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Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 (Mac) [OLD VERSION]

Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 (Mac) [OLD VERSION]

Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 software for Macintosh combines power and simplicity to help you do it all. Edit and enhance your photos by fixing common flaws instantly or using advanced options for more control—you can even fine-tune the raw files produced by your digital camera. Keep every photo at your fingertips with intuitive search and viewing options. And show off your creativity to family and friends in entertaining ways, including cards, calendars, and more. Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 software combines innovation and simplicity to help you work with and enhance your digital photos with some of the industry’s most powerful tools. With Elements 4.0, you can fix common flaws instantly, or show off your creativity in a wide variety of entertaining ways by using your photos to create cards, calendars, and much more.

Easily access your photos and add, delete, or move folders using the Folder View. Even create folders to hold collections.

Adjust skin tones for a more natural look, even in poorly lit photos.

Easily select by brushing over any element of your photo to make a range of adjustments to a specific area or object.

Make Quicker Fixes Than Ever Before
For starters, Elements 4.0 offers users more precise controls that allow you to adjust specific areas of a photo in less time and even remove red eye automatically. The software’s Quick Fix mode lets you perform a full range of common photo adjustments, including color, contrast, and lighting, and skin tones can be easily adjusted for a more natural look, even in poorly lit photos. You can even compare “before” and “after” views that instantly let you see the effects of your adjustments.

Perform a full range of common photo adjustments — such as color, contrast, and lighting — in the convenient Quick Fix mode.

Easily upload your photos to a personal online album that can be updated with new photos at any time. Family and friends can view your photos and instantly order prints.

Turn your digital pictures into professional-quality Kodak prints, or create a memorable hardbound photo book. Both are delivered directly to your door.

When it comes time to retouching your photos, no problem. Elements 4.0 lets you easily brush over any element of your photo to make a range of adjustments to a specific area or object. For instance, you can use the Magic Selection Brush and Magic Extractor tool to isolate objects from backgrounds quickly and easily, even in complex, textured areas. You can also remove entire backgrounds, leaving foregrounds untouched, or place your friends on the top of Mount Everest or in front of the Taj Majal as if they were really there. The Spot Healing Brush lets you instantly brush away wrinkles and other unwanted objects. For more fine tuning of exposure and lighting, you can work directly with the raw image file from your camera by converting the raw files to the universal Digital Negative (DNG) format to help ensure you’ll always be able to open and use your photo files in the future.

Effortless Color Corrections and Photo Management
Once you have touched up your photos, you can compare a range of color variations side by side with your original photo and select the best choice with a single click. To get the best overall color possible with your photos, Elements 4.0 offers easy slider controls for color temperature and tint. To rescue poorly lit shots, you can easily adjust shadows and highlights, lighten the shadows and reduce the glare of highlights. And with 16-bit support, you’ll get smoother and more precise color results than ever before.

Do you already have hundreds of photos in your computer that you are ready to work with? Elements 4.0 offers extensive photo management capabilities that will make managing and editing your digital files a cinch. For instance, Elements 4.0 lets you type titles and labels right onto your photos and edit them at any time. An enhanced font menu and easy-to-use interface gives you the option of quickly choosing from a wide option of fonts. If you’re working with multiple photos, you can save hours of effort through the software’s automatic batch processes. With this time-saving feature, you can remove red eye, rename, resize, convert formats, adjust levels, add text, and more in a single step. You can also save time by scanning several photos at once. Elements 4.0 will automatically divide, straighten, and save each photo separately.

And when it’s time to final the exact photo you need, Elements 4.0 includes several management features that will make your life much easier. Easily access your photos and add, delete, or move folders using the Folder View. You can even create folders to hold entire collections and organize by filename, date, file type, and many other properties. Flip through photos in a full-screen slide show and rate your favorites, apply color labels, rotate photos, change display size, and show captions. With expanded metadata search parameters, you can quickly find and preview any photo in a matter of seconds. These enhanced search options let you search from a wide range of metadata options, such as f-stop, digital camera model, and even exposure values. You can also use keywords to pinpoint your search. Looking for a photo of just Jack, but not Jack and Jill? Elements 4.0 will find it for you.

Printing and Uploading Features
When you’re ready to share your photos, Elements 4.0 will help you to create a personal online album that can be updated with new photos at any time so that family and friends can view your photos and instantly order prints. You also have the option of uploading your photos to order professional-quality Kodak prints, or use Adobe Photoshop Services to create your own calendars, greeting cards, or beautiful hardbound photo books that can also be delivered directly to your doorstep. (Services may vary depending on region.) And if you just want to print your photos on your own, Elements 4.0 lets you quickly drop your photos into Picture Packages that let you print photos from your desktop printer in a variety of flexible layouts.

Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 (Mac) [OLD VERSION]

• Make your photos look their best by fixing common flaws with a click and editing with less fuss, perfecting your photos with advanced options, and have fun with artistic special effects.
• Show off your creativity and share your photos in entertaining and creative ways.
• Easily find and view your photos and keep your photos at your fingertips with powerful search options.
• Enjoy nondestructive photo processing and fine-tune exposure and lighting by working directly with the raw image files from your digital camera.
• Do it all with one product and edit, enhance, and show your digital photos with one powerful yet easy to use product.

Adobe CS6 Design Standard

Adobe CS6 Design Standard

Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design Standard software combines industry-standard tools for professional print design and digital publishing. Create eye-catching images and graphics at lightning speed with innovative painting and drawing tools and dozens of creative effects in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Lay out top-quality print pages with exquisite typography in Adobe InDesign. Also in InDesign, produce highly designed eBooks with support for the latest EPUB standards, and deliver media-rich publications for iPad and other tablet devices as easily as creating pages for print. Achieve exceptional quality and precise control with high-performance software that streamlines routine design and production tasks.
Adobe CS6 Design Standard

• Breakthrough image editing in Photoshop-Deliver eye-catching results with the industry standard in digital imaging.
• Video editing in Photoshop-Edit video in Photoshop to include in your digital publishing projects. Quickly combine clips and stills using transitions, audio, and effects, such as pan and zoom.
• Distinctive vector graphics in Illustrator-Create top-quality vector artwork for any project, from logos to illustrations for advertising, packaging, signage, and more.
• Professional page layout in InDesign-Lay out, preflight, and produce stunning page layouts with intuitive design software that offers precise control over typography and built-in tools for creative effects.
• Tablet publications in InDesign-Use InDesign to create media-rich publications for iPad and other tablet devices. Add interactive elements such as pan and zoom, slide shows, audio, and video. Upload to Adobe Digital Publishing Suite for distribution.

Adobe Photoshop CS [OLD VERSION]

Adobe Photoshop CS [OLD VERSION]

Photoshop CS combines the professional standard in desktop image production with new features for Web designers and video professionals. Design your own typography by placing text on a path or within a shape Customize keyboard shortcuts to keep your favorite features at your fingertips Full support for Flash(.swf) files — create them in ImageReady, along with vector art & variable text
Adobe Photoshop CS [OLD VERSION]

• Improved file management, new design possibilities, and a more intuitive way to create for the Web
• Support for 16-bit images, digital camera raw data, and non-square pixels
• Create or modify photos using painting, drawing, and retouching tools
• Customized workspace; save personalized workspace and tool settings; create customized shortcuts
• Unparalleled efficiency–automate production tasks with built-in or customized scripts

Adobe Photoshop CS6 for Mac [Download]

Adobe Photoshop CS6 for Mac [Download]

Adobe Photoshop CS6—the world’s best digital imaging software—delivers magic that helps you bring your creative vision to life. Edit raw image files and other photos with state-of-the-art photo editing. Create compelling HDR images, black-and-whites, and panoramas. Retouch images with astonishing ease and control. Design anything you can imagine—at amazing speed. Paint and draw naturally and expressively. Even put your ideas in motion by intuitively creating stunning videos.
Adobe Photoshop CS6 for Mac [Download]

• Content-Aware Patch – Patch images with greater control using Content-Aware Patch, the latest addition to the Content-Aware family of technologies, which allows you to choose the sample area it will use to create your patch.
• Mercury Graphics Engine and 64-bit support?Count on the new Mercury Graphics Engine for blazing fast performance when editing with key tools, and take advantage of cross-platform 64-bit support.
• New and re-engineered design tools – Get consistent formatting with type styles, use vector layers to apply strokes and add gradients to vector objects, easily create custom strokes and dashed lines, quickly search layers, and more.
• Intuitive video creation – Bring Photoshop editing power to your video footage. Easily enhance any clip using the full range of familiar Photoshop tools, and create videos using an intuitive set of video tools.
• Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 7 plug-in – Bring out the best in your JPEG and raw files with improved processing and an enhanced control set; reveal every detail in the highlights of an image while still retaining rich detail in the shadows; and much more.

