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- grondin, on 10/12/2007, -14/+61I especially appreciate the ability to "09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0" an image
- sheepster, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4810. "Bridging" the gap
Photoshop CS3 also gives you Bridge, Adobe's photo organizing software, which lets you keep tabs on all your pics through labels, ratings, file type and other criteria. The cool thing is that all the images on your computer can be accessed and viewed at the same time, including one-on-one comparisons without opening them. From there, you can inspect even closer using the Loupe tool to magnify pixels in the image.
Bridge is a bit of a wild card because pros and serious amateurs will love it, while casual users might not care about it. But it's still deep enough to warrant a look, especially since you're getting it in the package anyway.
9. Vanishing Point 2
This one is probably better suited for people in advertising or other businesses because it allows you to see mock-ups of product packaging. Vanishing Point made its debut in CS2, but was limited in that it could only be applied at a 90-degree angle. In CS3, you can adjust the angle however you want, so that the image wraps around the box or package the way you need it to.
Casual users might not find much of a use for this, but consider how you might be able to see how decals would look on a flashy car or even how an indie band's debut album artwork would look on a CD jewel case.
8. Creating truly black and white images
There was the misconception that changing a photo from colour to grayscale was enough to make a black and white replica. That never was the truth. CS3 adds a Black and White Adjustment option that allows you to change the tones within the image based on their original colour values. So, if you had a lot of yellow in the image, you can manipulate the colour tone using the sliders in Black and White
It's possible that you've already done this with colour images, but you never had that option available once you were working with a grayscale photo. Now you can get a far more realistic black and white photo.
7. Printing made easier
Printing from Photoshop wasn't too difficult, but it could confuse the casual user, partly because there was no usable preview to go on. It's always nice to be able to see how the photo will lay out on the page you're printing it on, and it's about time they threw that in for CS3.
But, generally speaking, the Print dialog is a more seamless experience now because of the simple menu items and commands all offered in one window. You want to make some last-minute colour adjustments? No problem. Looking to see how a proof would look by knocking down the resolution or the size? Done.
6. Cloning and healing
The Clone Stamp and Healing Brush tools are pretty popular among both serious and casual Photoshop users, but there was room for improvement. You now get a palette when using the tools. This lets you view your handiwork in different opacities and blend modes as you go along.
To do this before required a lot of trial and error to get the best results because you would use the tool and then have to go back to make changes. The cycle could repeat itself over and over again, causing plenty of frustration along the way. That said, the new palette will take some getting used to because the photo is presented to you in two different opacities, which could lead to some confusion. Even then, try it out and get used to it because you'll grow to love it.
5. The Quick Selection tool
It's entirely possible that people who have tried their hand at Photoshop looked to cut themselves out of a photo- or maybe a forgotten ex-lover - at least once. To make it happen was tough, even with all the tools at your disposal. You could try erasing with fine brushes, or the wildly unpredictable magic wand tool. But the results would be sketchy at best, thus requiring more fine-tuning.
The Quick Selection tool works like the magic wand, only that it's smarter. Drag it over yourself (or the ex) and watch it wrap itself around your body. From there, it's a simple matter of cutting and pasting. You can even soften the edges of the cut by using the "Refine Edge" option found under the menu bar.
4. Smart Filters
The cool thing about this feature is that it allows you to experiment with filters on an image without destroying it in the process. Suppose you have a cutout from an image that you were able to extract using the Quick Selection tool. You've isolated the subject, but you go to the Tools menu and select Inverse to select the background. Your plan is to really blur the background so that the subject pops out even more in the photo. Before, the only way you could do that was by working on the image with separate layers, not to mention that the changes you would make would be difficult to undo.
Now, you can go to the Tools menu and select Convert for Smart Filters to turn the image into an object layer that you can mess with using any filter you want. You can add Blur or any other layers and adjust them at anytime without affecting your progress.
3. Bringing out the landmarks
There's something to be said about taking a photo of a landmark without you - or any other tourist - trying to look good in front of it for a photo op. There's a good chance that you've got those types of photos in your albums; the ones with eyesores like a passersby and other tourists posing in the distance.
