What’s New in CS5: A Series of Ten Enlightening Video Tutorials
Join Photoshop luminary Mark S. Johnson from May 13 through May 22 as he introduces Photoshop CS5′s most interesting and useful new features. Each day’s tutorial will examine one of CS5′s remarkable additions.
To view the tutorials, visit www.msjphotography.com.
To download the entire ten tutorial series for $9.95, go to www.msjphotography.com/index.php/bookstore/whats-new-in-photoshop-cs5.
Tutorial Schedule:
- Thursday, May 13 – Content-Aware Fill and Heal
Learn secrets for retouching with Content-Aware Fill and Content-Aware Spot Healing. - Friday, May 14 – Refine Edge Refinements
Discover how to use the Refine Edge (Refine Mask) dialog in a compositing workflow, while exploring the dialog’s new Edge Detection, Smart Radius, Refine Radius, Erase Refinements, Decontaminate Colors, and Output To features. - Saturday, May 15 – Tools Enhancements
Take a journey into CS5′s tools enhancements, including a Crop tool Rule of Thirds overlay, a straightforward Straighten button, a scrubby Zoom tool, a Neutral Density Gradient preset, and several others. - Sunday, May 16 – Camera Raw Improvements
Take a look at Adobe Camera Raw 6.0′s new features, including 2010 Processing, vastly improved Noise Reduction, Add Grain, and two significantly improved styles of Post Crop Vignetting. - Monday, May 17 – Automated Lens Correction
Learn how to use the Lens Correction Auto Correction panel to search by lens criteria and automatically remove geometric distortion, chromatic aberration, and vignetting. - Tuesday, May 18 – Layers Enhancements
Take a peek at several new and improved layers features, including Paste in Place, drag-and-drop smart object layering, Layer Styles defaults, and many others. - Wednesday, May 19 – Puppet Warp
Discover secrets for realistically warping parts of a subject using Puppet Warp’s remarkable (almost sci-fi) features. - Thursday, May 20 – A Giant Leap for HDR
Take a look at the revamped Merge to HDR Pro feature and the new single image HDR Toning dialog, including HDR presets, ghost removal, and a powerful new slider-based interface. - Friday, May 21 – Bridge Enhancements
Explore improvements to the Batch Rename dialog and learn how to watermark in the Output module. - Saturday, May 22 – Painting on a Photograph with the Mixer Brush
Learn secrets for using CS5′s Mixer and Bristle brushes to realistically blend paints with colors in a photograph.
Here at TheLightroomLab.com, we’ve been happy to promote Mark S. Johnson’s work in the past, and this is no exception. Mark, in addition to being an all-around fantastic human being, is an incredibly patient and thorough instructor…both in person and on video. I highly recommend that you check out this video series. I’m convinced that you’ll happily spend the ten bucks to own it for yourself!
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About the Author: Scott Rouse is an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE), photographer, teacher, and graphic- and web-designer in Missoula, MT. His photography focuses on wildlife and adventure sports and can be viewed at 
This is awesome. Mark S Johnson is my favorite photoshop expert!
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David