Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended

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What are the two editions of Photoshop CS3?: Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 software is available in two editions: Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop CS3 Extended.
What is Adobe Photoshop CS3?: Photoshop CS3 is the latest release of the industry standard in digital imaging. It accelerates your path from imagination to imagery with a wealth of productivity and workflow enhancements, unrivaled editing power, and breakthrough compositing capabilities.
What is Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended?: Photoshop CS3 Extended delivers everything in Photoshop CS3 and more. Render and incorporate 3D images into your 2D composites. Stop time with easy editing of motion graphics on video layers. And probe your images with measurement, analysis, and visualization tools.
What customer segments is Photoshop CS3 for?: Photoshop CS3 is ideal for professional photographers, serious amateur photographers, web and graphic designers, and print service providers.
How does Photoshop CS3 address the needs of photographers?: With Photoshop CS3, you can perfect all of your images with nondestructive filters and more powerful color-correction, cloning, and healing tools, and create sophisticated composites more easily than ever with breakthrough tools for automatically aligning and blending layers and making quick selections. There are many productivity enhancements such as Camera Raw 4.1 with fill light and dust busting, integration with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom™ software, and Zoomify support.
How does Photoshop CS3 Extended address the needs of creative professionals in film and video?: With Photoshop CS3 Extended, you can now leverage the power of the Photoshop image-editing toolset and paint engine when editing 3D and motion-based content for film and video. Photoshop CS3 Extended includes key new capabilities that let you incorporate motion-based content into your image-editing workflow. You can animate video frames, paint and clone over multiple video frames, and import and export video files in a wide range of formats.
How does Photoshop CS3 Extended address the needs of web and graphic designers using 3D and motion?: With Photoshop CS3 Extended, you can now leverage the power of the Photoshop image-editing toolset and paint engine when creating and editing images for the web. Web and graphic designers can easily edit and composite 3D content into their 2D images. Integration with other Adobe applications such as Adobe Flash®, Dreamweaver®, and After Effects® software enables a smoother web and graphic workflow for designers. Take advantage of Flash and Zoomify technology to export high-resolution images to the web for viewing through Adobe Flash Player software.
How does Photoshop CS3 Extended address the needs of manufacturing professionals?: With Photoshop CS3 Extended, manufacturing professionals such as concept designer engineers, package designers, and engineers in design collaboration can easily import, rotate, and create different rendering modes and edit existing textures on 3D models to enhance 3D content or create compelling composites of 2D and 3D content. Photoshop Extended supports common 3D interchange formats, including 3DS, OBJ, U3D, KMZ, and COLLADA, so you can import, view, and interact with most 3D models. Manufacturing professionals can leverage a smoother workflow between Adobe Acrobat® 3D software and Photoshop Extended as well. You can bring 3D content from a wide range of modeling programs into Acrobat 3D and then open a U3D file in Photoshop Extended for granular texture editing and improved visualization.
How does Photoshop CS3 Extended address the needs of medical professionals?: With Photoshop CS3 Extended, medical professionals such as physicians, biomedical researchers, and medical photographers can document, analyze, and visualize images with greater precision. You can improve patient care and communication with tools to create, annotate, measure, and enhance digital images. Photoshop CS3 Extended also supports the DICOM format. With this support, medical professionals can use the comprehensive Photoshop Extended toolset to import, correct, annotate, analyze, and create animations from DICOM images. You can also automatically remove patient information from DICOM metadata and batch save JPEG files for presentations.
How does Photoshop CS3 Extended address the needs of architects and engineers?: With Photoshop CS3 Extended, you can communicate your vision clearly and make an impact with all of your drawings and designs. The new support for 3D content enables you to edit textures on 3D models or create compelling composites of 2D and 3D content. Enhanced Vanishing Point lets you measure in perspective; wrap graphics, images, and text around multiple planes that are not perpendicular to one another; and output 2D planes as 3D models.
How does Photoshop CS3 Extended address the needs of scientific researchers?: Photoshop CS3 Extended offers new tools for analyzing and extracting data from images, as well as powerful presentation capabilities to help you communicate your discoveries. You can also extract quantitative information from images with new tools that let you calibrate images, take more accurate measurements, and export data (including histogram data) to spreadsheet programs.
What are the big differences between Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop CS3 Extended?: Photoshop CS3 is the professional standard in digital imaging. Enhancements to Photoshop CS3 include a streamlined interface, many productivity improvements including faster launch times, features that deliver unrivaled editing and breakthrough compositing including the frequently requested Smart Filters for nondestructive editing, and Auto-align and Auto-blend for advanced compositing. Photoshop CS3 Extended includes all the features of Photoshop CS3 plus customized features meant for professionals using specialized images including 3D and motion based content. Photoshop CS3 Extended enables easy editing of motion graphics on video layers as well as compositing and texture editing of 3D content. Photoshop CS3 Extended also includes measurement and visualization tools that allow deeper analysis of scientific and engineering images.
What are all the products in the Photoshop family?: The Photoshop product family includes Photoshop CS3, Photoshop CS3 Extended, Lightroom, Photoshop Elements, and Photoshop Album Starter Edition. For more information about all the products in the Photoshop family, visit the Photoshop family page.
