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    Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended Upgrade [OLD VERSION]

    Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended Upgrade [OLD VERSION]

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    From: Adobe
    Category: Software

    List Price: $349.00
    Buy New: $188.99
    You Save: $160.01 (46%)



    Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars 4 reviews
    Sales Rank: 4739

    Format: Dvd-rom
    Platforms: Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Enterprise, Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows Xp
    Media: DVD-ROM
    Edition: Extended - Upgrade
    Autographed: No
    Memorabilia: No
    Batteries Included: No
    Operating System: Windows XP
    Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
    Dimensions (in): 0 x 0.1 x 0.1

    MPN: ADBCD08206WI
    Model: 29400104
    UPC: 883919082066
    EAN: 0883919082066
    ASIN: B000NDICI6

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

    Features:
      • The ideal solution for professional, powerful photo editing with the ability to incorporate 3D images and motion
      • 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
      • 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, MATLAB integration, and DICOM file support

    Accessories:

      • ColorVision Spyder2 Suite Win/Mac
      • ColorVision Spyder2PRO Win/Mac

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    Editorial Reviews:

    Product Description
    Adobe PhotoShop Extended CS3 Windows Upgrade from Photoshop

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

    Ideal for film, video, and multimedia professionals and graphic and web designers using 3D and motion, as well as professionals in engineering and science, Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended Upgrade software 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.



    The professional standard now comes in two versions—Photoshop CS3, and Photoshop CS3 Extended with additional features and enhancements for specialized image professionals.


    The Clone Stamp and Healing Brush tools now feature an overlay preview of the source areas.


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


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

    Edit 3D and motion-based images
    Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended includes key new capabilities that let you incorporate 3D and motion-based content into your image editing workflow. Now 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.

    Analyze images with precision
    Photoshop CS3 Extended 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. And medical professionals can correct, annotate, and analyze DICOM files.

    Work more productively
    With improved performance throughout the editing workflow, Photoshop CS3 Extended helps you work more productively--even when editing the most specialized images. Experience native performance on both Intel and PowerPC based Macs and on Microsoft 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.

    Composite and edit with unrivaled power
    Leverage the power of the industry standard for the utmost creative control in image editing and compositing. Now you can apply filters nondestructively, manage and correct color more easily, convert color images to rich black-and-white with one click, and retouch images with more powerful cloning and healing tools. Plus, you can enjoy advanced compositing with breakthrough tools for aligning and blending layers automatically and making image selections with one brush stroke.

    Product highlights

    • Experience smooth handling of 3D and motion-based content.
    • Gain deeper insights from your images with new measurement and analysis tools.
    • Boost your productivity with a streamlined interface, enhancements to raw-image processing and asset management workflows, and more.
    • Achieve your vision with unrivaled power to edit, composite, and experiment.

    Audience benefit

    Film, video, and multimedia professionals and graphic and web designers using 3D and motion--With Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended software, you can now leverage the power of the Photoshop image-editing toolset and paint engine when editing 3D and motion-based content for film, video, the web, and mobile devices.

    Manufacturing and design engineers--With Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended software, you 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.

    Medical professionals--Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended software helps you improve patient care with powerful tools for documenting and analyzing treatment and visualizing potential outcomes.

    Architects and engineers--Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended software helps you communicate your vision clearly and make an impact with all of your drawings and designs.

    Scientific researchers--Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended software delivers new tools for analyzing and extracting data from images, and offers powerful presentation capabilities to help you communicate your discoveries.

    Students and educators--With features designed for professionals in video and motion graphics production, manufacturing, medicine, architecture, engineering, and scientific research, Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended software is a key new tool for students pursuing careers in these fields, and for their instructors.

    Product overview
    Get everything in Adobe Photoshop CS3 software and more with Photoshop CS3 Extended, which enables you to edit 3D and motion-based content and perform image analysis.

    Edit 3D and Motion-Based Images

    3D image editing

    3D compositing and texture editing
    Easily render and incorporate rich 3D content into your 2D composites--even edit 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.

