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Adobe Photoshop 7.0

With each new version of Photoshop, Adobe never fails to come up with an awe-inspiring mix of great new features, productivity enhancements, and tweaks and treats. Adobe Photoshop 7.0 version is no exception. Design professionals, photographers, web designers, and graphic designers will not be disappointed in Adobe's latest incarnation of Photoshop. In this release, Adobe aims hard at addressing the issues of file management, easy photo retouching, and smarter output for the Web. While Adobe manages to successfully address these issues, it also remains true to its photo editing roots. New and improved features and tools such as a painting option and an enhanced brush palette allow Photoshop to build on its reputation as the leading tool for image manipulators. New-school designers of wireless applications will smile when they discover that Photoshop 7.0 offers support for WBMP-formatted graphics. *Good!

 

Adobe Photoshop 7.0 (For Mac)

The major difference between this and earlier versions is that Photoshop 7.0 is Mac OS X compatible. In this release, Adobe aims hard at addressing the issues of file management, easy photo retouching, and smarter output for the Web. While Adobe manages to successfully address these issues, it also remains true to its photo editing roots. New and improved features and tools such as a painting option and an enhanced brush palette allow Photoshop to build on its reputation as the leading tool for image manipulators. New-school designers of wireless applications will smile when they discover that Photoshop 7.0 offers support for WBMP-formatted graphics. *Good!

 

Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0

For intermediate digital image enthusiasts who don't need Adobe Photoshop, Adobe's barer-bones Photoshop Elements 2.0 works atop the same engine and provides many of the same tools for a fraction of the price. Elements' interface is less complex, the program gears itself toward the novice user looking to learn more about digital image modification and enhancement. You can also enter keywords into a search field and Elements will offer up related walkthroughs and instructions. Elements can input images from a variety of sources, including scanners and digital cameras. It's more powerful than the average program bundled with any of these devices. Stills can also be snagged from a variety of video formats, including QuickTime, MPEG, AVI, and Windows Media. Inputted images can be enhanced, distorted, corrected, or combined into panoramas through the PhotoMerge stitching tool. Elements works well as a file manager as well, its new batch processing feature allowing users to make changes to several images at once. *Good!