Top Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended features for manufacturing professionals

3D compositing and texture editing

Easily render and incorporate rich 3D content into your 2D composites—even edit existing textures on 3D models directly within Photoshop Extended and immediately see the results. 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.

Rich painting and illustration toolset

Create or modify images with a wide assortment of professional, fully customizable paint settings, artistic brushes, and drawing tools, and use the new Timeline for painting and cloning between video frames.

Precise selection tools for detailed editing

Experience a wide range of tools for detailed editing, including new tools for making selections in a snap. Loosely draw on the image area you want to select, and the Quick Selection tool automatically completes the selection for you. Then preview and fine-tune your selections with the Refine Edge tool for cleaner results.

Nondestructive editing

Edit nondestructively with new Smart Filters, which let you visualize different image effects, and Smart Objects, which let you scale, rotate, and warp raster and vector graphics—all without altering the original pixel data.

2D and 3D measurement tools

Extract quantitative information from images with new measurement tools. Easily calibrate or set the scale of an image, and then use any of the Photoshop Extended selection tools to define and calculate distance, perimeter, area, and other measurements. Record data points in a measurement log and export data, including histogram data, to a spreadsheet for further analysis.

Support for open standards and MATLAB

Built on open standards, Photoshop Extended is compatible with a wide variety of programs and offers integration with MATLAB. Pull image data from Photoshop Extended into MATLAB, and visualize results of MATLAB algorithms back in the software.

Advanced compositing

Create more accurate composites by automatically aligning multiple Photoshop layers or images based on similar content. The Auto-align Layers command quickly analyzes details and moves, rotates, or warps layers to align them perfectly, and the Auto-blend Layers command blends the color and shading to create a smooth, editable result.

Enhanced Vanishing Point with 3D support

Edit in perspective on multiple surfaces—even those connected at angles other than 90 degrees—with the enhanced Vanishing Point, which also lets you measure in perspective; wrap graphics, images, and text around multiple planes; and output 2D planes as 3D models.

Better raw-image processing

Process raw images with increased speed and superior conversion quality using the Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in, which now adds support for JPEG and TIFF formats; new tools including Fill Light and Dust Busting; compatibility with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom™ software; and support for over 150 camera models.

Peak performance

Experience native performance on Intel® and PowerPC® based Macintosh computers, and on Microsoft® Windows® XP and Windows Vista™ systems.

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