Product Description

PhotoShop 7 features: File Browser to visually browse and retrieve images Healing Brush to effortlessly remove artifacts such as dust, scratches, blemishes, and wrinkles while preserving shading, lighting, and texture Web output enhancements to easily apply transparency or partial transparency to Web page elements, including seamless edges that blend into any Web background Single, enhanced Rollover palette to manage Web page rollovers, animations, and image maps more easily New selected rollover state for creating more sophisticated Web site navigation bars without hand-coding Customizable workspace for saving the arrangement of palettes and settings for tools, and instant access to a personalized Photoshop desktop New Auto Color Command for reliable colour correction New Painting Engine to simulate traditional painting techniques Pattern Maker plug-in to create realistic or abstract patterns such as grass, rocks, and sand simply by selecting a section of an image Enhanced Liquify (distorting) tool to allow you to view other layers, zoom, pan, and undo multiple steps - even save custom meshes and apply them to other files Password protection to limit access to Photoshop PDF files, helping to secure image integrity Built-in Spell Checker for search-and-replace operations and spell-check in multiple languages within the same file Enhanced Picture Packages to allow you to print multiple images on one page, choose different page sizes, and add custom labels, such as copyright notices or captions More Web Gallery templates to easily show work online by posting a gallery page of images, and include watermark and copyright information to protect images Full compatibility with Mac OS 9 and support for the newest enhancements of Mac OS X and Microsoft(R) Windows(R) XP XMP support for embedding metadata in application files to easily repurpose, archive, and automate files in a workflow

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5033 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. The latest release of the world's leading image-editing solution lets you: MEET EVERY CHALLENGEPhotoshop 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. The File Browser lets you quickly inspect images before opening them by viewing thumbnails and metadata such as color profile, date modified, and Exchangeable Image File (EXIF) information generated by digital cameras. With the new Healing Brush, you can effortlessly remove scratches and other flaws while preserving the image's shading, lighting, and texture. 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. STAY COMPETITIVEPowerful 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. WORK WITH CONFIDENCEPhotoshop 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. While Photoshop 7.0 is fully compatible with Mac OS 9, you can take advantage of the newest enhancements for Mac OS X as well as for Windows XP. Check for misspelled words in multiple languages within the same file using the new built-in spell checker and perform search-and-replace operations. Photoshop 7.0 saves files to the XMP (Extensible Metadata Platform), a new industry standard developed by Adobe for embedding metadata in application files. With embedded metadata, you can quickly repurpose, archive, and add your Photoshop 7.0 files to automated publishing workflows. And you can easily view and save Photoshop images in WBMP format for display on wireless devices. Photoshop 7.0 is tightly integrated with other Adobe professional graphics programs for print, Web, ePaper and dynamic media, including Adobe Illustrator , Adobe InDesign , Adobe AlterCast , Adobe GoLive , Adobe LiveMotion , Adobe Premiere , Adobe After Effects , Adobe Acrobat , and others. With Photoshop 7.0, you can work with familiar, productive Adobe tools to create the highest quality graphics. Photoshop 7.0 also offers exciting enhancements and new features for Adobe ImageReady 7.0, which ships with Photoshop. ImageReady offers specialized features for accomplishing advanced Web-production tasks and creating highly sophisticated Web graphics and animations.

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.