Adobe Photoshop CS6 [Download]

Adobe Photoshop CS6 [Download]

Adobe Photoshop CS6—the world’s best digital imaging software—delivers magic that helps you bring your creative vision to life. Edit raw image files and other photos with state-of-the-art photo editing. Create compelling HDR images, black-and-whites, and panoramas. Retouch images with astonishing ease and control. Design anything you can imagine—at amazing speed. Paint and draw naturally and expressively. Even put your ideas in motion by intuitively creating stunning videos.
Adobe Photoshop CS6 [Download]

• Content-Aware Patch – Patch images with greater control using Content-Aware Patch, the latest addition to the Content-Aware family of technologies, which allows you to choose the sample area it will use to create your patch.
• Mercury Graphics Engine and 64-bit support – Count on the new Mercury Graphics Engine for blazing fast performance when editing with key tools, and take advantage of cross-platform 64-bit support.
• New and re-engineered design tools – Get consistent formatting with type styles, use vector layers to apply strokes and add gradients to vector objects, easily create custom strokes and dashed lines, quickly search layers, and more.
• Intuitive video creation – Bring Photoshop editing power to your video footage. Easily enhance any clip using the full range of familiar Photoshop tools, and create videos using an intuitive set of video tools.
• Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 7 plug-in – Bring out the best in your JPEG and raw files with improved processing and an enhanced control set; reveal every detail in the highlights of an image while still retaining rich detail in the shadows; and much more.

Adobe Photoshop Extended CS4 [OLD VERSION]

Adobe Photoshop Extended CS4 [OLD VERSION]

Get all the features in Adobe Photoshop CS4 software- and much more. Whether you work in design, motion graphics, architecture, education, engineering, medicine, or scientific research, Photoshop CS4 Extended is the software for you. Paint directly on 3D models and access all the power of Photoshop for 3D editing and compositing. Experiment freely with nondestructive image adjustments. Composite images, text, and graphics. Work at peak efficiency in a streamlined and flexible interface. Edit motion graphics over multiple frames of imported video layers. And for accurate image analysis and visualization, take advantage of precise measurement, counting, and logging tools. Includes Photoshop CS4 Extended For Windows.Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended software delivers all the features in Photoshop CS4 and more. New features make it easier than ever to apply the unrivaled editing power of Photoshop to 3D models and motion graphics. Improved image analysis capabilities satisfy technical needs, while a newly refined interface speeds up your workflow.

Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop CS4 Extended feature a newly refined, tab-based interface in a single, integrated window, with self-adjusting panels arranged in docked groups. Automatically keeping tools well organized and away from your work area means you get greater efficiency, less clutter, and better results, faster than before. Click to enlarge.

Discover new dimensions in digital imaging

Revolutionary 3D painting and compositing
Paint directly on 3D models, wrap 2D images around 3D shapes, convert gradient maps to 3D objects, add depth to layers and text, and get print-quality output with the new ray-tracing rendering engine, and enjoy exporting to supported common 3D formats.

Adjustments panel
Simplify image adjustment by easily accessing every tool you need to nondestructively adjust and enhance the color and tone of your images; on-image controls and a wide variety of presets are also included in the new live and dynamic Adjustments panel.

Masks panel
Quickly create and edit masks from the new Masks panel. This 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.

Motion graphics editing
Paint, add text, and clone over multiple frames of an imported video sequence. Sync painting and other effects to your soundtrack with new audio controls. And work faster using single-key shortcuts.

Richer painting and drawing toolset
Create or modify images with a wide assortment of professional, fully customizable drawing tools, paint settings, and artistic brushes. Simply drag to resize brushes and adjust for hardness as you paint and preview brush strokes.

The new Adjustments panel helps eliminate almost 90% of the mouse movements required to make nondestructive image adjustments. Click to enlarge.

Spot color and exposure adjustments are more natural with the improved Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools.

Enhanced Auto-Blend technology automatically masks and blends frame edges for better results on panoramas. Click to enlarge.

A range of shots, each with different exposure, color, and focal points (left) automatically becomes a single, color-corrected, expanded depth-of-field image with Auto-Blend Layers. Click to enlarge.

Enhanced auto-alignment of layers
Create accurate composites with the enhanced Auto-Align Layers command. Move, rotate, or warp layers to align them more accurately than ever before. Or use spherical alignment to create breathtaking panoramas.

Enhanced auto-blending of images
Easily create 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.

Extended depth of field
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.

Image analysis
Extract quantitative information from images with powerful tools that calculate distance, perimeter, area, and other measurements. Record and export data for further quantitative analysis. Even set measurements to the scale in DICOM file headers.

Better raw image processing
Enjoy superior conversion quality as you process raw images with the industry-leading 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.

Efficient file management with Adobe Bridge CS4
Get instant access to Adobe Bridge CS4 with faster start-up, use new workspaces to jump to the right display for every task, easily create web galleries and PDF contact sheets, and more.

Industry-leading color correction
Enjoy dramatically enhanced control with reengineered Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools that now intelligently preserve color and tone details. Make precise adjustments with Brightness/Contrast and Curves controls, the histogram, channel lines, and a clipping preview.

