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About Photoshop 8 features (to start shipping 4 quarter)


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I was reading in eweek about the features in the new PS8 release. I quote eweek:

Photoshop 8 Code-named Dark Matter (PS) and Taconite (Image Ready), the next installment of Adobe's image-editing duo will reportedly feature non-destructive filtering that resembles the adjustment layers in Adobe's After Effects video-effects package.

Photoshop 8 will also include Layer Palette presets that will let users maintain multiple palette sets that they can invoke via a menu. Photoshop 8 will also let users select multiple layers, then execute a single change to all of them simultaneously.

Other Photoshop improvements will include enhancements to the File Browser, improved keyboard customization and support for non-square pixels. The upgrade will also boast enhancements to the user interface, support for JPEG 2000 and a GUI-based Picture Package layout manager.

ImageReady, the Web-graphics package bundled with Photoshop, will also ship with its own slew of enhancements, including nested layer sets, greater integration with Photoshop and user-interface tweaks
I'm glad to see improvements in File Browser! and also selecting multiple layers for one single changes...may have to save my pennys for this upgrade!
Read it and about Illustrator too: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1023323,00.asp
 
Alistar - Release date estimate: 4 quarter. Oct_Nov_Dec
 
ooo i love those upGrade features... especially the non-destructive filtering and the multiple layer selection for editing.

Sounds excellent! :righton:

One thing i recently thought of for the "wish list", which is probably way too late to add to now :( , is to be able to "Load Texture Channel..." in the Lighting Effects Filter. Instead of only being able to use one from within the current document, i'd like to be able to load one that's been previously saved and stored -- very much like you can now do for the "Texturizer" & "Glass" filters.
And to go with this new feature, i'd like a larger preview window within this filter too. We need to be able to see more detail than we can now. I feel like i'm guessing most of the time with that filter. And rarely can you just walk through it and get the desired results the first time.

Aaah well... :\
 
I already know a feature that will be included in the first update (the wishlist is indeed closed...bummer...). They were sooo enthusiastic about it that they decided to give me the upgrade for free :P

It is, in fact very simple: a new tool that is called "Make Masterpiece", and that does the job.

They will add it on the 8.01 update, to be released on April 1st, 2004. You're warned!!!
 
[excited] Oooooohhhhhh.... thanks for the info Joy!
Looks like Santa will be a busy boy again this year! :D

:bustagut: "Make Masterpiece" Erik! :bustagut:
 
Erik ? so they nixed the Filters > L337 > DoItForMe filter? I was so looking forward to that one ;) hehe :bustagut:
 
REGARDING "DARK MATTER" & "TACONITE"

One can't be sure that e-week had all the features to be in PS8. Perhaps some were missed. ;) I've noticed that business info magnazines sometimes miss the most succulent details. I'm hoping Adobe will make an announcement SOON so we know for sure all the details and we have something to think about while waiting for the 4 quarter! Yes? :P

For those of you who are curious for details (like me [confused] ) Taconite is not an a speciman Taco, it actually comes from an old name for rock formations first identified in the Taconic Range (Vermont and Mass). + ite. An iron-bearing chert containing from 25 to 35 percent hematite and magnetite: it is a low-grade iron ore that is pelletized for blast-furnace reduction
 
ooooooooo with only 143 days to christmas think I had better save myself some money for a ps present :bustagut: :bustagut: :bustagut:
sfm
 
Thanks for explaining oh Joy! My inner dictionary translated taconite by "extremely hot tacos that cause explosions in the dark matter of over agitated braincells with the intention to blow the mind of the initiated to make them go where no one has gone before, not even mr Spock." :D
 
Erik, This inner dictionary has a great sense of humor! :bustagut: :bustagut: Or Perhaps you borrowed Stu's "Explains it All" dictionary!
 
Oiiiiii [confused] ........ not another upgrade coming. Computer graphics is such an expensive endeavour. Never mind if you have one apps, but 7 to maintain and upgrade.... not to mention the PC technology upgrades.

And I haven't completely explored my PS7 Classroom book :bustagut: .

I need a drink .........

Oh well :righton: , thanks for the info, Joy.
 
Vee - You are welcome for the bad news. [oops] I really suffer tooo because I am afraid of working too hard therefore I don't grow my business. However, I still require constant upgrades to stay current. I should start an Upgrade Share Program where I form a group that shares stuff. Will you bring cookies to the jail for me :D

I've got a huge bone to pick with Adobe. I upgraded to 7 mainly for file browser only to discover it's such a low performance tool that I seldom use it. I returned to using HP's Photo Smart which is fast and trouble free and available anytime without opening PS :).

I really feel Adobe should give free (PS7 to users) the improvements to File Browser out of shame for producing such a lousy tool.

Ok I'm off the soap box now.
 
No problem - my wife will bring it down for us. With nuts or plain? When's the first meeting? [shhh] :bustagut:

I agree. One has to keep abreast with all this to stay competitive. Like what I said, we all have to grin and bear it. The upgrades you mentioned seem worth looking into.

I don't use the file browser myself. I couldn't handle the thing, either.

vee
 
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