Key HD footage in real time with the new Ultra Chroma Keyer in Adobe Premiere Pro. Optimized for footage that includes uneven lighting, wrinkled backgrounds, and frizzy hair, Ultra preserves shadows and can achieve complex keys on smoke, liquids, and transparent objects. GPU acceleration dramatically increases rendering speeds, whether you’re keying DV or HD.

Adobe Photoshop software is the tool of choice for designers and web professionals. Now with Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended, you can continue to push the boundaries of traditional digital imaging. Realistically blend colors on canvas with the new Mixer Brush. Create superior composites for print or web layouts with new technology that makes it easy to select even the trickiest image elements, like hair. Remove an image element, and let Content‐Aware Fill intelligently replace the missing pixels. Easily create 3D logos and artwork from any text layer, selection, or layer mask using new Adobe Repoussé technology. Use new Exposure Merge technology to create photo realistic or wildly surreal 32-bit HDR images with unprecedented speed, control, and accuracy. And import animated GIFs. Plus so much more.

View the top 5 Photoshop CS5 photo editing software features. Russell Brown, Photoshop senior creative director, presents his favorites from over 100 new features, including Content-Aware Fill, Puppet Warp, HDR Pro, realistic paint brushes, and new selections tools for the trickiest elements like hair.

Would you like to see if your car looks better in Blue? Use Adobe Photoshop CS4 and try before you buy. Learn about the new Adjustments panel and Hue Sauration adjustments.

Learn an advanced masking technique in Photoshop that you can use when normal masking is almost impossible. Let Russell Brown show you how easy it is in this Photoshop CS4 tutorial.

Discover three distinctive ways to remove the ugly fringe that can ruin any good masking project. These techniques are specially designed for working with detailed hair.

Martin shares his inner thinking on model selection, lighting, camera angles, hair and makeup, and how they each play a part in creating the final look

Eddie Tapp shows how to add a great soft look to a portrait with the MZ Soft Focus technique and easily keep areas sharp like eyes, lips and hair.

Never fear, the Extract Tool is here! Rediscover the Extract Tool in Photoshop CS3. In some situations, it's still the best way to make a mask for detailed hair.