This won't impress anyone using an image organizer but it's long overdue in Photoshop.
You can also rotate, sort, rank, and batch rename images, as well as view Exif metadata. At last you can see the images you have, not just their filenames.
Upgrades are $149 for the $609 full version ( ) has the Windows version for $535 with free three-day shipping).Īmong the new features (many of which we'll skip), highlights for digital photographers include: Fifty percent of Photoshop users are not going to press with their files, according to Adobe.īut we do find after using both the beta and the final release that Photoshop 7 is a valuable (and robust) upgrade for digital photographers.Īnd this time Adobe has made it affordable, too. We take that to simply mean Adobe recognizes Photoshop has a life outside pre-press. Even if you aren't, the new scripting capabilities alone are efficiencies enough.Īdobe says this version is aimed at digital photographers especially (and Web designers especially, and. You won't go back.Īnd if you've been waiting for a Photoshop that runs natively under OS X or Windows XP, the wait is over. But what will win you over, launch after launch, is the improved usability.
There are certainly enough new magic tricks to applaud Photoshop 7.0 with the flapping of checkbook covers. "So set the table," he shrugs.īut since Photoshop 6, Adobe has been focusing less on magic and more on the Photoshop user experience. "I just want to impress my in-laws," you plead. "Just for digital photographers."Īs he pulls one brightly colored object after another out of his hat, you begin to wonder if your coat is in there. "Hey, I got a great little hat trick just in," the smiling clerk says. Upgrading Photoshop has always been a little like visiting the local magic shop. The Imaging Resource Digital Photography Newsletter MORE THAN MAGIC Photoshop 7.0 in Action By MIKE PASINI