by David Nagel
Executive Producer
dnagel@digitalmedianet.com

Adobe has released an update to Photoshop 6 and ImageReady 3, at least for the Macintosh. The new release at press time was available only as a link from Version Tracker, a site that tracks updates to Macintosh software. (We were unable to snoop around Adobe's FTP site for a direct link.)

• The new version adds minor enhancements to Photoshop 6, mainly dealing with workflow and usability issues. These include:
• The Enter key brings up and dismisses the preset picker at the current mouse location.
• Double-clicking a brush in the picker selects the brush and dismisses the picker.
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• The current brush is always highlighted in the preset picker.
• The current brush indicator always displays the brush size.
• The First Brush and Last Brush keyboard shortcuts (> and <) work regardless of whether the current brush exactly matches a preset brush.
• Image clipping paths in EPS and TIFF files saved from Photoshop 6.0.1 have been modified so that software, such as QuarkXPress, is able to read them.
• ImageReady is able to save and preview animations under constrained memory conditions.
• There is no slowdown of performance when files in the Open Recent list are unavailable.
• Batch file naming works correctly.
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• Export Paths to Illustrator retains path scaling.
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• The Contextual Menu system extension no longer needs to be installed in order to use the toolbar flyout menus.
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• Photoshop 6.0.1 will remove old Photoshop temporary or scratch files if the operating system has failed to do so.
• Selecting a single color in Color Range now works correctly.
• New Japanese character map (CMap) files are included to resolve conflicts with ImageStyler 1.0 and PageMaker 6.5.2 Plus.
• Showing and hiding edges for a selection no longer requires pressing Command-H twice.

The new update requires Photoshop 6.0. For more information, visit http://www.adobe.com or, to download the file and learn more, visit http://www.versiontracker.com.

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