Thanks Mark, these are fantastic! I’m so glad I bought the set so I can watch at my own pace. Lew- I don’t know why they don’t work for you, maybe your movie player is messed up?
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 at 6:56 am
Marks’ manager emailed me immediately after seeing my comment above and straightened out the problem, which was on my end, and now I’m happy as a clam. Thanks again for great response and great tutorials.
LL
Thursday, May 27, 2010 at 10:04 pm
MSJ- I think I have watched ten content aware healing demos this week. Yours is the only one that shows this tool at 100% on real images. Thanks for the honesty. Showing us where it works and where it doesn’t is so helpful!
David Marx
Monday, June 14, 2010 at 8:38 am
Mark, I have CS3, planning to go to CS5, I really use and like your CS3 companion eBook, and will miss that you will not have a CS5 companion eBook, would it benefit me to get your CS4 companion and the CS5 videos or is CS5 that much more different than CS4?
Larry Purdy
Saturday, June 26, 2010 at 9:20 am
Thanks for this Tutorials..
fab