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The Fincube is oriented in a helical pattern, so when visitors enter up through the pedestal, they travel in a circle through the kitchen, living area, then the bedroom and finally the bathroom. Triple-glazed windows cover the entire facade of the home, offering 360 degree views of the surrou

nding landscape, and an exterior shade screen with walkway cages in the house. The shade screen provides shading and ventilation for the house without impinging on the stunning views. Additionally, the home is a smart house and all vital house-functions are controlled by a central touchpad and a solar system can easily be added to the roof.

The home offers just a single level of living space, but it’s raised 3 meters off the ground with a supporting structure made from locally-sourced larch. The footprint of the structure is only 2 sq meters, but the kitchen, living space, bedroom and bathroom amount to 47 sq meters of living space. Local suppliers and craftsman were utilized to build this home, which can also be easily dismantled and moved to a new site if required. With only a small area of the home touching the ground, there is less damage to the earth and the ground could quickly recover when the residence is moved.

+ FINCUBE

“Free Version of Flash Page Flip has no advanced functions but it has some nice features like resizing and navigation. You can make and publish your own publications (Online Catalog, Digital Brochure, Flipping Book, Interactive Flyer, Virtual Magazine, Flip Album etc.) by writing JPEG or SWF formatted pages names on XML file in the Free Version. You don’t have to know Flash software to make your flipping book”.

Online Demo

2.PixelWit’s Free PageFlip Flash

The original dynamic Flash ActionScript page flip effect code. Maybe one of the most popular Flash page flips codes. “Improved” version costs $12.50 only and offers lots of great options. Require Flash knowlege but gives a great result for free.

PageFlip_NoTypos

3. Flash Flipping Book

“Flash Flipping Book is a web tool for you to display your images / photos in the form of a book / catalogue / brochure. The page transition animation is like flipping pages of a book”. Free version contains Flash-here logo.
Online Demo

4. Free PageFlip

“professional and realistic Adobe© Flash based flash book”. There is a free basic version with source files included. Basic Flash knowledge and the software are required.

ActionScript:

pageflip version 2.25 (20060406)
060406: v.225
-bug fixeg when dragging preflipped page corner, and the page ha partially teared sometimes…
050427: – removeML() function added, see details at frame 15
- new page definition system, hope it is easier to use!
- no need to adjust the mask size!
050418: now it is AS2/FLash7 Compatible (The bug was the variable flipOff/flipoff)
skip page option added to gotoPage function
(for the latest version, always check at http://www.iparigrafika.hu/pageflip)
this code is written by Macc 2004.11.01
abel@iparigrafika.hu
this code is opensource
free use!
but a small credit would be nice:)

these values can be changed: ————————————————————————-

pw = 400;            //page width in pixel
ph = 570;            //page height in pixel
//pages in the library must have the same size, the script will not resize them!

//page data… (export names/tearing flag)
addPage(”start”);        //Always start with “start”!!!
addPage(”page1″);
addPage(”page2″);
addPage(”page3″);
addPage(”page4″,true);
addPage(”page5″);
addPage(”page6″);
addPage(”page7″);
addPage(”page8″);
addPage(”page9″);
addPage(”page10″);
addPage(”page11″,true);    //second argument defines page tearing.
addPage(”page12″,true);
addPage(”page13″);
addPage(”page14″);
addPage(”page15″);
addPage(”page16″);
addPage(”end”);            //always end with “end”!!!

page=0;                //first page (normally it is 0 = the page before the cover = blank page)

if(directlink==undefined) directlink = 0;
else if(directlink%2) directlink–;
page = directlink;

hcover = true;        //hard cover on/off

clickarea = 64;        //pixel width of the click sensitive area at the edges..
afa = 56;            //width of the autoflip starter square.

gs = 10;                //goto page flip speed
ps = 5;                //mouse pursuit speed
es = 3;                //flip speed after mouse btn release

canflip = true;        //page flipping enabled

transparency = true;    //use transparent pages or not (1 level transparency)

lcover = true;        //large cover on/off
lcaddx = 10;        //width difference
lcaddy = 10;        //height difference on top/bottom