Multi-Touch support on Mac laptops
Pinch, swipe, rotate, zoom, and scroll with just the touch of your fingers by taking full advantage of the Multi-Touch trackpad on newer MacBook Pro and MacBook Air laptops (requires Mac OS X v10.5).

Profiles to support the color-blind
Design with sensitivity for color-blind individuals by creating soft proofs of your images using built-in Color Universal Design Organization profiles. Extensibility–Get and share Adobe Flash technology-based panels that developers create to accomplish customized tasks. Plus, get tips and tricks from the thriving worldwide community of Photoshop users through the new Adobe Community Help online service.

Top new features in Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop CS4 Extended

The new versions of Photoshop are about much more than just adding new features. They’re about providing you with best practices in the tasks you do daily–about making your work in Photoshop not just faster and easier, but more intelligent, and more natively nondestructive. Here are the top new features and enhancements in Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop CS4 Extended.

Live, nondestructive corrections with the Adjustments panel
Photoshop CS4 speeds workflow performance with the Adjustments panel, cutting the time it takes to make nondestructive adjustments like Curves, Levels, Hue/Saturation, and much more. There’s no dialog box maze to navigate–just go straight to the task at hand. The Adjustments panel brings the right tool for the right job to your fingertips, dynamically, saving precious time. The panel features the new Vibrance adjustment, giving you greater control over color saturation while preserving delicate tones, such as skin colors. On-image adjustments are now available for Hue/Saturation and Curves. Plus, for even greater convenience and time savings, the panel features a wide variety of modifiable presets for each type of change, including more than 20 new preconfigured, customizable starting points. Photoshop CS4 speeds you through countless tasks with the Adjustments panel.

Re-editable, feathered, density-controlled masks
The new Masks panel smooths and speeds the creation and adjustment of pixel and vector masks, making it easier than ever to apply effects to precisely defined areas of an image. Now, with simple sliders, you can adjust the density and feathering of a mask, to control both the sharpness of the mask edge and how much of the adjustment effect you’d like to reveal. The Refine Mask feature allows simple yet fine-grained control over the mask size and edges. And Color Range has been upgraded for better accuracy and power. It’s a fast way to automatically create powerful and detailed masks based on single or multiple colors, with simple controls for the spatial tolerance and “fuzziness” of the color sampling.

Simply drag the new Rotate View tool outside the image area to spin your canvas to the orientation that works best for you. Click to enlarge.

The new Pixel Grid appears at magnifications of 600% or higher, facilitating the finest detail editing. Click to enlarge.

Bridge CS4 makes it easier to work with all of your image assets, with intuitive, easily discoverable controls for camera import, viewing and sorting, contact-sheet and web-gallery creation. You’ll also find more versatile throughput to Photoshop CS4, including opening multiple files as a single, multi-layered image, and much more. Click to enlarge.

Enhancements to 3D support in Photoshop CS4 Extended include the ability to merge 2D layers onto 3D layers–effectively turning a 2D image into part of the 3D object. Click to enlarge.

Preview and export audio tracks and frame comments from the Animation panel in Photoshop CS4 Extended. Click to enlarge.

More refined, natural results with Dodge, Burn, and Sponge
In the days of film, paper, safelights, and chemicals, photographers dodged and burned their prints during exposure, to darken and brighten areas of an image as they created it. It was an art that required steady hands and practice to master. The newly refined Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools in Photoshop CS4 take the pain and practice out of preserving tonal quality while you spot-correct exposure and color saturation. Simply paint the area you want to adjust and get advanced results in a fraction of the time.

Enhanced Auto-Align, Auto-Blend, and new 360-degree panoramas
The automatic alignment and blending technology in Photoshop CS4 enhances a wide variety of features, but nowhere are the improvements more obvious than in Photomerge. Now, when you stitch a sequence of images into a panorama, enhanced blending combines with new vignetting and geometric distortion corrections to bring you even better results–a panorama with more natural colors blended from one end of the scene to the other. Additional improvements include the ability to create 360-degree panoramas, automatic detection of fish eye lenses to compensate for their inherent distortion, and the new Collage option which rotates and scales individual images as they are combined using Auto-Align and Photomerge.

Extended depth of field
Whether it’s the extreme close-up, the microbial world, or simply low-light conditions, there are times when the depth of field you can capture with your camera is extremely shallow. Now, you can shoot the scene with a series of focal points, and use the enhanced Auto-Blend Layers feature to automatically create a new, single image with a depth of field encompassing the entire series. You can even color-correct the images at the same time, automatically. This feature provides breathtaking enhancement of any scene where lighting and depth of field are in short supply.

