Get breakthrough performance with Adobe CS5 Production Premium, which is packed with innovations that dramatically increase productivity, like native 64-bit support and the new Mercury Playback Engine.
How to Upgrade Your System for CS5 Production Premium
Today's video production workflows benefit tremendously from applications that are designed to run natively on 64-bit operating systems. Learn what you can do to optimize your hardware for optimum performance.
Get the most out of your hardware investment: native 64 bit support means After Effects can use all available RAM, so it’s easier to work efficiently on complex HD, 2k, and 4k projects.
Use Adobe Story to help write screenplays, scripts, and to collaboratively work on production and post-production. Plan your shoot more efficiently by leveraging your script in Adobe OnLocation to create shot lists and import your clips into Adobe Premiere Pro to create a preliminary rough cut.
Accelerated Editing with Enhanced Speech Analysis in Premiere Pro CS5
See how to turn spoken dialogue into searchable text either by synchronizing content with your Adobe Story script, or by using reference scripts that are optimized for your content. Accelerate editing by marking in and out points in the speech analysis text to speed production time.
Isolate moving foreground elements from their backgrounds faster using a revolutionary new approach that works much like the Quick Select tool in Photoshop.
Create a more engaging experience with web DVDs that include a search interface for viewers to jump directly to content of interest. When you use Speech Search in Adobe Premiere Pro to turn spoken dialogue into searchable text, the information is passed along to Encore, and is used along with subtitles and menu button text to make your web DVDs searchable.
Manage your media visually with Adobe Bridge CS5 software, which now offers more flexible batch renaming, support for drag and drop between Creative Suite components, and the ability to access files in the context of what you’re working on by using the customizable Adobe Mini Bridge panel in Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended.
Faster Performance Across Platforms in Photoshop CS5
With Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended you can perform day-to-day imaging tasks faster and work faster with very large images by taking advantage of even more RAM—up to 128GB on desktops and 8GB on laptops. (Requires a 64-bit-capable computer with a 64-bit version of Mac OS, Microsoft Windows 7, or Windows Vista).
The vast majority of video professionals use Adobe Photoshop software to help them create and enhance visual effects and motion graphics, or to prepare still images and text for inclusion in video projects. With new Photoshop CS5 Extended, you can leverage cross‐platform 64‐bit support, the unrivaled Photoshop image‐editing toolset, and Adobe 3D Forge—the powerful Photoshop 3D engine that enables you to create and enhance 3D and motion‐based content. Plus, you can enjoy tighter integration with Adobe tools you use every day, including Adobe After Effects CS5, and Adobe Premiere Pro CS5. Realistically blend colors on canvas with the new Mixer Brush, and paint on 2D and 3D artwork more naturally using lifelike Bristle Tips. Remove an image element, and let Content‐Aware Fill intelligently replace the missing pixels.Use new Exposure Merge technology to create photorealistic or wildly surreal 32-bit HDR images with unprecedented speed, control, and accuracy. Take advantage of new Adobe Repoussé technology to easily create 3D artwork from any text layer, selection, or layer mask. And so much more.
Take the time and frustration out of making precise image selections. New Truer Edge selection technology in Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended offers better edge detection and masking results in less time—even when you select the trickiest image elements, like hair. Eliminate background color around the edges of your selection with new color decontamination capabilities.
Automatically correct lens distortions and fix chromatic aberration and vignetting with Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended, which use an image file’s EXIF data to make precise adjustments based on the type of camera and lens you used.
With Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended, when you remove an image element, Content-Aware Fill replaces the missing pixels almost magically. This revolutionary new tool matches lighting, tone, and noise so it looks like the deleted content never existed.
Web and interactive designers count on Adobe Photoshop software to help them create just the right look for their clients. Now with Photoshop CS5 Extended, you can keep exploring new creative possibilities in web and interactive design. For example, take advantage of new Adobe Repoussé technology to quickly make your pages and designs pop with 3D artwork for logos, buttons, and more. Plus, you get enhanced 3D animation effects with the ability to take your 3D model and easily add an animated depth of field.
With Photoshop CS5 Extended, you can create 3D logos and artwork from any text layer, selection, or layer mask with new Adobe Repoussé technology. Twist, rotate, extrude, bevel, and inflate these designs, and then easily apply rich materials like chrome, glass, and cork to explore different looks. And take your designs even further by leveraging the Adobe 3D Forge engine for advanced editing of your 3D models.
Enhanced 3D Realism and Rich Materials in Photoshop CS5
With Photoshop CS5 Extended, you can easily enhance the realism of your 3D designs by generating shadows with simple steps to invoke the shadow catcher. Browse different looks for your 3D models and extruded designs by picking realistic materials like chrome and cork from the rich new materials library. Explore with different focus points in your 3D scene by previewing and adjusting the range for depth of field. Even use stunning HDR images or panoramas to light your 3D scene.
With Photoshop CS5 Extended, you can create 3D logos and artwork from any text layer, selection, or layer mask with new Adobe Repoussé technology. Twist, rotate, extrude, bevel, and inflate these designs, and then easily apply rich materials like chrome, glass, and cork to explore different looks. And take your designs even further by leveraging the Adobe 3D Forge engine for advanced editing of your 3D models.
Join Worldwide Design Evangelist Terry White as he runs through his 5 favorite Photoshop CS5 features. Included are new enhanced selection abilities and noise reduction tools.
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