    Integration with Adobe Acrobat 8 software
    Create, modify, and collaborate on 3D content more easily through tight integration between Photoshop CS3 Extended and Acrobat 3D software. Convert myriad 3D CAD formats to the robust U3D interchange format, enhance models and create composites with Photoshop Extended, and easily embed 3D models created in Photoshop Extended into PDF files to distribute for review.

    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.

    Video and Animation Design

    Movie Paint
    Enhance video directly within Photoshop Extended. Now you can paint, add text, and clone over multiple frames of an imported video sequence.

    Smooth animation workflow
    Easily create animations from a series of still images or video frames with a new Animation palette that enables onion skinning.

    Broad video format support, including QuickTime
    Import QuickTime movies and most AVI and MPEG files, and output video and animations to MOV, AVI, MPEG-4, FLV, 3G, FLC, H.264 (iPod), and DV Stream.

    Video layers
    Create and edit images for video with maximum quality and a broader range of color models. Edit and enhance grayscale, RGB, CMYK, and LAB models at 8-, 16-, and 32-bit depths with color management.

    Analyze Images With Precision

    Measurement, counting, and edit-tracking tools

    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.

    Scale Marker
    Show scale in images destined for presentation or publication using the Scale Marker, which lets you easily add a scale graphic to any image.



    Use the Ruler and Count tools to quickly tally image features and measure size and distance.



    Open, annotate, remove identifying patient metadata, prepare for analysis, convert to JPEG for presentation, and more, with new, native DICOM file support in Photoshop CS3 Extended.


    Data flows freely between Photoshop CS3 Extended and MATLAB, letting you instantly see the results of changes to MATLAB processing routines.

    Count tool
    Easily and accurately count objects or features in scientific images with the Count tool, which eliminates the need to perform manual calculations or rely on visual assessments of changes from image to image.

    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.

    Support for Manufacturing, Medical, and Scientific Workflows

    Image Stacks
    Quickly combine a series of related images and render them into a single view using a wide variety of rendering options, such as median and maximum. Photoshop Extended automatically analyzes and combines the images while preserving the originals. Image Stacks are extensible, so third parties can write their own render modes.

    DICOM support
    Use the comprehensive Photoshop Extended toolset to import, correct, annotate, analyze, and create animations from DICOM images. Even automatically remove patient information from DICOM metadata and batch save JPEG files for presentation purposes.

    MATLAB support
    Pass image data directly between Photoshop Extended and MATLAB with the ability to call Photoshop Extended directly from the MATLAB command line. Visualize results of MATLAB algorithms in the software, and combine MATLAB processing with Photoshop Extended image editing to render, test, and refine algorithms for image processing, analysis, and more.

    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 next-generation 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 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 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.

    Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
    Jump from Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software to Photoshop CS3 Extended in one click for advanced editing of your digital images. 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.

    Wide range of supported formats
    Import and export an even greater range of file formats, including PSD, BMP, DICOM, Cineon, JPEG, JPEG2000, OpenEXR, PNG, Targa, and TIFF.

    Adobe Device Central CS3
    Visually emulate how your dynamic content will render on mobile devices using the built-in Adobe Device Central CS3.

    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 images quickly and efficiently, letting viewers zoom in on details with minimal delay.

    Improved integration with other Adobe tools
    Enjoy better support for Photoshop files in your other Adobe software applications (sold separately). Copy and paste Photoshop files directly into Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 software projects, import them into Adobe Flash CS3 Professional software with high fidelity, and preserve layer effects and video layers when you import them into Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional software.

    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).

    Composite and 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. And with Photoshop CS3 Extended, you can even edit 32-bit images using brushes, filters, blending modes, transformations, selections, tools, aspect ratios, and more.

    Intelligent Image Editing and Enhancement

    More powerful cloning and healing tools
    Experience greater control when retouching images with cloning tools and the Healing Brush. Clone images over time; 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.

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    The faster route to perfect composites—Auto-Align Layers takes the effort out of perfectly lining up the contents of multiple layers, while Auto-Blend Layers completes the task of blending together the texture and lighting from many layers into one.