/*if you don’t want to use the large cover feature:
lcover = false;
lcaddx = 0;
lcaddy = 0;

and resize the first and the last two pages to the normal page size (set in pw/ph)
*/
SoundOn = true;        //use page sounds

//do not change these values:  ———————————————————————————————————————

_global.mcnt = 0;    //counter (used on a page where is an animation)
gpage = 0;            //gotoPage No
gflip = false;        //gotoPage flip
gdir = 0;            //goto direction…
gskip = false;        //skip pages    ***
gtarget = 0;        //target when skipping

aflip = false;        //auto flip
flip = false;        //pageflip
flipOff = false;    //terminateflip
flipOK = false;        //good flip
hflip = false;        //hardflip (the cover of the book)
rotz = -30;            //hardflip max y difference

preflip = false;    //corner flip status
ctear = false;        //actual page status
tear = false;
teard = 0;
tlimit = 80;
removedPages = new Array();    //list of removed pages!

mpx = 0, mpy = 0;    //mousepos at click
sx = sy = 0;        //startpoint when flipping
x = 0;    //mouse x,y
y = 0;
ax = 0;    //auto x,y
ay = 0;
acnt = 0;
aadd = 0;
aamp = 0;

AM = Math.PI/180;

A bit of history or why we put the variable in the banner

For banner advertising systems is the need to monitor how many people clicked on the banner. This can be measured using a special URL, which counted in the advertising system, click and then redirects the user to the target page. In the days of animated GIF banners have been easy to insert the URL directly into the HTML and thus independent of the banner. With the advent of flash banners, however, there was a problem. URL to which refers to the flash banner must be placed directly into the banner. The banner is, as we have said, must have a special URL, banner maker that does not know yet, because it generates only the system itself after the insertion of advertising banner. On the contrary, a person serving advertising system does not have the capacity nor the possibility that the URL for each banner putting. Vicious circle you might say.

Then he devised a clever system of the head, when the banner inserted only variable that can take its value from HTML page to which the banner inserted. In practice it appears that the banner is inserted as the variable “clickthru. This variable is then assigned the HTML directly in the special link from the advertising system, which ensures both the counting and clickthrough redirection to the target web address. This would ideally be able to quit, but the happy ending will be made.

The problem occurs when you insert a variable in the banner. Your first question probably is: What is the variable I have to insert a banner? The answer is simple. Given that there is no usage of the variable which will be used in advertising or systems in that way will the banner files, each server resolves this problem on their own. The technical specification of the media plan (ideally you have it) then read that some websites use variable clickthru some clickTAG, some to write clickTAG and some servers are added another variable “clickTarget” manages to which the window should link to open. As the creators of the banner you would always have accurate information on these variables.

What do we need to know in advance?

If you are preparing a campaign banner, then ideally you will receive, as part of a media plan, the technical specifications of individual servers. There, in addition to size and data size, read the script, you have to insert the banner looks like this:

on (release) {
          if (clickTAG.substr(0, 5) == "http:") {
              getURL(clickTAG, "_blank");

         }
 }

This script basically tells the server uses the variable clickTAG, link opens in a new window and the URL parameter clickTAG must begin with “http:”. This last condition is there for safety. This code uses Google AdWords for example. Similar scripts you would find for the other servers. Even for an example of what I will use the script server family Seznam.cz:

on (release) {
        if (!_root.clickthru && _root.clickTag) {
                  _root.clickthru = _root.clickTag;
    }
    getURL(_root.clickthru, _root.clickTarget);
}

This script, other than variable clickthru ‘work is variable clickTarget, which controls what the window by clicking on the banner to open a link.

What to do if I know nothing

Quite often confronted with the fact that no technical specification get. Then, you need to ask. Basically you will suffice if you can find out the variable name as the server uses to which a window is a link to open. Most often you get responses that use the variable ‘clickthru “or” clickTAG “(pay attention to uppercase and lowercase letters, depending on size), and that the banner after you click open in new window (which means you use the parameter” _blank ” in the same window the day it was the parameter “_top”). According to this information, you can then you can easily edit the code I put there first demo.

Thus the code may look, if we use the variable “clickthru” a banner will open in the same window:

on (release) {
    if (clickTAG.substr(0, 5) == "http:") {
        getURL(clickthru, "_top");
    }

}

Jak kód do banneru vložit

Click on the symbol rectangle and draw a scene any color, any rectangle. In the Properties inspector, change its size to equal what is your banner. For example 250 x 250 px.