Getting rid of all of them is easier than you think, so long as you've taken more than one shot of the landmark, that is. Take all the photos you have of, say, the Acropolis in Athens from the same angle, and choose Auto-Align in the Edit menu. All the images will be aligned perfectly. Then go to the Layers menu and "Convert to Smart Object". You then go to Smart Objects and select Medium, and like magic, the unwanted bystanders disappear.
2. Auto-Align Images
You've probably taken group photos where you had one person's eyes closed or someone who wasn't smiling. And you took the shot three or four times, but still couldn't get them to all smile at once. Now, you can solve that problem by literally erasing the unwanted expressions to bring out the smiles in everyone. The only problem is that when you stack these images together as layers, you'll notice that they're not perfectly aligned.
If you go to the Edit menu and apply Auto-Align, Photoshop will do the alignment for you. From there, apply a layer mask on the image at the top of the stack, use a black paintbrush, and wipe away all those distracted faces.
1. Auto-Blend Images
Panoramic images will be a totally new experience for you after trying this one out. Use Auto-Align to place the multiple images together. Then execute Auto-Blend under the Edit menu. With that one click, the software will blend the images together in precise detail based on the edges and placement of objects within the images. But more than that, it also adjusts the colours and lighting so that everything matches perfectly.
From there, it's a simple matter of cropping and you've got the masterpiece you were looking for. This was a procedure that used to take hours and hours, so to have it done in one or two clicks is a huge improvement in CS3. - driftwood07, on 10/12/2007, -1/+44as well as make them span 4 pages
- Ninnux, on 10/12/2007, -8/+29The top 10 things you can (and should) do on digg.
1) Resist the urge to post inane top 10 lists.
2) See 1)
... - herrshuster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19#11: Download it!
- uptown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15What you talkin' about Willis?
- jjremy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12IT'S THE KEY!
it allows HD-DVDs to be decrypted and viewed on linux.
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+17http://www.duggback.com/software/Top_10_Things_You_Can_Do_With_Photoshop_CS3/
- sjaq, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10#12: Hack it!
- samuelcotterall, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Just give me the top ten on one page, ffs!
- tikistyle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8HD-DVD Key for decryption in Linux
- lukeo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Why do -you- have to use the term Americans with lack of respect? Eh? Eh?!
- lordthor, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10supernova that link is AWESOME where did you find that?
- chimaera2005, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Yeah George Bush never was good at Photoshop... but now with these 10 tips I think he's got a shot.
- Chickenlip, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6#14) ???
#15) Profit! - 3nder0hio, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Hey now, maybe he's not American, maybe he was cornholed by a burly Canadian, eh?
After all, Americans have become the butt of every joke worldwide, so dont be terribly offended if the occasional Canadian joke is bandied about. It's just the internet. - chimaera2005, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Too bad four of these things aren't new at all. Maybe he should have learned CS2 before claiming they were...
- mookieXL, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Upgrade system? Did you even try cs3? It has lower HW requirements than cs2. It works perfectly even on pathetic athlon 800 with 256mb ram.
- hifiDesign, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Agreed... I hate these sites that juice their page views by taking simple articles and making them multiple pages. How have their web designers not revolted???
http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2007/04/pagination-is-evil - threemonkeydust, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It got 15k votes, but Digg keep deleting the "key" article and banning users.
- ajchavar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3out of curiosity, why are you still on SP1?
- KSUdesigner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It's not automatic because it takes extra processing power for photoshop to store and remember all of those filter settings. Previously it didn't need to remember anything, just filter the image and spit out the pixels. Now it has to remember the settings and the original state of the image. Yes I agree this functionality was needed long ago, but really we haven't had the processing power in computers until fairly recently. What old stuff is in the app that doesn't make sense? Pretty much the only thing in photoshop that I could do without is the variations filter. I've never once used it for an actual project, and I've been using photoshop every day, 8+ hours a day, for the past 10 years.
- wolfboyZ, on 10/12/2007, -6/+8lol I knew the day would come when this fad would get downvoted.
- pixelmixer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2you take an insult on your people after a gross stereotype, then you turn around and insult us Americans assuming the guy who wrote the article speaks for everyone... come on now... can you be a bit less hypocritical?
- joemc72, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2it's ***** annoying, that's what it is.
