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    Adobe Photoshop CS3 Upgrade [OLD VERSION]

    Adobe Photoshop CS3 Upgrade [OLD VERSION]

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    From: Adobe
    Category: Software

    List Price: $199.00
    Buy New: $149.99
    You Save: $49.01 (25%)



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    Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 40 reviews
    Sales Rank: 313

    Format: Dvd-rom
    Platforms: Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Enterprise, Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows Xp
    Media: DVD-ROM
    Edition: Standard - Upgrade
    Autographed: No
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    Batteries Included: No
    Operating System: Windows XP
    Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
    Dimensions (in): 0 x 0.1 x 0.1
    nv:Software Type: Graphics
    OS Compatibility: PC

    MPN: L90556
    Model: 23102611
    UPC: 883919080918
    EAN: 0883919080918
    ASIN: B000NDIC04

    Release Date: April 20, 2007
    Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

    Features:
      • The ideal solution for professional, powerful photo editing
      • Boost your productivity with a streamlined interface, enhancements to raw-image processing and asset management workflows, and more
      • Experience unrivaled editing power with nondestructive filters, more precise color-correction controls, and more powerful cloning and healing tools
      • Easily create rich composites using new tools for automatically aligning and blending layers and making quick selections
      • Ideal for photographers, graphic designers, Web designers, and print service providers

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    Editorial Reviews:

    Amazon.com
    Note: This is the upgrade version of Adobe Photoshop CS3.

    Adobe Photoshop CS3 Upgrade software accelerates your path from imagination to imagery. Ideal for photographers, graphic designers, and web designers, the professional standard delivers new features such as automatic layer alignment and blending that enable advanced compositing. Live filters boost the comprehensive, nondestructive editing toolset for increased flexibility. And a streamlined interface and new timesaving tools make your work flow faster.



    Boost your productivity with a streamlined interface.


    The Loupe tool in Adobe Bridge CS3 lets you easily zoom into the fine detail of any image.


    The new overlay preview and Clone Source palette let you preview, transform, and precisely position cloned areas in a single fluid process.


    Zoomify export allows you to efficiently display even the highest resolution imagery over low bandwidth web connections.

    Work more productively
    Take advantage of a wide range of improvements designed to boost your productivity. Experience native performance on Intel based and PowerPC Macs and on Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista systems. Maximize your workspace with a streamlined interface, process raw images with increased speed and quality, and manage assets more efficiently in the revamped Adobe Bridge CS3. And enjoy complete compatibility with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software (sold separately), so the changes you make to an image in one product will automatically appear in the other.

    Edit with unrivaled power
    The comprehensive image-editing toolset in Photoshop CS3 lets you correct and enhance your images with unmatched creative control. Experiment more freely with nondestructive filters. Manage and correct color more easily, and convert color images to rich black-and-white with one click. Retouch images with more powerful cloning and healing tools. And count on higher fidelity conversion when you merge a series of exposures into a 32-bit high dynamic range (HDR) image.

    Composite with breakthrough tools
    Photoshop CS3 offers a wealth of features that make compositing multiple images easier than ever before. Create more accurate composites with new tools that automatically align and blend layers or images based on similar content. Make an image selection with one brush stroke. Perfect any selection edge in an easy-to-use, intuitive dialog box. And merge multiple photos into a panorama with superior results.

    Product highlights

    • Boost your productivity with a streamlined interface, enhancements to raw-image processing and asset management workflows, and more.
    • Experience unrivaled editing power with nondestructive filters, more precise color-correction controls, and more powerful cloning and healing tools.
    • Easily create rich composites using new tools for automatically aligning and blending layers and making quick selections.

    Audience benefit

    Professional photographers--With Adobe Photoshop CS3 software, you can perfect all of your images with nondestructive filters and more powerful color-correction, cloning, and healing tools, and you can create sophisticated composites more easily than ever with breakthrough tools for automatically aligning and blending layers, making quick selections, and more.

    Serious amateur photographers--Adobe Photoshop CS3 software delivers everything you need to edit images with professional-quality results, and offers a simplified user interface that makes learning and working in the program easier.

    Print and web designers--Adobe Photoshop CS3 software delivers unrivaled power to edit images, breakthrough capabilities for creating sophisticated image composites, and the ability to output your final files to a broad range of formats for print and the web.

    Photography students and educators--From raw-image processing, retouching, and compositing to final image output, professional-standard Adobe Photoshop CS3 software offers a powerful solution for digital photography workflows.

    Work More Productively

    Efficient and flexible work environment

    Streamlined interface and palette management
    Maximize screen space for editing while keeping essential tools accessible. Palettes are now arranged in convenient, self-adjusting docks that can be widened to full size or narrowed to icons or even a thin, self-revealing strip at the edge of your monitor.

    Faster, more flexible asset management with Adobe Bridge CS3
    Organize and manage images more efficiently with Adobe Bridge CS3 software, which now delivers improved performance, a Filter panel for easier searching, the ability to group multiple images under a single thumbnail, the Loupe tool, offline image browsing, and more.

    Custom menus, shortcuts, and workspaces
    Set up and save custom menus, keyboard shortcuts, and workspaces for quick access to what you need.

