A new version of Photoshop CS3 (Announced On December 14, 2006 and to be released during spring 2007) is already available to download.)
Two market segmets are targeted by this new release, both digital photographers and graphc designers.
So what’s new ?
- User interface
- A lot of new features have been implemented
- The window is splitted in two different parts, it allows you to have more space on your workspace. (you can also choose to keep the “old way to manage your workspace”
- Bridge:
- Loupe view
- More efficient features which will allow you to manage your pictures
- stacking
- quick thumbnail previews
- better ways to see metadatas.
- Cloning:
- A new palette ! the Clone Source palette
- Refine Edges Dialog
- preview your selection edges over many different backgrounds
- The ability to feather your selection in real time
- A direct preview of what’s going on? no more guessing involved
- Quick Select tool
- This tool is supposed to detect the shape of your objects
- it’s like a far better magic wand
- Black and white adjustment
- It was already possible to create a black and white picture with the previous but now you have a lot more possibilities to convert your best clichés.
- Camera Raw 4.0
- Highlight Recovery slider
- Fill Light controls
- Split Toning controls
- Grayscale mixer
- Vibrance controls
- parametric tone curve
- Auto Align
- automatically aligns two pictures
- New curves interface
- you can see in real time the Histogram that you work on behind the Curve
- Vanishing point
- It includes the ability to wrap graphics around planes and not only a straight 90-degree angle (which was really a limitation with the older version.
- Smart filters
- No more permanent change to your layers.
- now you can apply filters to your layers and change their settings at any time, when you want, this is really cool.
- Improved web photo gallery
- this was already an efficient tool but now you have even more ways to present your work on a website by just clicking two or three times to export it.
- By the way i’haven’t seen any improvement in the photoshop to css export or conversion. The psd to css process needs to go through image ready.
If you want to have a try these configuration are proposed:
Macintosh
- PowerPC G4 or G5 or Intel based Macintosh processor
- Mac OS X v.10.4.8
- 320MB of RAM (512MB recommended)
- 64MB of video RAM
- 1.5GB of available hard-disk space
- 1,024×768 monitor resolution with 16-bit video card
- DVD-ROM drive
- Internet or phone connection required for product activation
- QuickTime 7 software required for multimedia features
Windows
- Intel Pentium 4, Intel Centrino, Intel Xeon, or Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor
- Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista
- 320MB of RAM (512MB recommended)
- 64MB of video RAM
- 650MB of available hard-disk space
- 1,024×768 monitor resolution with 16-bit video card
- DVD-ROM drive
- Internet or phone connection required for product activation
- QuickTime 7 software required for multimedia features
