Adobe’s new Photoshop: Worth the upgrade

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Photoshop CS5 ExtendedPhotoshop has several outstanding new features — it’s probably worth the price of the upgrade just for the new Content Aware Fill tool, the 64-bit boost and the improvements to Camera RAW — but what really sells this release is amount of time it promises to save you.

Among our favorites workflow improvements: You can now adjust the opacity and fill percentages on multiple layers simultaneously; the Save for Web dialog is available in 16-bit mode (and handles downsizing to 8-bit automatically); and Photoshop has the ability to save layer styles as a default behavior that even persists across sessions.

Adobe has done an impressive job of focusing not just on the whiz-bang features, but on how photographers, designers and digital artists spend their time using Photoshop, and how making small changes can speed up their workflows.

Photoshop CS5 Extended Student & Teacher Edition is available at an educational discount price of $198 from Creation Engine.

Photoshop CS5 Extended Nonprofit/Education Edition is available at an educational discount price of $298 from Creation Engine.

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