Well I have had CS5 for a few weeks now and have a better idea of it good and bad points.
The puppet warp tool has staggering possibilities, you can infinitely warp pretty much anything not only people, that mountain in you landscape a bit small... not any longer!
The new masks panel is pretty good as well, now making the quick selection tool far more powerful. With the ability to vary the feather in different parts of a selection, and the refine edge making things like hair easier to extract it'll make a big difference to those who cut out lots of things.
Content aware fill is pretty amazing, now if you rotate and loose the corners it'll simply put them back in for you, or if you have wires across your shot it makes removing them so much easier.
On the whole a big update... but.. (there's always a but isn't there) A few "issues".
Contents aware fill uses a heck of a lot of RAM, so if your on an older computer or working with big images you may find yourself running out of RAM.
Mini bridge ( a shrunk down version in photoshop proper) has more than it's share of problems, it's painfully slow to load on my machine (bridge was never fast to start with) and a number of people are reporting issues with it not working at all and staying blank, Adobe do know about this and have some ideas of a fix although as mine works I haven't tested the fix.
Is it worth the money? well if like me your using it every day then it's probably well worth the upgrade price, it's got a lot of new features and theres a lot of new possibilities for "playing" about with your images.
Wayne
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