Adobe Photoshop has been an industry standard for most web designers & photographers worldwide. Photoshop CS5 has made photography editing much more refined and the composition process has become much easier than ever before.  To study the advantage of Photoshop CS5 extended over Photoshop CS5 we have written this comparison article, with both a Designer’s & Photographer’s perspective. Hopefully it shall help you in your buying/upgrade decision.

Photoshop CS5

Photoshop CS5 has refining feature with powerful photography tools. It made editing process easy as fewer steps are involved to remove noise, add grain, create vignettes, correct lens distortions, sharpen, and create HDR images. It has quick image correction and color and tone control for professional purpose. Intelligent image editing and enhancement , extraordinary advanced compositing has made it a better tool than earlier versions for photographers. It allows users to accelerate workflow with fast performance on 64-bit Windows® and Mac hardware systems and smoother interactions due to more GPU-accelerated features.

It also boasts of a state-of-the-art processing with Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 6 and helps to maximize creative impact. It provides for tremendous precision and freedom. It allows user to easily select intricate image elements, such as hair and create realistic painting effects. It also allows to remove any image element and see the space fill in almost magically. It has easy access to core editing and streamlined work flow and flexible work ambience. It has creative tools and contents.

Photoshop CS5 Extended

Photoshop CS5 extended is quite innovative and has incorporated 3D elements to 2D artwork directly within digital imaging application, which enables user to do an easy on-ramp to 3D image creation. It also provides for 3D editing. It has intelligent image editing and enhancement. It offers advance composing and has extraordinary painting and drawing toolset. It provides for video and animation designing. It helps to work with specialized images for architecture, manufacturing, engineering, science, and medicine.

Where CS5 extended scores over CS5

CS5 extended has many features, which were not included in CS5. These features make it score more over CS5. These features are:

• Technology for creating 3D extrusion
• 3D material library and picker
• Field depth for 3D
• 3D merging and scene composition improvements
• 3D workflow improvement
• Customization of 3D features
• Image based light source
• Shadow catcher for shadow creation
• Enhanced ray tracer
• Context sensitive widgets, which allows easy control of objects, lights and cameras.
• Overlays for materials and mesh boundaries

Photoshop CS5 extended is far better than CS5 as it incorporates all the features of CS5 and have more advanced features. It allows 3D creation and editing and has other advanced tools to make it better.

Redefining the Image-Editing Experience  : A Photographer’s point of View

Photoshop CS5 delivers amazing features and creative options so even new users can perform advanced image manipulations and compositions. Breath taking image intelligence behind Content-Aware Fill magically removes any image detail or object, examines the surroundings and seamlessly fills in the space left behind. Lighting, tone and noise of the surrounding area can be matched. New Refine Edge makes nearly-impossible image selections possible. Masking was never easier, the toughest types of edges, such as hair and foliage seem easier to fix. To sum up following are few advantages of CS5 extended over previous versions

• 64-bit processing
• Content Aware Fill
• Refine Edge, “makes nearly-impossible image selections impossible”
• HDR Pro, including ghost artifact removal and HDR toning, which gives the look of HDR with a single exposure
• New brush options
• Improved image management with enhanced Adobe Bridge
• Lens corrections
• Improved black-and-white conversions
• Puppet Warp: Precisely reposition or warp any image element
• Adobe Camera Raw 6

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Pricing and Availability

Adobe Photoshop CS5 and CS5 Extended are available through Adobe Authorized Resellers & the Adobe Store. Estimated street price for Adobe Photoshop CS5 is US$699 and US$999 for Photoshop CS5 Extended. Upgrade pricing and volume licensing are also available.

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