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Who should be using Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended and why.

Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 software accelerates your path from imagination to imagery.

Ideal for photographers, graphic designers, and web designers, the professional standard delivers new features such as automatic layer alignment and blending that enable advanced compositing. Live filters boost the comprehensive, nondestructive editing toolset to keep you more flexible than ever. And with the streamlined interface and new timesaving tools, your work simply flows faster. Create any image with Photoshop CS3.

Professional photographers—With Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 software, you can perfect all of your images with nondestructive filters and more powerful color-correction, cloning, and healing tools, and you can create sophisticated composites more easily than ever with breakthrough tools for automatically aligning and blending layers, making quick selections, and more.

Serious amateur photographers—Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 software delivers everything you need to edit images with professional-quality results, and offers a simplified user interface that makes learning and working in the program easier.

Print and web designers—Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 software delivers unrivaled power to edit images, breakthrough capabilities for creating sophisticated image composites, and the ability to output your final files to a broad range of formats for print and the web.

Photography students and educators—From raw-image processing, retouching, and compositing to final image output, professional-standard Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 software offers a powerful solution for digital photography workflows.

If you are interrested in digital design or images-- Photoshop is for you!

Let's take a look at the Photoshop CS3 highlights:

• Boost your productivity with a streamlined interface, enhancements to raw-image processing and asset management workflows, and more.

• Experience unrivaled editing power with nondestructive filters, more precise color-correction controls, and more powerful cloning and healing tools.

• Easily create rich composites using new tools for automatically aligning and blending layers and making quick selections.

Top reasons to buy Adobe® Photoshop® CS3

• Industry-standard editing toolset—Perfect your images with industry-leading image-editing capabilities, which include enhanced color-correction and cloning and healing tools.

• Nondestructive editing—Take advantage of nondestructive editing capabilities, including new Smart Filters, which let you visualize different image effects, and Smart Objects, which let you scale, rotate, and warp raster and vector graphics—all without altering pixel data.

• Rich painting and drawing toolset—Create or modify images with a wide assortment of professional, fully customizable paint settings, artistic brushes, and drawing tools.

• Advanced compositing—Create more accurate composites by automatically aligning multiple Photoshop layers or images based on similar content. The Auto-align Layers command quickly analyzes details and moves, rotates, or warps layers to align them perfectly, and the Auto-blend Layers command blends the color and shading to create a smooth, editable result.

• Quick Selection and Refine Edge tools—Make selections in a snap. Loosely draw on an image area, and the Quick Selection tool automatically completes the selection for you. Then fine-tune your selections with the Refine Edge tool.

• Built-in efficiency—Take advantage of customized workflows and a streamlined work environment with enhanced palette management so you can focus on your images, not your software.

• Improved printing experience—Experience better control over print quality with color management, a larger print preview window, and more controls in one place so you can print in fewer steps. Improved printing controls, co-developed by Adobe and HP, make printing easier and more predictable, and streamline setup options via integration with select printers from HP, Epson, and Canon.

• Faster, more flexible asset management with Adobe Bridge CS3—Organize and manage images more efficiently with Adobe Bridge CS3 software, which now delivers improved performance, a Filter panel for easier searching, the ability to group multiple images under a single thumbnail, the Loupe tool, offline image browsing, and more.

• Wide range of supported formats—Import and export a wide range of file formats, including PSD, BMP, Cineon, JPEG, JPEG2000, OpenEXR, PNG, Targa, and TIFF.

• Third-party solutions and resources—Take advantage of a wealth of additional resources— including software plug-ins, books, and training—from the longstanding community of expert Photoshop developers, authors, and trainers.

Top reasons to upgrade to Adobe® Photoshop® CS3

• Smart Filters—Add, adjust, and remove filters from an image without having to resave the image or start over to preserve quality. Nondestructive Smart Filters allow you to visualize changes without altering original pixel data.

• Quick Selection and Refine Edge tools—Make selections in a snap. Loosely draw on an image area, and the Quick Selection tool automatically completes the selection for you. Then fine-tune your selections with the refine Edge tool.

• Advanced compositing—Create more accurate composites by automatically aligning multiple Photoshop layers or images based on similar content. The Auto-align Layers command quickly analyzes details and moves, rotates, or warps layers to align them perfectly, and the Auto-blend
Layers command blends the color and shading to create a smooth, editable result.

• Streamlined interface and palette management—Maximize screen space for editing while keeping essential tools accessible. Palettes are now arranged in convenient, self-adjusting docks that can be widened to full size or narrowed to icons or even a thin, self-revealing strip at the edge of your monitor.

• Better raw image processing—Process raw images with increased speed and superior conversion quality using the Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in, which now adds support for JPEG and TIFF formats; new tools including Fill Light and Dust Busting; compatibility with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom™ software; and support for over 150 camera models.

• Enhanced Vanishing Point—Take perspective-based editing to a new level with the enhanced Vanishing Point, which lets you create multiple planes in an image, connect them at any angle, and then wrap graphics, text, and images around them to create packaging mock-ups and more.

• Enhanced 32-bit high dynamic range (HDR) support—Create and edit 32-bit images and combine multiple exposures into a single, 32-bit image that preserves the full range of a scene— from the deepest shadows to the brightest highlights. New image processing and alignment algorithms deliver superior results.

• Peak performance—Experience native performance on Intel® and PowerPC® based Macintosh computers, and on Microsoft® Windows® XP and Windows Vista™ systems.

• Black-and-white conversion—Easily convert color images to rich black-and-white and adjust tonal values and tints with a new tool. Experiment with the included black-and-white presets, or create and save your own custom presets to achieve the best results.