Click the inspector tools on the arrow and then click to mark a rectangle. Press the F8 key, which brings up a dialog where select “Button” and confirm. Thus you have created a button on which hang the specified code.

Click on the rectangle so you get to the editing. At the top of the search at this time should see the timeline, only 4 frames. Click on the first page and drag transfer its contents into the fourth box called “Hit”. This box indicates the active area of the buttons that the final export is not visible. The first three fields should remain empty.

Click the top left click “Scene 1″ which will take you back to the main stage. Rectangle now changes its color to light blue, it is pure sign of transparency. When you export this blue will not show. The button should now be placed exactly over the banner. Please click on the button, and then set paletceProperties X and Y to “0″.

Make sure you have identified key security for him then again. Press F9 brings inspector Actions. Copy the example code from this page:

on (release) {
    if (clickTAG.substr(0, 5) == "http:") {
        getURL(clickTAG, "_blank");
    }
}

and through the CTRL + V to paste it into the inspector Actions. This is the insertion of code done. Banner Save and export the resulting SWF file.

How to test banner
Banner before sending to the server, we have yet to test that we put the banner code in correctly. This can be done very easily and that you create a simple HTML page in which you give the variable in the banner.

Test HTML page where we will test the proper insertion of the variable “clickthru” might look like this:

<body>

 <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0"
width="250" height="250">
 <param name="movie" value="banner-250x250.swf?clickTAG=http://www.designportal.cz/" />
 <embed SRC="http://www.designportal.cz/banner-250x250.swf?clickTAG=http://www.designportal.cz/"
width="250" height="250" />
 </object>

</body>
</html>

In this HTML page, I test the functionality of variable parameter URL forwarding site design portal. Shown in red are parts of code that you may change if your file will be named differently or you have another variable to the target URL, etc. HTML code to copy, paste and save as doNotepadu as a htm, for example, “banner-test.htm .

Additional requirements for banner

addition to the variable is properly inserted, you can still meet with other like version of flash player, 1px line around the banner, non-repeating animation, etc. It all depends from the requirements of the server where the banners will run, so good advance request any technical requirements that you will avoid remodeling banner.

Hopefully this guide will help you a bit in creating banners for advertising systems. If you have any inaccuracy or something you are missing in the instructions, write to me, no problem to adjust the instructions according to your requirements.

]]> http://kuziworld.com/?feed=rss2&p=105 0 http://kuziworld.com/?p=99 http://kuziworld.com/?p=99#comments Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:18:17 +0000 admin http://kuziworld.com/?p=99 Adobe has been offering for some time Photoshop.com online service, intended for sharing, managing and editing digital photos part through the Internet. A few days ago released a client service for the Apple iPhone. What features can Photoshop.com through it to use?

Adobe last year launched an Internet service for photo management and sharing of Photoshop.com, which inter alia includes the features of Photoshop Express, more capacity and the conditions it describes the use of this site (some additional opportunities for service can use only the owners of Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements Version 7 or higher). Adobe

And because it provides basic photo processing options can be crop, flip and rotate and can be adjusted to their exposure, saturation and tint, and also it is converted into black and white. Also offer two filters, change slide Sketch sketch, while the Soft Focus Filter softens drawing pictures.

And then you can use a series called One touch effects, such as pop (create a set of images with changing colors), Border (add white box), Vignette Blur (blurred edge images), Warm Vintage (imitates the old photo), Rainbow (rainbow effect), White Glow (white light) or Soft Black and White (softening of black and white image).

The application supports the removal and re-attracting operations already carried out and if you created an account at Photoshop.com services (applications can be used without it), will save the photo on it (free service offers up to 2 GB of storage space), but you can save it also locally.

Before starting adjustments can also save the original image appearance and the service allows Adobe naturally more editing, hosting and sharing photos (see above links), can also work with images already stored on that account.

Very interesting is that the application of controlled almost exclusively gestures mentioned filters and effects applied to the photo by dragging fingers over the display (graphically illustrated in this videorecenze on YouTube), Adobe is indeed consistent use iPhone touch control.

