Adobe Photoshop CS3

Photoshop is Adobe's long-running desktop digital imaging software. Photoshop CS3 is available for Intel or PowerPC based Macintosh computers, as well as for Windows XP and Windows Vista systems. Photoshop is now part of their integrated Creative Suite (CS3) family of products. The standard version of Photoshop is intended for professional photographers, serious amateur photographers, graphic designers, and web designers. The extended version (see below) has tools for editing 3D and motion-based content and performing image analysis. It is intended for film, video, and multimedia professionals, graphic and web designers using 3D and motion, manufacturing professionals, medical professionals, architects and engineers, and scientific researchers.

The standard version contains the following features:

• Process raw images with increased speed and superior conversion quality using the Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in, which now adds support for JPEG and TIFF formats; new tools including Fill Light and Dust Busting; compatibility with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software; and support for over 150 camera models.
• Nondestructive editing, including new Smart Filters, which let you visualize different image effects, and Smart Objects, which let you scale, rotate, and warp raster and vector graphics - all without altering pixel data.
• Enhanced color-correction and cloning and healing tools.
• Create or modify images with a wide assortment of professional, fully customizable paint settings, artistic brushes, and drawing tools.
• Create composites by automatically aligning multiple Photoshop layers or images based on similar content. The Auto-align Layers command quickly analyzes details and moves, rotates, or warps layers to align them perfectly, and the Auto-blend Layers command blends the color and shading to create a smooth, editable result.
• Quick Selection and Refine Edge tools.
• Experience better control over print quality with color management, a larger print preview window, and more controls in one place so you can print in fewer steps.
• Import and export a wide range of file formats, including PSD, BMP, Cineon, JPEG, JPEG2000, OpenEXR, PNG, Targa, and TIFF.
• Take perspective-based editing to a new level with the enhanced Vanishing Point, which lets you create multiple planes in an image, connect them at any angle, and then wrap graphics, text, and images around them to create packaging mock-ups and more.
• Create and edit 32-bit images and combine multiple exposures into a single, 32-bit image that preserves the full range of a scene — from the deepest shadows to the brightest highlights.
• Easily convert color images to rich black-and-white and adjust tonal values and tints with a new tool.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Upgrade requires a licensed version of Adobe Photoshop CS2, CS, or 7.0 or earlier, on the same platform as this purchase. NOTE: This upgrade does not apply to Adobe Photoshop Elements, Photoshop Album, Photoshop Limited Edition, or PhotoDeluxe licensed users.

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Photoshop CS3 Extended is available for Intel or PowerPC based Macintosh computers, as well as for Windows XP and Windows Vista systems. The Extended version contains the following features above and beyong the standard version:

• Easily render and incorporate rich 3D content into your 2D composites - even edit existing textures on 3D models directly within Photoshop Extended and immediately see the results.
• Supports common 3D interchange formats, including 3DS, OBJ, U3D, KMZ, and COLLADA, so you can import, view, and interact with most 3D models.
• Photoshop Extended selection tools can define and calculate distance, perimeter, area, and other measurements. Record data points in a measurement log and export data, including histogram data, to a spreadsheet for further analysis.
• Enhanced Vanishing Point with 3D support.
• Motion graphics and video layers.
• DICOM and MATLAB support.
• Enhance video directly within Photoshop Extended - you can paint, add text, and clone over multiple frames of an imported video sequence.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended Upgrade requires a licensed version of Adobe Photoshop CS2, CS, or 7.0 or earlier, on the same platform as this purchase. NOTE: This upgrade does not apply to Adobe Photoshop Elements, Photoshop Album, Photoshop Limited Edition, or PhotoDeluxe licensed users.

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