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Earlier today Adobe released a new version of Photoshop, the flagship photo editing tool in Creative Suite 3. While Photoshop CS3 boast some impressive new features like non-destructive filters, greatly enhanced selection tools and tighter integration with other Adobe applications, for the burgeoning world of amatuer photographers storming the net on sites like Flickr and Photobucket, the new Photoshop may not be as essential as it once was.
Five years ago if you wanted to do anything more than dodge out some red eye and resize your images, Photoshop was the only answer. But with the declining price of digital cameras and the rise in online photo sharing as a photo destination, Photoshop's dominance has slipped.
Today's shutterbug isn't sending their output to printers that require high resolution and complicated color matching, they're posting their images online and in some cases even editing them online.
What was once the sole domain of Photoshop is now available to many users through online tools like Phixer and Adobe's own recently announced Photoshop online. Others rely on free desktop apps like Apple's iPhoto and Google's Picasa.
These days, says consumate shutterbug Scott Beale of Laughing Squid, "the average person is using something like iPhoto or Picasa or even the software that came with their camera."
Still for the professional photographer Photoshop remains the tool of choice. Noah Kaline, whose everyday photo montage video is one of the most viewed items on YouTube, says "if you weren't a professional, and cost was of concern, Photoshop might not be the best choice,
but to me it is the only choice."
Professionals will upgrade and for the vetearn user Photoshop CS3 has a myrid of new features as well as being the first version to run natively on Intel Macs. Kaline, who's been using the public beta version says the update delivers. "Bridge is much faster and the Camera RAW conversion is much better."
Once owning photoshop was a digital photographers sign of seriousness much like owning a Lieca, but just as point and shoot cameras have become more powerful so have the cheaper and even free image editing tools.
But this fact is not entirely lost on Adobe indeed many of the nicer features in the new Photoshop are geared toward the sort of revision mentality of the Flcikr user. Filters for instance have become non-destructive, easily applied and then removed when your fellow Flickr users reject your late night inspiration.
"A lot of photographers are going to come to spend the bulk of their time, in terms of selecting images and also editing them, in Lightroom." "But there are plenty of cases where people really want to fine tune and image and that's where photoshop really shines."
"I could see if you weren't a professional, and cost was of concern, photoshop might not be the best choice but to me it is the only choice
Indeed the world of photography has seen a rise of the middle class, photographers who may not make a living selling their images, but who are serious enough to buy top end cameras
Digital camera makers call these prosumers, people who
"We've been evloving in this direction for years, the introduction of the file browser and Camera Raw and then Bridge as a means to work with both of those.
But where Bridge is "meant to serve a lot of different masters," as akldsfj puts it, programs like Adobe Lightroom.
We've recognized for a long time that we need to evolve in the direction of being much more multip image savvy
"Photoshop is geared towards people that are serious about photography"
"We don't have plans to make Lightroom into Photoshop, we think that they are complimentary tool.
Photoshop is geared toward serious photographers though there are of course more hobby up. Photoshop 7 was the introduction of a file browser
A lot of photographers are going to come to spend the bulk of their time in organzational tools but then there are times when they'll want to go
It's a complimentary tools Photoshop.
loupe tool in bridge, side by side comparisons
The same processing tools for raw are in photoshop and lightroom
the healing brush is now available in camera raw. The batch processing tools for amatuers
we can share the best technology between the two packages
CS3 features enhanced selection tools -- refine edge with live preview
filters feature better non destructive filtering the filter none has a convert for smart filters
filters are now layer addons
one of the things we're seen is that print makers have really started focusing on black and white and
layer alignment -- photo stitching using image->auto align
We see the applications as very complimentary. people are investing in cameras that have very high resolution but then sharing it ont he web you're loosing 80-90 percent of the image data. What we've come up with is an auto export to zoomify
combining the best of macromedia flash technology with
bridge has an extendable backend
we like what the macromedia studio apps were doing and so when the companies got together it worked out beautifully. Photoshop, flash, illustrator and indesign.
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I think that the average person is using something like iPhoto Picasa everyone has a digital camera. Where is there entry level it is faster for things like resizing and saving for web. It saves me alot of time. Flickr export plugin. Photoshop There's no need for it, unless you're doing a tremdous amount of post processing.
Thomas Hawk
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