Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4806 in Software
• Brand: Adobe Systems Inc.
• Released on: 2002-04-18
• Platforms: Windows NT, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP
• Original language: English

Amazon.co.uk Review
With each new version of Photoshop Adobe never fails to come up with an awe-inspiring mix of great new features, productivity enhancements and tweaks and treats. Version 7 is no exception.

The major difference between this and earlier versions (for Mac users at least) is that Photoshop 7 is Mac OS X compatible. For everyone else the main points of interest are a new healing brush that gets rid of facial wrinkles and other surface blemishes with incredible ease, a long-awaited file browser that allows you to view image thumbnails and metadata, enhanced Web features, automatic colour correction and even a spell checker.

One of Photoshop's many strengths is the versatility of its tools and this has been stretched to new limits. Filter previews are bigger, the liquify tool has been enhanced, brush parameters have been extended and commonly used tool settings can be saved as presets. This means you can virtually do away with the toolbox--instead selecting tools with exactly the settings you need from the presets palette.

Image Ready, Photoshop's Web-authoring and export module remains a separate, linked application. Creation of rollovers is simpler and a new "selected" rollover state takes some of the repetitive strain out of nav bar production.

New output options include Picture Package, which allows you to print multiple images on a single page, and new templates and security watermarking for Web galleries.

All-in-all this is an upgrade guaranteed to keep Photoshop at the cutting-edge of professional image editing.--Ken McMahon

Manufacturer's Description
In today's challenging business environment, Adobe Photoshop 7.0 helps you stay competitive with innovative tools that deliver new ways to express your creativity and work efficiently. With Photoshop 7.0, you can more easily produce exceptional imagery for print, the Web, wireless devices, and other media. Photoshop 7.0 rounds out its comprehensive toolset with new capabilities to meet any creative or production demand and to handle the widest variety of image-editing tasks in the most efficient way. With enhanced Web features, you can instantly make Web page elements transparent simply by knocking out one or more colors; create dithered transparencies; manage Web page rollovers and animations; and create more sophisticated Web rollovers. Powerful new tools help you explore your creativity without limits so you can more easily meet the multimedia demands of today's market. Simulate traditional painting techniques (including pastels and charcoal) with dry and wet brush effects and use brushes to add special effects. Adjust dozens of precise brush settings including size, shape, and tilt to create custom brushes that you can share with other Photoshop users. With the new Pattern Maker plug-in, you can select any area of an image and automatically generate a nearly endless assortment of background patterns. And the enhanced Liquify plug-in lets you distort images more easily and gain greater control over warping. Photoshop 7.0 offers unparalleled precision and control so you can be confident you're achieving consistently superior output. New security features let you restrict access to your images with password protection. Using the enhanced Picture Package feature, you can quickly print a folder of images as customized pages, including multiple photos in different sizes on the same page. Create a sophisticated online showcase for your images with new Web Photo Gallery templates. Keep vector art and text looking crisp online by letting ImageReady automatically assign higher priority to those areas when optimizing for the Web. Photoshop 7.0 is tightly integrated with other Adobe professional graphics programs for print, Web, ePaper and dynamic media. With Photoshop 7.0, you can work with familiar, productive Adobe tools to create the highest quality graphics. These days, graphics professionals are being called on to create images that work across a variety of media. You need a solution that lets you handle the widest variety of image-editing tasks and output images to multiple media - including print, the Web, wireless devices, and video - without having to learn a whole new set of tools. Photoshop 7.0 helps you work more efficiently than ever to meet the multimedia demands of today's marketplace and make impossible deadlines possible.

Customer Reviews

Photoshop 7 - a no-brainer upgrade
Photoshop has long been the software package of choice for those who are serious about their digital images.V6 was a significant improvement over previous versions particularly in the creation of images for the web. Version 7 builds on that by providing a number of new features (the 'instant website' feature, aimed at novices, is especially useful) and a tweaked, more user-friendly interface.
As always with Photoshop the real power is under the hood. Professionals will be pleased with the new file browser and the 'metadata pane' which displays hidden information stored in digital images. The clone tool has been updated and is now called the 'Healing Brush' enabling a retouched area to more closely match the image around it (ideal for removing spots and wrinkles).
Die-hard Photoshop users will be pleased with the new additions and those just coming to the package will not find it as daunting as previous releases. They may find the price a little off-putting and I can't help thinking that Adobe price the full version a little high. However, given that there is nothing else on the market to touch it in terms of power and usability, I believe the upgrade option is well worth the money. My verdict? If you have a qualifying version the upgrade is a no-brainer. Newcomers may want to gird their loins and wait for the trial version before stumping out. But be warned, once you try it you won't want to live without it.

OK but no cigar
I'm a long time photoshop user. Version 6 was a pretty exciting
upgrade but I couldn't really get excited about 7.

If you have PS6 stick with it 7 isn't worth the price of the upgrade. If you've never owned Photoshop before then 7 is of course the one to go for. If I'd never used photoshop before I'd have given it 4 maybe even five stars.

If your not earning 100% of your income from digital imagery then Photoshop 7 is way too expensive. Buy Photoshop Elements and save yourself bundles of money.

Lucky number 7
Photoshop 7 ranks as the best version upgrade for a long time. having been using for a couple of weeks, on occasions where i have had to go back to 6 ive missed the features ive already come to depend on in 7, which speaks volumes in itself.
Firstly the interface has been improved and streamlined, the context sensitive options bar speeds up workflow enormously, and finally after all these versions the ability to save custome tool settings, if you constantly find yourself retyping cropping tool settings et all, then youll appreciate what an advancement this is.
More layer blending modes to play with, improvements to most of the workhorse image adjustment areas, curves has had a major overhaul, and has become much more user friendly, not least with the ability to expand the size of the dialogue box.
The new tools are in fact great, the healing brush has that real wow factor, and is a great accomplice to the rubber stamp.
Even the texture generator seems to have some applications for creating original artwork.
The file browser is welcome, although for anyone who used to use Corel Photopaint, its merely something which has been missing from Photoshop for a long time.
Despite intitial scepticism, i think this is the best upgrade to Photoshop in a long time, although most of the enhancements should have materialised a couple of years ago, at least they have finally been incorporated.