Fluid canvas rotation
Photoshop CS4 introduces a revolutionary new feature that lets you paint and draw as easily and naturally as sitting down at an easel. With the new Rotate View tool, you can nondestructively spin your canvas to any orientation you desire–a boon to every illustrator, whether you paint by mouse or tablet. No pixel distortion, no craning your head to get the perspective you want, and no matter how you spin your canvas, Photoshop CS4 adjusts your selections, grids, rulers, and other tools and features to match your chosen orientation.

Ultra-smooth, extra-precise pan, zoom, preview, and painting tools
Most modern computers contain a powerful graphics processor (GPU) that is almost like having a second computer inside the box. Photoshop CS4 leverages the power of your GPU with OpenGL technology to blast past the image-viewing restrictions of yesterday. Zoom all the way down to the level of individual pixels, with perfect clarity even at the oddest magnification percentages. Smoothly navigate around the largest images with no stutter or preview lag. Use the new Pixel Grid to easily edit images at the highest magnification. And revel in a faster, easier painting workflow, with brushes you can resize by dragging your mouse; new brush cursors that more clearly preview brush strokes before you make them; and improved, higher precision tablet tracking. Navigating very large images is easier than ever–instantly zoom high overhead to move to a new area of the image, and just as instantly zoom back in to the highest magnification. You can also ÒtossÓ the image across the screen with the Hand tool–the physics engine in Photoshop CS4 will give you a natural pan in any direction.

Next generation Adobe Bridge CS4
Finding, previewing, and managing all of your image assets jumps to a new level of power and convenience with Adobe Bridge CS4, beginning with faster performance from startup through to handing off images to Photoshop CS4. New path-bar navigation and workspace selection buttons across the top of the Bridge window let you instantly jump to just the right display for every task, including new Camera Import controls, visual folder navigation, and a new Carousel View for larger image-group selections. In the Output workspace, Bridge now features PDF-based contact-sheet creation and web-gallery creation and uploading. You can preview 3D images and panoramas created in Photoshop CS4. The new Search field helps you quickly find images in Bridge, and is also integrated with the Spotlight feature in Mac OS X and the Desktop Search feature in Windows Vista. You can even switch to the new, intuitive List View, with its familiar data display and sorting controls.

Tighter integration with Photoshop Lightroom 2
Professionals and other advanced photographers rely on the one-two punch of Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Lightroom software as the complete digital photography toolkit. Photoshop CS4 makes this workflow easier than ever, with improved cross-application support for automated functions, such as opening multiple photographs from Lightroom 2 directly into a layered Photoshop document, high dynamic range (HDR) image, panorama, or Smart Object. Lightroom 2 and Adobe Camera Raw also share the same underlying technology, which means the changes you make with Camera Raw 5 in Photoshop CS4 are recognized in Lightroom 2, and vice versa.

Camera Raw 5 with localized, nondestructive adjustments
Providing the first step in the processing of raw data from your digital camera, Camera Raw now enables you to make localized adjustments by simply painting the area to be affected, and then using sliders to control the change. Additional enhancements include Post Crop Vignetting, and gradient-based localized correction. You can apply the same Camera Raw adjustments to TIFF and JPEG photographs, and, as always, the corrections you make are completely nondestructive, with the original files being maintained in their pristine state.

Breakthrough 3D editing and compositing
With Photoshop CS4 Extended, you can now work with 3D models as easily and powerfully as you can 2D images, without navigating dialog boxes and special layer contents. For the first time, you can paint directly on 3D models, easily convert 2D images or gradient maps into 3D objects, and convert layers into volumes. Wrap a flat design onto a 3D object by merging the 2D layer directly onto your 3D layer. Merge two different 3D layers into a single scene. You can even use video layers as textures, to turn any 3D object into a video display zone. Basic presets will speed the process or turning two-dimensional designs into common 3D shapes such as spheres and cylinders. You can also export 3D layers directly to the OBJ, KMZ, Collada, and U3D file formats. It all means that every creative professional can now take immediate advantage of three-dimensional assets created in today’s high-end modeling applications, and use them in their 2D mock-ups and composites. The 3D engine has been rebuilt from the ground up to provide dramatically faster performance; allow editing of properties like lights, materials, and cameras; and create more realistic renderings with a new high-quality ray tracer.

Enhanced motion graphics
Adobe Photoshop is an essential part of the motion graphics workflow, and Photoshop CS4 Extended makes that workflow more efficient than ever, starting with the enhanced preview of non-square-pixel images. Easily preview and export the audio content of a video file as well as its frame comments. New keyboard shortcuts are enabled for the Animation panel to make fast work of editing between frames and keyframes. You can now animate the 3D object and camera position, render settings, and cross-sections, bringing new depth to motion-graphics editing. When working with 3D objects, you can even place video layers into your textures, turning any 3D object surface into a video display screen. Especially for film and television professionals, Adobe After Effects CS4 can now directly read and import 3D layers from Photoshop CS4 files.

