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New Photoshop features or improvements

Photoshop CS3

  • Auto align layers
  • Auto blend for stitched images
  • Device Central 1.0
  • Smart filters (non-destructive filters (including Shadows and Highlight) which you can combine with a mask)
  • Quick selection tool
  • Adjustable Cloning and Healing with preview overlay
  • Zoomify (Google maps style zoom interface for web based images)
  • Improved curves
  • Refine Edge (to modify the edge of any selection)
  • Refined interface (see examples below)
  • Enhanced Brightness/Contrast
  • New advanced Black and White conversion tool
  • Improved print window
  • 2 new blend modes: Lighter Color, Darker Color
  • Enhanced Photo Merge function
  • Enhanced Merge to 23-Bit HDR
  • Enhanced Channel Mixer (filter presets)
  • New Bridge version
  • Improved vanishing point with multiple, adjustable angle perspective planes
  • Camera Raw 4.0

Photoshop CS2

  • Adobe Bridge
  • Vanishing Point
  • Multiple layer control
  • Smart Objects
  • Multi-image digital camera raw file processing
  • Advanced noise reduction
  • 32-bit High Dynamic Range (HDR) support
  • Customizable workspaces and menus
  • Spot Healing Brush
  • Warp Tool
  • One-click red-eye correction
  • WYSIWYG font menu
  • Smart Guides
  • High-capacity RAM compatibility
  • Digital camera and Digital Negative (DNG) support
  • Smart Sharpen
  • Optical lens correction (distort)
  • Spot Healing Brush
  • Help improvements
  • Box, shape and surface blur
  • Reduce Noise
  • Animation (was Imageready)
  • Variables
  • Expanded ability to edit 16-bit files
  • Layer Sets renamed to Layer Groups
  • Enhanced Info Palette
  • Exposure (Image/adjustements)
  • Visible Cursor on 50% gray layers

Photoshop CS

  • Custom Keyboard shortcuts
  • History Log
  • Camera Raw Plugin
  • Match Color
  • Live Histograms
  • Photo Filters
  • Color Replacement Tool
  • Shadow/Highlight
  • Text On Path
  • Layer Comps
  • Large Document Format (PSB) Supporting 300,000x300,000 pixels and 54 channels
  • Non-square pixels
  • Enhanced File Browser
  • Expanded ability to edit 16-bit files
  • Lens Blur filter
  • Customizable help
  • Improved Photomerge
  • Auto-cropping and straightening of multiple images
  • Extended 16-bit support
  • New image interpolation methods: Bicubic Sharper/Smoother
  • Hard mix blending mode

Photoshop 7

  • Context sensitive options bar
  • Tool presets
  • Healing Brush
  • Patch Tool
  • Auto Color
  • Brushes palette
  • Spell check
  • Pattern Maker
  • Redesigned tool bar (colors)
  • Large filter previews
  • Liquify improvements
  • Improved Web-Gallery
  • Improved Picture Package

Photoshop 6

  • Droplets
  • Annotations
  • Docking palettes
  • Type Tool makeover
  • Warp Text

 

 

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