computer software Adobe Photoshop CS3

Detailed Product Description

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 to keep you more flexible than ever. And with the streamlined interface and new timesaving tools, your work simply flows faster. Create any image with Photoshop CS3.

Pros: Productivity is much improved thanks to speed increases, workflow enhancements, and a more-streamlined interface; nice black-and-white conversion capabilities; no more ImageReady.
 
Cons: No real enhancements made to meat-and-potatoes masking features; print layout tools still sadly lacking.
 
Bottom Line: With its streamlined tools, enhanced nondestructive editing capabilities, and better performance, Adobe Photoshop CS3 will look very attractive to almost any user.
 
To upgrade or not to upgrade: that's generally the question when confronted with a new version of Photoshop. And, at least for 2007, the answer is an emphatic "yes," if only because of several extremely useful new enhancements that should benefit most users, as well as improvements in performance to benefit all. Furthermore, if you traditionally use Photoshop for video postproduction tasks, 3D texture-map editing, or scientific image analysis, there's a whole new--and pricier--version of Photoshop for you, dubbed Photoshop CS3 Extended.
 
From loading to saving, Photoshop CS3 generally operates faster than Photoshop CS2. There is one performance caveat for the CS3 suites as a whole: it's the slowest, most painful installation I've experienced in years, and that includes bloatware like Microsoft Office 2007. Thankfully, you only have to do it once, maybe twice. Once you've snailed your way through it, though, it settles into the back of your memory like the 10 miles of construction tha ...