Adobe Photoshop CS3
Adobe Photoshop CS3
Adobe Photoshop CS3 software accelerates your path from imagination to imagery. Ideal for photographers, graphic designers, and web designers, the professional standard delivers new features such as automatic layer alignment and blending that enable advanced compositing. Live filters boost the comprehensive, nondestructive editing toolset for increased flexibility. And a streamlined interface and new timesaving tools make your work flow faster.
Boost your productivity with a streamlined interface. |
The Loupe tool in Adobe Bridge CS3 lets you easily zoom into the fine detail of any image. |
The new overlay preview and Clone Source palette let you preview, transform, and precisely position cloned areas in a single fluid process. |
Zoomify export allows you to efficiently display even the highest resolution imagery over low bandwidth web connections. |
Work more productively
Take advantage of a wide range of improvements designed to boost your productivity. Experience native performance on Intel based and PowerPC Macs and on Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista systems. Maximize your workspace with a streamlined interface, process raw images with increased speed and quality, and manage assets more efficiently in the revamped Adobe Bridge CS3. And enjoy complete compatibility with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software (sold separately), so the changes you make to an image in one product will automatically appear in the other.
Edit with unrivaled power
The comprehensive image-editing toolset in Photoshop CS3 lets you correct and enhance your images with unmatched creative control. Experiment more freely with nondestructive filters. Manage and correct color more easily, and convert color images to rich black-and-white with one click. Retouch images with more powerful cloning and healing tools. And count on higher fidelity conversion when you merge a series of exposures into a 32-bit high dynamic range (HDR) image.
Composite with breakthrough tools
Photoshop CS3 offers a wealth of features that make compositing multiple images easier than ever before. Create more accurate composites with new tools that automatically align and blend layers or images based on similar content. Make an image selection with one brush stroke. Perfect any selection edge in an easy-to-use, intuitive dialog box. And merge multiple photos into a panorama with superior results.
Product highlights
- Boost your productivity with a streamlined interface, enhancements to raw-image processing and asset management workflows, and more.
- Experience unrivaled editing power with nondestructive filters, more precise color-correction controls, and more powerful cloning and healing tools.
- Easily create rich composites using new tools for automatically aligning and blending layers and making quick selections.
Audience benefit
Professional photographers–With Adobe Photoshop CS3 software, you can perfect all of your images with nondestructive filters and more powerful color-correction, cloning, and healing tools, and you can create sophisticated composites more easily than ever with breakthrough tools for automatically aligning and blending layers, making quick selections, and more.
Serious amateur photographers–Adobe Photoshop CS3 software delivers everything you need to edit images with professional-quality results, and offers a simplified user interface that makes learning and working in the program easier.
Print and web designers–Adobe Photoshop CS3 software delivers unrivaled power to edit images, breakthrough capabilities for creating sophisticated image composites, and the ability to output your final files to a broad range of formats for print and the web.
Photography students and educators–From raw-image processing, retouching, and compositing to final image output, professional-standard Adobe Photoshop CS3 software offers a powerful solution for digital photography workflows.
Work More Productively
Efficient and flexible work environment
Streamlined interface and palette management
Maximize screen space for editing while keeping essential tools accessible. Palettes are now arranged in convenient, self-adjusting docks that can be widened to full size or narrowed to icons or even a thin, self-revealing strip at the edge of your monitor.
Faster, more flexible asset management with Adobe Bridge CS3
Organize and manage images more efficiently with Adobe Bridge CS3 software, which now delivers improved performance, a Filter panel for easier searching, the ability to group multiple images under a single thumbnail, the Loupe tool, offline image browsing, and more.
Custom menus, shortcuts, and workspaces
Set up and save custom menus, keyboard shortcuts, and workspaces for quick access to what you need.
Streamlined Workflow
Better raw image processing
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.
Enhanced PDF support
Work more easily with Adobe PDF-based content. Precisely control the size of PDF pages opened in Photoshop; add security controls and metadata, such as copyright and exposure details, to images within PDF presentations; and create a richer image display in PDF presentations and documents.
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom support
Jump from Photoshop Lightroom software to Photoshop CS3 in one click for advanced editing of your digital photos. Lightroom (sold separately) offers an efficient, powerful way to import, manage, and present large volumes of digital images.
Improved printing experience
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. Improved printing controls, co-developed by Adobe and HP, make printing easier and more predictable, and streamline setup options via integration with select printers from HP, Epson, and Canon.
Presets
Make sophisticated color adjustments automatically with one-click presets in Curves, the Channel Mixer, and the new Black and White conversion dialog box.
Peak performance
Experience native performance on Intel and PowerPC based Macintosh computers, and on Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista systems.
Automated production
Automate common production tasks in a variety of ways. Set up event-based scripts, record a series of steps as an Action for efficient batch processing, and design repetitive graphics faster with Variables.
