Adobe Photoshop
has always been the application of choice for professional image
editing. And with the new features and improvements that have been
implemented in version 7, its appeal is now stronger than ever. To
describe Photoshop as merely an image editing application does not do
this package justice, as it can do far more than that. For example it is
almost equally at home helping you design and create entire Web pages
and print adverts as it is at enhancing, re-touching or editing
photographs and other digital images.
Every new
version of Photoshop has delivered significant, noteworthy improvements.
Witness: Photoshop 4.0 unveiled Layers and Actions; Photoshop 5.0
brought us the History Palette and Layer Styles; Photoshop 6.0
introduced Shapes. Hence, Photoshop 7.0's perfunctory,
should-have-been-there-earlier enhancements, such as the new file
browser and updated paint engine, are a bit of a letdown.
We were most
impressed with a number of smaller features that we predict will save
skilled graphic artists scads of time and effort. Two new retouching
tools-the Healing Brush and Patch Device-are finest described as very
sensible cloning brushes that may make scratches, mud, and other
imperfections disappear automatically. They work by blending the noise
(or texture) of selected source pixels with the colour and shading of
the target area. The results are spectacular: You'll be able to remove
unwanted artifacts whereas preserving the color and shading details
found within the original image. In addition, the new Auto Shade
function can stability shade images with a single click. Auto Color
works only in RGB mode, and it nonetheless cannot beat handbook
adjustments. However for quick removing of a colorcast, Auto Shade gives
more pleasing results than either Auto Levels or Auto Contrast.
Indeed, its
ability to produce almost complete Web pages, complete with all the java
necessary to handle button rollovers and image swapping behaviours,
makes Photoshop a tool not just for those working in more general media
design and print houses, but also one that Web designers can use
alongside their HTML editors.
One of the
most annoying limitations of Photoshop 6 and all its predecessors was
its lack of an image browser, a feature available in just about every
other image editing application, including those at only a fraction of
its cost. Thankfully this has finally been rectified in Photoshop 7,
which now boasts a powerful image browser that not only allows you to
view thumbnails of the images in any directory on your PC, but also to
view information on them, such as their colour profile, size,
modification date, and even any attached Exchangeable Image File (EXIF)
information generated by the likes of a digital camera.
Photoshop's
painting facilities have also been improved, making it easier to choose
the size, shape and dynamics of the brush you want. Some completely new
features have also been added to the brush section, which amongst other
things allow you to accurately simulate traditional types of painting
techniques should you wish to. And you can now even combine two
different brush types when painting, which allows you to produce some
quite amazing results.
Photoshop's
image editing and enhancing facilities have also improved. You'll now
find it even easier to automatically correct colours in a photograph,
for example, and thanks to some additions and tweaks in its Liquify
facility, you'll find making precision distortions or adding certain
types of special effect an absolute doddle. Two completely new photo
enhancing tools have also been added to Photoshop 7 - the healing brush
and patch tool - which together make invisibly removing blemishes,
scratches, dusk and wrinkles from scanned images a pleasure rather than a
chore.
The new
Rollover palette makes it far easier to create, edit and manage
rollovers and image maps than was the case in previous versions of the
package. However, it is still not quite as easy or intuitive as
performing the same tasks with arch-rival Macromedia's Fireworks
Web-specific image manipulation package. A few more general improvements
to Adobe Photoshop 7 are also worthy of note albeit briefly - such as
the slightly more modern look to its user interface, support for Adobe
Acrobat 5's security settings and, last but by no means least, a
built-in multilingual spell checker.
You can Also Try: Adobe Photoshop CS3
Adobe PS 7.0 Screenshots
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