    Streamlined Workflow

    Better raw image processing
    Process raw images with increased speed and superior conversion quality using the Adobe 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.

    Enhanced PDF support
    Work more easily with Adobe PDF-based content. Precisely control the size of PDF pages opened in Photoshop; 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.

    Adobe Photoshop Lightroom support
    Jump from Photoshop Lightroom software to Photoshop CS3 in one click for advanced editing of your digital photos. Lightroom (sold separately) offers an efficient, powerful way to import, manage, and present large volumes of digital images.

    Improved printing experience
    Experience better control over print quality with color management, a larger print preview window, and more controls in one place so you can print in fewer steps. Improved printing controls, co-developed by Adobe and HP, make printing easier and more predictable, and streamline setup options via integration with select printers from HP, Epson, and Canon.

    Presets
    Make sophisticated color adjustments automatically with one-click presets in Curves, the Channel Mixer, and the new Black and White conversion dialog box.

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

    Automated production
    Automate common production tasks in a variety of ways. Set up event-based scripts, record a series of steps as an Action for efficient batch processing, and design repetitive graphics faster with Variables.

    History palette and Edit History log
    Undo and redo any set of editing steps in an open image with the History palette, and automatically track all editing steps within your files with the Edit History log. Export steps to a text file or save them as part of image metadata for easier documentation of your work, file audits, and more.

    Wide range of supported formats
    Import and export a wide range of file formats, including PSD, BMP, Cineon, JPEG, JPEG2000, OpenEXR, PNG, Targa, and TIFF.

    Adobe Device Central CS3
    Create compelling mobile content, such as wallpapers and screensavers, and then visually preview how it will render on mobile devices using the built-in Adobe Device Central CS3. Tune your designs for mobile screen sizes and lighting conditions.

    Zoomify export for high-resolution web display
    Take advantage of Adobe Flash and Zoomify technology to export high-resolution images to the web for viewing through Adobe Flash Player software. Flash Player displays your image quickly and efficiently, letting viewers zoom in on details with minimal delay.

    Third-party solutions and resources
    Take advantage of a wealth of additional resources--including software plug-ins, books, and training--from the longstanding community of expert Photoshop developers, authors, and trainers.

    Auto-Align Layers can automatically connect a series of photos into a panorama (left). Auto-Blend Layers can then seamlessly blend lighting and texture to complete the perfect composite image (right).

    Edit With Unrivaled Power

    Nondestructive editing

    Smart Filters
    Add, adjust, and remove filters from an image without having to resave the image or start over to preserve quality. Nondestructive Smart Filters allow you to visualize changes without altering original pixel data.

    Smart Objects
    Perform nondestructive scaling, rotating, and warping of raster and vector graphics with Smart Objects. Even preserve the editability of vector data from Adobe Illustrator software.

    Professional color and tone control

    Color-correction enhancements
    Take advantage of precision color correction made faster and easier. Brightness/Contrast now provides better results from the same intuitive interface, and enhanced Curves controls let you make automatic adjustments with included presets or those you create; convert to black-and-white with point sliders; and use a histogram, color channel lines, and a clipping preview.

    Black-and-white conversion
    Easily convert color images to rich black-and-white and adjust tonal values and tints with a new tool. Experiment with the included black-and-white presets, or create and save your own custom presets to achieve the best results.

    Improved Channel Mixer
    Take advantage of new functionality and a host of presets that make the Channel Mixer easier to use for black-and-white conversion.

    Enhanced 32-bit high dynamic range (HDR) support
    Create and edit 32-bit images and combine multiple exposures into a single, 32-bit image that preserves the full range of a scene--from the deepest shadows to the brightest highlights. New image processing and alignment algorithms deliver superior results.



    Maximize screen space for editing while keeping essential tools accessible.

    Intelligent Image Editing and Enhancement

    More powerful cloning and healing tools
    Experience greater control when retouching images with cloning tools and the Healing Brush. See source pixels under your tool or brush for more precise positioning; preview changes to source content live; and set multiple source points, scale, and rotate in the new Clone Source palette.

    Rich painting and drawing toolset
    Create or modify images with a wide assortment of professional, fully customizable paint settings, artistic brushes, and drawing tools.

    Enhanced Vanishing Point
    Take perspective-based editing to a new level with the enhanced Vanishing Point, which lets you create multiple planes in an image, connect them at any angle, and then wrap graphics, text, and images around them to create packaging mock-ups and more.

    Composite With Breakthrough Tools

    Easy compositing and selecting

    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.

    Improved Photomerge technology
    Take advantage of refined Photomerge technology, which uses new layer-alignment and layer-blending capabilities to let you automatically stitch horizontal or vertical photos into seamless panoramas.

    Quick Selection and Refine Edge tools
    Make selections in a snap. Loosely draw on an image area, and the Quick Selection tool automatically completes the selection for you. Then fine-tune your selections with the Refine Edge tool.

    Flexible layers
    Composite images, text, and effects on hundreds of layers for extraordinarily sophisticated results. Organize layers with up to five levels of nesting, and save in different combinations as Layer Comps.