    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 preview and 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 them 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



    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars This ones for professionals only....   July 24, 2008
    J. Darknell (San Jose, CA USA)
    1 out of 1 found this review helpful

    Not sure what program the other users are using, but I'm a longtime Photoshop user; since ver. 2.5, the first PC version and while CS3 isn't the biggest or best upgrade to date, it isn't bad either. It has a lot of very handy new features and refinements. I can go literally for months and never get a single crash in Photoshop, it is by far the most stable application I've ever used in Windows. Plugins I purchased almost 10 years ago STILL WORK. Its a shame the previous review doesn't detail any of his so called 'bugs', I'd be happy to offer tech support as I would more than likely blame user error in this care. The panorama stitching, and HDR/32 bit image support are worth the upgrade alone! Highly recommended.



    4 out of 5 stars Excellent Upgrade, but limited 3D capabilities   May 31, 2007
    Thomas Santomartino (Newark, DE USA)
    8 out of 9 found this review helpful

    I really like the new interface of Photoshop and new features, but I found the 3D capabilities rather limited. Years ago in Adobe Photodeluxe 4, Adobe included the ability to add 3D models to pictures, but they were only from one company and not compatible with anything else. This is an improvement over that system, but I was hoping for 3D model texturing tools. If you could generate new maps with this program it would be a must have for any 3D artist--as it stands nows it gives you the ability to edit pre-existing texture maps within Photoshop which can be exported, but little else. Clearly the 3D end needs to be improved upon and I'm sure it will be in future editions. I reccomend those interested in it's 3D usage to download the demo first to be sure it suits their needs, otherwise most people might find the unextended upgrade better for them.


    1 out of 5 stars Bean Counters Must Be In Charge At Adobe!   May 25, 2007
    Frank Segler (Rancho Santa Fe, CA)
    12 out of 33 found this review helpful

    It is painfully apparent that something dramatic has changed at Adobe. Gone are the nice BIG packages with lots of support documentation and in its stead is a dinky little box, and NO MANUALS!!! To add insult to injury, the icon they use on my mac dock is a boring blue box with a PS inside. No Joke. Its so ugly it looks like it doesn't even belong on a mac!!

    What in the world has gone wrong? My guess is that the bean counters are in charge over at Adobe, and they pressured marketing to go with the lowest cost of production. I know this is not a technical gripe, and in fact it has little to do with the actual functionality of the product. The only point I wanted to make, is the Adobe tradition of quality packaging and quality manuals has come to and end. Reminder once again, no manuals! You know, some of us like to lug dead trees around, like when we have to wait at the doctors office, or when the wife forces us to go shopping, we can sit in the car and read up. Not having printed manuals with this product, especially after I spent so much money on it, is a real turnoff.

    And from the look of the dock icon, and the look of the outer packaging, its quite obvious they DID NOT use their own product to create the packaging for their own product.



    1 out of 5 stars Adobe PhotoShop CS3 Extended   May 17, 2007
    Keith P. Mitchell (Westminster, Maryland)
    33 out of 39 found this review helpful

    I give one star to Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended because of all of the product defects that I have found in this product release and in the responses that I have received from Adobe e-mail technical support when I report bugs.

    I have been using Adobe Photoshop since version 7. CS3 is version 10. Numerous features that used to work very well in earlier versions of Photoshop, are broken (do not work anymore) in CS3 Extended. I have been forced to use CS3 Extended when I wish to utilize new features not available in older products (these features seem to work very well) and revert to earlier versions of Photoshop to complete the same the same job when the legacy features are defective (do not work) in CS3. This is an unacceptable practice.

    Add to that, I send bug report e-mails to Adobe, and the technical support staff does not understand standard technical English. The responses that I receive back are totally inappropriate for the issue. They sound like computer generated gibberish.

    So far, I have not yet received 341 dollars of warm and fuzzies from my upgrade to Photoshop CS3 Extended from my older version of Photoshop. If Adobe ever fixes ALL of the product defects that it has introduced in CS3, CS3 could become a dynamite product! I am not holding my breath.

    My recommendation: If possible, stay with an older Adobe Photoshop product until Adobe ACTUALLY does fix all of the problems (product defects) in CS3 that did not exist in earlier versions of PhotoShop before purchasing.


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