Photoshop for iPhone

Photoshop.com Mobile application for iPhone can be downloaded free from the App Store, will work on the iPhone and iPod touch with firmware 2.0 or higher. All users, this opens the possibility of extensive editing photos directly on the iPhone.

Print Magic allows remote printing from the iPhone

Company Wellala released in late September application Print Magic, which allows printing content from the iPhone and iPod touch over WiFi connection, without first necessary synchronization with your computer.

Applications can print to network printers support IPP, as well as all the shared printers from Mac printer sharing through the Mac OS X. The content to be printed, simply select and copy to the application, a Web site to print it so that is copied their URL address. Then run Magic Print icon and press print.

And directly from the application can select and print images stored in the library, iPhone or iPod touch and the program offers options for basic editing before printing, can widen, shrink and trim. Print Magic supports photo format 10 x 15 inches and larger, the output is also automatically optimizes for the selected print format.

Using the more detailed description of this page and Wellala promises its further improvement. Now awaiting the approval of the version 1.0.2 was sent to extend functionality and connectivity to the end of October and the company promises to version 1.1, which allows printing on all printers using the PCL printer language and IPP (currently offered on the App Store version 1.0.1).

Print Magic is sold on the App Store for 6.99 USD, not surprisingly requires firmware 3.0 or higher. Applications have already attracted significant customer interest, Wellala on its website boasts that it soon reached the ladder 10 downloads paid applications.

Canon introduced its own application for printing photos on their printers

Now Canon has the software version for the iPhone, allowing direct printing of images on some of its printers that support a wireless connection. Photos from the application will send to a printer PIXMA via WiFi connection, so suddenly can send more pictures, print queue can contain them to 20.

photos can choose from a library of iPhone or iPod touch, the iPhone is also an application can be used for immediate printing from the camera. Before printing it set some printing parameters, such as the output format, the paper type or print to the edge or not. Detail work with the application describing the Canon website.

Easy-PhotoPrint can be downloaded free from the App Store, currently is only available in the U.S. and Japan. And its very limited application that currently supports only the printer Canon Pixma MP560, MP640 and MP990 offers wireless printing. Application can use only the very narrow group of customers, but the move to Canon clearly shows how strong position in the U.S. market it has already received the iPhone.

Video

In the case of video editing Photoshop has new features to it but makes a video editor. Specifically, it is now available mainly import selected frames from video files (see, click File-Import-Video Frames to Layers) formats, which supports QuickTime 7.1 (requires that the device installed in the system). Import progress dialog, which displays the preview of the video with the possibility of play. Selection section for import is not very comfortable, there is thus either a read of the movie – which, however, typically fail in the limit of 500 shots, which is currently set to import video, or you can specify the scope manually with the slider, but only “from eye “(ie the time axis is not available).

Images are loaded as layers, and may be modified as a normal graphics. Corresponding import option is allowed to load images directly into animation, which facilitates the subsequent treatment, particularly for the animation is probably the way to import video intended. There is then the “opposite” function Render Video, with which to convert the video layer. Specifically, it is so available export to QuickTime formats, including QuickTime Movie, AVI, Flash or Video iPod. In addition, you can create a sequence of images in various formats.

can imagine a good use of those functions in areas such as web design. Here is a designer out of work outlined above animations can also be “pulled” from the video to be exposed on the Web, some of those images and any adjustments applied in the website as a teaser for the video file.

Device Central

novelty that holds to the draft content for mobile devices, is particularly appropriate smart phones and a PDA or konzumentská device is Device Central. This is a separate component of Photoshop CS3 (hence probably the entire upcoming Creative Suite 3), which can emulate the behavior of mobile devices based on their profiles. Emulation is used to control the behavior of content created in Photoshop on the device.

Designer so you can see at any time Photoshop location of the image on the display and the influence of various test conditions and settings that seem in the case of the device in question. Specifically, it is necessary to size, resolution and backlight or his reaction to sunlight, or vice versa indoor use. Furthermore, the user is in an emulator for adequate function of the cell phone to work with graphics. So you can try various ways to use the picture, ie as its location on the desktop, use as a screen, viewing a Web browser, etc..

