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Currently working with Adobes Creative Suite 3 I had missed all the new features of CS4 and before I knew it, the software giants were starting to release CS5!

Adobe have just released the trials for CS5 and I managed to get my hands on a trail version of Photoshop, first impressions... awesome!

The workspace has been updated once again to allow a free flowing environment even allowing you to change layer opacity over multiple layers and an on-screen color picker. I have been desperate to try the new ’Content-Aware Fill’ which matches lighting, tone, and noise when content is removed from an image and fills the background as if the object never existed, although I was skeptical it didn’t disappoint and seemed to work flawlessly over the three images I tied out.

The new interface also has a ’Bridge light’ palette which makes finding images and graphics a breeze without having to have Adobes Bridge program open or manually navigating to images.

The most exciting development for me is one of the new transform option called ’Puppet Warp’ which allows you to select an object or part of and distort it to a curve without degrading the image, it may not seem like a big deal but performing this task manually with the original warp transform tool was a drawn out process of trial and error which usually ended in trying to find another way of getting the result along with a few strong curse words.

There is plenty more that CS5 has to offer and I personally cant wait to get it installed :)