John Derry – pioneer of digital painting and one of the original authors of Corel® Painter™– has presented several capabilities of a new Adobe CS5 (Creative Suite 5) . As participant of the Photoshop CS5 Prerelease Program he said that recently he had received a permission to reveal some features of Adobe Photoshop CS5.
Adobe Photoshop CS5 provides an alternative to either use a special tool to interpret a photograph into a painting or to use a “from scratch” tool and create absolutely new objects. It is up to you to decide what suits you most. Watch the video to compare these two methods. But as for me I already know what I like best. Interpreting a photo looks like a breathtaking process and the result is nice.

This Photoshop CS5 sneak peek image demonstrates what can be done with a portrait. As for me the result is amazing, though it will be unfair not to admit that the initial photo is also remarkable.
This video demonstrates a great potential of Photoshop CS5 as a tool providing every possibility for creation of real works of art. A photograph is seemingly easily transformed into a painting. One can say that this work cannot be accepted as a piece of art, but John Derry argues that the photograph here is nothing more than a guide underpainting for expressing persones own experience and vision.
The next Photoshop CS5 sneak peek image focuses on painting in a layered environment. This was done a few weeks ago during Photoshop’s 20th anniversary.

Notice in the lower right corner you can see a White rabbit
Photoshop Rocks!
Poor rabbit looks like he needs to back off the Cappuccinos.
aaaawweessooommmme, please release cs5, so i can start making real money. great tools and powerful abilities
Well, it looks good but one needs to actually touch it to see what it can (I mean CS5)
Love It!!!
A little trivia regarding the image…
The three people at the right side are Thomas Knoll, Steve Guttman, and Mark Hamburg. Along with Russell Brown, they constituted the original names that appeared on the Photoshop 1.0 splash screen.
-john
I just REALLY hope that PS CS5 does NOT have the MYRIAD of “Display Driver” failures that CS3 does on a Win 7 x64 rig.
If they do, you can rest assure Adobe will be hearing from me.
Oh, this is great for Photoshop. Nice.
awesome! ***** five star!
…but is there finally a shortcut for the color palette?
i like very much the effect in the portrait, at long last, being technical in my profession, I could be an artist.
It would be better if theres faster brush size shortcut like Cmd+Opt rather than rapidly pressing [ and ]
Excellent! I really appreciate it!
Many years ago (late 80s?) there was a great painting app from a small company in Berkeley. I can’t remember the name of the app, but it came in a small wooden box and it was totally geared towards Sumi painting. Different sized brushes hung on hangers the way one would when using brushes like this, and the feel of the brush on virtual rice paper was exquisite. Washes really looked like washes and the response was perfect. I’m hoping Photoshop will eventually give us brushes with this kind of response. Looking forward to trying out CS5.
For me, Photoshop is my keyboard and entities and scenes that form on my screen are the novel. Teaching the program and making those discoveries was an unexpected, but highly appreciated. Now we will explore, when an idea is pieced togehter in the imagination, what does it look like !
Looks like Photoshop will obviate Corel Painter and Topaz Adjust in one swell foop.
FUNCTION FROM COREL PAINTER, some 5 y ago !!!!
So, is Adobe taking over Painter? I wish they would, as Corel is doing nothing with it. I’ve been using it since the 90’s when PixelMedia in Aptos marketed it along with ColorStudio, which was a worthy competitor to photoshop for a while.
CS5 looks like it will do a better job with brushes, but nothing like the depth of painter.