Combine this with the new Content-aware Fill, which removes unwanted objects and generates remarkably accurate background fills where you've removed them, and Puppet Warp, which lets you place control points on areas within a photo so you can change their shape or position, and Photoshop CS5 takes image manipulation and compositing to new levels. The new smart radius option for the simple selection tool uses different edge detection for different types of edge Refine Radius lets you tweak sections of the selected edge individually and Automatic colour decontamination removes the fringe of colour that can persist around the edges of a selected object so that it doesn't look natural on a new background. One of the headline features in Photoshop CS5 - selecting objects more accurately - sounds minor, but it could dramatically speed up one of the commonest tasks in photo manipulation. There are also tools for handling dashed lines, finally ensuring that they end on the points of a shape. ![]() Adobe also fixes some perennial niggles, handling arrowhead scale by controlling where the arrowhead ends, at the end of the stroke or in the stroke. ![]() With variable stroke widths there's no need to use a pressure-sensitive controller to draw strokes. These let you take any path and control the width of the path, adding width points as required. Illustrator's drawing tools get an upgrade too, with variable stroke width tools. Items can be dragged from a flat artboard onto a perspective, with Illustrator automatically handling the adjustments. ![]() ![]() Once on the artboard, you can use control points to adjust the grid, and change the angle using the same familiar 3D control from Photoshop and Flash. The default is two-point perspective, but you can choose to have a single point, or three, or even design your own grids for more complex shapes. The old favourites are still here, with Illustrator CS5 starting the long road to 3D with a new perspective drawing feature that applies a perspective grid to Illustrator's artboard surface.
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