Cs5

[tawnidilly]

Has anyone gotten and played with CS5?

[mistermonday]

Yes, it is awesome!
Regards, Murray

[skydog]

When I've update in the past I always got a 30 day inivitation to Lynda.com and it gave me time to review some of the new features and/or their would be a training DVD include. This time nothing. I looked around the adobe site and still couldn't find any tutorial on the new features...where should I be going? There must be some free stuff out there?

[mistermonday]

Skydog, if you are a member of NAPP, they have a video on every significant new CS5 features and a special CS5 addendum to the June edition of PhotoshopUser Magazine.
Adobe held a press conference on April 12 where they demo'd the new CS5 features for about an hour. That entire session was posted on their website. Lynda.com has released a bunch of new CS5 training courses, there is stuff at Photoshop Cafe. There is probably a ton of other stuff out there if you poke around.
Regards, Murray

[Xaran]

Russel Brown has some tutorial movies.

http://www.russellbrown.com/tips_tech.html

I believe there are also some free ones on Lynda.com

Christine

[CJ Swartz]

Skydog - I posted this days ago! -- Deke McClelland at Lynda.com - free videos demonstrating new features of Photoshop CS5 - videos

As Murray and Christine said - NAPP, Russell Brown, etc.

Tutorials for painting - twinpixels as well as Adobe's Julianne Kost --
new painting brush tips
Mixer brush

I really love this upgrade, although I'm still getting used to some of the changes (I moved from CS3 so there's a lot of new stuff for me). The interface is neater, the content aware fill works very well, the painting is fun (although I'm not a painter), the mini-bridge is very helpful, the latest Camera Raw is included, and I'm trying puppet warp on a project I'm working on - takes me some time to figure out where to place the pins, but it's fun while I'm learning (which is always true of Photoshop).

[skydog]

My subscription just ran out at NAPP so I needed to regroup before spending more $. Just upgraded to CS5 Premium...I'm sure Lightroom 3 is just around the corner. Just looking for some free stuff until I rejoint NAPP. Again tutorials have been include in the past when upgrading...not apparent this time...

[skydog]

I need some help. Russell Brown's video's are in Quicktime. I did install quicktime, but each time I try to load the program it wants to come up in Window Media Player. I'm sure there are some settings I need to change to get it to load in quicktime...I'm using Windows 7 and explorer 8. thanks

[chillin]

Hi skydog, open a quicktime player and click yes to associate files with it in a pop up window (see the attachment below).
If this doesn't work, copy the link location & paste it in the field "File->Open URL" in a Quicktime.

[CJ Swartz]

Another way to change your file association for quicktime is to hit your Start button and do a search (in the Windows 7 search box at the bottom ) for "file associations" - the 1st choice may be "make a file always open in a specific application" - click on that and you will get a list of file types / file extensions. Look for ".mov" and click on it to change it from Windows media player to Quicktime.

[Ellie Dee]

Skydog, if you still haven't gotten your free gift for updating to CS5, see the following link:

http://forums.adobe.com/message/2806391#2806391

Ellie Dee

[skydog]

thanks everyone...I will do as you say for quicktime and report back...and ellie dee..I will check out the free gift...why so complicated this time? Did anyone else choose their gift...and what did you take?

[CJ Swartz]

Thanks, Ellie Dee - I hadn't noticed that at all, and would have missed it without your post.

skydog - one of the options is the 30 day free training at Lynda.com, so I chose it, again. I do plan on becoming a member when I get a bit of money ahead, but right now I'm going to enjoy the free 30 days.

[lurch]

Thanks from me too, Ellie Dee. I was wondering why there appeared to be no freebie with CS5 like with CS3 and CS4. Now I know it was there all the time.

skydog - I really liked the 30-day Lynda.com subscription - so much that I'm now a member. This time around I got the Phototools 2.5. Financially, that was much more 'rewarding' (as long as you don't already have it).

[pixelzombie]

i've only tried it out for about 20 minutes, i still don't understand why they changed the curves UI/keyboard commands..i'll see if john nack has a work around on his site...

[CJ Swartz]

Originally Posted by pixelzombie

... i still don't understand why they changed the curves UI/keyboard commands...

What change are you referring to? Seems the same on my PC, but I know you are a power user, so there must be some change I haven't noticed.