With Volume Rendering, the 2D images from a DICOM stack (left) become rich, 3D volumes that can be examined from any orientation. Click to enlarge.

New Post Crop Vignetting lets you recreate artistic vignette effects in a photograph even after the original edge of the photo has been cropped away. Click to enlarge.

Photoshop CS4 helps you keep your work area efficient and clutter-free, with a new unified application frame, tab-based interface and self-adjusting panels. Click to enlarge.

Printing improvements in Photoshop CS4 include 16-bit printing (Mac OS X only) and preview of out-of-gamut colors. Click to enlarge.

The Adobe Kuler panel makes it simple to browse, create, and share color themes online. Click to enlarge.

Volume Rendering
Volume Rendering is a new way to easily convert text, shape, or pixel layers into a volume. Artists can combine painted layers into entirely new and eye-catching 3D volumes. Motion graphics professionals can quickly turn text layers into animated 3D text. Medical professionals can volume render a DICOM image stack into a 3D anatomical image that can be viewed and explored from all angles and depths. Whether the goal is creative or scientific, Photoshop CS4 Extended adds exciting new capabilities with Volume Rendering.

Easier data collection and analysis with the Count tool
Allowing fast, simple, point-and-click tallying of objects in scientific images, the Count tool is expanded in Photoshop CS4 Extended to allow for multiple counts, as well as separate colors for each count. This data is easily saved into the file for future reference, and can be collected in the Measurement Log panel for comparison and export to standard text files.

Unified tabbed interface with self-adjusting panels
Photoshop CS4 helps you keep your work area efficient and clutter-free, with a new unified application frame, tab-based interface and self-adjusting panels. You’ll notice immediately how the Photoshop interface appears cleaner–instead of having to arrange multiple image windows, Photoshop does it for you with a tab for each open image. Docked panel groups keep to the side of your images, so you have fewer things to move around while you work. Individual panels expand and contract automatically to show you the controls you need, and you can even collapse entire panel groups to their header rows with a single click. Of course, you can still manually arrange floating windows and panels to suit your working style, even moving all of your panels to a second monitor if you prefer.

Smarter Smart Objects
Smart Object layers allow for nondestructive scaling and transformation of Photoshoplayers. With Photoshop CS4, you can now apply perspective transformations to SmartObjects, work with linked layer masks, and use the new Eyedropper tool option to sampleeither the current layer or all of the layers in the Smart Object at once.

More powerful printing options
Photoshop CS4 brings even higher quality to large, detailed images when taken to print. You can now preview out-of-gamut colors and take advantage of a streamlined printing interface. In addition, only on Mac OS X for this release, 16-bit printing is available for the first time, vastly increasing the color depth and clarity possible in printing.

Higher performance on very large images (Windows 64 only)
Photoshop CS4 has now been optimized to take advantage of even more RAM on 64-bit-capable Windows PCs that are running a 64-bit version of Windows Vista.

Additional refinements
The evolution of Photoshop software always includes a vast array of small but important improvements and additions. Extra refinements in Photoshop CS4 include:

• Support for multi-touch gestures available on newer Apple MacBook Pro and MacBook Air computers running Mac OS X Leopard
• Clone Stamp and Healing Brush live preview cursor for easier, more precise cloning and healing results
• Layer-based metadata enabling reading and writing strings to layer properties, such as recording time-stamp information for video
• Developers of specialized applications can create custom SWF-format panels that smoothly integrate with Photoshop CS4
• Extensible SWF-based File Info panel, enabling developers to add network-stored keywords, perform spell-checking, and other functions
• Unique IDs per document for easier downstream tracking of assets
• CUDO technology, providing the ability to design with sensitivity for color blind individuals via soft-proofing
• Spring-loaded keys to temporarily shift between tools by holding down a tool shortcut key
• FXG export
• Device Link color profile support
• Notes panel, to keep annotations from cluttering the canvas

Creative Pro Online Services

Photoshop CS4 gives you built-in access to a world of online resources with Creative Pro Online Services. Search for help; share your screen with colleagues or clients in a few clicks; create and share color harmonies; and more.

Adobe Community Help
Get the power of an online search engine with targeted results. Searchable content includes the in-depth Photoshop Help, plus additional Adobe and third-party content chosen by experts at Adobe and in the design and production communities. With Adobe Community Help, you can find the focused answers you need, fast, simply by choosing Help > Photoshop Help (Internet connection required).

