Adobe Photoshop CS4

Photoshop is Adobe's long-running desktop digital imaging software. 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 new and improved features:

• Navigate to any area of an image with new, ultra-smooth zooming and panning. Maintain clarity as you zoom to individual pixels and easily edit at the highest magnification with the new Pixel Grid.
• New Rotate View tool allows you to smoothly turn your canvas for distortion-free viewing at any angle.
• New Adjustments panel that allows you to simplify image adjustment by easily accessing every tool you need to nondestructively adjust and enhance the color and tone of your images with on-image controls and a wide variety of presets
• New Masks panel offers all the tools you need to create editable pixel- and vector-based masks, adjust mask density and feathering, easily select noncontiguous objects, and more.
• New Content-Aware Scaling lets you automatically recompose an image as you resize it, smartly preserving vital areas as the image adapts to the new dimensions. Get the perfect image in one step without time-intensive cropping and retouching.
• Improved auto-blending of images that allows for easy creation of a single image from a series of shots that have different focal points with the enhanced Auto-Blend Layers command, which smoothly blends color and shading and now extends your depth of field, automatically correcting vignettes and lens distortion.
• Improved Auto-Align where you can create accurate composites - move, rotate, or warp layers to align them more accurately than ever before, or use spherical alignment to create panoramas.
• Improved extended depth of field which allows you to combine a range of images, each with a different exposure, color, and focal point — with options to preserve tones and colors — into a single color-corrected image.
• Better raw image processing with Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 5 plug-in, which now offers localized corrections, post-crop vignetting, TIFF and JPEG processing, and support for more than 190 camera models.
• Enhanced color correction with reengineered Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools that now intelligently preserve color and tone details.

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Upgrade requires a current licensed version of Photoshop CS3, Photoshop CS2, or Photoshop CS.

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Photoshop CS4 Extended contains the following new and improved features (as well as the new features outlined above in the standard version):

• New 3D painting and compositing features that allow you to paint directly on 3D models, wrap 2D images around 3D shapes, convert gradient maps to 3D objects, add depth to layers and text, get print-quality output with the new ray-tracing rendering engine, and enjoy exporting to supported common 3D formats.
• New 3D object and property editing lets you edit, enhance, and manipulate 3D images in a streamlined interface without dialog boxes. Adjust lighting, meshes, and materials and orient objects and position the camera using 3D axes and a ground plane.
• Enhanced motion graphics editing with new single-key shortcuts, sync visual effects with specific points in an audio track using new audio syncing controls, and turn any 3D object into a video display zone.
• Enhanced integration between Photoshop Extended and other Adobe applications including Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, and Adobe Flash Professional software.

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended Upgrade requires a current licensed version of Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended, Photoshop CS3, Photoshop CS2, or Photoshop CS.

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