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Adobe Photoshop CS5

Content-Aware Fill, Puppet Warp, HDR Pro

What's New
  • Content-Aware Fill — intelligent background removal
  • Puppet Warp for distorting image sections
  • HDR Pro with automatic ghost removal
  • Mixer Brush for natural media painting
Size~1.3 GB
OSWindows XP SP3, Windows Vista, Windows 7
RAM1 GB (2 GB recommended)
LanguagesEN, RU, ES, DE, FR & more
Free ~1.3 GB Antivirus verified

About Adobe Photoshop CS5

Adobe Photoshop CS5 was a landmark release introducing Content-Aware Fill — a tool that amazed users by intelligently filling removed areas with matching textures. Puppet Warp allowed distorting parts of images with control points. HDR Pro improved high dynamic range photography processing.

Key Features

  • Content-Aware Fill — intelligent background removal
  • Puppet Warp for distorting image sections
  • HDR Pro with automatic ghost removal
  • Mixer Brush for natural media painting
  • Refined Edge improvements for hair selection
  • Lens Correction filter

System Requirements

os Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista, Windows 7
cpu Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64, 1 GHz or faster
ram 1 GB (2 GB recommended)
hdd 1.3 GB of available hard-disk space
gpu GPU with OpenGL 2.0, 256 MB VRAM

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Adobe Photoshop CS5 vs Adobe Photoshop CS4 — Which to Choose?

Adobe Photoshop CS5 brings content-aware fill (first version), puppet warp, perpetual license, while Adobe Photoshop CS4 focuses on tabbed documents, opengl acceleration, rotate view tool. Choose CS5 for the latest capabilities and long-term updates, or stay on CS4 if you prefer a familiar, lower-overhead release.

FeatureAdobe Photoshop CS5Adobe Photoshop CS4
Release eraCS5CS4
HighlightsContent-Aware Fill (first version), Puppet Warp, perpetual licenseTabbed documents, OpenGL acceleration, rotate view tool
Performance Optimized for modern CPUs and GPUs Tuned for hardware of its time
OS supportWindows 7 / 8 / 10Windows 7 / 8 / 10
Installer size~1.6 GB~1.4 GB
Recommended for Newest features and current Windows 11 builds Older PCs and proven, stable workflows

Adobe Photoshop CS5 Keyboard Shortcuts

Ctrl+NNew document
Ctrl+OOpen file
Ctrl+SSave
Ctrl+Shift+SSave As
Ctrl+ZUndo
Ctrl+Shift+ZRedo
Ctrl+TFree Transform
Ctrl+JDuplicate layer
Ctrl+DDeselect
Ctrl+Shift+IInvert selection
BBrush tool
VMove tool
EEraser
LLasso
WQuick Selection
Ctrl++Zoom in
Ctrl+-Zoom out
Ctrl+0Fit to screen

How to Install Adobe Photoshop CS5

  1. Download the Adobe Photoshop CS5 installer using the button above.
  2. Close any running Adobe applications and temporarily pause real-time antivirus to avoid file locks.
  3. Right-click Set-up.exe and choose Run as administrator, then follow the on-screen prompts.
  4. Pick your interface language and target drive (about 1.6 GB of free space is required).
  5. Launch Adobe Photoshop CS5 — sign in with your Adobe ID or apply your activation, and you are ready to work.