I recently upgraded from Photoshop CS 5 to CS 6 and I do not regret the $200 bullet one bit! I must say, I thought CS 5 was as good as it could get, but low and behold, Adobe created yet another masterpiece that rocks your world. CS6 is packed with more features, some not nearly as noticeable as others, but they are there. Some of these differences are so minuscule you don’t notice them until you go back to CS 5 and miss them. I noticed that during the Beta testing.
I showed you some stuff during the Beta, but hadn’t fully experimented with all of CS6 until recently. I have some new favorites! One of the best is for us Fisheye people, Adaptive Wide Angle correction at your fingertips and man is it extremely simple! Check out this tutorial to see it in action as well as some of my other favorites.
For Blake, it's all about the art and process synergy. He dives deep into complex topics and makes them easy to understand through his outside-the-box thinking so that you can use these tricks in your workflow today!
And how about the awesome change to the Camera Raw interface and the 2012 process? Finally the basic sliders are all calibrated to center, with left making the image darker and right making the image lighter. Plus the Shadows and Highlights sliders are very specific about which part of the histogram they affect. I haven’t upgraded to CS6, but I’ve been using Lightroom 4 for months (same camera raw engine as CS6), and I can pull tons of dynamic range out of a raw image now before I even get to Photoshop proper.
Dude, you beat me to it! That is next week! I was trying to save the best for last! Next week’s tutorial is about just that, the new Camera Raw… Incredibly redone, masterfully crafted. I like it so much better than the CS 5.5 Camera Raw.
That is really good tutorial on de-fisheye effect. Keep posting great posts like these.
Thank you! I will be sure to keep em coming!