Acrobat.com
Acrobat.com is a set of online services–file sharing and storage, PDF converter, online word processor, and web conferencing–that you can use to create and share documents, communicate in real time, and simplify working with others. Thanks to the connection between one of the Acrobat.com services, Adobe ConnectNow, and Photoshop CS4, you can meet live over the web to share your screen, present creative concepts and ideas, and brainstorm with up to two online guests for no additional service charge. To share your screen with colleagues and clients, choose File > Share My Screen. Guests can then see your desktop on their screens as you work. You can exchange ideas using the chat pod, add a live video or audio feed, or use the Whiteboard feature to enable guests to comment on content. You can even temporarily hand over control of the screen to a guest to collaborate on a file. Additional Acrobat.com services, such as Share, Create PDF, My Files, and Adobe Buzzword, are accessible via your web browser. (Internet connection required.)

Adobe Kuler
Explore, create, and share color themes with Adobe Kuler. Kick start your creative projects with color inspiration from the online Kuler community. Browse thousands of themes by newest, most popular, or highest rated; or search themes by tag word, title, or creator. Themes can be downloaded and moved to your Swatches panel with one click. Or use an interactive color wheel that supports standard harmony rules to develop new color themes that you can save, move to your Swatches panel, and upload to share with others (Internet connection required for community functionality).

Adobe Bridge Home
Click Bridge Home in the Favorites panel of Adobe Bridge CS4 and stay up to date with what’s new from Adobe, and from the design, web development, and video and audio production communities at large. Watch the latest video tutorials for your Creative Suite 4 components, listen to a podcast interview with a leading designer, or learn about the next training event in your community. Discover tips and resources that can help you make the most of Photoshop CS4 (Internet connection required).

Part of the Adobe Creative Suite 4 family

Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended are important components of the Adobe Creative Suite 4 family of software. Creative Suite 4 Design Premium is everything a modern designer needs to create eye-catching images, breathtaking graphics, expert typography, precision layout, and high-quality production for print, web, interactive, and mobile content. Creative Suite 4 Web Premium is a complete solution for creating interactive websites, applications, user interfaces, presentations, mobile device content, Adobe AIR applications, and other digital experiences. Creative Suite 4 Production Premium is must-have software for creative professionals who need to craft world-class video, audio, and interactive media–on-air, online, on-device, and invariably on deadline. Creative Suite 4 Master Collection is the complete solution for customers requiring the ultimate power and versatility of the complete line of Adobe Creative Suite 4 components.
Adobe Photoshop Extended CS4 [OLD VERSION]

• Paint directly on 3D models, wrap 2D images around 3D shapes, convert gradient maps to 3D objects, add depth to layers and text, and get print-quality output with the new ray-tracing rendering engine, and enjoy exporting to supported common 3D formats
• Easily access every tool for nondestructive adjustment of color and tone, including Exposure and Vibrance options; quickly adjust specific areas with easier access to all the tools for creating editable pixel- and vector-based masks
• Paint, add text, and clone over multiple frames of an imported video sequence with ease using single-key shortcuts
• Create or modify images with a wide assortment of professional, fully customizable drawing tools, paint settings, and artistic brushes; simply drag to resize brushes and adjust for hardness as you paint and preview brush strokes
• Use the new Content-Aware Scaling feature to 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

Power, Speed & Automation with Adobe Photoshop: (The Digital Imaging Masters Series) Reviews

Power, Speed & Automation with Adobe Photoshop: (The Digital Imaging Masters Series)

This is a must for the serious Photoshop user! Power, Speed & Automation explores how to customize and automate Photoshop to increase your speed and productivity.  With numerous step-by-step instructions, the authors-two of Adobe’s own software developers!- walk you through the steps to best tailor Photoshop’s interface to your personal workflow; write and apply Actions; and use batching and scripts to process large numbers of images quickly and automatically.  You will learn how to build your own dialogs and panels to improve your production workflows in Photoshop, the secrets of changing keyboard shortcuts and menus, and ways to tune your system for optimal performance.  Writing new processes using JavaScript is also covered, as well as leveraging Variables with data sets. Learn how to get more work done- more easily and quickly- with this essential guide!

*This book can be used with any version of Photoshop through CS6!*

* Part of the new Digital Imaging Masters Series, series edited by the most well-known digital photography educator-Katrin Eismann

*Ideal for professional photographers who want to advance their skills in digital image capture, image processing, and high-quality output to remain competitive in a variety of image-making and related fields

*Contains step by step detail and screenshots to walk the reader through difficult scripting exercises 

Power, Speed & Automation with Adobe Photoshop: (The Digital Imaging Masters Series)

Photoshop Elements 7: The Missing Manual (Missing Manuals)

Photoshop Elements 7 includes new tools for everything from fixing up your photos to storing and sharing your pictures online. There’s so much to this new version, in fact, that knowing how to make the most of it isn’t readily apparent. Photoshop Elements 7: The Missing Manual guides you through all of the program’s features by explaining the way the tools and commands work, and how you can use them to your advantage.

