The Secret Life of Smart Filters. John answers how Smart Filters in Photoshop CS3 came to be. A good read for anyone wondering why it ended up being an extension of Smart Objects. (Via John Nack on Adobe.)
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I’m sure once everyone has a chance to download the Photoshop CS3 beta and digest it all, they will soon discover their favorite new features and enhancements. To get things going though, I thought I’d go ahead and try to list some of mine that quickly surface to the top:
Smart Filters - Finally we get non-destructive filters (well, sort of). Smart Filters build off of Smart Objects introduced in CS2. In order to use Smart Filters, a layer must be converted to a smart object first. Yes, a little clunky, but the team has made every effort to make it as seamless as possible. Choose “Convert to Smart Filters” from the Filter menu in order to have Photoshop CS3 automatically convert a layer to a smart object before apply a selected filter. I’m not completely convinced at how successful this feature will be consider how Smart Objects exhibit strange blending behaviors in CS2. I’m hoping this has been fixed up.
Looks like it’s official now!
Adobe has announced it will introduce on Friday a beta version of the Universal Adobe Photoshop CS3 software to ‘enable customers to more easily transition to the latest hardware platforms, particularly Appleís new Intel-based systems.’ The beta, first previewed in early September, is available as a Universal Binary for the Macintosh platform, as w…
Pretty exciting news for the Mac users out there wanting Photoshop to run Universal sooner rather than later.
(Via MacNN.)
Sphere: Related ContentA Bright Future for Fireworks. A little sneak peak (very little) into Fireworks 9, which is currently in private beta. But it should make all you Fireworkers happy. (Via John Nack on Adobe.)
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AppleInsider claims that Adobe may have plans to release an early public beta of its Creative Suite 3.0 software bundle before the end of the year. This would definitely make for a welcome gift for many creative professionals waiting it out to get an Intel-based Mac. Although, it being beta could still keep some people waiting in the wings until Spring ‘07.
You can read the entire article here at AppleInsider.
Sphere: Related ContentFirebug 1.0 Beta. An incredibly useful Firefox extension that surpasses the Web Dev extension in many ways. (Via UX Magazine.)
Wanna Save Money on a High-End Laptop? Buy a Mac. “A MacBook Pro and a Dell laptop shoot out for the best value. Surprise, surprise, it’s the Mac! (Via Infinite Loop.)
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