Camera Raw 4 sports a large array of new image-processing capabilities, including superb monochrome conversion and new controls for lighting, tonality curves, and color. Like Adobe’s Photoshop Lightroom ( ), Photoshop CS3 includes Camera Raw 4, the latest version of what many people regard as the best raw-image processor available. As for the Channel Mixer, it has also been improved and now offers its own black-and-white conversion presets. The Black & White dialog box sports presets that simulate numerous film filters there’s even a preset that simulates infrared film, though it often blows out image highlights. The new Black & White command makes the process much easier. Photoshop users have long relied on features such as the Channel Mixer to control the conversion of color images to black-and-white. Exactly what will that phrase mean to a professional photographer who’s only now making the move to digital? (It certainly doesn’t provide any warning that it’s a substandard way to adjust brightness/contrast.) I wouldn’t trade Photoshop’s power for simplicity, but I do think that Adobe could make Photoshop more approachable. For example, Photoshop’s Brightness/Contrast command is greatly improved in CS3, but Adobe hides access to the old-style Brightness/Contrast adjustment command behind an option called Use Legacy. The little smatterings of engineer-speak that you find here and there don’t help. Replacing the old Print With Preview dialog box, it provides a larger image preview that’s color-managed, reflecting changes when you choose different rendering settings and printer profiles.ĭespite these interface improvements, Photoshop remains a daunting program for imaging newcomers. (The new Black & White dialog box does, too.) And the Print dialog box has been completely remodeled. Photoshop CS3’s Channel Mixer and Curves dialog boxes now let you save and recall presets. The new Black & White adjustment command lets you control how an image’s colors are converted to grays by clicking and dragging directly on the image instead of futzing with dialog-box sliders.
Photoshop CS3’s new Clone Source panel appears at the right edge of this screen its dock is collapsed to icon view.Other usability improvements abound throughout Photoshop CS3. The new Black & White dialog box provides several presets that simulate various film filters-even infrared.
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