Saving an image into a designated mobile devices can easily be secured in Photoshop using a special command to Save for Web & Devices. In addition, you can also directly create a new document, which is designed for mobile deployment and the environment, either from Photoshop or directly Device Central.

Device provides cental to manage device profiles corresponding tools. They allow to browse and search profiles according to the manufacturer’s facility, region, screen size, etc. is possible grouping profiles into groups, the developer can create a test set of target devices for which prepares content.

Currently the default form contains generic Device Central profiles of mobile phones, developed by Adobe for Flash Lite. After the official Photoshop CS3 will be provided profiles of specific equipment manufacturers.

Device Central is certainly an interesting device that can significantly help in creating a more sought-after content for mobile devices. In this context, it will be recalled previous existence of similar tools for creating content in SWF and SVG formats, built into Illustrator, and GoLive CS2. It is questionable how much the comprehensive functionality of the devices combine the very sharp form of Device Central.

Zoomify: high resolution images on the Web

remarkable new tool (but having ancestors in Photoshop’s supported format ZoomView) is Zoomify export format (for development is the manufacturer of the same name). This is a technology that allows high-resolution images on a Web site in a way that drastically speeds up the browsing speed and information transfer image. Zoomify format is as follows actually set JPEG files, the corresponding decomposition of the original image into a kind of mosaic tile, the breakdown is thus created for various resolutions, respectively. different levels of zoom for viewing.

The Zoomify image refers to a web page basic JPEG preview, coupled with a simple viewing applications in SWF format (which is needed for its operation, the user had for the Web prohížeč Flash Player installed). Such applications will allow users in a web browser to display the image details at different resolutions (ie the tiles), including the original maximum. Viewing is thus usually very fast, because every time transmits only the required part of the image, not the whole picture, the requirement for multiple views of a section is usually used data from the local cache. All user logic and the withdrawal of the said user controls Flash component, so the reduction in server load. And interesting is not the fact that the images can be distributed equitably, in a basic high definition only troublesome to save locally in complete form: suitable for the protection of copyrights, etc.

In Photoshop CS3 Zoomify image is a simple and clear. Adequate storage dialog, triggered by the command File-Export-Zoomify, here you can specify HTML template on which the Zoomify image is located, the size of the basic insight, way of storing a file naming “tiles” even those used JPEG compression, the deposit can automatically page image displayed in the browser.

As already indicated above, Zoomify is not the only technology of its kind: outside or be ZoomView Erez Imaging Server must not forget or JPEG2000, however, against the Zoomify considerable advantage in that it builds on current technologies. In addition to exports from the new Photoshop Zoomify manufacturer provides for both advanced commercial Zoomifyer Flash conversion tool (plugin for Flash – it allows to change the form described above, the Zoomify Flash viewer files) Zoomifyer Enterprise (options annotation server scriptable mass conversion, etc.) and a free converter usual image formats Zoomifyer EZ (which is, however, compared to Photoshop limited transmitter). Integration export directly into the Photoshop any event from a given technology is very accessible and interesting tool with which to provide high resolution images online for comfortable viewing. Potential users, as may be Zoomify photographers, vendors, art works or other internet dealers, galleries, medical (exposure to X-ray and other images), geographers (aerial photographs, etc.) and so on.

Interface

Minor changes can perceive the product’s interface. Cards for the adjustment was added (this is due to offer new features and attempt to better organize the interface a separate card is so now and work with presets), perhaps for this reason they are now header described by only one letter, expressing the mission of the group functions. The order and grouping of functions while the card is different from what is offered in Camera Raw for Photoshop CS2.

Fairly useful tool is the coloring of the sliders for each setting: the user indicates what effect the rider position on the color characteristics of the image. The slider can also now also be easily adjusted to its original state double-click the symbol.

Basic rules

for the basic treatment is available to card B ie Basic, corresponding to an earlier mission Adjust tab. A pleasant change in the ergonomics of its use is to remove the check box to automatically set the Auto value and its replacement Auto, which may carry out the appropriate settings. Function Default shall return the sliders to the default state.

Besides unchanged means for temperature setting White Balance and White Exposure slider to change the exposure is now available for Reconstruction Recovery and Fill Light burn for illumination of the dark shadows, in essence, is the function known as a digital flash. Blacks slider has the same mission as the Shadows slider in the previous version of Camera Raw, is used to tweak the shadows remained unchanged tools to adjust contrast and brightness, or Brightness and Contrast. All the above options come into play even when editing photos after transfer to shade of gray, for which adequate choice.

