Photoshop CS3

New features

• Camera Raw Plugin has new features
  • More controls to adjust image tone & color
  • opens JPEGs
• Smart objects
• Quick Selection tool
• Black and White Conversion -- can control how much information comes from each color channel
• Smart Filters for smart objects
• Dual Brushes
• Adjusted cloning & healing with preview overlay
  • clone on video or animation frames
  • clone content on new layer/animation frame & move slightly to create animation
• Improved Curves -- can save curves adjustment as a preset and apply it to other images
• Smart Objects
• ImageReady is gone so Phototoshop now does:
  • Animation, both in frame & timeline modess
  • tween
  • Window>Animation opens Animation Palette
• Photomerge for advanced compositing of images with overlapping content
• 3D & motion graphics
  • supports vanishing point
  • motion graphics & video layers
• Video & video layers in Photoshop Extended that can be modified and saved
• Animation in Photoshop CS3
• Video layers in PSD files in CS3 with video layer as one frame of PSD file or each frame of video file in its own layer
  • paint on video
  • apply filters, masks transformations, layer styles & blending modes
  • documents saved as PSD files can be opened in Premier Pro & AfterEffects
  • Photoshop CS3 extended supports video formats:
  • MPEG-1; MPEG-4
  • MOV
  • AVI
  • FLV from QuickTime if Adobe Flash 8 installed
  • MPEG-2 if an MPEG-2 encoder is installed on computer
  • Photoshop CS3 extended supports image sequence formats, including these:
  • BMP
  • DICOME
  • JPEG
  • PNG
  • PSD
• Increase number of steps in history palette for undo:
  Edit>Preferences>Performance -- change history states to higher number such as 99 (maximum is 999)
• Export to Zoomify

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