AppleInsider StaffMulti-Touch support
Although unmentioned by Adobe in its press releases, Wired points out that Photoshop CS4 includes support for the Multi-Touch trackpads currently found on Apple's MacBook Pro and MacBook Air notebooks.
Users can reportedly pinch to zoom in and out, twist an image and also 'throw' a picture across the screen by holding down the space bar and clicking and dragging the image when it's in a zoomed state.
The end result is something akin to scrolling on the iPhone, Wired says.
Photoshop CS4 features
Meanwhile, Adobe fellow ">Russell Brown
Content-Aware Scale
Content-aware scaling is essentially a next-generation Transform tool that automatically detects the areas of complexity of an image, then only scales — or squeezes — the areas of the image with the least complexity. It's supported by a number of settings, one of which offers protection of skin tones and another that lets the user set a threshold on content-aware scales. Users can also choose to "protect" a portion of an image during a scale, producing a variety of desired results.
Spherical Panorama
Photoshop's new Spherical Panorama feature lets users project a 2D image into a 3D space, thereby wrapping the image around the inside of a sphere to create a panorama. Using supporting tools also new to Photoshop, users can stitch together a complete 360 degree walkthrough of a room.
3D Quick Look
One of the new 3D features in Photoshop CS4 Extended is the ability to change the lighting of a scene, add new lights, or delete lights that came with the original model. Another allows for painting directly onto a 3D object, where brush strokes follow the three-dimensional path of an object rather than that of a flat canvas. Meanwhile, an anaglyphic preview mode allows users to put on blue and red 3D glass to view an image in 3D on screen or via a printout.
3D Mesh from Grayscale
Another 3D feature is "3D Mesh from Grayscale," which converts 2D grayscale images into 3D objects. 3D depth maps can then be generated directly from the image itself.
3D Eclipse Animation
A third 3D feature covered in Brown's tutorial shows how a 3D solar eclipse animation can be simulated from 2D images.
Creative Suite 4.0 Feature tours
Separately, Adobe has published a number of product feature tours covering its new Design Premium, Web Premium and Production Premium bundles, as well as Photoshop CS4, InDesign CS4 and Dreamweaver CS4.
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Dreamweaver CS4
Adobe is currently taking pre-orders through its website for all of its CS4 bundles ahead of their release next month.
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16 Comments
Content-aware scaling is certainly impressive, but I'm not sure anything else listed here catches my eye...
Content-aware scaling is certainly impressive, but I'm not sure anything else listed here catches my eye...
I agree! That looked fantastic.
It will be interesting to see how good it works in high resolution.
I'm working through the videos right now. The example used to demonstrate "Mesh from Grayscale" doesn't demonstrate the feature well. a lot of the resulting 3D "canyon" rises higher than the plateau, and yet the narrator says it looks realistic! I had experimented with the general idea several years ago, making an image to a CNC cut path, and the basic problem I had is that a lot of work needs to be done to make sure that the brightness really does correspond to a depth, at least within reason. I don't know if that can be done very well with a photo or not, seems like a lot of work to make it right.
These are agreat videos. Great new features, but still its weird that Adobe didn't support 64bit Mac.
Wow. Who the heck is Russell Brown and why hasn't anyone killed him yet?
Some of the worst videos I've seen in a while, and super-duper over the top hyperbolic enthusiasm!!!!! (not to mention the classic "whiny" voice).
Here's a hint Russell, a video is about moving images and it tells a story. These huge files could be replaced by two static pictures and tell the story much better.