What are the key features of this release of Photoshop CS3?: There are many productivity enhancements in Photoshop CS3. Customers can experience native performance on Intel® based and PowerPC® Macs and on Microsoft® Windows® XP and Windows Vista™ systems. A streamlined interface helps maximize your workspace. The enhanced Camera Raw allows you to process raw images with increased speed and quality. With Photoshop CS3, there is complete compatibility with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom (sold separately), so the changes you make to an image in one product will automatically appear in the other. The unrivaled editing power of Photoshop moves up a notch as well. With nondestructive Smart Filters, you can experiment freely with more creative control. Conversion to black-and-white is easier than ever. You can create more accurate and powerful composites with new tools that automatically align and blend layers or images based on content. The Quick Selection and Refine Edge tools allow you to make easy selections with the stroke of a brush and then perfect any selection edge in an easy-to-use, intuitive dialog box. The enhanced Photomerge® features allows you to merge multiple photos into a panorama with superior results.
What are the key features of the new Photoshop CS3 Extended?: Photoshop CS3 Extended includes all the features of Photoshop CS3 plus more. It includes key new capabilities that let you incorporate 3D and motion-based content into your image-editing workflow. You can render 3D content into your 2D composites, edit existing textures on 3D models, and embed your edited models into Adobe PDF files for easy collaboration with colleagues. Plus, you can animate video frames, paint and clone over multiple video frames, and import and export video files in a wide range of formats. Photoshop CS3 Extended also helps professionals in manufacturing, medicine, architecture, engineering, and scientific research gain more insight from images. Measurement and counting tools enable analysis of 2D and 3D images. MATLAB users can pull image data from Photoshop Extended into MATLAB and visualize results of MATLAB algorithms back in the software. With the support for DICOM format, medical professionals can correct, annotate, and analyze DICOM files. Photoshop Extended also includes a Count tool and a Scale Marker tool.
Are there any features in PS CS3 Extended that a photographer can use?: Features in industry-standard Photoshop CS3 that photographers will use the most like Smart Filters, Auto-align and Auto-blend, Quick Selection and Refine Edge, integration with Lightroom, Zoomify support, and enhanced Camera Raw are all available as part of Photoshop CS3 Extended as well. Photographers can choose to buy Photoshop Extended if they want to leverage the unique features available such as the ability to edit 3D and motion content and image analysis.
What Creative Suite 3 edition is Photoshop CS3 part of?: Photoshop CS3 is included in Adobe Creative Suite® 3 Design Standard, targeting graphic designers and print service providers.
What Creative Suite 3 editions is Photoshop CS3 Extended part of?: Photoshop CS3 Extended has features that are relevant to many audiences. In the creative professional market, it has features meant for professionals in film, video, and multimedia, as well as graphic and web designers using 3D and motion based content. Given this rich feature set, Photoshop CS3 Extended is included in Creative Suite 3 Design Premium, Web Premium, Production Premium, and Master Collection.
What is Adobe Photoshop Lightroom?: Lightroom is the perfect complement to Photoshop CS3. Lightroom helps you import, manage, adjust, and present large volumes of digital photographs. Photoshop CS3, the standard in digital imaging, is used to create, refine, and perfect images with greater editing control.; Built from the ground up for the professional photographer, Lightroom is meant to simplify the photographic workflow while ensuring high-quality, nondestructive image processing. Lightroom is designed to move digital photographs efficiently from capture through editing to output — including slide shows and print and web galleries. By streamlining the workflow, Lightroom minimizes the time spent sorting and organizing images, so you can devote your time to actually shooting and perfecting them. Narrowing down a shoot, adding essential metadata, and then creating the perfect negatives are its greatest strengths.
How is Lightroom different from Adobe Bridge?: Adobe Bridge is an essential image tool for web, print, and dynamic media designers, videographers, animators, scientists, fine artists, and numerous other creative professionals around the globe. As its name says, it is the bridge between the components in Adobe Creative Suite, enabling files to be quickly moved through varied workflows. Lightroom is designed for photographers, without compromising power, flexibility, or quality. Because it was created with the input of working photographers, Lightroom targets the most important and time-critical tasks to make them as efficient as possible. One of the fundamental differences between Bridge and Lightroom is the way they store information about images. Adobe Bridge is a file browser, which navigates folders on a local drive and displays their contents. While Adobe Bridge is incapable of displaying offline files such as files on an external DVD, Lightroom takes an extended view beyond the local disk — it can work with offline files because it is database driven.
How does Lightroom work with Photoshop CS3?: Lightroom and Photoshop CS3 are complementary products that offer a complete solution for the digital photographer's workflow. These two products are tightly integrated, and there are two primary ways to open a photo from Lightroom in Photoshop CS3. If you want to set individual file options such as file type, bit depth, color space, and file size, you can export the photo and have Lightroom automatically open the file in Photoshop CS3. If you want to directly open the photo file or a copy of it and include the new copy in your Lightroom Library, you can simply select "Edit in Photoshop" from the Photo menu, and choose the command from the contextual menu. Likewise, you can open Photoshop images in Lightroom, including TIFF, JPEG, DNG, raw, and single- or multilayered PSD files.
