AV News 190 - November 2012
For those who like to take their original images in raw format there is a brand
new Camera Raw version 7 built into CS6.
This as you may expect is a
marked advancement on
previous
camera
raw
versions and with more
flexibility of control. All
control sliders on the 'basic'
tab are now set to a central
position by default, thereby
allowing
larger
minus
settings to achieve far
better levels of adjustment.
Back on the main
workspace, Adobe have
added a new tool named
'Blur Gallery' to the Filters
menu. By selecting 'Filter' then 'Blur' a new drop-down box appears. Although
this Blur sub-menu still contains the same eleven types of blur as in the
previous CS5 it also contains three
brand new special features named
'Field Blur', 'Iris Blur', and 'Tilt Shift'.
These features each have
controllable levels of, size, area,
and shape of blur simulating
effects of differential focus and
those remarkable effects of using a
technical camera with tilt and shift
lenses. Previously such effects
were only available in Photoshop
by using independent Plug-Ins.
These effects are most useful for
drawing the eye of the viewer to
particular areas of an image, each
is worthy of a dedicated article
which we may at some time in the
future undertake.
In the space of these pages it
simply isn't possible to mention all
of Adobe's changes, there's too
many and some could take several pages to describe properly. Adobe have for
some time had a policy of 'try before you buy' and with the release of Photoshop
CS6 this policy is maintained. You may download the trial version which is fully
functional, it will operate before purchasing a license for thirty days.
To do so visit http://www.adobe.com/uk/downloads/ note: Photoshop
CS6 and Photoshop CS6 Extended are installed from the same download files.
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