New brushes and warping tool coming to Photoshop

Adobe is showing off some potential new Photoshop features cooking up in their Adobe Labs: a new brush tool that simulates real life brush techniques, a “wet paint” mixing feature, and a crazy new warping tool.

The brushes functionality will allow a user to apply different brush techniques and even mix and smudge “wet” paint.  These types of natural painting features have so far only been available in dedicated digital painting applications like Corel Painter.

The other amazing feature is the new warping tool, which basically allows you to stick “pins” in places that you don’t want to move while you fiddle with the surrounding areas via a mesh grid overlay.  It’s the same idea as the current Mesh Warp tool, but it looks to provide much, much more control.

These features were first unveiled at the recent Photoshop World event as sort of a sneak peek into the Adobe Labs.  There has been no promise from Adobe that any of these features will be in the upcoming release of Photoshop CS5, but one can only hope.  I’m not as concerned with the painting stuff (since I’m not a painter) but that warping tool looks amazing.  Want.  Now.

Check out Adobe’s Facebook video to see these tools in action.