The video shows a selection of features that are being developed by ‘Photoshop Labs’ for Adobe Photoshop CS5, including Painter-style brushes, a new warp tool and more.
The video was posted after Adobe’s Photoshop World event. It outlines some of the new capabilities it is currently working on. Among the innovative tools likely to make it into Photoshop CS5 is the Warping technology.
By locking down certain areas of an image using digital pins, a photographer could other parts without altering the overall subject. In the example shown on the Adobe video, a man’s arms can be moved around his body.
Potentially, the new technology could allow Photoshop users to drastically change someone’s appearance or position, as well as modify an environment with more ease.
The new brush tools aim to match that found within Corel’s Painter application. The video shows ‘wet’ paints being smudged, smeared and blended. It also shows an on-screen representation of the 3D properties of a brush, showing how it has been twisted to lay down different stroke types.
A similar system After Effects’ Puppet tool has been added to Photoshop, enabling artists to warp image by placing pins into areas to lock them down, then moving the areas around them. An overlaid grid shows how the image is warped.
The Photoshop CS5 suite is scheduled to be released in 2010. For the meantime, you can get Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended Full
Photoshop CS5 released when – that’s the main question on most our visitors minds.
Well you can’t always second guess companies plans as often plans can go against the intention.
You can certainly work out the general pattern of expectation though from past release dates for the various versions of the Adobe CS suite.
CS 1 – Sept 2003
CS 2 – April 2005
CS 3 – March 2007
CS 4 – October 2008
So March 2010 is our likely guess of when we think CS5 will be released.
Adobe seems to release new CS version at least a year and a half apart.