- specialK16, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11) Get it from torrentspy.
- RocketSeason, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I dunno, but the auto align feature seems like magic. and not the real kind. I mean the fake kind that you find in the movies that is just impossible due to the laws of the universe.
But I just need to see it to believe it I guess. - Jezper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Really nice, but I'd like to see some graphic examples when someone is listing top new features of a software like PSCS3
- smb3d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What exactly do you think SP2 will do? It's not gonna erase all your registry tweaks or whatever you have.
- Promantarius, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you use Photoshop as a verb you'll eventually pay the consequences when crappier software has a legal right to use the word to describe editing images digitally using any software, the same as Google is concerned about any search engine being able to call searching "Googling". It may seem funny to some people, but it's a pretty serious issue for those companies and I really don't blame them.
- perryge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1pics or it didn't happen
- estacado, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've customized my system to work just the way I want it. I don't want to go through all that again. It takes time to get the settings right, I can't remember all the tweaks I have made over the years..
- chumba, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1... and highlight features that already existed in previous Photoshop versions (see #7 - "print with preview" was in previous versions... idiots).
- CoolWind, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Please switch to using the verb photochopped. It's lawyer friendly.
- ajchavar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1just like it should, there was no real need for imageready
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2You can patch it too: http://www.fsoj.org/articles/501adobe.html
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I hope this new alignment feature in CS3 is a HUGE improvement over CS2. I started using PTGui instead and I'm very happy with it, but if I can do it within the program I guess it'll speed up my workflow.
- antdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1lordthor: It was on Digg's home page a few days ago.
- FortyCaliber, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5What the is the big photoshopping deal with Adobe and their photoshopping lawyers? If some mother-photoshopper wants to say "photoshop" any photoshopping time s/he wants to then I say let them. It is not the photoshopping lawyers job to censor or determine what I want to photoshopping say. Furthermore, photoshop you, Adobe for making a big photoshopping deal out of your product being verbi-sized. Companies should be so photoshopping lucky to have their product name introduced into the vernacular.
- tablelegs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Biting my tongue...
- Metylerka, on 10/12/2007, -2/+311. You can even make Renee Zellweger look good.
- Zarxrax, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It doesn't require processing power to remember filtering settings, only memory. And really... it might take 1kb of ram to store the settings for 1 filter, at the most. This is not an issue of processing power at all.
And when I was referring to old stuff in the app that doesn't make sense, I was still just referring to the fact that Photoshop does so many destructive operations. Very much of the functionality within photoshop is designed so that once you do something... its done, you cant change it. You have to do weird workarounds like making a ton of duplicates of your layers whenever you do anything, in case you ever need to go back and change something later. - VacTacks11, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0How does Canada factor into this again...?
Seriously did I miss something about Canadians and the verb photoshopping?
I don't mind jokes about us Canadians (just as long as you don't mind jokes about you Americans) as long as they sort of make sense.
Did Bunnie need to hit some Canadian-joke quota or something? I just don't understand how throwing Canada into that joke makes it funny.
Those CS3 features are great, and would be great if I used Photoshop for things other than picture cropping and picture resizing. - caution, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3I picture Bush saying, "Heh. Try it bitches."
Anyway, I hope the Democrats, not just the loony ones but the rank and file ones, actually do move forward on this.
Every move they've made since they took over a thin majority has further sealed defeat for the left. - TheOneTrueGod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0CS3 has a big suck-factor: Does not install on Windows 2000.
- estacado, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Does Photoshop CS3 work with XP SP1? I know Flash CS3 and Dreamweaver CS3 can run on SP1, Illustrator needs SP2. Is Photoshop CS3 going to be thing that pushes me to upgrade to SP2?
- bubbadigg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think they are picking on canadians because nappy headed hos was already used a couple of weeks ago.
- ShdwTaco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The news source is horrible, but the content of the article is good. I really like the CS3 it adds a lot of elements to the "photoshop" experience. Although, it consumes a lot of processing power, and is not for the casual user.
- wolfboyZ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Imageready has been integrated into Photoshop CS3 under the animation tab.
- warnergt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1What happened to Adobe ImageReady? It disappeared in CS3.
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