Slight argument with my motorcycle and the side of a mountain but its amazing what a few pins and plates can do?

 

 

I have, with much consideration, come to the firm opinion that Photoshop CS3 is a major upgrade, so if you are the sort of person who ‘version skips’ my advice to you is that this one, is not one to skip.

 

The really big change to my own workflow (also requiring a major overhaul to my new book) is undoubtedly the tighter integration between Adobe Camera Raw (with all of its added control and performance enhancements), Smart Objects and the introduction of Smart Filters with which to filter these Smart Objects.

 

This brings in a whole new non-destructive way of working with files that should mean the end of actually working on any real or ‘rasterized’ pixels on an image layer for many photographers. The resulting Photoshop files (containing Smart Objects) can then be inserted into Desktop Publishing packages such as Adobe InDesign and then re-edited by the graphic designer if required - which is another step in the move to constantly defer the actual processing of the images until absolutely necessary. All of the changes that we are actually seeing on screen are just sets of text instructions (in .xmp files or the actual.dng files) for what Adobe should do with the RAW information when the file is eventually processed (somebody - some time - must make a decision right).

 

And just when you though Photoshop couldn’t go any further eh!

 

Let’s toast to the adventure that is about to engulf us.

 

Mark