After an animation has been defined and created, you can export it to a wide variety of formats, including QuickTime, MPEG-4, and FLV. You can record data points in a measurement log and export data, including histogram data, to a spreadsheet for further analysis.Īdobe Photoshop CS3 Extended includes an Animation palette that lets you create an animation from a series of images.

You can calibrate or set the scale of an image then use any of Photoshop Extended's selection tools to define and calculate distance, perimeter, area, or other measurements. New measurement tools in Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended allow you to extract quantitative information from images. A number of 3D file formats can be opened inside Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended, including OBJ files such as this one. You also can measure in perspective wrap images, graphics, or text around multiple planes and output 2D planes as 3D models.įigure 2. The Vanishing Point feature has been enhanced with 3D support in Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended, so you can edit in perspective on multiple surfaces - even those connected at angles other than 90 degrees. An Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended screen showing a U3D 3D file open inside the application. You can import, view, and interact with most 3D models, and you can easily render and incorporate 3D content into your 2D composites and edit existing textures on 3D models directly within the application to see the results immediately.įigure 1. Native support is provided for files with 1–1.5 million polygons ( figures 1 and 2). Photoshop CS3 Extended now directly supports several 3D file formats: U3D (no surprise there), 3DS, OBJ, Collada, and Google KMZ. With this release, you get everything that's included in Photoshop CS3, as well as tools for editing 3D and motion-based content and performing image analysis. Manufacturing and medical professionals also will find much of use here, as will architects, engineers, and scientific researchers. The software's features offer much to film, video, and multimedia professionals and to graphic and Web designers using 3D and motion in their creations. It's Photoshop geared to those in the technical pursuits. For a better look, visit the Adobe Web site at I will, however, take a very brief look at a totally new version of Photoshop - Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended. Whole books have been written about just portions of Photoshop's capabilities, so I won't spend a lot of time trying to define what's new. You might be concise, but you lose a lot of the subtleties. Trying to describe what's new in Photoshop - any version - is like trying to capture the essence of The Lord of the Rings trilogy in 10 words or fewer. Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended (First Look Review) 31 Aug, 2007 By: Ron LaFon A Photoshop for the technical at heart.

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