Photoshop CS for photographers

New tools, enhanced features, richer images--Adobe Photoshop CS meets the needs of today's photographer.

Control your raw camera images

The new generation Camera Raw plug-in is incorporated directly into Photoshop CS, allowing direct manipulation of raw camera data, for the ultimate control over image preprocessing. Camera Raw features new color calibration controls, batch processing through the File Browser, and support for most major digital camera models. (See Working with camera raw image files.)

Comprehensive 16-bit editing

All core Photoshop features are now available to 16-bit images, including layers, painting, text, and shapes.

Match colors fast

Apply the color scheme of one image to another, or one layer to another, to easily achieve a consistent look between shots in fashion or commercial photography. (See Using the Match Color command (Photoshop).)

View live histograms as you work

View an image and its histogram simultaneously with the new Histogram palette, allowing you to monitor the changes in your image as you make them. (See Using a histogram to view the tonal range of an image (Photoshop).)

Create lens blur effects

Easily produce the effect of highlights taking on the shape of the camera lens aperture. Lens Blur can be applied to an entire image or selection, or it can use an alpha channel as a depth map. (See Blur filters.)

Simulate photo filter effects

Customize filter adjustment layers to simulate the effect of standard photographic lens filters. (See Using the Photo Filter command (Photoshop).)

Easily correct exposure problems

Use the Shadow/Highlight adjustment to modify shadows and highlights while preserving existing image midtones, easily correcting over- and underexposed areas in any image. (See Using the Shadow/Highlight command (Photoshop).)

Quickly replace color

Effortlessly change the color of any area of an image, while retaining the original texture and shading, with the new Color Replacement tool. (See Using the Color Replacement tool.)

Automatically crop and straighten

Take the pain out of scanning multiple images. Place one or more photos onto a scanner bed, scan them into Photoshop, and then run Crop and Straighten to let Photoshop automatically copy each image into its own document and rotate it as necessary. (See Using the Crop and Straighten Photos command (Photoshop).)

Create panoramas fast

Combine images into seamless panoramas, with each image optionally preserved to a separate layer for even more control over the final output. (See Creating panoramic images using Photomerge (Photoshop).)

Customize your picture packages

Picture Package gives you a variety of ways to easily combine multiple images, or multiple instances of one image, in a single print. For Photoshop CS, the Picture Package window now allows you to interactively edit existing layouts, making it easy to precisely control image position and spacing. (See Creating picture packages.)