Adobe Photoshop CS3: The top five outstanding new features

On the first trench in Adobe Photoshop CS3, a few features have really jumped at me as incredibly useful. I offer a brief overview of some of these new ways of attacking your creative challenges using the latest version of Adobe’s flagship app. Pscs3 They run about $ 649 to buy outright, if you do not have previous versions. If you own Photoshop 7, CS, CS2, or do you have the right to see upgrade prices – like $ 199 for the upgrade. Check the Adobe Store on their website for more information. For more information about what comes in different versions of CS3 and what are your configuration options, see my previous post.

My current favorite new features for five PsCS3 are:

1.  Nondestructive Smart Filters
2.  Edge tools Quick Selection and Refine
3.  Photomerge of advanced alignment and blending
4.  Automatic layer alignment and blending
5.  Vanishing Point with adjustable angle

Overviews Feature:

Nondestructive Smart Filters *

Adobe has finally given the non-linear, non-destructive filters. Can I say “Hurrah!” In the past, you have filters and effects in a linear order: apply a filter would be to change the image, and the second filter to change your image, as amended, and a third filter would change, changes the modified image. want is the problem with this workflow that if you decide you easily adjust second filter, you need to cancel a return on this (and later lose your changes), or use the History palette to step “in time” at the point before the second filter is added, add your “revised” second filter, then add your third hand. All too often you do not remember the settings exactly as you sat on the third – or worse, your real project, the application of the 20 filters instead of 3 in my example, and change the filter repeat the second and 18 that follow. What is a drag. Because of this problem, people have many opportunities to get (often with savings of “partially completed” versions of all files on your hard disk with a file name of iterative development, hoping that if you want to at some point you will be able to know where you are to hand), and while these remedies are clever and well developed in many cases had required yield a perfect real solution, while passing the qualifying period.

The real solution to all this is what we made in CS3: Nondestructive Smart Filters. In this new version, the individual filters and effects that you apply to one layer, it is still alive and constantly re-edited in real time, and the settings you make, all subsequent filters or the overall impacts will be cascaded to may have added to your layer. It is durable, move, copy and pastable, particularly progressive.

* Quick Selection tool and Refine Edge

A mentor of mine once told me design “Photoshop is all about choices. Choose something, and then you have to do with the selection. Nothing more nothing less. Remember and you never have a problem with this app” Nearly 10 years later, I must say it was absolutely correct. With Photoshop is all about “choice”. There are more tools in Photoshop to select than any other task.

As in almost every version of Photoshop that has ever been published, CS3 has made even greater progress in the field to “your choice” comes to mind, that in recent years. The Quick Selection tool, used in combination to refine the range edge is on the way of the most useful and cleaning of the selection on the edges of an object in the image that I have ever seen. This new revision of Quick Selection tool is so smooth. You create your main parameter Quick Selection tool – as if a brush – and paint the general area of the image edges (as trying to just one child and his football image Select Big Game), and Photoshop to see what you are doing and interpretation of what you believe to be the general edges, what you are willing to choose, and it is this that small and ball and the grass and Poland is the goal and the sky and the public, not choose what you want. it is very fast and clean. Then you better call the range “edge” and you have seemingly infinite control over how the edges are selected. Discover the palette to the right of an idea of what you to “tune” the board. to do with a radius, feathering, smoothing, and the different settings have view, I think, that make this new combo box is my mask and selection of the time in a quantifiable form.

* Photomerge with advanced alignment and blending

Have you ever tried to assemble a series of pictures that you took that you are “together” intends in a picture? Even with some stand-alone tools that have been available over the years, including those Quicktime VR’s are cumbersome and difficult to use – with mixed results times. I always wanted something built in Photoshop let me merge the image “- I do not expect that Photoshop would actually do in a position to do this automatically for me. This function seemed to me. The technologies included in my number four choice “automatic alignment, and the mixed layer” are at work here in this situation as well, and new features of self alignment layer deep in CS3 and cultures and over again in different applications. It is truly one of the revolutionary things about this new version.

do all the things that are panoramas were a difficult task in the past, all done automatically. The first among these to be one. whenever you have done to distort, rotate, tilt or turn one of your articles, because the perspective is twisted, 2 the days when the sun or lights or a window, white balance, color space or the whole laundry brightness and contrast, a different picture to another (especially if the 360) and of course 3rd current research and orientation of these areas overlap consecutive elements. Photoshop CS3 has it all for you and with surprisingly amazing results. This is not only about the “Panorama” or … I saw a demo of a person who “fits too close” to a building, and photos on its entire length, doors, windows and boxes, so Brick Front Walk, tilting the top and a picture of the balcony and roof line of the second floor – in In other words, many elements that were WAY out of order distorted with respect to the outlook, light and color, and these four or five pictures twisted, turned, bets are mixed, matched light and color density … and I was surprised at the same 5 seconds, and it became almost wide-angle fisheye Photomerge the facade of the building, brick sidewalk to roof line, and it was incredible.

* The Automatic layer alignment and blending

Another powerful application of this new alignment and blending technology is a set of images or of the same theme Stack. Suppose you want a picture of a statue in a park meet somewhere, or a huge fountain, or in front of a monument or buildings. There are always people walking through the frame – if you can not close the area and still have a picture of the statue in the park, with its beautiful environment, but without people or animals, or random elements – what do you do? In the past, it has a tedious process of shooting a lot of pictures were to choose the nearest “one, your vision of a beautiful, clean, tourist-less connection, and start at times and hours of painting, cloning, Healing, brushes, etc., delete all your “randoms. There are artists who are very good for it, but I’m pretty sure they would agree that if there is an opportunity not to spend all this time to take it. Now, here it is. Photoshop CS3, you can know your pictures from the stack and analyzes each of them, that things are permanent (things that appear in all the pictures, like this building in the distance, the big tree on the sidewalk, and what hidden parts of the image are in a frame, but not all, will be automatically by borrowing pixels from other images in the stack, and the construction of a modern composite of all images and make 90 cured% or more of the work for you. There are even a number of “fuzzy” – slider you say “can eliminate the things that are in X% of the images in the stack or less.” It is so impressive to see in action. We must focus on some of your own pictures to try. It is hard to believe, that it is easier to do this kind of process now. It’s one of those new areas I am sure we will see, artists are incredibly creative ways to use this feature. Here is my story, when I first once saw.

* Vanishing Point with adjustable angle

One of the most powerful features of the new Adobe CS2 is the function of the vanishing point. One of the limitations it was that you have only one set of right angle in the interface of the vanishing point had to work. Adobe has released a step further by accepting numerous exponential, adjustable angle perspective planes to the flight number function. What you can do is copy, paste, and cloned into the plans of the picture much more complex than just the parts “clone of a building in a perspective of” jobs, the first iteration of the function free (awesome and powerful but not very flexible ). One of the great examples of Adobe drives with this function, the simulation in 3D packaging and the work is on several levels at different angles in the same picture. As an open field for a new product or even experiment with your final packaging art they see in the right context. I also think this feature has profound consequences for many inventors, prototype builders, 3D modelers, visual effects artists … and give artists the opportunity to Photoshop for all types of art blown product packaging for customers in a whole new way – we have to register it, go ahead and the next project at hand much faster. I like it very much.

There are many new features in the application, especially if you dig deeper into the Photoshop Extended Editions (looks like a Peter Jackson, DVD …) and here the week progresses, I will have some degree offer pscs3 check. The versions that are available pscs3 of Film & Video, manufacture & Medical Science, AEC (Architecture, Engineering & Construction) and expenditure.