• There is this new Tool dock that sits on the side of the screen which houses all the palettes and such

• The UI is improved you can open and collapse multiple palettes from a single button on the new tool 'dock'

• The UI look is a little more darker and more tab like , although you can go back to the classic style if you wish.

• Photoshop boots up noticably faster than CS2 versions, and for macs with Intel chips: your time has finally come. Should be very fast.

• It runs faster in general.

• There is a new funtionality to the magic wand tool that can better isolate colours and parts of a picture, I'm not exactly sure how it works, most likely luminosity, but it's impressive for what it does. Example you can easily wand out objects within a picture by click and dragging, it works procedurally by dragging. so you can click and drag arouind the 'beach ball' in a picture or something more complex and it will kinda snap to the image and put a marquee around it. Think of a much improved magic lasso. Use it dont' abuse it.

• Some new useless filters

• Not too too sure but it looks like you can apply filters to layers, like a layer effect, so it's not permanant. So you can blur something and then take it off later.

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 Manifestant wrote on 12/17 @231
Appreciate your effort on giving a review of this, Ed. I've yet to install it (though it is downloaded at first hour of release ), not till I move my physical home location.

You mention it is faster in general. Does this mean that if you have a 2400x3600 canvas with a 1200 pixel paintbrush, that during applying the paint, it won't "drag" in a timelapse (where you make a swipe and it'll take a few seconds to show)?

I'm still running a P4 1.9Ghz 1GB Rambus. Not sure if this timelapse has happend to anyone using any other PS.

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yeah, I have this timelapse too

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 Crazyboy wrote on 12/17 @695
and CS2 is WAY slower on my computer than CS one.

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 CrazyboyI don't know why but with CS2, I can't right click on an image and select, "edit with photoshop".

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 Arden88 wrote on 12/18 @052

There is something called Vanishing Point as well which will be handy or confusing, it brings up that screen like liquify/extract/filter menu, and you can make a plane on your image by connecting points and then skew that plane, then when you paint in that plane your brush strokes will be in perspective. I'm sure it will have other uses too, so a good thing there. If your a pro painter, it might be odd because you're already used to painting in perspective but this can speed things up once your used to it, and reduce mistakes and disproportion.

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 Wysiwyg wrote on 12/18 @074
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This was introduced in CS2 I didn't notice anything in the release notes about an upgrade or tweak to it...

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Vanishing Point with multiple, adjustable angle perspective planes
One of the most powerful new features of Photoshop CS2 is now even more flexible. Vanishing Point adjusts brush strokes, healing and cloning as you paint over its perspective planes. In Photoshop CS3, you are no longer restricted to adding planes at 90-degree angles. You can now quickly and easily create multiple planes in any image, connected at any angle. In addition, artwork (for example, a product label pasted from the clipboard) can be wrapped around multiple planes simultaneously. To adjust angles of planes, use the Alt/Option key when dragging on a side point of a plane, or enter a specific angle in the Angle field in the dialog.

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 zymyint wrote on 06/22 @289
but is that slower than CS 2?
CS 2 is very slow in my computer!

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