Adobe Photoshop 7
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.
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.
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 color 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 colors in a photograph, for example, and
thanks to some additions and tweaks in its Liquefy 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.
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