[skydog]

Lurch

Phototools 2.5 is free and Photoframe is4.5 is free and can be downloaded from www.ononesoftware.com/free

I did this and downloaded the fiters into the filter folder of PS CS4..however, when I open PSCS4 and go to filters they are not there...any idea what I'm failing to do?

[mistermonday]

Skydog, I believe you need to put them in the Plugins folder.
Regards, Murray

[pixelzombie]

i was referring to the keyboard commands from cs3: command click to set a point on a curve, shift click to set an eye dropper on the image and then control-tab to cycle through the points on the curve while i move them the arrow keys with an eye on the info palette..i can do that in cs5 but not with an adjustment layer

[CJ Swartz]

Originally Posted by pixelzombie

i was referring to the keyboard commands from cs3: command click to set a point on a curve, shift click to set an eye dropper on the image and then control-tab to cycle through the points on the curve while i move them the arrow keys with an eye on the info palette..i can do that in cs5 but not with an adjustment layer

You may have already found this,but it's from John Nack's site "...
In Curves, is there a way to use control+tab to toggle through the curve points (like in CS3)?
Thanks!
[Yep, just use the + and - keys. See my previous post for other shortcut changes made in CS4. --J.] "


Also, from his previous post re: changes made in CS4 --
Pressing the = and - keys (what most users will think of as plus and minus) puts focus on curve points, then cycles through the curve points. Previously this behavior was handled by Ctrl-Tab on both Mac and Windows, but as mentioned above, that shortcut is already taken in Photoshop proper, so it won’t work with the Adjustments panel-based version of Curves.

That still might not fill your need.

[skydog]

Murry...I meant the Plugin folder...did that and the filters are in the folder but don't show up when I launch CS4 and go to the filter option....

[mistermonday]

Skydog, what OS are you using?

[lurch]

skydog - The free Phototools download is the lite version, which has just a subset of the features that are in the Standard version, which is the freebie from Adobe. Can't help with your problem, though - I haven't used Photoshop since installing the Phototools.

[Nasturtium]

I installed it yesterday. I was surprised how fast I was up and running compared to the Apple/CS4 last upgrade that took me some time to get on my feet.

Is the 'variations' function gone?
What file extension do I look for to restore my custom workspace file?

[edited to add - guess I can't :-( ]
Which is the best mixer brush tutorial?

- Nancy

[Nasturtium]

Originally Posted by CJ Swartz;266499
Tutorials for painting - [URL="http://www.twin-pixels.com/photoshop-cs5-digital-painting-tutorial/"

twinpixels[/URL]

Yay! Realistic brush strokes

Boo hiss on losing; render lighting effects and variations

[CJ Swartz]

Originally Posted by Nasturtium

Yay! Realistic brush strokes

Boo hiss on losing; render lighting effects and variations

variations and render lighting effects are still there - but they are available only when you choose 8bit image mode (via Image -> Mode).

[skydog]

If you download phototools...you access them by opening Photoshop and go to File>automate

[Nasturtium]

Originally Posted by CJ Swartz

variations and render lighting effects are still there - but they are available only when you choose 8bit image mode (via Image -> Mode).

It's different on a mac

[edited to add; DH said there wasn't any reason not to just switch to 32 bit mode, so I did and now render lighting filter/vairations work-also puppet warp is a gas :-) ]

***

I'm glad they did something different with the custom workspaces...I found the way it worked in CS4 to be a bit like juggling live puppies

[Nasturtium]

Originally Posted by CJ Swartz

Skydog - I posted this days ago! -- Deke McClelland at Lynda.com - free videos demonstrating new features of Photoshop CS5 - videos

CJ,, thank you so much for those links I'm really enjoying Chris Orwig's tutorials on Lynda.com

what are other people's favorites?

- Nancy

[CJ Swartz]

Originally Posted by Nasturtium

...I'm really enjoying Chris Orwig's tutorials on Lynda.com

what are other people's favorites?
- Nancy

I really like Deke McClelland best, but I've been watching Chris Orwig's training on Adobe Raw 6 and have learned a lot of things I didn't know. I hadn't tried some of the newer tools in ACR since I usually move the image to Photoshop, but now I see that I can accomplish a lot in ACR and might not need PShop for as many images. I also learned about options that I hadn't known about with tools that I always use - like holding down the ALT key (Option - MAC) while working the sliders on the Sharpness panel -- I'd never thought about trying any key presses, and it's helpful to see how each of the sliders work on an image.