Adobe Photoshop CS5 12.0 Extended Image Editing Software for Macintosh

Key Features

• 3D extrusions with Adobe Repousse: Create stunning 3D logos and artwork from any text layer, selection, path, or layer mask with Adobe Repousse technology. Then twist, rotate, extrude, bevel and inflate these designs to get the look you want.
• Rich 3D materials library and picker: Explore different looks for your 3D objects by applying materials like chrome and gemstones from a rich materials library. Select and apply materials using intuitive tools and add to your library by downloading materials from the web.
• Better selections with Truer Edge: Get better edge detection and masking results in less time with the Quick Selection tool - even when you're selecting the trickiest image elements, such as hair.
• Color decontamination: Eliminate background color around the edges of your selection with the Quick Selection tool's automatic color decontamination capabilities.
• GPU-accelerated painting tools: Click to smoothly resize brushes; adjust bristle hardness; or choose your color hue, saturation, or brightness from an onscreen color picker.
• Rich drawing toolset: Create or modify images with a wide assortment of professional, fully customizable drawing tools.
• Easier layer management: Drag and drop a file onto an open PSD document to create a layer; nest up to ten layers; move a selection while the active layer is hidden; and delete all empty layers with one command.
• Auto-blending of images: Combine a range of images, each with a different exposure, color and focal point - with options to preserve tones and colors - into a single, color-corrected image.
• Noise removal: Remove the noise common to high-ISO images and consumer-camera shots while preserving color and detail. You won't need more than this reengineered noise removal technology to maintain a photo's natural look, avoiding an oversharpened feel as you maximize quality.
• Automatic lens correction: Save time with automatic correction of lens distortions, chromatic aberration and vignetting. Photoshop CS5 uses an image file's EXIF data to make precise adjustments based on the type of camera and lens you used.
• HDR Pro: Create either photo-realistic or wildly surreal high dynamic range (HDR) images with unprecedented speed, control and accuracy. Get stunning results thanks to automatic ghost removal and greater control with tone mapping and adjustments.
• Black-and-white conversion: Explore an endless variety of black-and-white looks. Use the integrated Lab B&W Action to interactively convert color images; create gorgeous HDR black-and-whites with greater ease and speed; and experiment with new presets.
• Preview and export of audio content and frame comments: Move through and edit video layers quickly and precisely using single-key shortcuts and preview and export audio tracks in addition to exporting frame comments.
• Single-key shortcuts: Edit motion graphics on video layers efficiently with single-key shortcuts.
• New shapes, swatches and gradients: Give your images and designs fresh looks using a variety of custom shapes, color swatches, styles, gradients and 3D meshes.
• New Actions and brushes: Quickly try out different editing effects and techniques using new Actions for black-and-white conversion and surreal Stars effects and paint with a new set of brushes.
• Adjustments panel: Use the convenient Adjustments panel to easily access every tool you need to nondestructively adjust and enhance color and tone. Open the On-image Adjustment tool with a keyboard shortcut.
• Masks panel: Quickly create and edit masks from the Masks panel. This panel offers all the tools you need to create editable pixel- and vector-based masks, adjust mask density and feathering, easily select noncontiguous objects and more.
• Onscreen color picker: Easily adjust the hue, saturation, or brightness of your foreground color without having to jump into the Color Picker dialog box.
• Powerful printing options: Get outstanding prints in less time with automation, scripting and a print dialog box that's easier to navigate.
• Video file format support: Work with video files thanks to support for 3G, FLC, MOV, AVI, DV Stream, Image Sequence, MPEG-4 and FLV formats.
• 16-bit to JPEG conversion: Let Photoshop CS5 automatically downsample your 16-bit image files so you can save them as 8-bit JPEGs.
• Edit tracking: Let Photoshop track all editing steps within your files with the Edit History log. Export steps to a text file or save them as part of image metadata for easier documentation of your work, file audits and more.
• Image Stacks: Quickly render a stack of related images into a single view using a variety of rendering calculations, such as median and maximum. Adobe Photoshop Extended automatically analyzes and combines the images while preserving the originals.
• Adobe Configurator: Get and share custom panels that developers create to accomplish specific tasks - and easily create your own panels of tools, menu items, actions and more - with Adobe Configurator software.