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Take for example, the addition of customizable keyboard shortcuts for Photoshop. Do you know how long I've waited for this? Well, quite a while. And now I can customize my commands, not just modifying those that already have keyboard shortcuts, but also adding to those that previously had no keyboard equivalent, such as the dreaded Hide/Show Selection Edges. Or transformations. Or brush creation and renaming. Or individual filters. Or whatever else you'd care to do that previously required you to break from your work to navigate the menu structure. It's all there.
[an error occurred while processing this directive]There are also new automation tools to help save you time, probably the most significant of which is the new Crop and Straighten Photos function. This one allows you to scan multiple images on a single page. It then interprets the scan, straightens out any rotated images, crops them and delivers them all in their own individual new document window. Sadly, I can't display a good example of this for you, but you have to see it in action. It's just incredible.For you Picture Package fans out there, the new version also includes the ability to create custom layouts on the fly. To do this, you apply the Picture Package command as usual, then click the Edit Layouts button. You're then taken into the layout editor, where you can interactively adjust the number and size of the regions, as well as other parameters.
Also on the automation side is a new feature called Photomerge. This one allows you to select multiple image files to assemble them into a single composition, such as for the purpose of stitching images in a panorama. To use it, you select File > Automate > Photomerge, and then select the files you wish to include in the merge.
Photoshop can then automatically attempt to stitch the images together, or it will allow you to go in and arrange them manually inside the main Photomerge interface. It includes options for blending, rotation, perspective and other features.
And then there are the dozens of little enhancements that make Photoshop CS just that much more of a pleasure to work with. For example, remember back when, in Photoshop 7, you'd select a brush, change around some of the parameters and then lose those parameters the next time you selected a different brush? Well, now you can lock and or all of the parameters you set for one brush and make them apply to any other brush you choose.
You also have some little navigation niceties, such as the ability to move around the canvas when you're in full-screen mode and the ability to synch up navigation between two document views. (For example, if you have one view at 50 percent and one at 200 percent, you can scroll up on the 50 percent view, which will also cause the 200 percent view to scroll up to the same portion of the image.) This is accomplished simply by opening up multiple windows for a document and navigating using the Hand tool while holding down the Shift key.
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