Photoshop CS5 new features look fantastic. Photoshop CS5 productivity and creativity enhancements will greatly speed up designers and photographers workflow as well as bring in new creative features to express your genius. Photoshop CS5 will include several groundbreaking new features such as new automated patching tools, new warping tool, highly improved edge detection in masking, a lot of improvements for brush using as well as color picker and eye dropper. Adobe Photoshop CS5 will be released on Monday, April 12, 2010. In this post we’re taking a sneak peak at all the new Photoshop CS5 features.

Photoshop CS5 new features

Content aware fill

Content aware fill is promising to make a revolution in photo retouching. It looks very much like Spot Healing Brush on steroids. Content aware is a fully automated patching tool. All you have to do is to select the unwanted part of the image or the blank space that you want to fill with the same pattern. Then new Photoshop CS5 feature will work its magic. See video for demonstration of this amazing feature.

Better edge detection for masking

New Photoshop CS5 feature offers better edge detection and masking results in less time even with such not easy for masking objects like hair. Photoshop CS5 new selection technology is faster and easier to use than anything in previous versions.

Upgraded Spot Healing Tool

Upgraded spot healing tool works the same way as the content aware fill. It makes much easier to remove unwanted objects and any scratches or damaged regions from photos. For example, you can remove wires from urban photo in seconds. Previously this feature was available in some Photoshop plugins but apparently Adobe developers improved the algorithm a lot.

Wet paint brush

Wet paint is a new Photoshop CS5 feature that lets you mix up colors with brush in the same way you do it in a real world, ‘wet’ paints can be smudged, smeared and blended. The new brush tools aim to match that found within Corel’s Painter application.

Brush prototypes

You can change the tip of the brush from the available flat brush, pointed brush, angle brush and fan brush. A small window will show you how the brush changes when you are dragging your brush pointer over and image.

Realistic Brush Stroke

Now you can convert your photo into a hand drawn painting with much more realistic results. You can either use a special tool to interpret a photograph into a painting or to use a “from scratch” tool and create absolutely new objects.

New Color picker

With Photoshop CS5 you can just hit keyboard shortcut and color picker will pop up. No more dialogue boxes to choose Hue, Saturation or color.

New Eye Dropper

With the new eye dropper tool, you can compare between the foreground colors with the color you are picking with a rounded color selecting pointer.

Dynamic brush resizing

Now you can change the size of your brush with the horizontal movements and the softness with vertical movements of your mouse. In the same way you can change your page size with the magnifying tool.

Puppet tool

After Effects’ Puppet tool has been added to Photoshop CS5. Now you can warp any image by placing control points into areas to lock them down and move without touching the rest of the image. An overlaid grid shows how the image is warped.

Multilayer opacity adjustment

With Photoshop CS5 you can adjust multiple layers at the same time as easy as selecting layers you want to adjust and moving Opacity slider.

Straighten tool

To straighten your photo with Photoshop CS5 all you need to do is draw a horizon line, press Straighten button and your photo will be straight according to your line.

Save custom layer and closing box options as default

If you click Make default button after creating a custom layer style in Photoshop CS5 this will be your default option for all new layers created afterwards. You can do the same trick with closing dialog box. Just check to save file or not and Photoshop will remember your choice for all opened image files.