Sneak Preview: Author Barbara Brundage’s Top 10 Elements Tips

1. It’s still important to back up your photos. Elements 7 gives you a totally painless way with its related web site. Sign up for a free account and you can set your albums to automatically back themselves up to your space online. Once you set up album syncing, you don’t have to think about it again. It happens automatically. If you have a computer disaster at home, just reinstall Elements on the new computer, turn on the backup/sync option, and sign in to the site, and your photos reappear on your new computer. This service has some limitations (all detailed in the book), but it’s a terrific way to keep an extra copy of important photos. And you still have the regular Organizer options for backing up to CD, DVD, or a different hard drive.

2. Find a size that fits. If you’ve been using Elements for scrapbooking, take a look at the new file size presets available in Elements 7. There’s a whole separate category for scrapbook sizes in the New File dialog box. Now you can create a 12″-, 8″-, or 6″-square sized file without having to set up a custom size.

3. On vacation? Take a private tour. If your “staycation” this year takes you to a nearby tourist spot along with everyone else in your state, you can get rid of those strangers crowding into your photos—as long as you plan ahead a little. Start by getting a series of pictures that give you enough clear spots, even if there are people you don’t know meandering somewhere through every photo. Then you can combine the pictures with the Elements 7 Scene Cleaner to create an image of Aunt Esmeralda and Cousin Wilberforce standing in front of the falls all by themselves, with nobody else around.

4. Make slideshows like a pro. With Elements 7 you can share your albums with dynamite, professional-looking galleries. Create a gallery where your photos appear as a pile of old-fashioned slides. Your friends can then sort through, and click the ones they like, to see a larger view. Elements has other gallery options that let you create a virtual book where your visitors “turn” the page with the mouse. And you can host these at the related web site, burn them to a CD or DVD, or even post them on your own web site.

5. Create beautiful skin. If you like glamour-type photography, check out the new Surface blur filter to create dreamy looking skin quality. It blurs without losing edge detail: perfect for smoothing skin in portraits.

6. Make dramatic skies. If you’re a beginner, try the new Quick Fix/Touch Up tool for making the sky bluer–maybe too blue (and kind of green) if truth be told. Fortunately, you can soften up the effect once you’re done. Go back to Full Edit and find the Layers palette (you don’t need to understand layers for this maneuver). Click once on the layer that Elements just added to your photo (it’s called Blue Skies), and then go up to the top of the palette and move the opacity slider to the left. Watch your photo as you move the slider. When it looks real, you’re done. (Click the bottom layer, the one called Background, before you leave the Layers palette. That way you can make more edits to your photos.) Another option: You may prefer the results you get using the Smart Brush in Full Edit, if your sky has any clouds in it. In the tool presets in the Options bar, go to Nature->Cloud Contrast and drag across the sky. Presto, your clouds really stand out!

7. Never, ever work on your original photo. If you use the Organizer, good news: Elements already has your back. It creates version sets, which save different states of your image as you edit. You can create as many different versions of a photo as you like and go back to any one of them at any time. And if you’re working with Raw files, even better news: You can’t alter your original (only the conversion settings). If you don’t use the Organizer, make a copy of the picture (File- >Duplicate) and work on that. This way you can always start over again if you get a better idea later on.

8. Sharing photos with the Organizer. There are all kinds of fun, creative ways to share photos in Elements 7, and the Organizer makes it super easy to explore them all. Try a slideshow with music and commentary, or upload your photos to EasyShare or one of the other online services to create mugs, bags, and other cool gift items with your photos on them.

9. Don’t scorn the auto buttons. If you’ve never tried these one-click fixes–Auto Levels or Auto Color, for example–give ‘em a try. Each version of Elements gets a little smarter and you may find that you like the results you get from one of these easy-to-use fixes.

10. Panoramas for everyone. You don’t need to feel wistful anymore about the fact that your point and shoot camera’s lens doesn’t have a true wide-angle setting. Take a series of photos with, ideally, about a 30 percent overlap and Elements’ Photomerge will automatically stitch them together into a panorama wider than you could have captured with the widest lens. Photomerge is really amazing–it’s totally automated and it does terrific blending to eliminate visible seams between images.

Look Inside Photoshop Elements 7: The Missing Manual

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