
Photoshop CS3’s Channel Mixer and Curves dialog boxes now let you save and recall presets. The new Black & White adjustment command lets you control how an image’s colors are converted to grays by clicking and dragging directly on the image instead of futzing with dialog-box sliders. Photoshop CS3’s new Clone Source panel appears at the right edge of this screen its dock is collapsed to icon view.Other usability improvements abound throughout Photoshop CS3. The new Black & White dialog box provides several presets that simulate various film filters-even infrared.

In general, Adobe could have done a better job of creating workspace presets that took advantage of a second display, as Apple did with Aperture ( ).Īnother panel-related quibble: In Illustrator CS3, you can customize panels so they appear in muted grays that distract less from the image you’re working on. Alas, although you can stash free-floating panels on a second display, you can’t group them into docks that reside there.
