As scheduled Adobe Creative Suite 5 is now unveiled and will start shipping in next 30 days, covering 15 products the new upgrade to renowned development suite will be available in 5 editions costing US$1299 for the base edition and US$2599 for top-end edition.

One of the most anticipated feature of upcoming Adobe Photoshop CS5 release is it's content-aware PatchMatch fill feature, however the very same feature is available in free, multi-platform, open-source graphic editor GIMP right now via Resynthesizer plugin.

Adobe Photoshop is an amazing software and nothing comes near to it when we are talking about professional quality image editing, this amazing software is soon going to have more awesomeness with official launch of Adobe Photoshop CS5 Suite as a part of Adobe CS5 on 12th April 2010.

We have already blogged about how amazing this new version of Photoshop will be and here is a new video showing another great feature "Content Aware Fill".

Adobe Photoshop has always been the leader in image editing arena, however, using the popular image-editor even for basic-editing tasks like removing backgrounds or patching spots needs practice and know-how of the software but the upcoming version of Adobe Photoshop CS5 which will be a part of Adobe Creative Suite 5 is all set to make things simpler with introduction of smart content-aware image editing features better described as 'PatchMatch' - an algorithm which quickly finds approximate nearest neighbor matches between image patches.

PatchMatch is lot more then simple patching or spot-removal, to get a better gist of what this new technology is capable of doing watch the video demos below to see it in action.

If you use Adobe Creative Suite 3 and if it stops working asking you to uninstall and then reinstall the application citing some license issue as shown below:

Don't panic as you won't necessarily need to re-install the application suite as suggested by the error, it could be a simple FLEXNet Licensing Service issue, which can easily be resolved as described next.

Adobe released their brand new web-based version of popular Photoshop image editor, dubbed Photoshop Express the service is currently labeled as public beta, Users are provided with 2 GB free online storage allowing them to store, edit and share images using a simple and easy to use flash based interface.

Many tech blogs and forums are reporting leak of Adobe Photoshop CS4 Codenamed StoneHenge on torrent sites, After doing some research and reading the contradicting comments this 454.57 MB download seems fake to me, since downloading and installing such thing is illegal, I am unable to verify this myself.

Splashup is a free flash based free easy to use, web-based image editor for experienced users, it supports layers and has a interface similar to photoshop.

SplashUp Features:

• Multiple image editing
• Pixel-level control
• Layers of depth
• Brushes & Filters
• Layer effects
• Integration with online image services like flickr
• Fullscreen mode & Resizable windows and panels