How does Photoshop CS3 integrate with Adobe Flash?: With the release of Creative Suite 3, Adobe Flash CS3 Professional users can import native Photoshop files with layers preserved. Each layer offers its own set of import options — select to have text and paths remain editable, turn a layer into its own movie clip or convert it to a bitmap, and more. It's now easier than ever to leverage your Photoshop graphics for interactive content creation workflows. And Photoshop CS3 Extended now allows you to export animations created in Photoshop to the FLV format for playback through Adobe Flash Player.
How does Photoshop CS3 integrate with Adobe After Effects?: Creative Suite 3 offers a tighter integration between Photoshop CS3 Extended and After Effects. Photoshop Layer Styles are preserved on import to After Effects and can be modified and animated, allowing you to vastly expand possibilities for adding texture and shading to even the most basic layer instantly. Animate style characteristics freely, going beyond what's possible in Photoshop. You can also export Vanishing Point data from Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended, and then import into After Effects to automatically build a 3D composition from the 2D Photoshop image.
How does Photoshop CS3 integrate with other Adobe applications?: Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop CS3 Extended provide a greater integration across other Adobe applications. Users can copy and paste Photoshop files directly into Dreamweaver CS3 projects, import them into Flash CS3 Professional with high fidelity, and preserve layer effects and video layers when you import them into After Effects CS3 Professional. Photoshop CS3 is also tightly integrated with Acrobat 8 Professional and Acrobat 3D. You can control the size of Adobe PDF pages opened in Photoshop Extended; add security controls and metadata, such as copyright and exposure details, to images within PDF presentations; and create a richer image display in PDF presentations and documents. Integration with Acrobat 3D enables a smoother workflow to import and edit 3D content. Integration with Lightroom delivers a complete digital photographer's workflow solution. You can jump from Lightroom to Photoshop CS3 in one click for advanced editing of your digital photos.

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In what languages will Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop CS3 Extended be available?: In addition to Universal English, they will be available in these languages: Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish.; WinSoft is also expected to release Arabic, Czech, Hebrew, and Polish versions. For more details, visit the WinSoft website.
What is product activation?: Product activation is an interactive interpretation of the licensing agreement that has always existed between Adobe and its customers. The activation process authenticates licensed users without hindering their ability to use the software the way they always have. It requires a series of simple, quick, anonymous steps upon product installation or within the grace period set by Adobe. Just as creative professionals use watermarks to protect their digital photos and artwork, Adobe is using activation as a way to curtail unlicensed copying of its products.; Adobe's activation process is required on both Mac OS and Windows systems for all editions of Adobe Creative Suite 3 and related standalone products. For more information about activation, visit the software activation page.
Do Adobe Creative Suite 3 applications run on Intel based Macs?: Yes, every edition of Adobe Creative Suite 3 — Creative Suite 3 Design Premium, Design Standard, Web Premium, Web Standard, Production Premium, and Master Collection — plus all the standalone Creative Suite 3 applications fully support the new Intel based Macs. For complete system requirements, visit the area on Adobe.com for the product you are interested in.
Do Adobe Creative Suite 3 applications still run on legacy PowerPC based Macs?: Many of the Adobe Creative Suite 3 applications are universal binary versions, which means they fully support both legacy PowerPC based Macs as well as the new Intel based Macs. However, Adobe is introducing three applications on the Mac platform — Adobe Premiere® Pro CS3, Encore® CS3, and Soundbooth™ CS3 — that will run only on the new Intel based Macs. Adobe Premiere Pro and Encore were previously available only on Windows, and Soundbooth is a brand-new offering. In bringing these applications to the Mac — and considering the hardware needs of most video professionals — it did not make sense to continue supporting an older computer architecture that Apple no longer sells or supports. This means that Creative Suite 3 Production Premium and Master Collection — both of which integrate Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, Encore CS3, and Soundbooth CS3 — claim support only for Intel based Macs, even though components of each are universal binary applications.
Do Adobe Creative Suite 3 applications fully support the new Windows Vista operating system?: Yes, every edition of Adobe Creative Suite 3, and all of the individual applications, such as Adobe Illustrator CS3, After Effects CS3 Professional, and Dreamweaver CS3, fully support Windows Vista. They are designed to run on four editions of Windows Vista — Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, and Enterprise (certified for 32-bit editions).
Why don't Adobe Creative Suite 3 applications support the Starter and Home Basic editions of Windows Vista?: The Starter and Home Basic editions of Windows Vista are entry-level operating systems for the casual user. They do not offer the level of support that Adobe's professional creative products require. However, some Adobe products designed for the more casual user, such as Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0, do run on Windows Vista Starter and Home Basic editions.
Do Adobe Creative Suite 3 applications run on 64-bit versions of Windows Vista?: While Adobe Creative Suite 3 software is natively 32-bit, these applications will run on 64-bit versions of Windows Vista. For an in-depth overview of 64-bit computing and its value, please see the blog by Adobe Photoshop software architect Scott Byer.

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