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Russell Brown (RB): There is no Adobe Photoshop CS5! Russell Brown (referring to himself in third person in jest) gave a technical presentation showing technologies that may or may not appear in the future. I do not know anything about CS5. What was shown online–Patch Matching, Wet Paint and Warp–are technologies which I had demonstrated at Las Vegas a few weeks ago.
But with regard to Patch Matching, it’s a miracle. It’s the next miracle. From what I’ve seen in Adobe’s lab, it’s going to be outstanding. We are making it possible to correct things so well, like getting rid of telephone or power lines going through photos, and this solves a common problem that photographers face. It’s a cool, easy-to-use technology which Adobe is working on.
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Here’s an interesting short interview that will at least give you pretty much the most up to date current information Adobe is willing to give about Photoshop CS5.
In the interview Russel emphasizes that Photoshop is a tool for professionals, and I completely agree. I talk to so many amateur photographers, like myself, who immediately want to “learn” Photoshop. I always say, “Trust me, you don’t!” Then add, “If and when the features in iPhoto aren’t good enough for you, then maybe you should get Photoshop.” I do almost all of the retouching of all my photos in iPhoto. It does everything I want and saves me huge amounts of time over trying to make the same adjustments in Photoshop. I use Photoshop to create images, and many of its tools are completely necessary for me to do that. I always try to point out that while I have the skills to use Photoshop to retouch my photos and I still choose not to, even though I use Photoshop every day.
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