    Which edition of Photoshop CS3 is right for you?
    Photoshop CS3 is available in two editions--Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop CS3 Extended--to meet the diverse needs of professionals in a wide range of fields.
    Adobe Photoshop CS3 Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended
    Builds on Photoshop CS2 with dozens of improvements
    Increased productivity with a streamlined interface, Camera Raw enhancements, next-generation Adobe Bridge CS3, and Zoomify export
    Unrivaled editing power with live filters, more precise color correction, easier black-and-white conversion, and more powerful cloning and healing tools
    Breakthrough compositing with automatic layer alignment and blending capabilities, easier selections, and improved Photomerge technology
    3D and motion support with the ability to edit 3D content and incorporate it into 2D compositions, paint and clone over multiple video frames, and more
    Comprehensive image analysis with new image measurement and counting tools


    Product Description
    - Marketing Information: Adobe Photoshop CS3 software accelerates your path from imagination to imagery. Ideal for photographers, graphic designers, and web designers, the professional standard delivers new features such as automatic layer alignment and blending that enable advanced compositing. Live filters boost the comprehensive, nondestructive editing toolset for increased flexibility. And a streamlined interface and new timesaving tools make your work flow faster. Product Information - Software Sub Type: Graphics/Designing - Software Name: Photoshop CS3 - Upgrade - Features and Benefits: Work more productively: - Efficient and flexible work environment: - Streamlined interface and palette management - Faster, more flexible asset management with Adobe Bridge CS3 - Custom menus, shortcuts, and workspaces - Streamlined workflow: - Better raw image processing - Enhanced PDF support - Adobe Photoshop Lightroom support - Improved printing experience - Presets - Peak performance - Automated production - History palette and Edit History log - Wide range of supported formats - Adobe Device Central CS3 - Zoomify export for high-resolution web display - Third-party solutions and resources Edit with unrivaled power: - Nondestructive editing: - Smart Filters - Smart Objects - Professional color and tone control: - Color-correction enhancements - Black-and-white conversion - Improved Channel Mixer - Enhanced 32-bit high dynamic range (HDR) support - Intel


    Customer Reviews:   Read 35 more reviews...

    3 out of 5 stars Not clear   October 20, 2008
    Dana A. Nelson (Morgan Hill, CA United States)
    It was not clear to me from the ads that Adobe will not allow individual parts of their suites to be upgraded like Microsoft office does. CS2 would not allow me to upgrade just the Photoshop portion of CS2 Design Premium so I had to purchase the entire suite package and sell off what I bought for Photoshop alone.


    3 out of 5 stars Ok, But Just That   October 10, 2008
    Cary P. Thrasher (Tennessee)
    It is an Upgrade, and to keep current would be the only reason to purchase it. Now that CS4 is out, why bother?


    5 out of 5 stars Painting with Light   July 19, 2008
    GEC (WashDC)
    What a joy to use and what an expansive artistic reach this permits. I may never learn all the tricks and details, but I am sure going to try.


    5 out of 5 stars A Photographers New Testament   July 6, 2008
    Keith D. Lindquist (Tampa)
    Elements is awesome, but Photoshop is worth the extra dollars if you're a serious photog. The lens correction filter is amazing--and I'm still learning the newer additions. Very powerful, too--it will automate adjustments on so many images at one time without a slowdown. Gotta have it--


    5 out of 5 stars Had to upgrade, but happy that I did   May 15, 2008
    Niels Johnson-laird (Portland, OR USA)
    2 out of 2 found this review helpful

    As an amateur photographer I don't have to keep up with the latest cutting edge version of Photoshop. The main reason I had to upgrade to CS3 was to be able to review and edit Canon Raw images from a Canon 1D Mk III DSLR. This is my only big gripe with Adobe is that the Raw file format does not appear to have changed, but because the camera model number in the metadata was different Photoshop/Bridge CS2 refused to show thumbnails or open the Mk III's .CR2 files.

    So, I had to upgrade to CS3 which cost about $200, which is much better than having spend $600+. At first, I didn't see much of a difference. Sure, there is a different color scheme for the PS and Bridge applications, some stuff has been moved around a little on the screen, but nothing big.

    Then I find the feature that made me happy that I had upgraded. Adobe Camera Raw ("ACR") now lets you manipulate JPEG images to almost the same degree as Raw images. You can do limited white balance correction, straightening, cropping, and sharpening of JPEG images--non-permanent changes just like with Raw images. White balance correction is limited to "As Shot", "Auto", and "Custom", though this limitation is understandable as JPEG images don't normally contain color temperature information. However, using the "Custom" option with a test-shot of a white-card now makes correcting the white balance for JPEGs a breeze. Plus, the ability to straighten and crop JPEG images so quickly in ACR is a feature I wish I had had a year ago.

    All these changes to a JPEG image are non-permanent meaning the original image is still there (you can verify this by viewing the image with another application, e.g. Windows Explorer with Thumbnail View). The changes you make using ACR appear to be stored in the JPEG file itself as a new metadata section. Caveat: Only applications that can see and use this metadata will render your changes on the screen so right now that is only going to be Adobe applications.


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