- Adobe Photoshop CS5 software redefines digital imaging with a focus on photography; breakthrough capabilities for superior image selections, image retouching, and realistic painting; and a wide range of enhancements.
- Create and refine images using state-of-the-art photography tools that deliver superior results with unprecedented ease and in fewer steps than ever before.
- Explore new creative possibilities with breakthrough tools that enable you to select, adjust, paint, and recompose images with tremendous precision and freedom.
- Accelerate your workflow with fast performance on 64-bit hardware systems, smoother interactions thanks to GPU acceleration, and dozens of time-savers throughout the application.
- 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.
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Expand your creative possibilities and turn your vision into reality with the comprehensive, state-of-the-art image editing tools in Photoshop CS5. Manipulate images with pixel-level precision and control. Create dazzling image composites, beautiful panoramas, and stunning high dynamic range images. Move, warp, or stretch any part of an image, or remove image elements and see the space fill in like magic. Do it all faster and more efficiently with 64-bit cross-platform support and more GPU-accelerated features.
 The lab black-and-white technique action both converts and tints color photos to make beautiful black black-and-white images. Click to enlarge. |
 The Edge Detection and Decontaminate Colors features help you make highly precise selections of complex subjects quickly and easily, enabling faster, more accurate compositing of multiple images.Click to enlarge. |
 By making a quick selection and choosing the Content-Aware option in the fill menu, it’s easy to remove the boat and watch the background fill in like magic. Click to enlarge. |
Refine, adjust, and enhance your images with powerful photography tools.
Easy access to core editing power
Get just the tools you need--exactly when you need them--as you perform common editing activities. Adjustments and Masks panels guide you in making precise adjustments and masks.
State-of-the-art photography
Easily merge multiple exposures to extend the dynamic range with more power, precision, and fidelity than ever before. Convert to black-and-white in new ways. And use Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools that intelligently preserve color and tone details.
Industry-leading raw image processing
Enjoy superior results when you convert raw images with the Camera Raw 6 plug-in, which offers support for over 275 camera models plus nondestructive editing so you can experiment without harming your original photo.
Explore new creative possibilities with unprecedented precision and freedom.
Extraordinary creative tools
Achieve realistic painting effects with the ability to mix colors on canvas and create natural brushstrokes. Merge multiple exposures into stunning high dynamic range (HDR) images. Move, remove, warp, or stretch any image element.
Automated compositing tools
Easily create a single image from a series of shots that have different focal points, smoothly blending color and shading and extending your depth of field. And take advantage of accurate, automatic layer alignment.
Complex selections made easy
Select specific areas within an image in fewer clicks. Easily select intricate image elements, such as hair; eliminate background color around selection edges; and 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. Accelerate your workflow with fast performance and enhanced versatility, thanks to 64-bit support, more GPU-accelerated features, and more.
Efficient media management
Manage your media visually with Adobe Bridge CS5 software. Enjoy more flexible batch renaming plus the ability to access files in the context of your work using the customizable Adobe Mini Bridge panel.
Accelerate your workflow with fast performance and enhanced versatility, thanks to 64-bit support, more GPU-accelerated features, and more.
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom integration
Enjoy tight integration with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software (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.
Powerful printing options
Get outstanding prints in less time with automation, scripting, and a print dialog box that’s easier to navigate.
Broad 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, and video formats including 3G, FLC, MOV, AVI, DV Stream, Image Sequence, MPEG-4, and FLV.
Product Description
Adobe Photoshop CS5 delivers breakthrough capabilities to help you create images with impact. Refine your images with reengineered photography tools for removing noise, adding grain, and creating high dynamic range (HDR) images. Get precise results when making complex selections. Remove any image element and see the space fill in almost magically. Paint with naturally textured brushstrokes and realistic color blends. Also work fast with cross-platform 64-bit support and dozens of other time-savers.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By Melissa
The software is great, I have the trail version currently. It has endless possibilities and works wonderfully. But I, as many others, can't afford to spend 800 dollars on software. I am currently in a class learning the program, and no one can afford to buy it. Everyone said if it was maybe 150, even 200, they would buy it for sure. I think Adobe would probably make more money if it was cheaper, because then waaaaay more people would purchase it. $800.00 for software is absolutely ridiculous.
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4.4 out of 5 stars
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36 of 37 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
CS5 rocks my boat!
