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Features
- Image-editing software for
photographers, Web and graphic designers
- Visually browse and retrieve
images with enhanced file browser
- Simulate painting techniques
with painting engine
- Liquify distorting tool
and pattern maker plug-in
- Runs native on Microsoft
Windows XP
Product
Description and Review
Mixed-media professionals such as photographers, Web designers,
and graphic designers will not be disappointed in Adobe's
latest incarnation of Photoshop. In this release, Adobe aims
hard at addressing the issues of file management, easy photo
retouching, and smarter output for the Web. While Adobe manages
to successfully address these issues, it also remains true
to its photo editing roots. New and improved features and
tools such as a painting option and an enhanced brush palette
allow Photoshop to build on its reputation as the leading
tool for image manipulators. New-school designers of wireless
applications will smile when they discover that Photoshop
7.0 offers support for WBMP-formatted graphics.
Photoshop 7.0's new file management
system comes in the form of a Windows Explorer-like file browser
that allows users to easily sort and locate their images within
various projects. Users can now organize projects by name,
date, resolution, and a number of additional parameters.
The enhanced brush palette
allows users to create custom brushes and save them as presets
that can be accessed from the Tools options bar. Users can
easily vary different aspects of the brush by changing the
hue, opacity, or flow of the brushes for pastels, oils, and
charcoal. Photoshop 7.0 also introduces a new Healing Brush
and Patch Tool. With these tools, users can easily "heal"
their images by removing scratches, blemishes, and other imperfections
while preserving shading, lighting, and texture attributes.
Adobe has taken great strides
in revamping Photoshop 7.0 to be more Web-ready than ever
before. With the help of its companion software Image Ready,
users can now easily create rollovers and complex navigation
bars by using the new Rollovers palette. Additional Web-ready
features include enhanced Web export functions that allow
designers to preview images designed for PDAs and mobile phones
in the WBMP format. Users can easily create a slide show of
their images and post online using the new Web Gallery. People
concerned about posting their images online can secure their
images with the new password protection feature before sharing
them.
Adobe has finally introduced
a long overdue spell checker with wicked multilingual spell-checking
capabilities. A new search and replace feature allows users
to search and replace across different layers in the same
document.
While Photoshop 7.0 introduces
an impressive array of features that allow photographers,
Web designers, and graphic designers to work more effectively
with Web and wireless devices, it also remains the leading
tool for anyone serious about digital imaging. No other software
package provides users with the ability to create such high-quality
images. --Rich Ting
Review
With each new version of Photoshop, Adobe never fails to come
up with an awe-inspiring mix of great new features, productivity
enhancements, and tweaks and treats. Version 7 is no exception.
Major points of interest include a new healing brush that
removes facial wrinkles and other surface blemishes with incredible
ease, a long-awaited file browser that allows you to view
image thumbnails and metadata, enhanced Web features, automatic
color correction, and even a spell checker.
One of Photoshop's many strengths
is the versatility of its tools, and this has been stretched
to new limits. Filter previews are bigger, the Liquify tool
has been enhanced, brush parameters have been extended, and
commonly used tool settings can be saved as presets. This
means you can virtually do away with the toolbox, instead
selecting tools with exactly the settings you need from the
presets palette.
Image Ready, Photoshop's Web-authoring
and export module, remains a separate, linked application.
Creation of rollovers is simpler and a new "selected"
rollover state takes some of the repetitive strain out of
nav-bar production.
New output options include
Picture Package, which allows you to print multiple images
on a single page, and new templates and security watermarking
for Web galleries.
All in all, this is an upgrade
guaranteed to keep Photoshop at the cutting edge of professional
image editing. --Ken McMahon
Product Description
Photoshop 7.0 boasts an extensive set of features that allow
photographers, Web, and graphic designers to work more efficiently,
explore creative options, and produce high-quality images
for print, Web, and other media. Create imagery with easier
access to file data; streamlined Web design; faster, professional-quality
photo retouching; and more. Support for WBMP format enables
optimization for display on PDAs and other wireless devices.
Plus, Web designers can apply extra compression to images
and exercise greater control over how transparency is maintained
online with Photoshop 7.0's added output enhancements.
Photoshop 7.0 delivers a comprehensive
tool set that helps users meet both creative and production
challenges. Its Healing Brush revolutionizes the process of
retouching images. Remove dust, scratches, blemishes, and
wrinkles effortlessly. Preserve shading, lighting, texture,
and other attributes automatically. Photoshop 7.0's File Browser
lets users locate, organize, and visually manage images quickly.
You can even view EXIF data from digital cameras, including
date captured, exposure settings, creation and modification
dates, and more.
Native on Microsoft Windows
XP, Photoshop 7.0 provides even greater multiprocessor support
as well as superior interoperability with other Adobe applications.
The software also offers a robust painting engine that lets
users create custom brush presets, simulate pastels and charcoal,
and add special effects, such as grass and leaves, while its
Pattern Maker plug-in creates patterns, including rocks and
sand. Photoshop 7.0's Liquify plug-in provides enhanced control
over image warping with zoom, pan, and multiple undo capabilities.
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