New features in CS5

We have several ways to create a photo into another photo.

In earlier versions of Photoshop, we had to open both the pictures in Photoshop.

Now, this is not necessary anymore.

Now you can directly drag a photo from the Windows Operating System to an open photo in Photoshop.

This places the new picture, “placed file ‘, in its own layer in the already opened photo.
Because it is entered as ‘placed file’, you have the opportunity to scale or rotate it to create a smart object.

If you have you reached the desired size and position, click the Enter key on your keyboard, and the content of this layer becomes a Smart Object.

More about Smart Objects in a later lesson.

Also new in CS5 is the possibility to move the selection in one layer …

… when this layer is hidden.

Clicking the eye icon again for the hidden layer, you will see that when the selection is moved, the content is also moved.

Another novelty in CS5 is that you now have the opportunity, to remove all empty layers in the photo in one pass.
If your image has only five layers, this is not very interesting, but when you have dozens of layers, we start once again to find the empty layers.

To remove empty layers, click the “File” button in the menu bar, choose “Scripts” in the drop-down menu, and click “Delete All Empty Layers.”

Another novelty in CS5 is that you can change the coverage and filling for different layers at the same time.
Select all the layers that you want to change the coverage and / or filling (1), and then click and drag the handle of the relevant option (2).

Also new in CS5 is the new “Paste Special” menu.

When you have copied something by pressing the “Edit” button and selecting “Paste Special”.

In this menu you have three options.

The first, “Paste In Place”, it does what it says. It will be copied in exactly the same place as the original.

The second option “Paste Into”, will paste it into a selection.

The third option does just the opposite, this will paste it outside the selection.

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