Photoshop 7's Healing Brush
The most publicized new feature in Photoshop 7. The Photoshop's Healing Brush lets you remove dust, scratches, blemishes and wrinkles on your images. With the healing brush tool, you can preserves shading and lighting texture. You can use the Patch Tool for more precise graphic editing. Also, you can use the patch tool on selections or channels.
Photoshop 7 File Browser
The new Browse command opens a File Browser palette. This lets you view thumbnails of all your graphics files.
In the Expanded View the File Browser offers a Microsoft Internet Explorer style view. You will see a panel down the left hand side of your monitor containing a tree structure pane where you can choose which folder you wish to view.
Under the Photoshop Hood
Photoshop is a Deep Program. The layout of Photoshop has three distinct elements: the menu, the toolbox and the palettes.
The Photoshop menu has eight distinct entities: File, Edit, Image, Layer, Select, View, Window, and Help.
The Photoshop toolbox has four distinct entities: selection tools, painting and editing tools, specialty tool and navigation tools.
The Photoshop Palettes has eleven distinct entities: Option Palette, Info Palette, Navigation Palette, Color Palette, Color swatches Palette, Brush Palette, History Palette, Actions Palette, Layers Palette, Channels Palette and Paths Palette.
What does the New ImageReady 7 do?
ImageReady is a separate companion application to Photoshop. It lets you create web graphics, animations and rollover buttons with greater ease.
Becoming a Photoshop User
How do you become a Photoshop user? If you asked the professionals they would answer, "Know Photoshop inside and out, study graphic artists works and practice, practice, practice until you can see the Photoshop 7 menu's in your mind."
In additional they would suggest, "Make contact with other Photoshop 7 users. Go to workshops to meet them. Don't stay isolated."
Pro Reaction
Spell Checker in Photoshop 7. Like a text document, you can now search, replace text, check spelling in multiple languages within the same file. In addition, now you can correct spelling on one text layer or all text layers in the same document.
New brush options. Brush choices and options for each brush are so powerful and easy to understand and use. Also, you have the ability to create your own Photoshop brushes.
Photoshop 7 program comes with an excellent hardcopy Photoshop 7 user guide of 441 pages.
Video Workshop for Photoshop 7 is a CD that contains over 60 minutes of full screen, full motion, professional training video. Help's you get started with the pros.
Graphic designers who use vector-based and bitmapped images will find that Photoshop 7 and Adobe Illustrator 10 work well together.
Con Reaction
Your control over open documents has been moved to a sub menu. This adds another step each time you want to change your images. Not much has changed in Photoshop 7's look-and-feel compared to version 6's radical revamp.
Missing was Adobe Photoshop 7.0 tips and techniques that was available at the Adobe Breakfast for Mac Users Board members.
Final Notes
The perfect time to be a Photoshop user. Healing Brush is easy to use and does amazing results when you edit your photographs and graphics.
Photoshop 7 lets you work more efficiently. With Photoshop. you now have new tools like: Healing brush, Auto Color, ImageReady 7 for web output, animations and rollovers.
System Requirements:
Mac: PowerPC (G3, G4, or Dual G4). Mac OS 9.1, 9.2, or Mac OS X 10.1.3. 128 MB memory (192 MB recommended). 280 MB available hard disk space.
Publisher: Adobe
Price: Full version US $609.00, upgrade US $149.00
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