I'm just loving the CS my dear husband gave me for Christmas - having had 6 before the brushes are a fantastic addition for me, but am just loving the colour match command (image . adjustments . colour match) fantastic to get colours blending in different layers. One of the lesser publisised features I found by accident is the hand grabber tool - in Full Screen Mode with menu bar, select the hand tool & you can get at the very outside edges of your layout without the dreadful pallette shuffle I used to do! - this could have been in 7 , not sure?
Would love to hear what have you found a good change?
Take care Meryl

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Meryl (KwaZulu Natal South Africa)
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Favorite New Features:
- Built in RAW conversion
- Photomerge (Stitch images) Finally available in PS
- Photo Filters (simulates color filters): If you like automated features
- Match Colors: You need a similar range of colors for this to work, but when it works... it works great.
Shadow/HighLights: good for a quick fix, but you'll still need the curve tool on complex images.
- Lens Blur Filter: Just finished a tutorial on my site.
- Layer Comps: A fancier History of your work... not sure that most home users will use this.
- Export to Flash: I wasn't expecting much and I was not disapointed.... exports only... no frame rate control/works well with vector shapes.
- Automatically crop and straighten: Doesn't work well in every situations.
- Customize picture packages with more than one image
- Text on a Path: It's about freakin' time!
New Tools? only one... Color Replacement Tool.
Avoids selecting/coloring a specific color... works like the Magic Eraser but Paints.

is it worth the upgrade from 7? Some of the new features are great for work flow like the Layer Comps. There addition of overdue features like Text on a Path.
there is still plenty of room for improvment... the ability to use the displace map directly from a channel... Simple things like the color match feature, auto crop and the built in RAW support can justify the purchase if you are a pro looking to do thing faster.

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