Adobe announced their new photo editing suite, CS4 at Photokina.
The primary differences between Photoshop CS3 and CS4 are the access to tools (curves, layers, saturation and more) and masking out objects directly by clicking on an image’s pixels. When the dialog is launched it accounts for the selected pixels by setting default values and selection points. There are at least three reasons to upgrade:
- An Adjustment Panel to access tools more directly by a point and click interface. You access the panel by clicking on the the photo itself (as opposed to getting to tools from to the layer interface). For example while you click on the image, you can directly access the curves dialog and it defaults to a starter point (tone) that is the ‘darkness’ of the pixel that you clicked on the photo.
- Mask Panel – Easy access to masking functions (selections, feather, etc), again by clicking on the image – makes it easy to to selectively mask out selected objects.
- Transformation Interface – resizing and skewing the image is more direct and more immediate.
Links and resource:
Adobe Summary of Features
Adobe Compare Features (CS3 & CS4)
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