History palette and Edit History log
Undo and redo any set of editing steps in an open image with the History palette, and automatically track all editing steps within your files with the Edit History log. Export steps to a text file or save them as part of image metadata for easier documentation of your work, file audits, and more.
Wide range of supported formats
Import and export a wide range of file formats, including PSD, BMP, Cineon, JPEG, JPEG2000, OpenEXR, PNG, Targa, and TIFF.
Adobe Device Central CS3
Create compelling mobile content, such as wallpapers and screensavers, and then visually preview how it will render on mobile devices using the built-in Adobe Device Central CS3. Tune your designs for mobile screen sizes and lighting conditions.
Zoomify export for high-resolution web display
Take advantage of Adobe Flash and Zoomify technology to export high-resolution images to the web for viewing through Adobe Flash Player software. Flash Player displays your image quickly and efficiently, letting viewers zoom in on details with minimal delay.
Third-party solutions and resources
Take advantage of a wealth of additional resources–including software plug-ins, books, and training–from the longstanding community of expert Photoshop developers, authors, and trainers.
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| Auto-Align Layers can automatically connect a series of photos into a panorama (left). Auto-Blend Layers can then seamlessly blend lighting and texture to complete the perfect composite image (right). | |
Edit With Unrivaled Power
Nondestructive editing
Smart Filters
Add, adjust, and remove filters from an image without having to resave the image or start over to preserve quality. Nondestructive Smart Filters allow you to visualize changes without altering original pixel data.
Smart Objects
Perform nondestructive scaling, rotating, and warping of raster and vector graphics with Smart Objects. Even preserve the editability of vector data from Adobe Illustrator software.
Professional color and tone control
Color-correction enhancements
Take advantage of precision color correction made faster and easier. Brightness/Contrast now provides better results from the same intuitive interface, and enhanced Curves controls let you make automatic adjustments with included presets or those you create; convert to black-and-white with point sliders; and use a histogram, color channel lines, and a clipping preview.
Black-and-white conversion
Easily convert color images to rich black-and-white and adjust tonal values and tints with a new tool. Experiment with the included black-and-white presets, or create and save your own custom presets to achieve the best results.
Improved Channel Mixer
Take advantage of new functionality and a host of presets that make the Channel Mixer easier to use for black-and-white conversion.
Enhanced 32-bit high dynamic range (HDR) support
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. New image processing and alignment algorithms deliver superior results.
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Maximize screen space for editing while keeping essential tools accessible. |
Intelligent Image Editing and Enhancement
More powerful cloning and healing tools
Experience greater control when retouching images with cloning tools and the Healing Brush. See source pixels under your tool or brush for more precise positioning; preview changes to source content live; and set multiple source points, scale, and rotate in the new Clone Source palette.
Rich painting and drawing toolset
Create or modify images with a wide assortment of professional, fully customizable paint settings, artistic brushes, and drawing tools.
Enhanced Vanishing Point
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.
Composite With Breakthrough Tools
Easy compositing and selecting
Advanced compositing
Create more accurate 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.
Improved Photomerge technology
Take advantage of refined Photomerge technology, which uses new layer-alignment and layer-blending capabilities to let you automatically stitch horizontal or vertical photos into seamless panoramas.
Quick Selection and Refine Edge tools
Make selections in a snap. Loosely draw on an image area, and the Quick Selection tool automatically completes the selection for you. Then fine-tune your selections with the Refine Edge tool.
Flexible layers
Composite images, text, and effects on hundreds of layers for extraordinarily sophisticated results. Organize layers with up to five levels of nesting, and save in different combinations as Layer Comps.
| Which edition of Photoshop CS3 is right for you? Photoshop CS3 is available in two editions–Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop CS3 Extended–to meet the diverse needs of professionals in a wide range of fields. | ||
| Adobe Photoshop CS3 | Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended | |
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| Builds on Photoshop CS2 with dozens of improvements |  |
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| Increased productivity with a streamlined interface, Camera Raw enhancements, next-generation Adobe Bridge CS3, and Zoomify export | |
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| Unrivaled editing power with live filters, more precise color correction, easier black-and-white conversion, and more powerful cloning and healing tools | |
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| Breakthrough compositing with automatic layer alignment and blending capabilities, easier selections, and improved Photomerge? technology | |
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| 3D and motion support with the ability to edit 3D content and incorporate it into 2D compositions, paint and clone over multiple video frames, and more | |
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| Comprehensive image analysis with new image measurement and counting tools | |
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Customer Review: Great product, nightmarish activation system
It’s pretty simple: if you’re serious about photo editing, Photoshop is by far the best and most capable product out there. There are plenty of products that are good enough for casual use, but nothing matches Photoshop for raw power.
