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What’s New in Photoshop CS3 Extended 3
Top new & enhanced features in Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended
Nondestructive Smart Filters
Smart Filters are simply Photoshop
lters that are applied nondestructively,
and which remain live and re-editable.
at combination gives you the
exibility to freely experiment with
dierent lter combinations and
settings, without ever having to back up
and start over with the original image.
Because Smart Filters have their own
layer mask, you can edit the mask to
precisely adjust the lter’s eects on
dierent areas of the image. And
because the Smart Filter is applied
within the context of a Smart Object
layer, your design process is accelerated
by now being able to scale, transform,
and lter your images in an ecient,
nondestructive workow.
Quick Selection tool
Photoshop soware has always been
distinguished by its powerful selection
tools, which enable you to target editing
and enhancements to precise areas of an
image. Photoshop CS3 slashes the time
necessary to choose image areas with the
new Quick Selection tool. Now,
instead of painstakingly outlining the
image region you need to work on, you
can simply paint the general area with
the Quick Selection tool. Photoshop CS3
watches as you paint, and analyzes the
image to complete the selection
automatically. Expanding or contracting
the selection is as simple as holding
down modifer keys. And the Quick
Selection tool can be used in conjunction
with all of the other powerful selection
tools in Photoshop. Whether it’s simple
or complicated image selections, or
image area extraction for advanced
compositing, the new Quick Selection
tool is a real time saver.
Rene Edge
e nal touch to any image selection, the new Rene Edge feature is the simple, exible
way to modify the edge of a selection before you begin editing the area. With one-click
access from the Options bar, or from the Select menu, Rene Edge lets you precisely smooth,
feather, contract, or expand the current selection, with simple slider controls, in a single,
intuitive dialog box.
Stay exible, with live re-editable Smart Filters you can
adjust at any time, without starting over (see palette
display in left column).
Smart Filters are easily accessible and
adjustable in the Layers palette.
Use Rene Edge to easily
adjust the edges of any
selection, in your choice of
display modes.
The new Quick Selection tool makes short work of
complicated selections (like this one, shown in Quick
Mask mode).