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FEBRUARY 24, 2002 First Look: Photoshop 7 for OS X
This is too difficult to describe in words. Take a look at the movie below sowing the Healing Brush in action. [an error occurred while processing this directive] In the above example, I've used the water in our scene as the source for eliminating a protrusion from the roof of our church. At first, you see the water being painted onto the roof. But then, as if by magic (or just extremely good programming), the water disappears, leaving our roof without the extrusion, as if I had simply painted the extrusion away. The Healing Brush simply took certain elements of the source area--in this case the texture--and moved them to the target area, leaving other important parameters, such as color and lighting, alone. Related to the Healing Brush is the new Patch tool. It behaves in much the same way as the Healing Brush except that instead of brushing, you're using a source selection and dragging it onto your destination area. It allows for a little more precision where precision is needed. Photoshop on Mac OS X Of course, the biggest new feature of all is native compatibility with Mac OS X. I've gone through several beta releases of Photoshop 7 for OS X, and they've all been remarkably stable. However, it's difficult to judge a program's performance while it's still in beta phase. All of the functions that have carried over from Photoshop 6 work smoothly and quickly. (Of course, I'm on a dual 1 GHz Mac, so what isn't quick?) A Gaussian Blur of 20 pixels on a a 6" x 9" image at 300 DPI takes precisely zero seconds to complete. (Same in Photoshop 6 on the same machine.) And the new tools are also quick, although there might be some more optimizations coming before the final release. The one big negative about the OS X release is the lack of support for OS 9 plugins. O, the collections I've built up over the years! All gone! Well, maybe not all. For example, Toolfarm's ColorTheory DV had been Carbonized long before there was even a Photoshop beta to Carbonize for. And many other software developers are bringing their plugins up to OS X spec. Certainly nobody will be releasing OS 9-only plugins in the future. We'll continue to report on new and ported OS X-native Photoshop plugins as they're released. Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next Related sites: • AEC Newsroom • Animation Artist • AV Video • Broadcast Newsroom • Corporate Media News • Creative Mac • Digital Animators • Digital CAD • Digital Game Developer • Digital Media Designer • Digital Post Production • Digital Producer • Digital Video Editing • Digital Webcast • DTV Professional • DV Format • DVD Creation • Film and Video Magazine • Film Imaging • HDTV Buyer • Hollywood Industry • IBC News • Media Workstation • Presentation Master • The WWUG Related forums: [an error occurred while processing this directive] 
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