Be aware, however, of the baggage that Adobe forces on you when you buy one of their products. They use an online activation system to prevent you from installing on too many computers at once, which is eminently reasonable. The activation system, however, is buggy and temperamental. For example, when I installed the SP1 upgrade to Vista (which every Vista user will need to do), the activation system thought I had moved Photoshop to a new computer, and locked up the software. I eventually ended up on the phone with customer support, who finally agreed to re-activate my software (but only after chastising me for not de-activating Photoshop before installing SP1 and re-activating it afterward).
Customer Review: I’d stick with CS or CS2
I use PhotoShop for various types of image manipulation for purposes of biological image analysis. PhotoShop CS3 is great, almost perfect, for any user who is not going to composite images. If photo merging was not considered, I’d give CS3 5 stars. Other reviewers have listed the positive points about CS3, so I will only expand on my caveat. Previous versions of PhotoShop worked wonderfully at stitching images, compositing 50-60 images momentarily. I currently have a 75% failure rate when attempting to composite even 2 or 3 images with CS3. Adobe forums have revealed that I am not the only person with this issue and that Adobe is in no apparent rush to solve the problem. I am not your typical PhotoShop user; I do a lot of macro creation and some programming because I will often work on thousands of images for a single study. I, like many other CS3 users who rely on the photo merge feature, will be re-installing CS or CS2. For those of you who want the upgraded bells and whistles of CS3 but don’t need to composite images, go ahead and buy CS3.
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Indoor & Outdoor Ice Alert Thermometer & Clock 
This Indoor & Outdoor Ice Alert Thermometer & Clock allows you to select either indoor or outdoor display. Dial indicates ice conditions. Choose between Fahrenheight and Centigrade. Clock displays hours, minutes, seconds, day and date. Uses (1) AAA battery (not included). By Allison.
Customer Review: Good Product
I’ve had this for a month or so and it works pretty well and seems to be accurate. I put the sensor under my driver side mirror. One day though it was sunny and the gauge was off by quite a bit. I thought the placement under the mirror would prevent that. Anyway once I started driving it went back to normal. All in all I am happy with the product and trust it’s accuracy.
Customer Review: misleading product description
The product description says that you can choose between fahrenheight and centigrade. I sent it to a person that needs to read temperature in centrigrade, but unfortunately, there is no way to choose between fahrenheight and centigrade. It is pre-set in fahrenheight. Thus, it is totally useless for what it was purchased for - to read temperature in centigrade. Beware if you are looking for a thermometer that reads centigrade. This one can’t do it!
12 O’Clock High 
After the stunning defeat of the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain, Germany turns its mighty war machine towards Russia with hopes of defeating the great empire. Much to Hitler’s dismay, his troops are held at bay by both an unforgiving winter and the stubborn battle-hardened Red Army. The tides of war begin to turn against the Reich, and Germany must suddenly scramble to maintain the strong industrial complex that has helped it reign supreme. Beginning in 1943, Allied air forces conducted one of the most aggressive, relentless, and bloody air campaigns in the history of warfare. TalonSoft’s 12 O’ Clock High: Bombing the Reich takes you there! Experience the greatest air war in history! Re-created by Gary Grigsby and Keith Brors, legendary designers of TalonSoft’s critically acclaimed Battle of Britain and SSI’s Steel Panthers, TalonSoft’s 12 O’ Clock High: Bombing the Reich puts you in the commander’s chair.
Used Price: $38.49
Customer Review: Understanding the Air War in WW II
12 O’Clock High by Talonsoft is quite simply the best strategic presentation of the war in the air, 1943-45, ever made for computer games. The richness of detail–for playing either the Allies or the Axis–is simply stunning. Nothing compares in the genre. It is, in fact, its biggest curse as well as triumph: to play the long campaign games the length and intricacy will put off the casual wargamer or “shoot-em-up” seeker. The multitude of factors faced by the high command of each side are in the game. To win you must come to understand the air war as it was, if simplified even here for the fussy historian. For the enthusiast it presents delicious detail and very difficult problems. (This game could be a required course for aspiring business executives in the results of planning.) Improvements could be made. It could be faster. More, rather than less detail would be better. But it’s the best there is.
Customer Review: Good for the hardcore sim fan
Basically, this is a good game for the real hardcore war strategy fan. If you’re into more of the “shoot-’em-up, ninja” garbage, then this is definitely not the game for you. The pluses of the game are as follows: very detailed, follows closely to historical detail, and the interface is fairly easy to figure out. On the minus side, it is VERY VERY LONG!!! As mentioned in some of the other reviews, the full campaign takes forever. In fact, if you play it every night for an hour, it will still take you a full month or more to finish the game!! Also, I think the interface could have been a little more user friendly than it is. Again, if you really like historical strategy sims, this isn’t a bad choice. But you better either have lots of patience or lots of timeon your hands to play it.