July 25 2010
By J. Omohundro
- Published on Amazon.com
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I've been using Photoshop Elements for a few years now, and it was okay, but I upgraded my camera a year ago and started using Adobe Lightroom (another product that rocks my boat!), and I wanted to use a product that was well-integrated with Lightroom; Elements just wasn't there. Enter CS5.
I forgot to mention, too, that I recently made the switch to a Mac at home, so I needed to buy new licenses for everything anyhow. Not only was I looking for a photo editor and a DAM (digital asset manager) tool, I needed a panorama stitcher and an HDR tool. Lightroom is taking care of DAM, and CS5 is taking care of the rest.
PRO's:
* Everything is integrated under one roof for me -- basic image editing, HDR, panorama generation.
* If you have used Elements in the past, you already know part of the program...stuff is basically in the same places, and there's more features to do almost anything imaginable.
* Content-aware fill is almost unbelievable!
CON's:
* Price. Even at Amazon's lower price, it ain't chump change.
* Learning curve. Even though I've used Elements for a while, there is so much to this program that I need to learn. Guess I better buy some books from Amazon and get cranking!
I forgot to mention, too, that I recently made the switch to a Mac at home, so I needed to buy new licenses for everything anyhow. Not only was I looking for a photo editor and a DAM (digital asset manager) tool, I needed a panorama stitcher and an HDR tool. Lightroom is taking care of DAM, and CS5 is taking care of the rest.
PRO's:
* Everything is integrated under one roof for me -- basic image editing, HDR, panorama generation.
* If you have used Elements in the past, you already know part of the program...stuff is basically in the same places, and there's more features to do almost anything imaginable.
* Content-aware fill is almost unbelievable!
CON's:
* Price. Even at Amazon's lower price, it ain't chump change.
* Learning curve. Even though I've used Elements for a while, there is so much to this program that I need to learn. Guess I better buy some books from Amazon and get cranking!
51 of 62 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Artist beware...
Sep 14 2010
By C. MacTavish
- Published on Amazon.com
This is a lovely piece of software. It's got some great new features, there's no new interface to learn, and it can switch between 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Granted, this is a major pain when you have the audacity to want to add some lighting effects and have to close the program down, adjust the settings to 32-bit, then restart it and do what you want to do, before closing it, resetting it to 64-bit, and getting back to what you were doing.
So why, aside from those irritations, am I giving a program with 4-5 star features a paltry 2 stars? (4-5 star functionality, I should note, for my PERSONAL needs. There are scads of problems with CS5 borking printer and scanner drivers, and producing inconsistent prints that are simply unacceptable for those who do lots of printing work. I don't. Your needs and mileage may vary.)
Because even though it is a Mac program, it doesn't really play nice with Macs. At least, it doesn't play nice with NEW Macs. So, with that in mind...
A WORD OF WARNING -- do NOT upgrade yet if you have a computer that uses an i-Series processor! There are known incompatibilities between this processor series and CS5, which the latest patch/update has done NOTHING to fix (though it did smarten up the ridiculously laggy Liquify tool a little). I have a 2.66GHz MacBook Pro with an i7 processor and 4GB of RAM, with Photoshop being given a separate 1TB scratch disk. There is no reason why this system should not be able to handle a program like Photoshop CS5, especially when it's the only program running save for iTunes and Safari. AND YET...
Every. time. I use CS5, it ends up lagging not only Photoshop, but EVERY other program on my computer, necessitating mass Force Quits and a complete restart (sometimes cold, because the system refuses to respond to anything else). "It might be something else!" I hear you cry. Well, this ONLY happens when Photoshop CS5 is running. It does not happen at any other point; the system handles beautifully, so long as CS5 is not involved.
Unfortunately, Adobe is not exactly fast about getting this compatibility issue fixed. I would recommend that users with i-Series processors hold off on this upgrade until the company actually does something about it; CS3 was really the last build that worked on an i-Series processor without a host of issues. It has, however, been reported to work fine on the Core 2 Duo machines of builds past, so it may be worth a try there.
But if you have an i-Series, I strongly recommend you obtain a trial version of the software first, to see if the (absurdly) high price tag is still acceptable given the low performance.
So why, aside from those irritations, am I giving a program with 4-5 star features a paltry 2 stars? (4-5 star functionality, I should note, for my PERSONAL needs. There are scads of problems with CS5 borking printer and scanner drivers, and producing inconsistent prints that are simply unacceptable for those who do lots of printing work. I don't. Your needs and mileage may vary.)