Checking saturation

addition to the standard tools Saturation is also available resource Vibrance. With its help you can make changes nelineální saturation so that the less saturated pixels are saturated with more features and has the protection of skin tones, avoiding the redness of a change made by the Saturation slider.

Tone Curve Editing

Changes to the card has had its tone curve adjustment (formerly Curve, now Tone Curve). Editing it can be provided on two cards, the Point offers similar functionality as the old form of the function, ie, allows manual configuration and use of several preset values. The new card will allow Parametric curve tune with sliders to burn, light and dark parts of shadows.

HSL / Grayscale

completely new way, enabling control of color in the photo is HSL / Grayscale (H) card. As the name suggests, serves to set the hue, saturation and lightness (Hue-Saturation-Luminance), for eight color channels (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Aqua, Blue, Purple, Magenta), and eventual transfer to the image of shades gray. Conversion to gray is implemented by checking the corresponding options to Camera Raw it will not transfer, but also automatic sliders, for these channels (ie, the plugin attempts to “guess” the correct value), then you can set the sliders to change, there is thus a return to baseline. The combination of those options would be under some claim to ensure the generation of high-quality black and white photographs.

Split Toning

new path has also included modifications Split Toning (S). In this case, the device is advanced toning images. With its help you can tune a different hue, and saturation for light and shadows, and possibly change the proportion of these elements in the frame.

Manage Settings

More Card Camera Raw, namely D (Detail – change sharpness, lightness, color noise), L (Lens Corrections – Correction of chromatic aberrations and vignetting) and C (Camera Calibration – Camera Calibration profile), give essentially the same functionality as in the previous version of Camera Raw. New feature is the already mentioned P card, or Presets, which allows easier than ever before to work with named saving settings. Specifically makes it easy to create your own set or subset of the set or remove a set of course apply.
Editing JPEG and TIFF

interesting new feature is the ability to adjust with Camera Raw and JPEG and TIFF files (can be used to open click Open As / type to select the format Camera Raw /, Camera Raw using the default tool for JPEG files, allows appropriate selection in preferences / Edit-Preferences-File Handling /). The function will welcome many users, especially those for which Camera Raw is an essential tool and the camera (or cameras) produce images in RAW and JPEG.

Finally

Camera Raw provides many innovations, from the pleasant things to truly major new features. As we have yet předeslali in the introduction, many improvements are taken from within Photoshop Lightroom. How much is a given fact for the future of one of the products in question have any relevance at this moment, in any event not dare guess.

Curves Tool

Improvements undergone major tool for advanced editing of color rendition Curves (Curves). In the dialog box is now built-in tools and functionality Levels (Levels). Specifically, this is now possible with the slider bottom of the grid set of curves of light and shadows, the Show Clipping option enables to assess accurately what they look like limits. There are then various information tools that make it possible to view the amount of light (for RGB) or color (in CMYK) and curves showing the grid color tuning of each channel. In addition, you can use the histogram display in the grid.

Brightness and contrast changes

lived to see also a tool Brightness / Contrast (Brightness / Contrast). Changes made now it can not remove the color information (clipping) from images. If, however, that the user needs (for various special effects, fine-tuning masks, etc.) can enable the Use Legacy and use the tool in the old style.

Extension for cloning

There are now a number of new options for the Clone Stamp and Healing Brush. In the elections of the tools are now sampling to select a source other than the existing layers and layers underneath, and all layers of the image, either without or including adjustment layers. The new Clone Source palette allows to set it up to five sources (current or other document) from which the sample is over, the available settings are offset, size, angle and use different ways to live previews source clone (with the option of transparency and blending).

Clone source

Two new blending modes

menu blending modes are now added option Lighter Color and Darker Color. It is a kind of replacement of the existing electoral Lighter and Darker, which differ in that they are working with the whole composition and not on the level of individual channels. For a more detailed assessment of the possible modes recommend appropriate video tutorial from Lynda.com.

