Product Description

EDU CS3 PHOTOSHOP EXTENDED STUDENT ONLY UK

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1319 in Software
• Brand: Adobe Systems Inc.
• Released on: 2007-04-30
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Vista Enterprise
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 1.10 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
Ideal for film, video, and multimedia professionals and graphic and web designers using 3D and motion, as well as professionals in engineering and science, Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended software delivers everything in Photoshop CS3 and more. Render and incorporate 3D images into your 2D composites. Stop time with easy editing of motion graphics on video layers. And probe your images with measurement, analysis, and visualization tools. For all that is the professional standard in digital imaging and more, choose Photoshop CS3 Extended.

With Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended software, you can now leverage the power of the Photoshop image-editing toolset and paint engine when editing 3D and motion-based content for film, video, the web, and mobile devices.

With Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended software, you can easily import, rotate, and create different rendering modes and edit existing textures on 3D models to enhance 3D content or create compelling composites of 2D and 3D content.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended software helps you improve patient care with powerful tools for documenting and analyzing treatment and visualizing potential outcomes.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended software helps you communicate your vision clearly and make an impact with all of your drawings and designs.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended software delivers new tools for analyzing and extracting data from images, and offers powerful presentation capabilities to help you communicate your discoveries.

With features designed for professionals in video and motion graphics production, manufacturing, medicine, architecture, engineering, and scientific research, Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended software is a key new tool for students pursuing careers in these fields, and for their instructors.

Key features:
Non-destructive editing - Edit non-destructively with new Smart Filters, which let you visualize different image effects, and Smart Objects, which let you scale, rotate, and warp raster and vector graphics-all without altering the original pixel data.

Rich painting and drawing toolset - Create or modify images with a wide assortment of professional, fully customizable paint settings, artistic brushes, and drawing tools.

Advanced compositing - Create more accurate composites by automatically aligning multiple Photoshop layers or images based on similar content. The Auto-align Layers command quickly analyzes details and moves, rotates, or warps layers to align them perfectly, and the Auto-blend Layers command blends the colour and shading to create a smooth, editable result.

3D compositing and texture editing - Easily render and incorporate rich 3D content into your 2D composites-even edit existing textures on 3D models directly within Photoshop Extended and immediately see the results. Photoshop Extended supports common 3D interchange formats, including 3DS, OBJ, U3D, KMZ, and COLLADA, so you can import, view, and interact with most 3D models.

Movie Paint - Enhance video directly within Photoshop Extended. Now you can paint, add text, and clone over multiple frames of an imported video sequence.

2D and 3D measurement tools - Extract quantitative information from images with new measurement tools. Easily calibrate or set the scale of an image, and then use any of the Photoshop Extended selection tools to define and calculate distance, perimeter, area, and other measurements. Record data points in a measurement log and export data, including histogram data, to a spreadsheet for further analysis.

Faster, more flexible asset management with Adobe Bridge CS3 - Organize and manage images more efficiently with next-generation Adobe Bridge CS3 software, which now delivers improved performance, a Filter panel for easier searching, the ability to group multiple images under a single thumbnail, the Loupe tool, offline image browsing, and more.

Better raw-image processing - Process raw images with increased speed and superior conversion quality using the Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in, which now adds support for JPEG and TIFF formats; new tools including Fill Light and Dust Busting; compatibility with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software; and support for over 150 camera models.

Enhanced Vanishing Point with 3D support - Edit in perspective on multiple surfaces-even those connected at angles other than 90 degrees-with the enhanced Vanishing Point, which also lets you measure in perspective; wrap graphics, images, and text around multiple planes; and output 2D planes as 3D models.

Wide range of supported formats - Import and export an even greater range of file formats, including PSD, BMP, DICOM, Cineon, JPEG, JPEG2000, OpenEXR, PNG, Targa, and TIFF.

Customer Reviews

If there's a schoolkid in the house you are eligible for this great photo-editing software
With Photoshop 'extended' you get everything in standard Photoshop CS3, plus tools for editing 3D and motion-based content and performing image analysis [although freebie ImageJ offers more of the latter]. If your child is a school pupil (Primary/secondary) or university student you can use this software once you get their school/university to stamp and sign the form. The software is thus home use only and must be used non-commercially (i.e. for educational use). In fact my 11 year old son uses Photoshop CS3 regularly as I can teach him being a professional user myself. Photoshop Extended does have a steep learning curve, largely as the on-line help is pretty awful (e.g. it never says exactly where to find the command). However once on the PC at home, both parents and offspring are able use this powerful photo-editing software.

Less experienced PC users/photographers may prefer Adobe Elements 6.0 (a cut down version of Photoshop Extended), which is pretty powerful in it's own right - plus student versions of the combined Adobe Elements 6.0 (photos) & Adobe Premiere 4.0 (video) packages are avaiable as cheap student licences as well. Plus there's the powerful Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 10 that comes in at a few pounds more than Elements 6.0 and, although aimed at professional photographers on a budget, it is ideal for anyone with an expensive digital camera. Photoshop is XP/Vista only though and you must meet the minimum Adobe hardware spec or the software won't install. For details of Photoshop extended see adobe.com. So a great way to obtain a full version of Photoshop at a considerable discount.

Product good; Obtaining Licence - Horrendous
I purchased this product for my 14-year old Daughter to use for her ICT homework and GCSE-based coursework. The product may be good, but trying to obtain a Licence number to use the product after the 30-day trial is horrendous. Firstly, you have to complete their Form and upload this as an attachment to an email; secondly you have to provide proof that the Student is in education; and thirdly you have to provide a photo of the Student/Child. Filling out a Form is understandable, downlaoding and attaching to an email is easily done! However, surely Adobe realise that in the UK, all children of 16 & under (Year 11 and below) have to attend School - we the parents get prosecuted if they don't. But, no we still have to prove that they attend an educational establishment, by obtaining a letter from an already overworked teacher, downloading a copy and attaching that to the same email. Then to compound it all, we have to send a photo of our child (something we encourage our kids not to do on the internet) on the same email. So, if you manage all of these things, you may eventually get the 'treasured' licence number, but not in the timeframe they promise. However, should you encounter any difficulty, then you really have problems. The Adobe Technical Helpline is not a freephone number. Once you are able to get through the many options on the phone line, it then advises you that they are experiencing a heavy call load and that there will be a hour's waiting time!!!! Remember you are getting charged for listening to music. Finally, you may get to speak to someone, who does not understand or speak English. I'm not racist, and I admire very much those people who attempt to speak and work with another language, but when I've been kept holding for an hour ... I want to proiritise my issue briefly, succinctly and get a coherent response immmediately. Take my advise, ring Adobe Sales on the 0800 number, and insist that Sales put you through to Technical Support - you will still have to hold for an hour, but at least it will be free!!!

The education discount makes this software superb value
Do you have a uni undergraduate in your household. If so, get this : the mother of photo software.

If you are a student why not buy it now. You can use if after you graduate in your work. Many employers these days insist that people have proper licences for software.