Because even though it is a Mac program, it doesn't really play nice with Macs. At least, it doesn't play nice with NEW Macs. So, with that in mind...
A WORD OF WARNING -- do NOT upgrade yet if you have a computer that uses an i-Series processor! There are known incompatibilities between this processor series and CS5, which the latest patch/update has done NOTHING to fix (though it did smarten up the ridiculously laggy Liquify tool a little). I have a 2.66GHz MacBook Pro with an i7 processor and 4GB of RAM, with Photoshop being given a separate 1TB scratch disk. There is no reason why this system should not be able to handle a program like Photoshop CS5, especially when it's the only program running save for iTunes and Safari. AND YET...
Every. time. I use CS5, it ends up lagging not only Photoshop, but EVERY other program on my computer, necessitating mass Force Quits and a complete restart (sometimes cold, because the system refuses to respond to anything else). "It might be something else!" I hear you cry. Well, this ONLY happens when Photoshop CS5 is running. It does not happen at any other point; the system handles beautifully, so long as CS5 is not involved.
Unfortunately, Adobe is not exactly fast about getting this compatibility issue fixed. I would recommend that users with i-Series processors hold off on this upgrade until the company actually does something about it; CS3 was really the last build that worked on an i-Series processor without a host of issues. It has, however, been reported to work fine on the Core 2 Duo machines of builds past, so it may be worth a try there.
But if you have an i-Series, I strongly recommend you obtain a trial version of the software first, to see if the (absurdly) high price tag is still acceptable given the low performance.
25 of 31 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not compatible with Mac Snow Leopard
Dec 20 2010
By Mandon Gale
- Published on Amazon.com
I had my Snow Leopard system installed by Apple. I have successfuly installed every program on my computer until I got to Photoshop CS5. With PS CS5 I got an error message saying "Installation to case-sensitive drives is not supported." I contacted Adobe support who knew nothing about this and said the problem was with Mac and that I needed to contact Apple. So basically "Photoshop CS5 for Mac" is not compatible with Mac. I contacted Apple customer support and talked to a helpful technician who basically had to go on to Adobe's site and forum boards (where this is apparently a very common problem). It is astonishingly unbelievable that I got better Adobe customer support from Apple than I did from Adobe.
After repairing permissions etc., the Apple technician determined the problem with the installation is sloppy scripting from Adobe programmers. The only workarounds are to completely reformat my hard drive and make it case-insensitive (which is not how it came) or to do what some kid did which is write a scripting program that changes the Access File Log's capital letters to lower case. This is a little over my head, but the Apple technician said to call Adobe and see if they could help me with that. They couldn't.
All in all, I paid several hundred dollars for a program that doesn't work on new Mac Book Pro and for a company that pushes away its customer support to Apple, who seemed remarkably 100 times more qualified to diagnose Adobe's scripting problems than Adobe itself.
It is unconscionable that Adobe Photoshop cannot provide support for its own product. Like I told the Adobe rep., I have installed a lot of professional grade software on my Mac without encountering ANY problems and the fact that the only problem I have is with Adobe Photoshop seems to indicate the problem is with Adobe and not Mac. Nevertheless, he told me my only solution was to contact Apple.
What a waste of money and time. Time to move on to Aperture.
After repairing permissions etc., the Apple technician determined the problem with the installation is sloppy scripting from Adobe programmers. The only workarounds are to completely reformat my hard drive and make it case-insensitive (which is not how it came) or to do what some kid did which is write a scripting program that changes the Access File Log's capital letters to lower case. This is a little over my head, but the Apple technician said to call Adobe and see if they could help me with that. They couldn't.
All in all, I paid several hundred dollars for a program that doesn't work on new Mac Book Pro and for a company that pushes away its customer support to Apple, who seemed remarkably 100 times more qualified to diagnose Adobe's scripting problems than Adobe itself.
It is unconscionable that Adobe Photoshop cannot provide support for its own product. Like I told the Adobe rep., I have installed a lot of professional grade software on my Mac without encountering ANY problems and the fact that the only problem I have is with Adobe Photoshop seems to indicate the problem is with Adobe and not Mac. Nevertheless, he told me my only solution was to contact Apple.
What a waste of money and time. Time to move on to Aperture.
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