ADOBE Senior Creative Director Russel Brown Introduces 6 of His Favourite New Features in Photoshop CS6

Russell Brown, Senior Creative Director, walks through his 6 favorite features in Photoshop CS6 beta. Learn more about the new capabilities of Adobe Camera Raw 7.0, the new adaptive Wide Angle feature, Field Blur, Iris Blur and Tilt-Shift. Also take a look at Content-Aware Move and Patch, the all-new Crop tool and incredible new possibilities with video.

For a free BETA download of CS6 click here

Sneak Peak at the New Selective Focus Blur Feature on Photoshop CS6

Want the look of an expensive ultra fast lens without the expense? ADOBE CS6 has a new tool that will add blur to any image without masks, layers or depth maps.

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A Heart Warming Story From the Online Photo Community.

Redditor Bbilbay posted this photo of his daughter and her best friend (who was recently diagnosed with leukemia) to the Reddit community, asking them if they could photoshop the background “to something pretty or fun”.

Here are some images that were created from the original image. Well done online photo community, well done!

Rolling Stone Cover of Katy Perry ~ Before and After Photoshop

You may have noticed certain, ahheem, enhancements but check out her right hand.

Behind the scenes shoot with Mark Seliger

Sneak Peak of the NEW Jaw-Dropping Photoshop Deblurring feature!

Drink too much coffee and then go out and shoot? No problem, Adobe has your back my friends. Adobe has released videos from its AdobeMAX event, including coverage of the image deblur feature for removing camera shake and motion blur


Before:

After: BAM! sharp as tack!

In this video demo, Jue Wang will show you a sneak peek of a potential new feature that allows users to remove blurriness from digital photos caused by camera shake while the pictures were being taken.

Revolutionary New Software for Photographers

Researcher Kevin Karsch and his team at the University of Illinois are developing software that lets users easily insert objects into photographs. The most impressive aspect of this software is how it handles the lighting in the scene and it's effect on the inserted objects. This opens up a whole world of possibilities for photographers. Composite images in photoshop can take hours of retouching work to achieve a similar effect. Matching the lighting is usually the most difficult part of the process.

Abstract from developers: "We propose a method to realistically insert synthetic objects into existing photographs without requiring access to the scene or any additional scene measurements. With a single image and a small amount of annotation, our method creates a physical model of the scene that is suitable for realistically rendering synthetic objects with diffuse, specular, and even glowing materials while accounting for lighting interactions between the objects and the scene. Our system has applications in the movie and gaming industry, and user content creation, among others" (photographers!)


Rendering Synthetic Objects into Legacy Photographs from Kevin Karsch on Vimeo.

Sneak Peek of Photoshop CS5

Among the major updates are features such as Content-Aware Fill, Puppet Warp, and HDR Pro and HDR Toning. I am looking forward to using the Content-Aware Fill tool. It will save me hours of retouching. Thank you Adobe!