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Review: OEM Adobe Photoshop CS3
After Review of Adobe Camera RAW 4.0 itself plays Adobe Photoshop CS3 Beta also brings some interesting improvements.

The appearance of the interface has not changed much but the few changes that have helped to leave a cleaner and more space to edit the image itself. Perhaps most significant is the new face of the tool palettes ... the default is the only column, although you can put in two as has become customary. What I liked is the new system of panels that open and close on themselves like a menu more useful and more free space

The second is the Selection Brush and his name says it all. We chose the brush and paint on the photo you wish to select. Limits are automatically adjusted to the contours of where we pass the brush and is really quick to make a selection that is not very accurate but very valid for eg use in layer masks.

The third is to improve the cloning tools. The way of working is similar to which we so far only that there are more possibilities. By the way, you can Buy Adobe Photoshop CS3 at a cheap price. We can fix the precise point of origin using the parameters in the palette. On the other hand, we can store up to 5 points of origin (of any layer and open the file you have) and not just one as in other versions. We can also set a rescaling (%) and rotation (º), which can magnify or reduce what we are cloning and rotate it. And the most interesting ... shows an overlay of what we will get the clone, as a template

Let us now by the new curves, which incorporate one of the requests that I think will be most useful and is nothing else to do the histogram in the background of each curve (channels separately and composite). Also if you edit the curves of each channel and return to the RGB curve see all the changes embodied in the same graph and not only the RGB curve (see above). Predefinidios has settings that can be found between Color Negative, Process and High Contrast Cruazdos among others. Finally the Show Clipping allows us to see where we're cutting the lights or the shadows of each channel coloring the affected areas in the image (similar to when you press Alt and use Exposure or Shadows in Camera RAW)

Black and White is another of the new tools. Mixer-style channels, but working in 6 ranges (instead of 8 as ACR 4.0). In the bottom of the dialog box you can activate the option to make toning.

Finally Smart Filters, which I found simply amazing. Which use the adjustment layers or know how quickly you'll know what I mean. The basic philosophy is the same, the filter is applied to a layer, which must be previously authorized for that purpose, and that filter can be changed at any time (parameters, intensity, etc). The application of the filter can be controlled through a filter mask and the transparency of the layer with a layer mask. The basic difference that exists with adjustment layers is that they affect what you have below and smart filters only affect the layer to which they are associated.

I realize that I let some other changes we have in this version, but I reflected that I found most useful, to be used more frequently and can change the way we work