"Joel" <Joel (AT) NoSpam (DOT) com> wrote
Quote:I have looked at Healing Brush and Healing Patch of CS3 which to me is
kinda fun to toy with, but not for serious work (I work on very detail)
Well it's seriously great for getting rid of unwanted content such as overhead cables, telegraph poles, facial blemishes.
Quote:Clone tool or Clone Stamp? Clone Tool isn't one of my main tools, but I
do use it once awhile to work on skin-texture that I am not happy with the
Clone stamp tool.
Quote:Here, I am sometime repairing damaged skin and keeping the skin-texture so
I don't use Clone Stamp to know much about it (I only tested it few times
many years ago).
The spot healing brush tool is invaluable here.
Quote:Refine edge on selections is fabulous.
Never care for this tool. It was one of the tools I used quite often when
first learning Photoshop, but haven't used it for many years.
I spend a lot of time cutting/copying people/objects - refine edge does a wonderful job with the finest detail.
Quote:Content-aware doesn't work in all situations but it's wonderful in others.
No idea what you are talking about (new feature?).
First appeared in CS4 - you'd need to see it in action.
Quote:The 'thirds' in the crop tool is very welcome but it's something I'd
expected to have seen many versions ago.
Quote:I saw this new "Puppet Warp" on a review and I dunno what I want to do
with it. I find the "Liquify" of CS3 is pretty useful and I do use it quite
often.
Well it's similar to Liquify but CS5 keeps you in the image unlike the Liquify window.
Quote:BTW, is HDR is some kind of recovery damaged tool (like under or
over-explosured type)? or it can use on normal photo too. Normal I mean
really for printing without any adjusting.
I don't know anything about the prime purpose of HDR, just that the HDR toning adjustment has revealed some detail in annoying dark areas of a photo.
Have a look at the excellent tutorials on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/lyndapodcast#p/u
Declan | 
