Adobe Design Premium CS5.5, Win, DVD, ENG 65112424 User Manual

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium 

What’s New

Express your ideas faster

CS5 Design Premium includes dozens of features designed to reduce the number of steps required 
to complete common tasks. Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Dreamweaver—the tools you use 
every day—all offer numerous enhancements to help you make fast work of your next project.

Photoshop CS5 Extended takes the time and frustration out of making precise image selections 
and masks, providing you a faster way to extract subjects from their backgrounds and create 
realistic composites. New intelligent selection technology offers better edge detection and faster, 
more accurate masking for complex subjects, such as hair. Automatic color decontamination helps 
you eliminate background color around the edges of a selection, resulting in more seamless 
compositions when placing extracted subjects on new backgrounds.

Experienced Photoshop users know that getting a perfect 
selection requires continually modifying your selection 
technique to respond to the varying characteristics of an 
edge—for example, one method for hair and another for 
the edge of a building. With new adaptive selection-edge 
modification controls in Photoshop CS5 Extended, you can 
produce highly accurate masks and selections faster and 
more simply than before. Smart Radius automatically 
matches the best selection approach with the subject’s 
changing edge characteristics, and extra view modes assist 
you in previewing the quality of your selections. The 
Refine Radius and Erase Refinements tools customize your 
masks and selections as you make them. These tools, in 
combination with the color decontamination settings, help 
eliminate any residual background color from around the 
edges of your selections.

All these enhancements, along with edge adjustments 
such as smoothness, feathering, and contrast, enable you 
to quickly produce selections and masks with incred-
ible accuracy and control.

More timesaving features in 
Photoshop CS5 Extended
See Adobe Photoshop CS5/
Photoshop CS5 Extended What’s 
New to learn more about these and

other new productivity features:

• Use Content-Aware Fill to remove

any object or image detail and
automatically fill in the space left

behind with lighting, tone, and
noise that match the surrounding

area—so it looks as if the removed
content never existed.

• Use Puppet Warp to quickly and

precisely reposition or warp any

image element.

• Enjoy productivity and creativity

boosts thanks to dozens of features

and enhancements requested by
Photoshop users. Straighten images
automatically, choose colors from
an onscreen color picker, adjust the
opacity of many layers simultane-
ously, and more.

Create accurate selections more easily with the 
Edge Detection controls in the updated Refine 
Edge dialog box.

Edge Detection uses adaptive selection 
technology to create selections along 

different edge types—such as a simple 

line, like the countours of a face, or a 
more complex edge, such as hair.

The Edge Detection and Decontaminate Colors features help you make highly precise selections of complex subjects quickly and easily, enabling faster, more accurate 

compositing. Original image (left). After refining the selection edge in Photoshop CS5 Extended (middle). Extracted subjects against new background (right).