Reasons to upgrade:
- Smart Filters
- Quick Selection and Refine Edge tools
- Advanced compositing
- Streamlined interface
- Better raw image processing
- Improved Adobe Bridge
- Enhanced Vanishing Point
- Enhanced 32-bit HDR support
- Peak performance
- Black-and-white conversion

Top features:
• Industry-standard editing toolset. Perfect your images with industry-leading image-editing capabilities, which include enhanced color-correction and cloning and healing tools.

• Nondestructive editing. Take advantage of nondestructive editing capabilities, including 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 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 Adobe® 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 color and shading to create a smooth, editable result.

• Quick Selection and Refine Edge tools. Make selections in a snap. Loosely draw on an image area, and the Quick Selection tool automatically completes the selection for you. Then fine-tune your selections with the Refine Edge tool.

• Built-in efficiency. Take advantage of customized workflows and a streamlined work environment with enhanced palette management so you can focus on your images, not your software.

• Improved printing experience. Experience better control over print quality with color management, a larger print preview window, and more controls in one place so you can print in fewer steps. Improved printing controls, co-developed by Adobe and HP, make printing easier and more predictable and streamline setup options via integration with select printers from HP, Epson, and Canon.

• Faster, more flexible asset management with Adobe Bridge CS3. Organize and manage images more efficiently with Adobe Bridge CS3, 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.

• Wide range of supported formats. Import and export a wide range of file formats, including PSD, BMP, Cineon, JPEG, JPEG2000, OpenEXR, PNG, Targa, and TIFF.

• Third-party solutions and resources. Take advantage of a wealth of additional resources — including software plug-ins, books, and training — from the longstanding community of expert Photoshop developers, authors, and trainers.

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