The Dodge and Burn tools, which paint areas lighter or darker, gain a Protect Tones tick box, making changes look more natural, while the Sponge can use the new Vibrance adjustment, borrowed from Lightroom, to make less noise-prone saturation tweaks. A Clipped option now sensibly restricts the ghost to within your brush tip, although, at the risk of being picky, we'd have preferred it just a bit bigger. In CS3, the Clone and Healing tools gained an Overlay option: a ghost image of the layer you were cloning from would follow your cursor, so you'd know what you were going to be painting with. When you're using a brush – whether to paint colour, clone an area or apply an adjustment – you can now resize it interactively by holding O+ and dragging, and alter its hardness using C. This could be helpful when drawing freehand, though it's a shame you have to finish your stroke before you can rotate. It all feels very responsive, and is topped off by the Rotate View tool, with which you can turn the whole canvas to any angle. Even with the Zoom tool and View shortcuts, you get a smooth transition rather than a jump. Thanks to Adobe's adoption of OpenGL graphics acceleration (supported by most modern Macs), you can hold O and scroll the mouse wheel to zoom freely. This is hardly a new concept, but Photoshop users have traditionally put up with some jaggies at intermediate zoom factors.
Annoyingly, you can't preset an arrangement and then load images into it dividers only exist when they're occupied.Īt last, you can zoom in and out at will, with your artwork staying smooth. You can rearrange tiled images by dragging their divider bars, which is great, but certain layouts are currently impossible, such as one image across the top and two below. In Firefox you switch tabs using +, but here you have to use the C+ window switching shortcut, which confusingly ignores what order the tabs are in. You can revert to floating windows if you prefer, but it does seem like a better way of working. Still, once you've got acclimatised and tried the various tiling options, you'll begin to appreciate the benefits. Sometimes you can resize a panel, sometimes you can't, and getting the ones you want to coexist neatly can be a constant niggle. While looking different from CS3, the panel docks behave in much the same way, which is not entirely a good thing.
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