First Look: Inside Photoshop CS3
Posted 03/25/2007 at 1:43pm
| by David Biedny
Is It Worth the Upgrade?
There are scads of additional features, changes, and additions that we simply don’t have room to cover here, including expanded video-output support to statistical analysis tools, auto alignment and blending of multiple layers, support for live 3D object layers, and more. Creatives who work with large images and need to share them with colleagues over the Web can export full-resolution images to CS3’s Zoomify format. The images load quickly in Adobe Flash Player, and recipients can zoom in on specific areas of an image by using the arrow keys, plus (+), and minus (-). Meanwhile, Device Central can help designers format images for display on mobile devices. We highlighted the updates that seem to have the widest application or that address frustrations we’ve long had with the app.
At press time, Photoshop CS3 was still in public beta, so it’s likely that Adobe will fix a host of bugs large and small for the shipping version due out this spring (look for our review in an upcoming issue of Mac|Life magazine and here on MacLife.com). What’s clear from the many hours we’ve spent with the beta version is that Photoshop CS3 packs significant improvements over CS2. If you have an Intel Mac, upgrading is a no-brainer. And if you never stepped up to CS2, you might as well skip ahead to CS3 - unless, of course, your hardware is too outdated to run Mac OS 10.4.8, which CS3 requires.