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