New size of the sample dropper

With increasing resolution of the current size of the sample dropper 3×3 and 5×5 began appear insufficient. You are therefore available sizes 11×11, 31×31, 51×51 and 101×101.

Convert to black and white

While Photoshop itself (a third-party plugins to mention) provides a number of (more or less satisfactory) way from the original image to create a color image black and white (or gray scale), a new Black and White Adjustments from the menu offers in this respect completely new, very interesting possibilities. Dialog provides a set of tools sliders through which it can set the luminosity of red, yellow, green, blue and magenta color. In addition to this operation can also click a dropper into the document to the selected area and drag here to determine the value of the gamut (or slider).

Choice Tint allows the file specified color shade and color saturation. There is also an automatic setting of all the above parameters for the analysis of image formed the settings can be stored for later use, that functionality is also available in layers of adjustments.

has also been improved to use other means to produce black and white images, ie the Channel Mixer (Mixing channels), which now contains a set of configuration ready to create black and white content and information click Total, communicating the value of the total sum of the percentage of each color (points to a value greater than 100).

Vanishing Point

New form of the HTC tool Vanishing Point (Vanishing Point), which was received with interest after its introduction in Photoshop CS2. Recall that the device, allowing the images to work with prospects, such as insert images into objects in a photograph, but without undermining the original perspective. Vanishing Point 2 now adds the ability to link the area identifying prospects and some other angle than ninety degrees, the following interrelated areas can then be placed an image, the location can be fine-tuned using the transformation tools can also use tools like the Healing Brush and others, offering to Thus many interesting new ways need to add virtual billboards or signs on the walls of buildings, variously “plaster” boxes and other containers, etc..

PDF

Enough to make life easier for those who need it in Photoshop to process the contents of PDF documents. Above all, this is now possible to import both sites, but also only the images contained in the PDF document. Pages or images can be loaded while the mass, before importing PDF pages can be determined only resolution and size, in which the load. When reading PDF from CS2 is available standardization of code, save to PDF functions in Photoshop CS3 to PDF version 1.7 (Acrobat 8). Expanded the possibilities for producing PDF presentations (useful for photographers to create samples of their creations), and available as possible to check the background color of the presentation and view the metadata associated with the image (file name, copyright, Exif, etc.) or inserted notes.

Extended print dialog

Although Adobe did not bring any essentially new feature, which would cover the press, offered yet in this case, news that everyone seems to appreciate Photoshop. The point is that the new print dialog now integrates itself, unlike the past, with all necessary features so that users need more or less complicated example, click through to set page orientation or the type of printer. In one place is available to control virtually all printing and color management features, preview in the Print dialog box can then be controlled by the current settings color management. The only thing we find is the option of printing configuration for reuse, which is due to the number of parameters definitely damage.

Output for Web

Photoshop CS3 is the end ImageReady, an application for creating web graphics, whose symbiosis with Photoshop has always seemed somewhat strange. Presently, all the functions of Image Ready, ie optimization for the Web, creating presentations, image maps and rollovers, etc., available only in Photoshop. An interesting new feature is the ability to save the Zoomify format for rapid presentation of high definition graphics on the Web, the technology we intend soon to return in more detail.

Press release Adobe testers as well as initial reports spoke of the significant increase in application performance. And we dare these claims, at least in terms of our experience on the Windows platform, confirmed: on weak hardware new Photoshop compared to the last form keeps apace both in terms of attack, as well as the actual operation. Our subjective experience then confirmed as the chart that we received on the website PhotoshopCafe (as the creator is here placed by Adobe, but do not know the exact origin of the graph).

Among other chart says that starting speed is increased on all supported platforms for the Intel Mac is then presented some forty performance increase – if true (can be found on the Internet, respectively. Accruing to other test results, some less, some more optimistic), then of course probably most helped the fact that Photoshop is now available as Universal applications. But the increase in performance and on other platforms confirms previous claims to a major rewrite of the basic code Photoshop. We are curious about how far the trend is also reflected other applications Creative Suite 3

New interface

At the first glance, changes are visible in the user interface of Photoshop. We do not have in mind not so much the appearance of a moderate (more “air” design tuned in to Windows subtle blue), but mainly the new concept of working with pallets. Their location can now use the column – Docks – on both extremes of the window of Photoshop, with adequate controls are allowed to have variety in the expanded state (protruding only if developed individually expand the range of the dock to develop itself into a column below) or minimizing the icons. The content of the document can then be simultaneously expand or minimize the palette dock can be freely group, drag the edge of increase / decrease, etc.

