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Holistic Guidance - Adobe Photoshop CS3
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List Price: $649.00
Our Price: $636.99
Your Save: $ 12.01 ( 2% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Adobe
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Batteries Included: 0
Binding: DVD-ROM
Brand: Adobe
EAN: 0883919080222
Feature: The ideal solution for professional, powerful photo editing
Format: CD
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Adobe
Manufacturer: Adobe
Model: 23102480
Platform: Windows Vista Home Premium
Publisher: Adobe
Release Date: 2007-04-20
Special Features: nv:Software Type^Graphics|OS Compatibility^PC
Studio: Adobe
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Features
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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:
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- 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: Image Editing - Software Name: Photoshop CS3 - Complete Product - 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 - I
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent Service
Comment: Received product promptly, item in perfect condition and as described. The Seller was even kind enough to email me when he shipped my item and give me a way to track it.
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Summary: great program, but difficult to figure out at first
Comment: I do recommend this product, however if you do not already know how to work this program (like me) I definately recommend the book "Simplified tips and tricks for Adobe Photoshop CS3" by Lenette Kent It has helped me tremendously! I am trying to get a photography studio off the ground as a part-time business while holding a full- time job and raising two little kids. This program is a must for the business, and this book is a must for the busy hopeful. Thanks!
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Summary: Adobe CS3 purchase
Comment: The process was simple and the product came in a short period of time.
Have had no problem with the product a good buy at a reasonable priceAdobe Photoshop CS3
Customer Rating:
Summary: Got the upgrade instead of full and it was used instead of new
Comment: When I received my product it had obviously been opened and wasn't even the right product. I ordered, and paid for, a full version and got the upgrade version. Buyer beware!
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Summary: Builds web sites at a huge price, but what about photos?
Comment: This new version of Photoshop can help build some amazing web sites! Adobe has taken the time to add some new features that make it easy to slice up your image and export the chunks. Photoshop will let you load photographs and use them as beautiful backgrounds on your web sites. Photoshop's layering system lets you add text and other elements. Adobe has upgraded quite a few of the program's features so you might be wondering why this is a 1 star review.
If you are new to using computers to manipulate images, you might expect the industry standard Photoshop to be the best possible investment. It's practically a cultural phenomenon, taught in schools with countless books being written about it each year. My problem with the powerful Photoshop remains the very difficult and non-intuitive user interface.
Version after version the folks at Adobe add features that most often are very helpful: text handling, browsing, filter previewing, and web-site creation just to name a few. While these offerings can help many computer users for various reasons I find it sad what is offered to the customer who wants to manipulate, manage, and print photographs. Photoshop is difficult to use, and remains sorely lacking in this area. Some very powerful features are absolutely hidden unless the end-user takes classes and buys extra books. Maybe "Photoshop" is simply the wrong word for it.
The toolbar has a stale old feel that would be well served to be completely redesigned. Some tools are still hidden below other tools and are found after the end user holds down the left mouse button, or uses a hotkey. Powerful and completely elementary features, such as "crop", are still tucked away in the oddest places. A critical feature keeps its old but odd name "Stroke". In some areas Adobe has made features redundant, so new users can adapt to new ways, and old user can stick to their old methods. I can appreciate this, but I would prefer they just do it right, once. Stroke is still in the Edit menu. Crop is still in the Image menu. The fill-can still needs to be set to threshold 255 manually to make it simply fill. Wouldn't it be nice to not have to type the numbers 255 in the middle of your workflow?
Recently Adobe has had great success with a new product called "Lightroom". The product shows potential and obviously must be catering the crowd of professional photographers who have been less than thrilled with what they get out of Photoshop. Perhaps Adobe just needs some fresh new energy when it comes to making user interfaces. With a dark room style workflow, Lightroom could turn into what Photoshop should have been.
I feel there are a number of alternatives that should be looked at before buying Photoshop, studying Photoshop, or even caring about Photoshop. One new exciting tool for photographers is Nikon's Capture NX. Even non-Nikon users can now take advantage of this interesting and powerful photograph manipulation tool. At its price point photograph-software consumers should re-evaluate what they are buying and how much they are spending.
What consumers need now are effective manipulation, management and printing tools for their newly found digital collections of tens of thousands of photographs. As I approach the 10,000 mark I find the need for software that makes my life easier. All I'm using Photoshop for anymore is web design, and it seems that's what Adobe wants. But let's be frank, is this kloogy program really worth $600+? Maybe, if you build web sites.
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