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[Russell Preston Brown, Sr Creative Director:] Hello, my name is Russell Preston Brown
From Adobe Systems, and these are my six favorite Adobe PhotoShop CS6 features.
Let's get started in this brand new interface, which is really wonderful.
I'm going to start with Adobe Camera RAW 7.0.
Now, I have an image here that I took, and of course, I've overexposed the image.
I overexposed it because I want to show you the great new dynamic range\
that you can pull out of a really overexposed image.
I'm going to go right over here, and I'm going to load in my Adobe Camera RAW 7.0 settings,
and poof!--I bring back that detail.
Check this out. Here under my settings I now can go in and control the highlights
separated directly from the shadows, and this is new.
Also notice that my sliders begin in the center, and I can have negative and positive values.
That's also new.
Think about re-opening some of your older images
and work on them with this new Adobe Camera RAW 7.0.
Okay. Let's move on.
Let's go right over here to my next favorite feature, which has to be adaptive wide angle.
Now, we've all taken wide-angle images,
and this image happens to be taken with a super wide fish-eye lens.
And we've gone into filters, and you can run a lens correction,
but now there's adaptive wide angle that gives you the ability to control the exact areas
within your image that you'll adjust.
I really love this because it combines some of the wide angle values with the control of straightening lines.
I brought this image in and notice that's identified this through its metadata
as a 15 mm fish-eye lens.
It already has the profile for this lens built in.
If I click and drag with this tool,
it arcs along the same lines of distortion that appear within my image.
I click and let go, and it straightens that line perfectly.
Now I'm going to go in over here and apply another line right here.
I've reintroduced a really nice straight horizon,
yet I still have the distortion happening within my image,
but I also want to go in and correct this strange distortion in this line in the ceiling.
While I'm at at, let's go in and add in this line as well.
Now this image works really well, because it shows my lines of distortion,
and I can track right along those and get that the way I like it just with a few clicks like this.
Then go in and scale my image up.
If I wanted to go back in and use content-aware fill
in this area that didn't quite get filled in, I could do that as well.
Let's just click OK and process this back into PhotoShop.
Great controls in adaptive wide angle. But wait--there's more.
Another one of my favorites has to be the blur gallery.
Let's start with this image here in Italy, and I want to go in and blur it
to take my viewer's attention right into the focus point within this image.
Here under my filter menu, I'm going down to "Blur" and over to my "Blur Gallery,"
which consists of three different types of blur--
Field Blur with multiple points,
Iris Blur with a single point originating from the center, and Tilt-Shift.
Tilt-Shift automatically gives you this miniature-town look, as you see here.
The default settings are blurring the top and the bottom
and giving me this strip in the middle to this miniature set that I've built.
I can now go in and adjust the focus
of those areas with this really nice new interface built right into the view right here.
Of course, I can go over here to the right and adjust the blur, but I can do it right here.
I can also adjust the blur radius by clicking and dragging on these lines
and the fade-off of the blur right at the top.
What I also would like is to preview the mask.
By clicking the "m" key on my keyboard, I can go in and adjust the mask for this--
rotation, adjustments to it in any way I want, or even adjust the amount of blur.
I have all of my controls here directly on the mask.
I can also, when I'm done, export the mask as a channel that I can use later,
for example, to apply noise back into those areas that I've blurred.
Once again, this is the Blur Gallery.
If I didn't mention, you can also combine field blur, iris blur, and tilt blur together.
Moving on. Let's go ahead and click OK.
Now, content-aware move.
Here you can see I've selected this tree.
I've selected my new tool over here called "Content-Aware Move."
Now, we know about content-aware fill,
but imagine that you can take a single-layer document, like this flattened document,
you can click on a selection of the tree and move it to the left.
Through the magic of science and technology at Adobe,
I can move the tree, and it will automatically fill in the area where I've moved it from.
None of this cloning or going back in--just select it and move it.
But wait--again--there's always more.
What if I go down here, for example, and I have a watermark on my image.
I've flattened the image, but I really need to move the watermark.
Once again--check this out--I can click on the watermark
and simply move it with my content-aware move tool over here to the right--poof.
It's now there on the right. It's filled in on the left.
Okay. Next, the new crop tool.
Here I have an image that clearly needs to be cropped.
My horizon doesn't look quite right, so let's select the new crop tool and take a look at this.
Check this out. The new interface appears for the crop tool with new controls here in the option bar.
Check out the behavior as I move this down to crop it.
Notice that it automatically centers around the center of your crop region.
Now, that didn't happen in the past. You had to move it and adjust it.
Also, if I click outside the region here and rotate it--check this out--
it's not rotating the actual image.
Now, this seems quite logical, and you're going, well, that's not new.
If you go up here to the options bar and you want to shift back to the classic mode--
just like this you can go back in and see how it used to work. That's so old and boring.
The image doesn't rotate. The actual crop region is rotating, so the preview isn't quite right.
Let's go back to my regular mode here.
I really like this capability of centering it and rotating it and getting it just right.
Then finally, my automatic straightening tool right here at the top.
I can then click on the horizon and drag and instantly straighten that--
double-click and get my image just the way I want it with the new crop capabilities.
Okay. Let's finish this off with video.
Video is now inside of Adobe PhotoShop CS6. That's right. You heard me correctly.
I'm going to bring up my timeline here, and let's take a look at the great new features.
To begin with, it's starting to look sort of similar to Adobe Premiere or even After Effects.
Check it out. My video is now contained within its own video group here in my layers panel.
I also have sound separated on its own audio track--finally.
What a great way to work with sound.
And I can go in here and address one of my video clips, click on the end,
and I can start to edit the end and preview the exact point in the video
where I want to stop and make the cut.
Not only that.
These magician programmers at Adobe have set my endpoint
directly related to my new endpoint to that video. Unbelievable.
I'm going to right-click on this and set this to the exact value of 5 seconds for that,
hit my enter key, because I now want to finish this off with drag-and-drop fade effects.
This has got to be the best.
I've always wanted the ability to use fade effects by simply clicking on them,
dragging them over the intersection between two clips, and instantly have a fade effect.
In this case, for 2 seconds.
Let's add a fade effect to these other two sections just like this.
And just to finish this off, let's have a fade-to-black, because we always have to have that.
So I've got video fading. I've got music.
I select my play button, and it starts to fade
the images together, the movie clips, plays the sound.
I should also mention--just because I can--that you can now work with text and graphics,
and you now have motion controls on still images, text, and graphics.
It does not get much better than this.
Ladies and gentlemen, girls and boys, you've just seen a great set of new features
inside of PhotoShop CS6--Adobe Camera RAW 7.0 support,
Adaptive Wide Angle, Blur Gallery, Content-Aware Move, the Crop Tool,
and finally video support inside of PhotoShop CS6.
Give them a try. They're fantastic.
[Adobe]
