Adobe Photoshop 7.0 - Professional Image Processing

Designed for professionals, Adobe Photoshop offers an elegant interface and
superb editing tools for producing images for print, multimedia, or the Web.

Quickly locate and organize images—The new File Browser lets you search for images visually rather than just by file name. Using easy-to-view thumbnails, you can quickly organize and retrieve images from your hard drive, external drives, CDs, and disks directly within Photoshop. The File Browser provides metadata about the images displayed, such as date created, date modified, and EXIF (Exchangeable Image File) information from digital cameras. You can rotate, batch rename, rank, sort, and changes your files as well as manage image folders.

Heal images—The new Healing Brush lets you effortlessly remove artifacts such as dust, scratches, blemishes, and wrinkles. Unlike the Clone Stamp Tool, the Healing Brush automatically preserves shading, lighting, texture, and other attributes when cloning within one image or from one image to another. The related Patch Tool lets you be even more precise by working with selections. And with the new Auto Color Command, Photoshop 7.0 software provides even more reliable color correction than before.

Output to the Web with ease—Web output enhancements in Photoshop 7.0 and ImageReady 7.0, a separate software program included with Photoshop, allow you to make Web page elements transparent by simply clicking on the color you want to knock out. With the new dithered transparency option in Photoshop and ImageReady, you can achieve full or even partial transparent effects. When optimizing images for the Web, you can reduce overall file size by giving the areas you want to emphasize—vector art or text—a higher quality than other image areas. And Photoshop and ImageReady now let you preview and save for Web in WBMP format, commonly used for displaying images on PDAs and wireless devices.

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Manage rollovers easily—For the first time, Web designers in ImageReady can see all the slices, rollovers, image maps and animations of a document in one convenient place, the new Rollovers palette. Make Web pages more compelling—The new Selected state in ImageReady 7.0 software allows you to create more visually compelling Web pages that include simultaneous rollover effects without having to hand code JavaScript.

Customize your tools—With Photoshop 7.0 software, you can customize any tool and save your preferred settings as a new, unique tool for easy recall. The new Workspace option lets you create a personalized desktop with a preferred layout of palettes and access it for future use.

Save time with data-driven graphics—The new Variables feature in ImageReady 7.0 lets you automate the preparation of repetitive artwork with data-driven graphics. You can create visually-rich template designs and define objects in the template as variables. Scripts, Web production tools such as Adobe GoLive, or dynamic image servers such as Adobe AlterCast can then link these variables to data stored in an ODBC-compliant source in order to quickly generate an unlimited number of unique variations.

Get creative with paint tools—The new painting engine lets you simulate traditional painting techniques (including pastels and charcoal) with dry and wet brush effects to add special effects, such as grass and leaves. Using the Brushes palette, you can adjust dozens of settings for shape, tilt, spacing, scatter, jitter, diameter, texture, shading, and other attributes and save those settings as custom brush presets.

Generate background patterns from any image—Simply select an image area and the new Pattern Maker plug-in automatically generates seamlessly tiled patterns from your selection.

Distort with precision—The enhanced Liquify plug-in provides even greater control over image warping with zoom, pan, and multiple undo. With the ability to save meshes, you can maximize your computer’s performance (and your time) by working on a low-resolution image, then applying the saved mesh to the high-resolution version of that same image later. The new Turbulence brush mixes up the pixels in your image, enabling you to easily distort an area into an entirely new image, such as fire or smoke.

Secure images before sharing them—Photoshop now offers complete support for Adobe Acrobat 5.0 security settings, allowing you to add passwords and other protections to Photoshop PDF files before sharing them with others online or adding them to Adobe PDF workflows.

Check spelling—The new, built-in spell checker lets you search and replace text; check spelling in multiple languages within one file; and correct spelling on one text layer or across all text layers in the same document.

Save time and money when printing—Picture Package enhancements let you print to different page sizes; add labels or text to each image for printing; print multiple images per page; and more.

Create more sophisticated Web galleries—Photoshop 7.0 offers sophisticated new Web Photo Gallery templates to give you more flexibility. A new security option lets you enter text or place the file name, caption, or copyright information on the image as a watermark.

Easily repurpose, archive, and automate files in a workflow—Photoshop 7.0 supports XMP (Extensible Metadata Platform), a format developed by Adobe for enhancing workflows so that content can be applied seamlessly between print, Web, eBooks, and other media. By adding metadata in XMP, the keywords you give Photoshop 7.0 files can be indexed by Internet search engines, among other benefits.

Take advantage of the latest OS enhancements—While fully compatible with Mac OS 9, Photoshop 7.0 also supports the newest enhancements of Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows XP.

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