Dynamic Learning Photoshop CS3
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Create animation with the Animation palette

With Photoshop CS3 Extended, you can use the new Advanced Timeline palette to create animation from a series of images, such as time-series data. The animation can then be exported to QuickTime, MPEG-4, and Adobe Flash Video (FLV) formats.

If you are working with video, you can now open video files in Photoshop, where it is opened as a Movie layer. Using the Timeline controls, you can select footage and retouch video frame-by-frame using Photoshop's painting and editing tools. Find out more about the timeline in Lesson 13, "Creating for Web and Video."

Movie layer.

Advanced Timeline palette.

3-D compositing and texture editing

Using Photoshop CS3 Extended, you can also render and incorporate rich 3-D content into 2-D composites — and can even edit textures on 3-D models directly within Photoshop, and immediately see the results. Photoshop Extended supports common 3-D interchange formats including 3DS, OBJ, U3D, KMZ, and COLLADA, so you can import, view, and interact with most 3-D models.

2-D and 3-D measurement tools

If you work in the architecture, construction, engineering, manufacturing, or health care industries, you can use the new measurement tools in Photoshop CS3 Extended to extract quantitative information from images.

With the new measurement tools, you can easily calibrate or set the scale of an image, and then use any of the Photoshop selection tools to define and calculate distance, perimeter, area, and other measurements. You can also record data points in a measurement log and export data, including histogram data, to a spreadsheet for further analysis.

These advanced features are not covered in this book, but look for the Photoshop CS3 Expert Answers book and the Dynamic Learning training videos for more information.

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