Whether you are a web designer or a graphic designer, Photoshop is the most important and useful tool for your profession and mastering it is imperative to your success. Industry experts believe that Photoshop CS5 is the best software in the Adobe Photoshop series, mainly due to the many benefits it offers. It is an accepted industry standard around the world and is used for professional photo editing, graphic design, and digital imaging.

Photoshop CS5 supports unlimited RAM and guarantees 64-bit rendering on 64-bit Windows and Mac systems. There are numerous innovative features and enhancements offered in this tool. Some of these unique features and effects are discussed below:

1) The Mixer Brush: You can use Photoshop CS5 as far as your imagination can go. Lets you transform a photo into a realistic painting using the new Mixer Brush tool. It only takes a few minutes and the transformation is done in just a few minutes.

2) Adobe CS5 Design Premium Box Artwork: Photoshop CS5 offers several tools to recreate the design that appears on the box of the CS5 suite, making it look exactly the same.

3) Cropped Painting Effect: Transforming a photo into a cropped painting becomes easy with CS5. Even beginners can accomplish this task with ease and in half an hour or so.

4) 3D Type with Repousse: Repousse is a great tool offered in the CS5 suite. You can create fine 3D objects by extruding text, paths, layer masks, etc. with this tool. You can create 3D shapes by inflating the surface that adds the input curves to the text. This tool allows you to mix 3D objects with photos and other 2D objects.

5) 3D Textured Typography Scene: Creativity knows no bounds and CS5 gives you wings to create whatever you want. Another useful feature of this latest Photoshop suite is textured typography. You can use skin texture or any other texture to create 3D looking text effects.

6) Transforming photos into sketches: Photoshop CS5’s new blending mode method allows you to transform photos into sketches with much better quality compared to the traditional Photoshop method.

7) TRON Inspired Photo Manipulation – When it comes to performing surreal photo manipulation, CS5 comes to mind now. It allows you to create effects on photos, inspired by the movie Tron. It allows you to give the illusion that the subject’s arm or any part of the body is disintegrating into light. In this technique different transformation tools, filters and adjustment layers are used to give spectacular results.

8) Repousse 3D Water Text Effect – This is another special feature of Photoshop CS5 that allows designers to create realistic water text effects that can dazzle anyone. The highly beneficial Emboss tool is used to create this effect.

9) Simple 3D Logo – Creating the basic 3D logo is also a piece of cake, when you are proficient in using CS5.

10) Inception Poster with Repousse – You can create the amazing effects used in the Inception movie very easily with CS5. The suite’s versatile Repousse tool allows you to create stunning effects on aerial photography.

Try your hand at some of these and you are sure to enjoy it. These tools can greatly enhance your job skills and enable you to deliver spectacular design results to clients.