Otherwise, you can then use the old methods of working with pallets, ie, pallets can be placed by moving freely on the desktop or in groups of pallets, the pallets placed loosely be grouped next to each other or below each other, minimize, etc.. Palette of tools is now starting as jednosloupcovou forms (saving space on the screen), but conservatives can easily (by maximizing the dock or by clicking in the upper left corner of the open range located) to the replacement dvousloupcového appearance.

Some modifications have evolved the means to “maximize” view of the edit image. After hiding all the palettes with the Tab key can also be used in mode-created palettes hidden features of the docks, just roll your mouse to the desired edge, and then select the required element. Full Screen Mode now has four forms, among which the key switches through F. In addition to the standard view, there is a new Maximized Screen Mode (master document, increasing the maximum size of the enclosed docks, pallets, and resizes is also dynamic, ie changing edge of the docks will change the document window), and there are two forms of true full-screen, either with the menu bar or not.

Smart filters

For some of the most anticipated feature is non-destructive filters (smart filters), which allows most Photoshop filters used in a similar style as now enable adjustment layers, namely nondestructively. The basis of the work here is to transfer the desired layer, automatic object – smart object (the element type introduced Photoshop CS2, a transfer is possible with appropriate commands, or you can link directly to the file as smart object). Following is the content of such a layer applied to one or more filters nondestructively, while the filter behaves like a layer, that can temporarily turn off and of course, is then perhaps a change order or set the filters.For each filter is determined by the method of blending, there is also a layer mask for smart filters. By the way, therefore, can be flexible to address last-minute adjustments, etc. The original image is maintained. However, it is true that we have not tested the deployment of non-destructive filters for complex editing large files, the question of how demanding the application of living adjustments to the hardware used. At this moment not supported by third-party filters, we’ll see how it will be in the final version.

Quick Selection Tool a Refine Edge

As much useful tool appears to be a new tool for selecting the Quick Selection Tool. These are actually a variation of an existing magic wand (which is now before the Quick Select toolbox for priority) or magnetic lasso. Specifically, Quick Selection allows you to select the image pixels having a similar click and drag in the desired area, repeating these operations are added to the selection of other areas. Removing unwanted parts selection will ensure that you click or pulling the Alt key, there are other options as well as other instruments of the type (adding to the selection, blending choices, etc.).

When working with the Quick Selection and any other instruments affecting the selection (including work with the active layer mask) then you will welcome the new device Refine Edge. With its help, you can “smooth” or “sharpen” edge selection to eliminate inequalities, blur the edges, etc. Setting is happening with corresponding palette, modifying the form of selection on the basis of a series by the set parameters (radius, contrast, smooth, etc.) Any changes may be taking immediately see a live preview.

Automatic aligning and blending layers, Photomerge, Merge to HDR

In a variant of an earlier function for writing the Photomerge panoramas from photos, building on new technology that can be considered of Auto-Align Layers and Auto-Blend Layers, although their use is certainly broader than just working with panoramas. These are funds which can two or more layers of partially or completely overlap on the basis of their common features (edges, etc.) with a corresponding correction of size, etc., alignment can be done using projection methods Auto, Perspective, Cylindrical, and reposition . After the alignment is, for example, with masking, to ensure blending of various motifs from different classes – particularly interesting way to combine several consecutive versions of the acquired group portrait (one picture, a person faces as we need, but we want to look at another picture) Auto-Blend, etc. then for the merged layers the Auto-Align will have automatic blending, unifying color rendition, while blending masks created with layers.

Options Auto-Align and were added to the already mentioned Photomerge function. The same algorithm is also improved by combining 32-bit HRD (High Dynamic Range) images. In the case of the type of content is worth noting the existence of other filters for 32-bit color space and the possibility of creating a new document in that format.

Finally

fact that new tools and resources not in Photoshop CS3 again and so does not mean that in addition, there has been many improvements that have the potential users of crucial than the above news. To ascertain that it will be able to work in our next approach.