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hotoshop CS3 is now at version 10 o thisphenomenally successul program (well twelthactually, i you count versions 2.5 and 5.5). Andit all started almost twenty years ago in late1987, when Thomas Knoll with his brother John, createdthe rst prototype version o Photoshop. Photoshop CS3has come on a long way since then, so much so that evenin a big book like this there is only enough space to coverthe eatures that are o specic interest to photographers.In this introductory chapter I have provided a shortlist o what’s new and oered a ew brie examples o some o thethings that you can now do in Photoshop and Bridge CS3.
What’s New inAdobe Photoshop CS3
Chapter 1
Martin Evening’s Adobe Photoshop for Photographerstitles have become classic reference sources, the onlyPhotoshop books written to deal directly with the needsof photographers. Whether you are an accomplisheduser or just starting out, these books contain a wealthof practical advice, hints and tips to help you achieveprofessional-looking results. Adobe Photoshop CS3for Photographers, will be published by Focal Press,an imprint of Elsevier in the Spring of 2007, shortlyafter the ofcial release of Photoshop CS3. Moreinformation about the book and how to order it will bemade available on the book website, closer to the time of publication: www.photoshopforphotographers.com.ISBN: 0-240-52028-9 (old style ISBN)ISBN: 978-0-240-52028-5 (new style ISBN)
Accessing the Photoshop beta
Adobe Photoshop CS3 beta is availablefrom the Adobe labs website. You candownload the latest (standard version)Mac or PC beta build of Photoshop CS3by going to: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/photoshopcs3/.
Martin Evening
Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Photographers
For more information about the Adobe Photoshop for Photographers book series, go to: www.photoshopforphotographers.com
New interface design
The most immediately noticeable dierence in PhotoshopCS3 is the new interace design, which is part o a widerstrategy to give all the applications in the CS3 creative suitea more unied look and thereore make the interaces moreconsistent when switching between applications.To start with you will notice how the tools palette ispresented in a single column. Now that we are all usingbigger displays, there is no real need or the old twocolumn version. You will also notice that the palette wellhas disappeared rom the tool options bar. The palettescan now be displayed on the let or right hand side o thescreen grouped into multiple column docking zones andeasily hidden or made visible by rolling the mouse to either
Figure 1.1
The Photoshop CS3 Windows PC layout.
Pen path appearance
The path outlines that are created whenyou use the pen tool have now been madeslightly bolder and are easier to see onthe display. The same also applies whendrawing a freehand selection using thelasso tool.
What’s new in Adobe Photoshop CS3Chapter 1
Figure 1.2
The new Photoshop CS3 Mac OS X layout. In this screenshot theLayers, Channels and Paths palettes were placed in a third column docking zone.You can see here that if I click on a palette icon, this will quickly expand to reveal thenormal full size palette.
side o the screen. The main intention here has been tocreate the most ecient use o screen space when workingwith the palettes and image documents. Palette docking iseasier to accomplish and in the Windows layout in Figure1.1 you can see how the palettes in the second column romthe right have been compressed into tabbed palette mode.All palettes can now be collapsed in this way so that thepalettes are represented as icons that graphically indicatethe identity o each palette. To collapse a palette dockingzone, you just click on the double arrow button at the top o each palette zone and click again to expand the palettes.
Figure 1.3
Don’t like the single row palette?Well, a click on the double arrow icon in thepalette tab will allow you to toggle between thesingle and double row versions of the toolspalette.
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