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Meet every challenge
Photoshop 7.0 rounds out its comprehensive toolset with new capabilities that help you meet every creative challenge, master every production demand, and handle any image-editing task efficiently.
File Browser
Search for images visually and intuitively rather than just by filename. With the easy-to-view thumbnails in the File Browser window, you can quickly organize and retrieve images from your hard drive, external drives, CDs, and disks directly within Photoshop. The File Browser also displays image metatada, such as date created, date modified, and Exchangeable Image File (EXIF) information from digital cameras. Rotate images, batch rename, sort files, and manage image folders--all within the File Browser. See Using the File Browser (Photoshop).
Healing brush
Effortlessly remove dust, scratches, blemishes, and wrinkles from your photographs, using only one tool. Unlike other cloning tools, the healing brush preserves the original shading, tonality, and texture in the retouched area. Use the related patch tool to work with selections. See Using the healing brush tool (Photoshop).
Web transparency
Make Web page elements transparent in Photoshop and ImageReady by simply clicking on the color you want to knock out. And with the new dithered transparency option, you can apply partial transparency to blend Web graphics seamlessly into any background--even patterns--without having to select a matte color first. If you need to edit the transparent effects later, you can remap more than one color at a time and easily restore colors to their original settings. See About optimization.
Enhanced Web output
Keep vector art and text looking crisp by letting Photoshop or ImageReady automatically assign a higher priority to those areas when you optimize an image for the Web. See Using weighted optimization.
WBMP support
Preview and save for Web in WBMP format, commonly used for displaying images on PDAs and wireless devices. See Optimization options for WBMP format.
Rollovers palette
Use one convenient palette to create, view, and set rollover states. Add a layer-based rollover to a Web page by simply clicking a button, and use the Selected state option in the Rollovers palette to add sophisticated interactivity, with no need for Java scripting. For example, you can create navigation bars that trigger different rollover effects simultaneously. The Rollovers palette also displays all the slices, rollovers, image maps, and animations in a file, making it easy to get a quick overview of all the document states. See Using the Rollovers palette.
Workspaces
Customize your Photoshop working environment by creating a palette layout and then saving the layout as a workspace. If you share a computer, saving a workspace lets you instantly access your personalized Photoshop desktop each time you sit down to work. You can also create workspaces for specific tasks--one for painting and another for photo retouching or Web work, for example. See Customizing your workspace.
Tool presets
Customize any tool and save your settings as a new, unique tool. Access your presets instantly from the options bar or the new tool Presets palette, which lets you view presets for all your tools in one convenient place. See Using tool presets (Photoshop).
Auto Color command
With the new Auto Color command, color correction has never been easier--and Auto Color provides more reliable results than Auto Levels or Auto Contrast. See Using the Auto Color command (Photoshop).
Data-driven graphics
Whether you're creating corporate business cards, an online catalog with hundreds of photos and descriptions, or a direct-mail piece with customized data, the new data-driven graphics features in ImageReady let you combine visual sophistication with automated production. Design a template and use the Layers palette to designate key elements as variables. Then use scripts, a Web production tool such as GoLive, or an image server such as Adobe AlterCast® to replace the variables with text or images pulled from an ODBC-compliant database. See About data-driven graphics.