Adobe Photoshop CS 5

I got my hands on the new Photoshop at the end of last week and have been playing with it over the long weekend. I have to say that I am quite impressed. I am a fairly unsophisticated user of Photoshop, but I have been using it for several years and got to know CS 4 pretty well. CS 5 blows me away. Several of the new features justify in my mind paying the $200 to upgrade from CS 4. Content aware fill is incredible. I'm not sure about the ethical implications of using it in landscape photography, but I am amazed by its power and the possible applications for it. The new HDR Pro and HDR Toning features are equally amazing. In a past post I dissed CS 4's HDR tool. HDR Pro is vastly improved and in my mind as good as Photomatix. Check out Terry White's review of the best new features here. For an even more thorough review of new features, see Deke McClelland's Lynda set "Photoshop Top 5" at Lynda.com.