First Look at Adobe Photoshop CS3 Well, with no second thought I clearly shows Macromedia people are inside Adobe now. The user interface clearly reflects the tightness, ease of use and elegance of Macromedia Product line up. The floating pallets are too annoying to manage. Now they are elegantly ... Read entire article

The Photoshop CS3 black & white conversion feature is everything I hoped it would be. As a test, I did my normal B&W conversion routine for my Omotesando Hills photos using Photoshop 7 and the Channel Mixer. The lighting was fairly funky so each conversion took minutes.

Then I tried doing one photo using CS3's B&W tool -- it only took seconds and I had better control over the result. I had enough time left over that I played around with the Refine Edges tool to produce ... Read entire article

Don't recall seeing this behaviour before, but I have PS CS3 installed, and now AI CS2 gets a small interface bug, nothing serious...

In Illustrator, make a Spot Colour, then hit the process icon in the color palette, and the K gradient shows up as a rainbow. Use the slider and it changes to the traditional black vignette until it's released when it drops back to the rainbow.

Weird!

Here's some grabs:
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Adobe Blogs: That’s kind of a weird title, but there have been a few slightly freaked-out posts in the last couple of days suggesting that the Photoshop CS3 beta is installing spyware . The deal is that Photoshop uses Apple’s Bonjour technology to make it easy to connect to Version Cue servers.  For …

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Subject: Adobe Photoshop CS3 Beta First Look with Adobe Bridge and C
Posted: Sun Jan, 2007 07 7:07 pm (GMT -8)
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While Adobe Photoshop CS3 is still in beta, Peachpit Press is taking pre-orders for a book about how to use the pixel pushing application. Adobe Photoshop CS3 Beta First Look with Adobe Bridge and Camera Raw, by Ben Long, will attempt to cover the public beta of Photoshop CS3 and get you up to speed with the new interface changes. It will also help you learn all of the new features in the CS3 beta such ... Read entire article

PixelGenius, creators of PhotoKit, PhotoKit Sharpener and PhotoKit Color 2.0, has released Universal Binary versions of its trio of Photoshop plug-ins for Mac. Mac users with the public beta version of Adobe Photoshop CS3 will be able ... Read entire article

gAntico posted a reply:

I've tryed the CS3 B&W tool and I'm really in love with it. I think that Adobe found the definitive solution. You can download the public beta from:
labs.adobe.com/technologies/photoshopcs3/

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Matt Brett posted a photo:

I absolutely love the way CS3 handles palettes. The little double arrow buttons in the top right corner "docks" the palette without completely closing it. Now I can quickly open and close my brushes palette with large thumbnails. Whoo!

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Material Image, This tutorial in Photoshop is a lesson on using CS3 New Features. The author discusses the finer points of using: Interface, Smart Filter, Refine Edge, AutoBend Layers, Auto Align Layers, and Black and White Conversion. ... Read entire article