Mary Gerling's Image Editor Critique

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended

Made by Adobe Systems Inc.

This image editor is part of the Adobe Creative Suite Web Premium package that retailed new in 2007 for $1,199. Because it is now outdated, you can find it as cheap as $399 online. But you can now upgrade to the new CS4 package at Adobe's website for $599 if you own this package or other suite packages that meet the upgrade criteria.

File formats Photoshop CS3 Extended can import and export

You can you can import or open and export or save files in the following formats:

1. TIFF format
2. BMP format
3. PNG format
4. JPEG format
5. Targa format
6. GIF format
7. Photoshop Raw format
8. JPEG 2000 format (optional Photoshop plug-in)
9. Photoshop DCS format
10. Photoshop PDF format
11. Photoshop EPS format
12. Photoshop PDF format

Some of the Tools and Features in Photoshop CS3 Extended Interface

• User Interface - The user interface, although it looks complicated, is very easy to use if you have used Adobe Photoshop's software in the past. The tools window is located by default on the left side of the screen. This tool bar contains small images of all the basic tools you will need to edit your images. If the image in the toolbar has a small triangle in the bottom right corner that means there are more options available for that tool and you can click it to see them. Also when you hover over these images with your cursor, you will get a description of the tool as well as the hot key shortcut to activate that tool. Click on the thumbnail image to the right for a larger picture of the Photoshop CS3 Extended Interface. Click the back button in your browser to get back to this page.
• Filters - There are lots of different filters that you can use in photoshop. Here are some of the basic filters that you can use to edit your images, add textures and special effects.
  • Artistic filters
  • Blur filters
  • Brush Stroke filters
  • Distort filters
  • Noise filters
  • Pixelate filters
  • Render filters
  • Sharpen filters
  • Sketch filters
  • Stylize filters
  • Texture filters
  • Video filters
  • Other filters
  • Digimarc filters
  • Vanishing Point
• Resize and Scale - Under the image drop down select image size and you will see options to resize an image by changing the height and width in percents, pixels, or inches and choose to constrain the proportions so you can scale it or even change the resolution of the images. You can change the document size and what type of measure is used on the document here as well.

CIS257 Winter 2009

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By Mary Gerling mary.gerling@muskegoncc.edu