Photoshop CS5 is coming

[Tonic]

Yeah, it was announced shortly after CS4. But there are few features that digital artist could check - see video:

http://cs5.org/?p=415#more-415

The Puppet Tool looks quite intriguing for me - I could paint 2D sprites and then manipulate them to make - i.e. - animations.

And I'm not sure about new blending features/brushes - on video, it doesn't look well, but it may be that the person who was presenting them wasn't skilled enough. Also, it was said the performance will be improved, including drawing brush strokes and lines. How much of truth is lying there, we will see :) (wow, not sure if it's bug, but there should be a smiling emoticon, instead of little Pacman showing his ass)

[GriNGo]

Not worth updating IMO. The features seem kind of MEH. I those new brushes to be very laggy (even worse when you apply the different brush properties), or will be severly limited in options (like no dual brush for example). I'd try this to see improved performance and improved graphic card support and features, but not much else. CS4 is pretty rock on stable for me.

[ikken]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8sEGVoTW9Q
there's a (sort of) new video with a few more cs5 painting features

"wet paint" is cheesy as hell, but the new colour sampler is cool

I wonder what system will it require to work properly :<

[yahdood]

They have the puppet tool in After Effects; it's pretty fun. Sort of like an extremely basic bone tool.

I probably won't get it. I have CS3 and CS4 and I prefer CS3 much more.
It seems they just keep adding more useless tools each version.

[Portus]

The wet paint looks awful, makes Painter's photo-to-painting look incredible in comparison.

[GriNGo]

Thanks for the video IKKEN. The wet paint thingy looks like a glorified smudge tool to be honest. The other stuff, like the new color picker, color ring selector, brush size/smoothness adjustment tool, and the zoom tools are nice to have, but are mostly gimmicky IMO.. nothing you can't do right now with proper tablet configuration... but yest people with out tablets.. it's awesome.

[ArchDesign]

I used PS CS3 and CS4, and prefer to CS4 more. But on Win 7, I have to use CS4, and I think it's not stable much, my comp is usually dump. Hiz, maybe because my graphic card, driver, etc. aren't strong enough >'<

[Portus]

http://cs5launch.adobe.com/

Countdown, will be out very soon!

[Quigleyer]

It does look really bad, at least in those examples. I also imagine that would slow down a decent system, as is exhibited in painter... which would really bring down the value of PS when compared to painter. PS doesn't lag and that's why I use it when I use it...

I guess we shall see.

[jfrancis]

http://cs5launch.adobe.com/

Countdown, will be out very soon!

April 12. yay

[Jie Kageshinzo]

There's still no official Photoshop Color Wheel, is there?

[macmcrae]

cs4 was the best photoshop update ever. the ability to rotate your screen is priceless. cs5 looks amazing too. The puppet tool not impressive? That will be one of the most useful features ever. I can understand how people might get attached to older smaller versions of photoshop - but cs3? I hated that update.
:oneye:

[spaztastic]

hmm, I am wanting to get photoshop... but cs5 doesn't look to promising... Should I just stick with CS4?

[mundanity]

Have they put on a keyboard shortcut for the colour picker yet?

[sanakris]

Mundanity do you mean the alt (pc) or option(mac)? This button is for the color picker. I Hope this will help ;)

[Zirngibism]

I don't see what's so bad about "wet paint", provided you stick to a manageable resolution. It only seems cheesy if trying to make a photo look like a painting. But it seems like it could rock as a from-scratch painting tool.

[ikken]

I don't see how it's different from the smudge tool, since I can only rely on promo videos at this time, and none of those focused on painting from scratch (I can't believe there aren't any PS artists involved in beta testing)
aside from that, smudge tool is usable and cool and stuff, but what's the point of praising it like an omg paint! wet paint!1

[arestocrat]

I don't see how it's different from the smudge tool, since I can only rely on promo videos at this time, and none of those focused on painting from scratch (I can't believe there aren't any PS artists involved in beta testing)
aside from that, smudge tool is usable and cool and stuff, but what's the point of praising it like an omg paint! wet paint!1


THIS!

And zhuzhu has some pretty rocking smudge/blend tool preset in his .tpl file, and one which acts like the painter blender "just add water" which is (imo) more useful then all this "yay a new wet paint tool" which looks like smudge tool on 100%strengh and totally artificial..And his presets work from anything after Photoshop 6. So why buy a new version for THAT feature? But maybe that's just me.. Maybe it'll look better in the final version, but I doubt it.. Can't hurt to try the trial though
Oh, and check out zhuzhus presets here: http://zhuzhu.deviantart.com/art/Z-PS-Brushes-V6-154905327 I prefer blender 50 wet diffusor.

[ikken]

feng's toolset is making painting more natural than all of adobe's improvements since photoshop 7,0.

I was much more excited for cs4 (that I didn't buy, neither did my school)
currently I'm happy with cs3 that was the first photoshop version that NEVER crashed for me (this and the extensive camera raw support. it's PHOTOshop.)

it's just a tool after all, but its painting aspect is developing like a child with some heavy mental disabilities.

[GriNGo]

"Wet paint" in digital art is just a gimmick. Real artists make the something in a painting look wet by using normal tools.

[mundanity]

Mundanity do you mean the alt (pc) or option(mac)? This button is for the color picker. I Hope this will help ;)
Oh yeah, sorry, I know about that one for the brush, what I meant was the colour menu you get when you click on one of the brush-colour squares on the bottom of the toolbar. I know F5 is the colour slider tab option, and alt was the dropper, but I've never been able to find a shortcut for the other one, which is my preferred method of picking colours. I'm probably just an idiot, though.

[Portus]

I like the new dynamic brush resizing options, horizontally you control the size of the brush and vertically you adjust the softness of a brush, that might come in handy.

[macmcrae]

THIS!
Oh, and check out zhuzhus presets here: http://zhuzhu.deviantart.com/art/Z-PS-Brushes-V6-154905327 I prefer blender 50 wet diffusor.

The interwebz comes through again. That is one great freakin link

[daeyeth]

New demo on PS5, geared towards photographers, displaying content aware feature which is like is a band-aid patch 2.0. It's not pixel perfect of course but still pretty damn impressive and waaaaaaaay better than than the band-aid. When they got to the clouds/mountains picture, I thought to myself, there's no way this thing is gonna be able to create all that area, it's too much to make up out of thin air. It's gonna look like garbage! But surprisingly, the stuff fit spot on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH0aEp1oDOI

[ikken]

I wonder how it works outside of promo videos, that are using the maximum of the tool's potential
but it indeed looks amazing.

[Jie Kageshinzo]

THIS!

And zhuzhu has some pretty rocking smudge/blend tool preset in his .tpl file, and one which acts like the painter blender "just add water" which is (imo) more useful then all this "yay a new wet paint tool" which looks like smudge tool on 100%strengh and totally artificial..And his presets work from anything after Photoshop 6. So why buy a new version for THAT feature? But maybe that's just me.. Maybe it'll look better in the final version, but I doubt it.. Can't hurt to try the trial though
Oh, and check out zhuzhus presets here: http://zhuzhu.deviantart.com/art/Z-PS-Brushes-V6-154905327 I prefer blender 50 wet diffusor.

Oh sweet, zhuzhu updated his brush presets!

[Vertrucio]

I'm more interested in any performance improvements with opengl and better 64 bit support.