CS5 videos

Please join me for the next ten days as we explore Photoshop CS5's most interesting and useful new features at www.msjphotography.com .

Each day, we'll examine one of CS5's remarkable additions. If you're too excited to wait ten days (or if you'd like to support my site), click here to download the entire ten tutorial series for $9.95.

For the next two Thursdays, these CS5 videos will replace the Photoshop Workbench, but don't worry, the Workbench will return to its regular spot on Thursday, May 27.

Here's a schedule of upcoming tutorials:

• Thursday, May 13 - Content-Aware Fill and HealLearn secrets for retouching with Content-Aware Fill and Content-Aware Spot Healing.
• Friday, May 14 - Refine Edge RefinementsDiscover 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 EnhancementsTake 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 ImprovementsTake 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 CorrectionLearn 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 EnhancementsTake 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 WarpDiscover secrets for realistically warping parts of a subject using Puppet Warp's remarkable (almost sci-fi) features.
• Thursday, May 20 - A Giant Leap for HDRTake 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 EnhancementsExplore 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.

In other noteworthy news, I've decided not to write a Photographer's Photoshop CS5 Companion eBook. Instead, I'm pouring my energy into two other exciting projects. In addition to releasing the "What's New in CS5" videos, I'm making wonderful progress on an eBook about the spectacular world of HDR. It will feature both Photomatix and Photoshop tutorials, as well as useful workflow information that is absent in many other HDR books. The eBook will also include an image showcase packed with evocative images designed to inspire ideas for your own work. I'm hoping to release the HDR eBook this summer.

My other project is a complete departure from anything I've ever done. If you have children (or a child inside), they'll be intrigued by my upcoming children's book about a boy who dreams of flying. I'm co-writing and co-illustrating the book which features camera-based illustrations that employ HDR and several other creative techniques never seen before in children's books.Thanks for all of your support and encouragement! Mark