Amazon.co.uk 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.
The major difference between this and earlier versions (for Mac users at least) is that Photoshop 7 is Mac OS X compatible. Other points of interest are a new healing brush that gets rid of 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 colour 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
Manufacturer's Description
These days, graphics professionals are being called on to create images that work across a variety of media. You need a solution that lets you handle the widest variety of image-editing tasks and output images to multiple media - including print, the Web, wireless devices, and video - without having to learn a whole new set of tools. Photoshop 7.0 helps you work more efficiently than ever to meet the multimedia demands of today's marketplace and make impossible deadlines possible. In today's challenging business environment, Adobe Photoshop 7.0 helps you stay competitive with innovative tools that deliver new ways to express your creativity and work efficiently.Photoshop 7.0 rounds out its comprehensive toolset with new capabilities to meet any creative or production demand and to handle the widest variety of image-editing tasks in the most efficient way. The File Browser lets you quickly inspect images before opening them by viewing thumbnails and metadata such as color profile, date modified, and Exchangeable Image File (EXIF) information generated by digital cameras. With the new Healing Brush, you can effortlessly remove scratches and other flaws while preserving the image's shading, lighting, and texture. With enhanced Web features, you can instantly make Web page elements transparent simply by knocking out one or more colors; create dithered transparencies; manage Web page rollovers and animations; and create more sophisticated Web rollovers. Powerful new tools help you explore your creativity without limits so you can more easily meet the multimedia demands of today's market. Simulate traditional painting techniques (including pastels and charcoal) with dry and wet brush effects and use brushes to add special effects. Adjust dozens of precise brush settings including size, shape, and tilt to create custom brushes that you can share with other Photoshop users. With the new Pattern Maker plug-in, you can select any area of an image and automatically generate a nearly endless assortment of background patterns. And the enhanced Liquify plug-in lets you distort images more easily and gain greater control over warping.
by Adobe Creative Team
by Martin Evening
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