Digital BW, The Print

Having skipped the CS to CS2 upgrade and now using CS3, I'll let you know
what I have been finding. The print dialog box has finally eliminated the
need to go to print set up first and then print. Hugh time saver for me and
the lay out of info within the box is much improved. 

 

The selection tool and edge refine is ALSOLUTLY great. You can preview in 5
different modes the selection made and see it before you apply it. I have
the extended but haven't paid attention to what it had that the standard
doesn't. I upgraded my whole CS package and the extended came with my up
grade. It has some cool animation features that might be useful for
movie/flash web stuff. 

 

One feature that I thought would be of great use to people that shoot film
and scan their images is the new pixel mapping that allow two scans of
different CI to be placed over

Each other with extreme accuracy. I haven't tried it yet, but speaking with
Dan Burkholder about it, he was raving to me. HDR for scanners : ) 

 

The smart filters looks very promising as well; these are non destructive
filters. 

 

 

Eric Neilsen Photography

4101 Commerce Street, Suite 9

Dallas, TX 75226

214-827-8301

http://ericneilsenphotography.com

 

Skype : ejprinter

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From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
edrudolpho
Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2007 6:52 AM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: What does CS3 have to offer for printing?

 

Hi Alan... I've been working with CS3 for about ten days. If you are
accustomed to doing no more than a levels adjustment and then printing
you probably won't find the need to upgrade. But the new PS has some
great features. Non-destructive filtering, a very nice color-to-b&w
conversion tool, a much improved brightness and contrast adjustment,
and a MUCH MUCH improved method of stitching together panoramic images.

New levels of control in the clone and healing tools help a lot with
problems like photo-restoration, as well as more overt photo manipulation.

The Extended version is probably not required for normal photographic
users (if anyone's finding good uses for Extended features, I'd like
to hear about them.)

I can see how many folks will get along fine without this upgrade, but
I'm enjoying it.

When I registered the software Adobe sent an email offering some
freebies. One of the freebies is a month's subscription to the
lynda.com training site. Which is ordinarily a 25 dollar/month fee. 
It's been useful.

Ed

--- In DigitalBlackandWhit
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eThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "alan9990_6"
<aansell@...> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been seeing more mentions of CS3 on this forum lately. Whilst I
> realise that Adobe's own site will no doubt have comprehensive sales
> blurb about why this version is a must have, is anyone who is
> currently using CS3 or knows the program in depth able to comment on
> what it offers specifically for printing over current versions?
>

 



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