DWessel
04-17-2010, 11:26 PM
Last Thursday night, I attended the first of a series of monthly presentations through Adobe with participation from local professional photographers which was held at Pasadena City College where I've been taking photography classes. The first half of the presentation was on Lightroom. The second half covered improvements made in CS5.
I was extremely impressed with some of the things I saw with CS5. First, it appears Adobe has made significant strides in improving its HDR processing. Only time and usage will tell if it is as functional and user friendly as PhotoMatix. Second was some really great improvements in the healing brush tool. It was virtually seemless and did not have the funky image warping that you currently get when you drag the healing brush over tiny distances.
The most impressive demonstration was on a smart removal tool. The demonstration used a photo of a guy standing in front of a stone wall. The general area around the guy was selected. Within a matter of seconds, Adobe recognized the distinguishing feature of the area selected was the guy. It then removed him from the image and automatically re-created the stone wall from nearby elements to fill in the area vacated by the removal of the guy. The recreated wall appeared nearly seamless.
Now the best part of the night was the raffle off of two Adobe Lightroom programs. I won one. :D
I was extremely impressed with some of the things I saw with CS5. First, it appears Adobe has made significant strides in improving its HDR processing. Only time and usage will tell if it is as functional and user friendly as PhotoMatix. Second was some really great improvements in the healing brush tool. It was virtually seemless and did not have the funky image warping that you currently get when you drag the healing brush over tiny distances.
The most impressive demonstration was on a smart removal tool. The demonstration used a photo of a guy standing in front of a stone wall. The general area around the guy was selected. Within a matter of seconds, Adobe recognized the distinguishing feature of the area selected was the guy. It then removed him from the image and automatically re-created the stone wall from nearby elements to fill in the area vacated by the removal of the guy. The recreated wall appeared nearly seamless.
Now the best part of the night was the raffle off of two Adobe Lightroom programs. I won one. :D