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Selection of the Month
Adobe Photoshop 7.0
With each new version of Photoshop, Adobe never fails
to come up with an awe-inspiring mix of great new
features, productivity enhancements, and tweaks and
treats. Version 7 is no exception.
Major points of interest include a new healing brush
that removes facial wrinkles and other surface blemishes
with incredible ease, a long-awaited file browser that
allows you to view image thumbnails and metadata,
enhanced Web features, automatic color correction, and
even a spell checker.
One of Photoshop's many strengths is the versatility
of its tools, and this has been stretched to new limits.
Filter previews are bigger, the Liquify tool has been
enhanced, brush parameters have been extended, and
commonly used tool settings can be saved as presets.
This means you can virtually do away with the toolbox,
instead selecting tools with exactly the settings you
need from the presets palette.
Image Ready, Photoshop's Web-authoring and export
module, remains a separate, linked application. Creation
of rollovers is simpler and a new "selected"
rollover state takes some of the repetitive strain out
of nav-bar production.
New output options include Picture Package, which
allows you to print multiple images on a single page,
and new templates and security watermarking for Web
galleries.
All in all, this is an upgrade guaranteed to keep
Photoshop at the cutting edge of professional image
editing. --Ken McMahon
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