|
REVIEWS
•
Page 7 of 10
|
Finally in the area of text, Photoshop CS also gets improved support for OpenType fonts. Any application can display OpenType fonts, provided the application is running on an operating system that supports these fonts. But Photoshop CS takes it much further. Photoshop 7 could handle nothing more than ligatures, discretionary ligatures and old style. But Photoshop CS adds ordinals, swash, titling, contextual alternates, stylistic alternates, ornaments and fractions (when such features are offered by the font in question).
[an error occurred while processing this directive]Unlike Illustrator CS, Photoshop CS does not have a Glyphs palette for OpenType fonts (though you can find glyphs in the Mac OS Character Palette and the Windows Character Code Table), and it doesn't ship with the hundred-plus OpenType faces that Illustrator includes. But the more robust base capabilities are there in the new version for when you need them.Workflow enhancements
Now, what would any Photoshop upgrade be without improvements to the workflow? Photoshop CS packs a multitude of them. Along with 16-bit color support, the most significant--surely the most numerous--improvements in Photoshop CS come in the form of workflow enhancements. And of these, I'd say the two most important have to do with layers and the File Browser. We'll start with layers.
Photoshop CS includes three improvements to layer functionality that are so great, you'll wonder how you ever did without them. These are: Layer Comps, nested Layer Sets and the ability to export layers and Layer Comps as individual files. For those of you who haven't already read up on this new feature, Layer Comps allow you to store the current state of your composition as an individual composition. So, for example, you might create aversion of your document displaying text, one hiding the text, one with a drop shadow, one with a bevel, etc. Layer Comps record the state of your document so that you can easily create variations and move freely between them.
A Layer Comp will track layer visibility of layers and Layer Sets, layer position (not the stacking order, but the physical position of the content of the layer) and effects, and it includes support for any Blending Options you'd care to apply, such as channels, knockout, blending mode, etc. It also allows you to name your individual Layer Comps and provide notes for future reference.
Another new and major enhancement to layers is in the form of nested Layer Sets. Now, instead of simply being able to create Layer Sets, you can place them within one another up to five deep, with multiple Layer Sets nested within any other Layer Set.
Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next
Related sites: • Animation Artist • AV Video • Content Mastering • Creative Mac • Digital Animators • Digital Game Developer • Digital Media Designer • Digital Post Production • Digital Producer • Digital Video Editing • DV Format • DVD Creation • Film and Video Magazine • The WWUG
Related forums:
[an error occurred while processing this directive]
