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
Amazon.com 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
Amazon.com 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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